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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
LADY Washington Dresses.

For fairs and parties this centennial
year Lady Washington dresses and cos
tunes will be in demand. The Bazdr
tells us something about them that will
be interesting to lady readers: Instead
of making the dress to be laced in front,
costumers use a pointed waist, with half
high square neck, and lace it behind.
Two materials appear in such dresses,
viz. brocade or striped silk for the court
train, and plain silk or satin for the pet
ticoat. The brocade or material of the
train forms all the waist except a vest
like plastron in front, which is of the
plain silk. This plastron is five or six
inches broad at the top, descends sharp
to point. and, to be in keeping, should
be wadded lightly, and quilted in small
diamonds to match the hepetticoat. A bow
of velvet is at the end of the point, and
lace garniture, beginning under this
bow, passes up each side of the plastron
and trims the square neck. The sleeves,
of the brocaded silk, are straight, plain,
and made to reach to the elbow, where
they are finished with full ruffles of lace.
Instead of q separate petticoat, cos
tuners merely quilt a wide front breadth
of the plain satin or silk, and simulate
court train by making back breadths
of trained brocaded skirt, and sewing
them straight up the sides of the quilted
tablier.
Notwithstanding few founces and
laces are seen on the dresses of revolu-
tionary times, costumers to-day add a
deep hounce of silk or lace around the
train, and pass it up the sides to the
waist, graduating it to narrow ruffle at
the top. Ladies who do not wish to ex-
pose their necks and shoulders use the
snowy kerchief, square of sheer white
lawn-organdy is best-doubled like a
three-cornered shawl, folded to cover the
neck, and the ends tucked in the square
corsage. The muslin cap, with its full
bag crown and plated frill, is worn just
back of the Pompadour roll of powdered
hair. Long white kid gloves are but
toned to the elbow. Another has a GRIM
son petticoa- with pearl-gray brocaded
train, trimmed with black lace founces
Another has orange colored quilted satin
for the front, with dress of antiquated
chene silk.
A more youthful Lady Washington
dress has Vatican polonaise, with
trained back, very short apron front,
square neck, and elbow sleeves. This
is made up of white satin, to be worn
| over any blue or rose silk or velvet
skirts the wearer may choose. 1t is
trimmed with pearls. The coiffure
without powder, should be strings o.
pearls looped in the back hair; the from
hair should be drawn plainly back from
the face.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Vanity is omnivorous.
The smallest hair throws its shadow.
There is nothing insignificant, moth
ing.
What mighty contests rise from tri-
vial things.
A tomb is monument placed on the
limits of two worlds.
Titles of honor add not to his worth
who is himself an honor to his title.
All that tread the globe are but hand
full to the tribes that slumber IN its
bosom.
Time we'll employedis is satan's S deadliest
foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking
fiend.
Time. with all its celebrity, moves
slowly on to him whose whole employ
ment is to watch its fight.
The crowns of kings do not prevent
those who wear them from being tor
mented sometimes by violent headaches.
He that studies only men will get the
body of knowledge without the soul;
and he that studies only books will get
the soul without the body.
A true man never frets about his place
in the world, but just slides into it by
the gravitation of his nature, and swings
there as easily as star.
The exhibition of real strength is
never grotesque. Distortions the agony
of weakness. 1t is the dislocated mind
whose movements are spasmodic.
Whatever that be which thinks, which
understands, which wills, which acts, it
is something celestial and divine; and,
upon that account, must necessarily be
eternal.
The human race are sons of sorrow
born; and each must have his portion.
Vulgar minds refuse or crouch beneath
their load; the brave bear theirs with
out repining.
Out of suffering have emerged the
strongest souls, and the most massive
characters are scanned with scars. Mar
tyrs have put on their coronation robes
glittering with fire, and through theil
tears have the sorrowful first seen thu
gates of heaven.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
Questions and Answers.

Is there any rule for the weight of
green pine timber What is the diff
ference iu weight between green timber
and dry timber9 Answer. 1t would be
impossible to answer these questions
very ex,ctly, without experimenting in
each special case. Dry white pine
weighs about twenty-five pounds per
cubic foot, and green pine from thirty
to thirty-seven.
A church is being heated by hot air
furnace, but there is fault in the ven
tilation, which is effected by one large
pane in each window hanging on q
swivel. When the church cools. there
is cold damp air, and the furnace draws
cold air from the inside of the church.
Answer. The supply of fresh air to the
furnace should be taken from the ex-
terror of the building, by means of an
inclosed shaft, which may be construct
ed of matched boards for the most part,
being of brick near the furnace. Place
valve, or shutter on pivots, within the
shaft, to close it when required. Ad-
ditional openings fcr ventilations should
be provided at the ceiling.
What is the matter with our stove ?
When the damper was closed, the draft
went around under the bottom of the
stove; when the draft is all closed, the
smoke or something else will condense
into liquid and run through the chin
ney, through the upper floors, and into
the room below. Answer. This may be
owing to some peculiar kind of fuel you
are burning, which you do not specify.
When the draft is closed the fue soon
becomes cold, and the air carrying the
smoke precipitates. its latent moisture
upon the sides of the fue /; the moisture
naturally carries the particles Of unburnt
fuel with it. If this is the cause, a
moro free draft would abate the diff
Guilty. .
I have some iquid which is neither
good old hard cider, for it has vinous
taste, nor yet is good vinegar. How can
L convert it into good marketable vine.
gar3 Answer. Prepare large barrel,
with false bottom having number of
holes bored through it. Place this in
the barrel about six inches above tn
real bottom, and fill in above the false
bottom to the top of the barrel with
good, well burnt charcoal, in coarse
powder. Moisten the charcoal thor
oughly with some Of the cider, cover the
barrel with a piece of felt or wooler
goods, and allow to remain until there
is perceptible rise in the temperature
then add the cider in such a manner as
to keep up constant percolation OF
the fluid through the charcoal until the
process is complete. The vinegar may
be drawn off from spigot at the bot
tom. american.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
A japanese Funeral.

A marine on the Japanese frigate
Tsukubu, at San Francisco, died re-
Gently, and was buried according to
Japanese rites. The remains, in coffin
shaped box, two and one-half feet high,
covered with the Japanese flag, were
brought ashore in the steam launch, es-
corted by four officers and sixteen
marines. The coffin was placed in a
hearse and conveyed to the cemetery,
the escort following. A double line was
formed, through which the coffin was
carried to the grave. The remains were
lowered into the grave SO that the body
faces toward the east. After the firing
of three rounds by the marines. the
grave was closed, a short address was de-
livered by one of the officers, and then
the marines formed the sand over the
grave into shape resembling the coffin.
This concluded the ceremonies, and the
marines returned to their ship.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
A Fearful Summons.
"Mr. Smith, called to see if I could
take yOur life"

"Mr. Smith, I called to see if I could
"Wh-wh-what d'you sayl" ex-
claimed Smith, in some alarm.
81 say that I've come around to take
your life. My name is Gum. As soon
as heard you were unprotected, that
you had nothing on your life, 1 thought
would just run in and settle the thing
for you at once"
Then Smith got up and went to the
other side of the table, and said to him
self:
cts lunatic who has broken out of
the asylum. He'll kill me if 1 halloo or
run. must humor him.
Then Gum, fumbling in his pocket
after his mortality tables, followed
Smith around the room and said to
him
You can choose your own plan, you
know. It's immaterial to me. Some
like one way, and some like another.
It's matter of taste. Which one do
you prefer2"
"I'd rather not die at ALL" Smith said,
in despair.
"But you've got to die, of course, u
said Gum; "that's thing there's nc
choice about. All I can do is to make
death easy for you; to make you feel
happy as you go off. Now which plan
will you take2"
"Couldn't you postpone it until to-
morrow, SO as to give me time tc
think"
"No; I prefer to take you on the
spot. might as we'll do it now as a
any other time. You have a wife an6
children r.
"Yes, and I think you ought to have
some consideration for them and let m,
off,"
"Well, that's curious kind of an ar
gument," said Gum. "When 1 taxi
you your family will be perfectly pro
tected, of course, and not otherwise.
"But why do you want to murde
me2 ~
"Murder you Murder you! VIII
in the thunder's talking about murder
ing you9"
"Why, didn't you say.
81 called to get you to take out lif
insurance policy in our company, an
r.
"Oh, you did, did yous" said Smith
suddenly becoming fierce. Well,
amt a-going to do it, and want you
skip out of this Office or I'll brain yo
with the poker"
Then Mr.. Gum withdrew withou
selling policy, and Smith is still unir
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
Hints About the Fashions.

Cashmere lace is used for ruchings
with barbs to match.
Black silk fringes are used with grena-
dimes for mourning.
Checked and brocaded goods are the
most fashionable.
Calbriggan stockings embroidered in
colors are very pretty.
Turbans are among the spring shapes
of hats for young girls.
Drdp dGn1GSSe and brOcaded grena-
dimes make elegant costumes.
Riding habits admit no trim mingsex-
cept braid and buttons.
The spring hats and bonnets are bound
with heavy silk braid.
Colored linen shirts for gentlemen
will be worn this summer.
Crepe de chene ties with Duchesse
lace ends are very handsome.
Linen buttons are preferred to studs
for gentlemen's dress shirts.
Bullion braids with threads of silver
or gold are used for trimmings.
Grape and black crepe lisse are COM
bined in making morning bows.
The vigogne cloth plaids are very
pretty for kilt plated suits for children.
Duchesse lace barbs are very elegant,
and only suitable to wear with silks.
Jet, relieved with gold and pearls, is
fashionable for second mourning.
A pretty tie has a center of black cash
mere net, with ends of Cuchese lace.
Holbein work is the latest fancy occu-
patton for the busy moments of idle
women.
Sailor straw hats will he fashionable
for girls and boys from two to eleven
years old.
Short doubled breasted coats or
jackets are among the spring coats for
gentlemen.
Pretty opera or evening shawls are
woven of soft white wool with colored
silk stripes.
The Centennial kerchief is three
cornered and made of lace-any kind
that is preferred.
The fashionable gloves for gentlemen
are stitched in color on the back of the
gloves.
Cachmere faconne is new silken
dress fabric woven in serge effect and
brocaded flowers.
Fruit of the loom and Pride of
the West are excellent muslins for
ladies' underclothing.
Handkerchiefs with white batiste CEN
ter and yellow batiste embroidered edge
are quite pretty.
The new linen lawns are of O light
shade of one color, fowered by darker
shade of the same.
White flannel, trimmed with cherry
pink or blue colored silk, is extremely
pretty for wrappers.
Shoes with the black kid cut out in
different patterns, and white kid insert
ed, are much in vogue.
Shoes with sandal straps are worn over
bright colored stockings for house and
evening demi-toilets.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
Wanted to be an Editor.

Have you had any experience in the
business we asked of verdant look
ing youth who applied for an editorial
position the other day.
"Haven't though 2" he replied, as
he showed one foot under his chair to
hide the unskillful patching of back
woods cobbler. I" 1 should say I'd had
some experience-haven't correspond
ed with the Pumpkinville Scredn1er for
six weeks Hain't that experience
enough 2"
"That will do very well," we replied,
"but when we take young men on our
editorial staff, we generally put them
through an examination. How much
are twelve times one ?"
Twelve why any little boy ought
to an -
I" Hold on, please-don't be so fast
who discovered America p
"Klumbus Pshaw, them questions
are just as easy as -
"Who was the first man p
"Adam why, mister, know all -
What was his other name?"
ellis other name ? why he didn't
have none."
yes, he did. You see that's where
we've got you. His other name was
Ebenzer Adam, Esq, late
of Paradise. Nobody knows this but
editors, and see to it that you don't tell
anybody"
He said he wouldn't.
"How many bones are there in the
human body ?"
"Well, forget now, but I did know
wunst."
"What Don't you know that? Why
there's 1882, ,921 = ,444bones in an ordinary
man. A man that snores has one more
than other people"
What bone is that r.
"The trombone. 1t is situated some
where in the nose. You won't forget
that, will you2''
He said he wouldn't.
"How long would it take mud turtle
to cross the desert of Sahara with q
small orphan boy to touch him up behind
with red-hot poker"
"Well, look here, mister, if had a
slate and pencil could fgger that out,
but dog my skin if I'm much on mental
'rithmetic."
estate and pencil Did you ever see
slate and pencil about sanctum 2
Well, we'll let that question slip. Have
you got good constitution ?"
d" Putty tolerable."
How long do you suppose you
could live on raw corn and faith, and
do the work of domesticated ele-
phant ?"
"Lord! I don't believe I could live
morn a week.
"Well, that s about as long as you'd
want to live if you got an editorial posi-
ton on this paper. You appear to be
pretty we'll posted; we shall ask you
one more question, and if you prove
equal to it you can take off your coat
and sail in"
"Let's have 'er, squire. didn't
correspond with the Pumpkinville
Scream1er six weeks for nothin'. Let
'er come-I'm on deck, I am"
swell, sir. if two diametrical circles
with octagonal peripheries should col
lide with centrifugal idiosyncrasy, or,
to put it palmer, we'll say disenfran-
chised nonenity, what effect would the
catastrophe exert on a crystalized co !,
fish suspended by the tail from the
homogeneous rafters of the empyrean|
AS the full force of this ponderous
problem broke upon his bewilderet
brain, he slowly dragged his inartisti
cally cobbled shoe from under his chair
and started from the room. We heard
him descend the stairs, go out, and close
the door. We then placidly resumed
our duties, regretting that 80 promising
a youth should have been weighed il
the balance and found wanting. g.-Frank
Tin Patriot.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
Disinfecting a Battlefield,

Here is horrible description of how
the stage has to be cleared after the cur
tain has fallen upon one OF the acts of
that vast tragedy called "War." 1t was
a hideous and terrible drama, that disin-
fecting of the battlefield of Sedan, and
one that might furnish the fearful text
of a chapter entitled "The Sorrows of
Glory" A Belgian physician, DR..
CUTLERY, has recounted the principal
facts in a report published at Brussels.
Historians never show anything but the
radiance of the battle. The realism of
these works displays it's hideousness and
it's corruption. You dream of glory.
Look, and behold charnelhouse
Seven months after the first of Sep
tember. 1870, the stencil was SO great
around the battlefield that the public
health was in danger. Belgium became
alarmed. Prince Orloff wrote to M.
Beraroi that in the eighteenth century,
in a war of the Turks against the
Persians, swarms of insects, nourished
on decayed flesh, brought frightful
epidemic into Russian provinces a hun
dred times further from the battlefelds
than Brussels is from Sedan. 1t was
necessary to hurry, for the peasants had
buried many bodies, both of men and
horses, in summary fashion. The ex-
halations were horrible. People took
in their hands little yellow snow,
charged with bubbles of gas, and when
it melted it diffused an odor of corpses.
Then, in March, 1871, men dug and
opened in the fields under the snow the
tunauH of the dead. Feet still covered
with huge boots and half decayed faces
appeared here and there. Horrible
things were discovered. A dog died al
La Moucelle from having half devoure6
a corpse. The miasma of the battle
field gave fevers to the poor. The
dead avenged themselves" as Corneille
says. After having disinterred tn,
corpses, they were burned. Pitch
mingled with petroleum, was poured
over these human remains, and theI
chloride of lime. From time to time |
detonation was heard in the fire. 1t wa
some cartouche, still inclosed in |
cartouche box attached to a corpse, ant
which exploded as though these enemie
would fain continue the combat afte
death. And it was by thousands tina
these dead men, born to be happy an
beloved, and to kiss the rosy cheeks c
their children, were buried there. Tw
hundred and seventy trenches, dish
fected by M. Trouet, contained 600
J corpses. That was not all (; M. Mich
disinfected 902 trenches, and n
. Creteur, 8, ,213. Calculate, therefore, no
many corpses these ttlnluH contained
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
How Could 1?
lrried nv sachel to school,

He carried my sachel to school,
And me through the drifts carried, too:
Could I think why he hugged me so closely ?
II couldn't, how could 2-could your
At eve he tied under my chin
My hood, with its ribbons 60 blue
Why he gszed in my face could tell2
II couldn't, how could I2-could you2
He told me my eyes were quite black,
And the brightest of any he knew:
l blushed and looked down-could help
II l couldn't, how could / Ip-could you2
He left on my check warm kiss,
Then off with the lightning speed flew
If could I'd have scolded him soundly;
If couldn't, how could ?-could youp
Twas long years ago, and since then
He has spoken words loving and true;
And now lean close, as his wife,
10 his breast. Can help it 7-could you
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
No Use in Going.

"I'm going to stop attending our
church" peevishly exclaimed vinegar
faced spinster, not thousand miles
from Chicago, the other day. "Why,
what has happeneda 2" anxiously inquir
ed friend. "Taere amt nothing hap
pened, and that's just what's the mat
ter" continued the spinster through her
nose; "here I've been regular attend
ant for more'n two years, and there
hasn't been no gossip, no scandal, nor
nothing to talk about in all that time,
and 1 can't see the use of going any
longer !" And she squared herself down
in the chair with the look of martyr.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13

GONG Too FAR.-A doctors collec
tor after making a score or more of calls
on a debtor, gave expression to the opin-
ion the other day that the debtor didn' t
want to and didn't mean to pay. "See
here, mister" replied the debtor, in an
angry voice, "I've used you like gen.
tlemap. I've let you come and go when
ever you wanted to, and I've tried to talk
encouragingly. In return you now
doubt my honesty. Be little careful,
young mani When you attack my
character you attack my life I" The bill
hasn't been paid yet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13

A FABLE.-As coroner was entering
a saloon to see man, he beheld care
less boy, who was eating banana, cast
the rind of the fruit upon the slippery
stone sidewalk, but instead of chiding
the urchin smiled and passed on. AS he
was coming out OF the saloon, having
satisfied his thirst, he slipped on the
peel of the banana, and falling, broke
his neck; SO that rival coroner made
the fees from the inquest. Moral-It is
strange to see the coroner hoist with his
own petard.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13
The Rustic of the Dress.

Lowell wrote these lines years ago,
but he wrote it for these times as well as
for those:
Hark that rustic of dress
Stiff with lavish costliness
Here comes one whose cheek would fueh
But to have her garment brush
'Gainst the girl whose fingers thin
Wove the weary 'broidery in,
And in midnight chill and murk
Stitched her life into her work
Bending backward from her toll
Lest her tears the silk might soil
Shaping from her bitter thought
Heart's-ease and forget-me-not
Satirizing her despair
With the emblems woven there!
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-13

SMITH.-Colonel Nicholas Smith de-
rives the name "Smith" from Shem !;
as Shem, Shemit, Shmit, Smith. This
recalls Jeremy Cockloft's derivation of
mango" from Jeremiah King )" as
Jeremiah King, Jerry King, Jerkin,
gherkin, cucumber, mango.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-23
IVY VIRTUE OF A DECREE AND

- Order of Sale issued ont Of and HEnff the
s.aI nj the Honorable Second judicial District
Cour;. in and for Ormsby County. State "f Ne
ya6a, on a Judgment obtained there IN Oh IN
2.t., dav u February, A. l.. 1870, snd at,cAte'i
on the ID LAY OF March 4. d. 1916. III favor OF
John Kelly and against James Duffy for me
sun. OF 1895 70 100. with interest on s''"H'
thereof from February oath, A y. i9's- "+i''i
maid and on til, sun. of 1858 2G-ito thefcIf Il
ten y1er cent per annum until paid, ana ''c
coats OF suit taxed II S5l 60, together "th -"
s,I,, OF - tj5-iGO Clerks accrulp& costs anu 81
,,sts which may :c.ruu By aove!tlSlii-, Shtfl II :
ta .t., counsel To- Uf 1922 S5lo0 included Il.
the Judgment, and to me- directed conhiai',
inc me to sell according to law certain real
or0erty hereafter described TO satisi ina NO 'Et
dantards, ali in gold coin of the tuitet! States:
snd in pursuance thereto have ie'le" upon
and will expose at public auction III front OF
tbe Court House door in Carson City. ofnEb.
Counfy, state of Nevada, Oh SATt RDai, "a i
a5th DAY OF MARCH, /. D. 1916. between re
hours OF 9 \. NJ. and p. NJ, 10 wit, 81 % ci"c :
y MI I'll the right, title, interest or clam ~
tn, defendant james Dui1y Of. in ana 10 re
following described real property, ii s9t out III
said decree, TO wit: Lots Nos. l, >, ) AID IN
block No ~ Of Musfer's Division OF carson
City. Orineby County, Nevada. together WIN
fha improvements thereon
'''~ S T SWIFT, sheriff.
Carson Citv, March 81, 1915.
Eogr NJ CLARKE, Plaintiff ) Attorney.