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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

No fool can be silent at feast.
Next to faith in God is faith in labor.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
TO live long, it is necessary to live
slowly.
In bringing up a child, think of its
old age.
Love can hope where reason would
despair.
Incidence and stupidity are first
cousins.
The miserable have no other medicine
but hope.
While we are reasoning concerning
life, life is gone.
The love which arises suddenly is the
most difficult to cure.
We can do more good by being good
than in any other way.
To give pain is the tyranny, to make
happy the true empire of beauty.
He shall be immortal who hveth till
he is stoned by one without fault.
think it best not to dispute where
there is no probability of conv ncing.
AS words can never be recalled, speak
only such words as you never wish to
recall.
Our souls must become expanded by
tho contemplation of natures grandeur
before we can fully comprehend the fea-
lures of man.
It is the mind that makes us rich and
happy in what condition soever we are;
and money signifies no more to it than
it does to the gods.
We do not take possession of our
ideas, but are possessed by them. They
master us and force us into the arena,
where, like gladiators, we must fight for
them.
Enjoy the flowers on your pathside;
but do not spend too much of your pill
grim time and strength, too many of
your precious sunlit hours, to stoop and
gather them.
Let us carefully observe those good
qualities wherein our enemies excel us,
and endeavor to excel them by avoiding
what is faulty and initiating what is ex-
cellent in them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

shrinks in drying, and is therefore un-
equaled for ships decks and verandah
floors the noble ironbark-straight,
tall. tough and dense-affording spars
one hundred and twenty feet long and
four feet square, and which can scarcely
be burned by fire or dampened by
water the flooded gum, growing in wet
soil, and excellent for ship building
the tea tree, growing in swampy soil,
and not affected by wet situations, as
when used for piles or fencing the
acacia, or "wattle tree, which, in its
finest specimens, attains height of
eighty feet before it's diameter begins to
grow less than three feet, and many
others equally useful or curious. Peo-
pie of an extremely scientific turn of
mind have an opportunity in this sec
tion of inspecting Queensland road and
farm soils, and of learning their chemi-
cal composition, while those fond of ex-
amining fossiliferous, volcanic and meta
morphic rocks. can have their tastes
gratified also.
It must be great country for butter
flies, Judging from the hundreds #
these insects, of nearly all the known
species, fastened with their wings out
stretched to the interior of O showcase,
and forming fanciful pattern in which
blend all the colors of the rainbow, with
scores of their derivatives. These and
the hides of the kangaroo and scrub
wallaby are the only representatives Of
Queensland's division of the animal
kingdom. The display will set people
to thinking. 1t is but sixteen years
since the population of the colony was
only %, 056 persons; now it is over 1885,
600, an increase of 500 per cent. The
days are past, except in the interior of
the great island, for those terrible me-
lees between Caucasian and Australian
savages, during which death came to
both sides with the whiz Of barbed
spears, the hum of the boomerang and
nullah, and tho sharp report of the
double barreled gun or the rifled car
bine. 1t was the old story OF America
renewed. d.-Phild. Times.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08
Thanks "from the Depths Of the
Heart"

WELLINGTON, Lora Co., o., Aug. a. 1874.
DR. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. T.:
Dear Sir-Your medioines-Golden Medical
Discovery DR.. Sages Catarrh Remedy-have
proved of the greatest service to me. Six
months ago no one thought that could possi-
bly, live long. / had complication OF diseases
-scrofua, manifesting itself in eruptions and
great blotches on my head that made euch
sores that could not have my hair colnbed
without causing me much suffering also
causing swollen glands tonsils enlarged, en-
larged or "thick neck" and large and nu-
merous boils. / also suffered from terrible
chronic cataIrh and in fact l was 80 diseased
that life was q burden to me. l had tried
many doctors with no benefit / finally pro-
cured one-half dozen bottles OF your Golden
Medical Discovery and one dozen Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy and commenced their use. At
first was badly discouraged, but after taking
four bottles of the Discovery l begun to i'm
prove, and when had taken the remaining l
was well. In addition to the use OF Discovery
I applied q solution Of iodine to the goiter or
thick neck, as you advise in pamphlet wrap
ping, and it entirely disappeared Your Dis
covery is certainly the most wonderful blood
medicine ever invented. 1 thank God and
you from the depths Of my heart for the
great good it has done me.
Very gratefully,
MRS. l.. CnAFFEE.
Most medicines which are advertised as
blood purifiers and liver medicines contain
either mercury, in some form, or potassium
and iodine variously combined. ALI Of these
agents have strong tendency to break down
the blood corpus cles and debilitate and other
wise permanently injure the human system,
and should therefore be discarded. DIR.
Pierces Golden Medical Discovery, on the
other hand, being composed Of the fluid ex-
tracts Of native plants, barks and roots, will in
no case produce injury, its effects being
Strengthening and curative only Sarsaparila,
which used to enjoy quite reputation as a
blood purifier, is a remedy Of thirty years ago,
and may we'll give place, as it is doing, to the
more positive and valuable vegetable altera-
tives which later medical Investigation and
discovery have brought to light. In scrofula or
kings evil, white swellings, ulcers, erysipelas,
swelled neck. goiter, scrofulous Inflammation,
mercurial affections, old sores, eruptions of
the skin, and sore eyes, as in all other blood
die .eases, DIR. Pierces Golden Medical Discov-
cry has shown its great remedial powers,
curing the most obstinate and intractable
cases. Sold by all dealers in medicines.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08
Something that Concerns Everybody

Among the crowd Of proprietary medicines
that seek acceptance from the public through
the advertising columns Of the press, there is
now and then one which deserves the recon-
mendation Of the editorial fraternity. In such
instances, aud in no other we feel at liberty,
and in fact deem it almost duty, to express a
favorable opinion of the article. We have
beon asked repeatedly if Hales Honey
Horehound and Tar was really specific for
coughs and colds, and have had no hesitation
in giving an affirmative reply. What we have
said privately to friends and acquaintances,
there can be no impropriety in reterating in
print. 1t is all excellent medicine. No one
who has taken it as a remedy for ailments of
the throat and lungs, or has observed its effect
on others in cases Of this nature, can enter
tain any doubt Of its curative power.-Hart-
fOr1 Times
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08
Singular Murder Case.

A curious case of killing is reported
in San Francisco. Mrs. E. Perkins and
Willie, her son, boy fourteen years
old, and Jack Connors were sitting in
the portico of Mrs. Perkins lodging
house one evening, when man passed
wearing very peculiar hat. The boy
called out: "Oh, what a hat |" The
man stopped and said eff you don't
and take it off |" Jack said : "Hold
on minute, and I'll do it for you. +"
The man then started up the steps to
be convenient, and Jack came out with a
revolver ready for business. Jack began
beating the man of the hat over the
head with the revolver. At the second
blow the pistol was discharged in his hand,
the load entering the breast of the boy,
who was standing behind Jack seeing
the fun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08
A Thrilling Experience.

Probably the most thrilling experience
of the burning of the steamer Pat. Gle
burne was that of James La Rue, the
first mate of the Cleburne. He had gone
to bed in his stateroom, Immediately in
the rear of Capt. Fowler's room. He
says he did not hear the explosion, and
when he awoke the timber was falling
through and everything crashing around
him. He felt the fire against his feet,
and drawing them up found that he was
tightly wedged in between the timbers.
He then tried to loosen the planks, but
could not find hole through which he
could even get his head.
Giving up all for lost, he turned over
and resolved to inhale the flames and
perish at once, rather than die by de-
grees and beroasted in the flames, which
were fast and furiously cracking and
roaring around him. Just then he heard
the voice of his gallant but helpless cap
tain calling out:
"La Rue, pull me out-I am burning
to death 70
With almost superhuman strength he
broke down the partition and caught
Captain Fowler by his clothes, but
found it impossible to get him through.
By this time the mattress on which Mr..
La Rue lay had caught fire, and placing
his left hand beneath him he found that
he was lying ON top of the heater. An
other desperate struggle for freedom
and the planks gave way and he crawled
out through the darkness and debris.
By this time Captain Fowler's piteous
voice had ceased and perhaps his spirit
had taken its fight forever. AS he was
scrambling up through the dark, La Rue
came upon Alex. Porter, the second
clerk, sitting just above the steam drum.
his feet literally cooked. Seizing him
with his disabled hand, with his Other
he worked his way upward, aid finally
reached the hurricane roof and carried
Porter aft and down the stairway to the
yawl. AS he PASSED down the aft stair
way he heard the screams of the lad,
passengers, and rushing back to state
room he seized quilt and wrapped i
about his boly. ana gathering TN
women in his strong, brawny, heroi
arms, helped five of them-three lad.
passengers and two chambermaids-
down the nursery into the yawl.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08
Surgeons in Harness.

Mr.. Robert l.. Pell, residing near
West Park on the Hudson, bas made an
experiment III utilizing a sturgeon, from
which he extracted much entertainment
for himself and visitors. Having caught
q fine fish of the kind, nine feet long, it
occurred to him that it was sufficiently
powerful to draw boat with at least one
man. The fish was therefore secured
until leather and rope harness could
be attached to his body in way which
prevented its slipping back of the fins.
The fish was placed in an artificial lake,
about quarter of mile long, on the
grounds of Mr.. Pell.
In order to obtain the services of the
sturgeon when needed, pair of rope
reins, eighteen feet long, were attached
to the harness, and these were fastened
to large cork float, which swan upon
the water. A boat five and half feet
long and two and half wide was then
constructed. 1t could contain but one
man, and in that Mr.. Pell took his seat,
and attached tho chain at the bow to the
floating cork. The sturgeon soon begun
to move, and the moment he realiz d
that further impediment existed to his
movements he shot frantically ahead.
The boat swayed to and fro, and the
spray, dashing furiously from the prov,
flew in every direction. Frequently the
gunwale was an inch or two below the
waters edge, but such was the rapidity
of motion that the water had not time to
ove1a aow it. The lake being but seven
teen feet deep, and the reins eighteen
feet long, there was no possibility of
being pulled under the water by the
diving of the fish, and the career of the
boat was uninterrupted. The sturgeon
kept near the sides of the lake and swan
four times around without Stacking his
pace. He then rose to the surface, roll
ed on his back, and exposed his white
stomach to the sunshine, as if to say,
81 have swum long enough, and am not
going any further"
Mr.. Pell, satisfied with his expert
ence, then detached the boat from the
float and landed. The fish soon again
disappeared. At each subsequent sail,
whether by Mr.. Pell or any one else, the
fish would rush regularly four times
around the lake and no more. He would
then, as at first, regularly roll over on
his back and rest.
A neighbor of Mr.. Pell caught large
sturgeon, and initiated his experiment
in the river. Matters worked we'll for a
few moments, but it suddenly occurred
to the sturgeon to dive. This, the
river being deep, he could easily do.
To the dismay of his owner, under went
the cork float, and violent jerk at the
PROV of the boat was warning to jump
into the stream. The boat went down
and was lost to sight for several min
utes. That was the beginning and end
of harnessing surgeons as river pas
| time.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

Oily substances always aggravate skin
diseases. Ointments are therefore rather hurt
full than beneficial. GLBSN's SULPHUI. SOAP,
which opens, instead Of clogging the pores
with grease, has, as might have been expected,
widely superseded oleaginous compounds as a
remedy for scurbutic affections. Depot Crit
tenton's, No. Sixth avenue, N. Y.
Hills Instantaneous Hair Dye produces no
metallic luster.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

A commissioner was dining in COM
pany with we'll known coroner. "Do
you not like that wine ?" asked the COM
missioner. every good, indeed" "Ahl"
said his friend, "being a coroner 1
thought you'd like it. There is body
in it, isn't there 2"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

An English newspaper has solved one
of the social questions Of the day: The
difficulty about the mistress and servant
question is that it really is very hard to
find girls well trained, intelligent and
docile enough to make good servants,
and it is very hard to get mistresses in
telligent, patient and clever enough to
convert indifferent servants into good.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

EATEN BY RATs.-A little child resid-
in Washington was one night attacked
by rats, which gnawed away the fleshy
portion of its left hand, and inflicted
many gashes about the neck and chest,
severing an important artery. The cries
of the child succeeded in bringing aid to
its rescue, but it is feared that it will not
survive.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

Ohapped hands, face, pimples, ring
worms, saltrheum and other cutaLc "'ls affec-
tions cured and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using JUNIPER TAR SOAP. Be care
full to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard Il
Co., New York, as there are many limitations
made with common tar, all Of which are worth.
less.-C Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

Exposition has a rich Partisan
sound and look, but the show in Pbila-
delphia is officially named an Exhibi-
ton, and it is just as well to call it by
it's name.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

DR.. ScHENcKs PULMoNIc SYRUP. SEA WEED Tonic
AND MANDRAKE PILLS. These medicines. have un-
doubtedIy performed more of Consumption than
any other remedy known to the American public They
are compounded of vegetable ingredients, and contain
nothing which be injurious to the human consttu
tion Other remedies advertised cures for Consump
tion probably contain OPIUM which is somewhat
dangerous drug in all cases and If taken freely by
oonsumpive patients it must do great injury; for its
tendency to conne the morbid matter In the SYSTEM
which, of course, must make impossible.
Schencks Pulmonic Syrup warranted not TO contain
a particle of opium. 1t is composed of powerful but
harmless herbs which the lungs liver stomach,
and eIpel all diseased matter from the body These
are the only by which Consumption can be cured
and as Schencks Pulmonic Syrup Sea Weed Tonic and
Mandrake Pills the only medicines which operate In
this way is obvious they the only genuine cure for
Pulmonary Consumption Each bottle OF this invaluable
medicine is accompanied by full directions. DIR.
Sshenck professionally at his principal ohce corner
Sixth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, every Monday
where all letters for advice must be addressed
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

Johnson's Anodyne Liaa5naent will give
more relief in cases of chronic rheumatism, no
matter how severe, than any other article
known to medical men. Used internally and
externally.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

1t is often remarked by strangers visit
ing our StIte that we show larger proportion
of good horses than any other State in the
Union. This We tell them, is owing to two
principal reasons In the first place, we breed
place, our people use Sheriddn's CdUdlry Con-
dition Porders, which, in our judgment are
of ipcalculable advantage.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

Don't Throw Away your NIoney.-To THE
PUBIIC-For over 28 years Dr. TOBIAS VENETIAN
LINIMENT has besn sold every bottle has been war
ranted, and not has been returned. Thousands of
certificates of its wonderful curative properties be
seen at the Depot. 10 Park Place New York It will
do ALL and than 1t is recommended for. 1t Is
fectly take internally 1t Cholera, Group,
Dysentery, Collie Sea Sickness Chronic Rheumatism,
Sprains Old Sores. Outs etc. Sold by the Druggists.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08

Good clothes are not exactly pass
port into society, but they help those
who are in.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-08
COLLINS VOLTAIC PLASTER

sold by all Druggists Sent by Mail receipt of 20
cents for one, 81. .25 for six, S2.25 for twelve
carefully wrapped and warranted, by
WEEKS POTTER, Propretors Boston, Mass.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-03-15

mate. He talked with fiies and tried to induce
me to join them but told them couldn {
do 1t that at twelve o'clock was going to
escape--disappear in cloud Of smoke. But
he laughed at me, and said was out of my
head. About eleven o'clock asked him If
might smoke. He said he had no objections;
SO filled up my pipe and commenced walk
ing the floor had about pound of gum
powder in my pocket, and, as I walked
strewed it all over the floor. When the clock
struck twelve babe them good bye, aud told
them had to go. l then knocked the ashes
out of my pipe, the powder ignited, and a
dazzling flame of fire shot across around; and
all over the room, filing it with suffocating
smoke. Before it cleared away hurled
chair through the window, sprang out and
departed, leaving them to their own reflec-
tions. You know the rest,
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-03-15
BARNUM As A Y0UNa LovER.

That was big book P. 7. Barnum wrote
about himself. 1t is very complete, too, but
there is one little incident which he either for
gotto mention, or which got pied when the
forms went to press. 1t occurred when the
Great Snowman was young man and a resi-
dent of this section. He was paying impetu-
GUS attention to young lady living in New
town. Being son of poor but honest par
ents, he was obliged to walk over to the vii
lage which contained his adored on the Sun
day nights he visited her. When there he la
bored under another and more awkward dis
advantage. The young lady's father conceive
ed singular and most violent dislike to the
amiable and embryotic Snowman. This me-
cessitated extreme caution on the part of the
lover, and he was equal to the emergency, as
a matter of course. His ingress to the house
was by window on the second floor, which
he reached by springing from the cover of a
cistern curb; and catching hold of the window
ledge. HIS cgress vas affected by hanging
full length from the ledge and then dropping
to the cistern cover, fall of about six inches.
One Sunday he took with him on visit a
young man, who now carries his silvered hairs
behind Danbury grocery counter. They
reached the place. the young lady saw the Sig
nal, opened tire window, and the famous Bar
mum sprung up into bliss. The young man
was to amuse himself about the village until
the hour of departure. He amused himself.
1t don't seem possible that any body could be
so brutal, but that young man actually re-
moved the cover to the cistern. Then he sat
down by the fence and ate currants, and calm
ly waited for the result. p. I. finished his
sparkling and backed out of the window the
full length his hands would permit.
Good bye" he gasped, in whisper, as
he prepared to drop.
"Good bye, Phinny," she whispered back.
Then he let go and instantly shot from
sight into yawning abyss of darkness and
rain water, and If he had been of solid iron
heated to white glow be could net have cre-
ated more of a commotion in striking the
water 1t is not necessary to repeat what
Mr.. Barntm said, both when crawling out of
the cistern and during the eight miles walk
home, but shortly after he became Univer-
salist .--Dan6ury Neos.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-03-15

LOOKING FokwARD.-AOne hundred years
from now, have you ever thought of it When
you see the fading leaf, the opening bud, OF
the perfect blossom, did You ever think who
will look upon the flowers that bloom, the
buds that will unfold, or the leaves that will
fall and wither, one hundred years from now |?
Or when you have walked the streets, meet
ing the people that pass and repass like the
waves of the ocean, did you ever think who
will walk these streets one hundred years from
nows Such thoughts are not pleasant, yet Vt
is well to cherish them that we may realize
more fully the deeting nature of earthly
things. Yes, they are sad thoughts Yet the
pulse must cease its beating-decay must set
its seal on the perishing frame, while the soul
feels not the touch Of crime and years.