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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
RIDGWAY COUNTY, PA. THURSDAY,

keeps it, gives me in its place cum
ningly cut bit of glass. What does such
person deserve2 The State prison.
And here comes the officer to see that
she has her DESERTS" .........
It was the detective whom James won
deringly admitted, and who, murmuring
a swift apology to Mr.. King, stepped to
Mrs. Havers' side, and in q few words
gave her to understand that she was q
little premature, and had perhaps better
| first go home.
L" Prematurel" cried she. when 1
lose diamond, and that girl gives me a
bit of glass, it is premature for me to
say sol No2 Do your duty, officer,
and arrest the thief at once Have you
been at my house Have you brought
me the pin 2"
eyes, Mrs. Havers."
"You ought to have brought my
son."
"That is true"
"Let me have it !" she cried, STEP
ping forward imperiously and taking it.
"There Do you see That is thevacant
place of the missing stone. and here is
the piece of glass. Will you let me
have it, Mr.. Dimitryl This is the pin
you sold me, is it not And this is the
glass she gave me"
"This is the setting of the pin" said
the jeweler, gravely, " for there is your
own name upon it in my own marking
but these are not the stones l sold you.
They also are glass-four pieces of
glass. The stone that you lost last
night was undoubtedly glass also, and
that is it. You were robbed, not last
night, but long ago, Mrs. Havers."
"It is impossible - gasped Mrs.
Havers, her face darkening and darken-
ing with her feeling. 81 was robbed
last night, and 1 demand the arrest here
and now. No paltering because it is in
this house and in this company. Here
and now do your duty, or 1 will see to it
that you are removed from your post
You force me to be very explicit,
Mrs. Havers,' exclaimed the officer,
reddening. "And since you want an
arrest, you shall have it-if you still say
SO. Last March, when you were i'll,
your pin was taken from your house to a
certain pawnbroker's, the stones were
removed and sold, the crystals wsre put
in their place, the pin was taken back
and put in your jewel box-by the only
person who knew where its key was to
be found. We have long been cognizant
of all the facts, and waiting on your
movements. Tho money was spent in
riotous living. The thief, Mrs. Havers,
was nobody that you suspect. l grieve
to sa~, it was your son."
My son?" she shrieked.
"Your son. It remains with you to
say whether or not the arrest shall take
place.
"It is false |" she cried. "It is
falso ! it is false I am in the midst OF
conspiracy Take me home, oh, take
me home! Oh, Allen, Allen, Allen p
And as che cried the name her wonder
full face seemed to grow older by years,
and she staggered and CROPPED with out
stretched hands as she walked. But as
the ieweler handed her out, she turned
her head as if for some malediction, and
the last thing she saw was Rhoda, hel
face hidden in his breast, clasped in the
arms OF young Armisted.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
Why She Planted Roses.

A blacksmith had in his possession,
but under mortgage, house and piece
of land. Like many others, he was at
one time fond of the social glass, but
was happily induced by friend to join
the temperance society. About three
months after he observed his wife one
morning busily engaged in planting
rosebushes and fruit trees. "Mary, said
he, 81 have owned this lot for five
years, and yet have never known you
to care to improve it in this manner. "
" Indeed" replied the smiling wife. :"
had no heart to do it until you gave up
drink. l had often thought of it before.
but was persuaded that should I do ii
some stranger would pluck the roses
and eat the fruit. Now, with Gods
blessings this cot will be ours, and we
and our children may expect to enjoy
the produce. We shall pluck the roses
and eat the fruit" And they did. Theil
cottage was known as the prettiest in
the neighborhood.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
Behold the King!

In the Life of DIR. Norman Mac
leod," the following narrative occurs !:
Tom Baird, the carter, the beadle of
my workingman's church, was as noble
a fellow as ever lived-God fearing,
true, unselfsh. i shall never forget
what he said when asked him to stand
at the door of the workingman's con-
gregation, and when thought he was
unable to do so in his working clothes.
"If," said I, "you don't like to do
it, Tom if you are ashamed -
Ashamed" he exclaimed, as he
turned round upon ne. I'm mair
ashamed O. yersel', sir. Div ye think
that believe, as ye ken I do, that Jesus
Christ, who died fer me, was stripped
o. his raiment ON the cross, and that l
Ma, na, I'm prood to stand at the
door,"
Dear, good fellow! There he stood
for seven winters, without sixpence OF
pay. all from love, though at my request
the working congregation gave him a
silver watch.
When he was dying from smallpox,
the same unselfish nature appeared.
When asked if they would let me know,
he replied
There's nae man leevin' like as
do him. 1 know he would come. But
he should ma come ON account of his
wife and BARNS, and ye maunna' tel
him r.
never saw him in his illness, nevel
hearing of his danger till it was too late
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27

The ST. Paul Pioneer says: The fol-
lowing brief paragraph appeared in these
columns ---.-a.sr
Banjo Ben announces that he will
walk the 'tiller rope of the suspension
bridge at three o'clock this afternoon
Ben further intimates thai he would like
to see crowd present, so that the hat
may be proftably passed at the close OF
the performance. ...
True to his promise, "Banio Ben, as
he has been familiarly known at ST.
Paul and Minneapolis, walked down to
the new suspension bridge towers lit
tie before three o'clock, and With fool
hardness born of insanity or strong
drink, and with the agility of a cat,
clambered up to the working cable
stretched over the east and west piers OF
the uncompleted structure. This CO.
BILE" is a bunch of wire not more than
one inch through, over one hundred feet
above the ground, and stretching like
thread between the river banks. Had
Ben's past career been Of such nature
as to create presumption that he was
in earnest concerning his rope walking
venture, or had any estimate been placed
on the value of his life, it is probable
UlluU UuS NpuJti letNO DiCN
vented the "exhibition." But Ben was
queer, and many thoughtlessly gathered
at the suspension bridge at three o'clock,
the majority believing, after looking up
to the thread swinging ct its dizzy
height, that Ben would back out.
But the venturesome or insane Ben,
wearing a pair OF dirty white cotton
gloves and old rubber shoes, clambered
up to the cable and promptly begun
crawling down the slender wire, hand
over hand, and with his rubbered feet
crossing it. The crowd begun to sus-
pect that sickening sight was near
them, but they continued to gaze at the
dark object high overhead. Ben crawled
down the slope for distance of perhaps
fifty feet, when it became evident the
cable was hurting his feet. As If to rest
them, he swung his feet from the wire
and sustained the weight of his body
with his hands alone for several minutes,
and then begun to struggle as If trying
to raise himself up to the wire again.
But his strength or courage had deserted
him, and, after few more Intellectual
efforts to regain his position on the ca
bic, his hands lost their cunning, and
the crowd suddenly had its surfeit of
tragic horror.
Ben's hold was broken, the cable gave
perceptible bound upward, and hui
man body shot down to the earth with
the speed of rocket, alighting with a
sickening "thud" on the sloping bank
of the river, about twenty feet from the
water. In the frightful descent the body
had partially ttir4ed, so that it fell siGe-
ways on the Hard ground, and the
| snectatnrs to tho epeiston moo OF IL, o
mortally wounded street musician and
amateur rope walker.
DIR. Elliot was summoned, and found
Ben breathing when he came, but pro
nounced the injury fatal, and in few
minutes Banjo Ben had b1eathed his
last, some of those near him averring
that, in his unconscious state, he family
murmured the words he had often spoken
in his life : Guilty, your honor"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
Furnace for Burning Hay, Straw, etc.

The necessity for some practical device
whereby vegetable refuse OF various
kinds, such as straw, hay, dry leaves,
sea weed, etc., may be conveniently
utilized as fuel in those regions where
coal is expensive and timber scarce, has
long been recognized, and several at
tenn is to solve the problem have been
made. The following is description OF
one of the most promising inventions
for this purpose. 1t consists of box
of stove sheet iron in which is heavy
press follower, which by q simple
mechanism can be moved up and down,
and thus arranged to maintain steady
pressure upon the hay, or similar mate
rial, placed in the hre-chamber. The
supply of fuel is regulated by feeder,
aud a suitable attachment adjusts the
CRATE relatively to the follower, accord
ing to the quantity of material placed
between them. The inventor claims
that by this arrangement, the fuel being
under pressure, combustion can go on
only around the sides to which the heat
and air have access; the consumption OF
fuel is, therefore, very slow, and cal
readily be graduated to the draft sup
piled. One hundred pounds of hay OF
straw, it is claimed, will be sufficient tc
supply the stove during the coldest
weather, and six or seven tons will sui
fee for an entire winter.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
Asiatic Cholera.

DR.. Bonnafont, in q communication
upon the Asiatic cholera, read before
the Academy of Medicine of Paris,
enunciates the following general propo-
sitions: First, this disease cannot orig
mate spontaneously in any other coun-
try than India, but must reach other
regions by transportation or by germs of
the disease, atmospheric currents, or
some other vehicle; second, all hygienic
methods to avert this plague must be in
itlated and maintained in the country of
it's origin; third, that it is not the dead
bodies of animals abandoned on the soil
by caravans OF pilgrims nor the num-
Der of human bodies thrown into the
Ganges, that produce the eruptions OF
Asiatic cholera, as these practices have
prevailed for ages, while appearances OF
epidemic or Asiatic cholera in Europe,
Africa and America dates only from the
beginning of the present century;
fourth, other causes, therefore, must
exist for the frequent movements of this
disease, and it is in India that these are
to be investigated; fifth, secondary epi
denies may perhaps be developed in
points already infected; but with very
rare exceptions they never assume the
exact features of genuine cholera, and
they will generally fade out and disap
pear until REINFORCED by new eruption
from the original starting point. There.
fore the special points to be considered
are questions why cholera has remained
for centuries ina epidemic and station,
airy condition in India, and why it has
recently emerged, though the atmos
pheric conditions and the manners and
customs OF the Hindoos and pilgrims
apparently remain unchanged.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
Why Should Custer be Censured.

The more the evidence in relation to
the movement oi General Custer comes
to light the more we are convinced that
in all respects this gallant and gifted Of
fcer did his duty. It is clear that he
was sent off on an Independent COM
mand-that his duty was to fight the In
! dams. If he saw no evidence of their
presence he was to return to the point
of junction agreed upon with Terry. If
he did find the Indians it was his duty
to follow up the trail and attack them.
This is shown by the censure visited
upon Major Reno by Gen. Terry for not
pursuing the trail which he found, and
which led to the scene of the late mas
sacre. We see nothing either in the Or
ders of Terry to Custer, or in the cores
pondence which we have published di-
rect from the expedition, and which re-
hected the intentions and the opinions
of Custer and his command, to show
that it was the purpose of Terry to sim
ply reconnoiter the Indians. This is
what Reno did, and for doing this Terry
censured him. Custer was sent with
orders to fight, and these orders he
obeyed.
Let us suppose that Custer had dis
covered the trail, had advanced TO where
he could see the Indian village and had
returned to the rendezvous to wait for
Terry's infantry. What would have been
the opinion of the army9 Terry might
we'll have said: "You have done sim
ply what Reno has done. You tell me
Indians are on the Rosebud, and that l
knew. You came back for infantry, and
you know that my infantry can never
come within fifty miles of the Indians. |"
General Sheridan himself would have
said the same, and, much as he loved
and honored Gust er, would never have
allowed him to ride at the head of an
other cavalry regiment II Sheridan
had found this Indian trail, as Custer
did, he would have pursued it. He
would have ridden night and day, as
Custer rode. If he had found the vii
lage he would have attacked it as Custer
did. He would have been justified IL
doing so by every law of Indian warfar'
-NeaO York Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
A Charge Similar to Custer's.

A letter is published here in regard to
Gen. Custer from Gen. A. f. McRey-
nolds, u captain uf the Mexican war and
a general commanding Michigan troops
in the late civil war. The letter is to
Gen. Rosser, and is as follows:
"Gen. Custer may have been too i'm
pulsive, but after all the great forte of
cavalry is reckless dash. Clusters only
fault, if fault it may be termed, consists
in failure. If it had been success, as
doubtless he had every reason to antici-
pate, imperishable laurels would have
crowned his brow. His charge on the
Indians could not possibly have been
more reckless than the charge made by
Kearney and myself at the gates of Mex
leo, where, with 100 Dragons, we
charged 3, ,OOO infantry and 1000 caval-
ry, covered by battery. with Santa
Anna at their head, and drove them
into the city, with loss of more than
our entire number. Our charge CHANGED
to be a success, the Mexicans having
been demoralized, and on a retreat from
their terrible slaughter and defeat at the
battle of Cherubusco. For this charge
Kearney and myself each received the
brevet rank of major, whereas, if it had
been failure. and we escaped the Mex
leans, we would doubtless have beer
court -martialed, and perhaps dismissed
the service, if nothing worse. Would
it notbe grand opportunity for you tc
rally around you a mounted force O
Minnesota men accustomed to the horse
and the rifle, which you could readil,
do, and tender your services to the gov
ernment to avenge the death OF the
brave boys of the Seventh cavalry wh'
fell so bravely on the field of dutyG"
Gen. Rosser, who was formerly Con
federate general, and afterward enginee
of the Northern Pacific railroad, ant
who was with Custer on his Yellowston
expedition, replies as follows:
81 should like to be commissioned b.
my country to avenge the death of m
gallant friend and old enemy, but TO d
so should like to go back to old Vii
ginia and get my division, who once s
fercely fought him, and who, like my
self, have learned to respect, honor an
appreciate the high soldierly qualitie
| and exalted manhood of Gen. Custer.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
A Live Gorilla.

A live gorilla has been brought to
London from Africa. This is the sec
ond specimen thai has reached that
country, the first dying few months
after its arrival. A correspondent thus
speaks of it: l found the creature romp
ing and rolling in full liberty about the
private drawing-room, now looking out
of the window with all becoming gravi-
ty and sedateness as though interested,
but not disconnected, by the busy mul-
titude and novelty without, then bound
ing rapidly along on knuckles and feet
to examine and poke fun at some new
conner; playfully mumbling at his
calves, pulling at his beard "a special
delight), clinging to his arms, examin.
ing his hat (not at all to its improve
ment), curiously inquisitive as to his
umbrella, and SO on with visitor after
visitor. If he becomes over excited by
the fun, gentle box on the ear would
bring him to order like a child, like Q
child only to be on the romp again i'm
mediately. He points with the inde1
finger, claps with his hands, pouts ou
his tongue, feeds on mixed diet, de
cidedly prefers roast meats to boiled
eats strawberries, as saw, with delicate
appreciativeness, is exquisitely clear
and mannerly; The palms of bis hand
and feet are beautifully plump, soft, ant
black as jet. He has been eight month
and half. in the possession of the ex
petition, has grown some six inches il
that time, and is supposed to be betweel
two and three years old.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
An Experience with FIeas.

A fair correspondent thus describes
her experience among the heas in Cali
fornia: For the first few days after l
first landed in Santa Barbara l was sur
prised to see ladies with whom l was
conversing excuse themselves every few
moments to rush into an adjoining
room. 1 was all the time suffering
agonies from the bites of myriads of
feas, but L supposed the usages of po-
lite society made it necessary for me to
present smiling front to my callers-in
other words, to grin and bear it until l
should be alon'. But l soon learned
that it was the custom, in this strange
town, Immediately upon the first warn
ing bite, to retire pell-mell from the eye
of tho world, and, even in the midst of
a sentence, dispose of the flea before
finishing conversation. 1t is astonishing 6
what practice will enable one to do in
the way of flea killing. Their bodies,
viewed through the microscope, are
wonderfully and fearfully made, covered
with plate-like armor, one scale tapping
over the other, and presenting burnish'
ed and impervious covering; out of
their thorny helmet, their eyes CLEAN
roguishly, and they are as cunning as
may be. After becoming acquainted
through tine aid of a glass, 1 felt some
compunctions of conscience about de-
capitating the wonderful creatures, and
I compromised by stringing them on q
thread, after the manner of buttons Oh
charm string. A fine cambria needle
and silk thread hung by my bureau, and
at intervals of from ten to twenty min
utos fresh flea was impaled on this
thread, until the number becoming con
siderable, / felt an interest in collecting
AS large a number as possible, and l now
have string several feet in length.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
A Sad Story.

An unhappy mother was found by
funeral party at Greenwood cemetery,
Brooklyn, lying with her four little chill
dren huddled about her, on the grave of
her husband. They were all quiet y dy
ing there of starvation amid the costly
monuments reared by civilized opulence.
The poor creatures had been turned ont
of their apartments in New York, and they
found no room left for them anywhere
among the living in the metropolis of
the great republic. We chronicled but
the other day the appalling fact that in
London nearly fifty human beings anru-
ally die of absolute starvation, in spite
of all the miracles which steam and cleo
tricity have wrought to better human
life since Wordsworth wrote his unfor-
gettable lines:
90 Homeless near a thousand homes stood,
And near thousand tables pined aud want
ed food
This miserable story of the day in New
York, following upon half a dozen 9TH
ers of the same sort during the present
summer, is terrible and sardonic COM
mentary upon our own proud centennial
boasts of the superiority of our own so
cial and political systems to those of the
old world.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
Wanted to Sign the Declaration.

A we'll dressed and respectable look
ing man entered Independence Hall
in Philadelphia, and made determined
effort to enroll his name, that of s. M.
Sullivan, with the patriots and the
founuers of the country on the original
Declaration of Independence. By force
he was elected from the room where this
sacred document is kept, and was no
more allowed to enter. Then he went
into Independence square and scaled
up a lightning rod and reached the
roof of the sheriffs Office. Infused
with patriotic feeling, he succeeded in
reaching the steeple in some way and
began to ring the new bell with vigo'
and violence. This led to his arrest
and he spent the night in cell at the
central station. Sullivan resides il
New York, and he said he came over t.
see the Centennial and to sign thu
Declaration OF Independence.