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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
Destruction Of Forests.

Railroads in the United States an
nually consume for fuel alone quantity
of forest trees representing twenty five
years growth on 100000 acres. Rail
road sleepers use up thirty years growth
on $4,000 acres. Fences to inclose the
railroads clear as many acres more.
Telegraph poles for $4,000 miles of
telegraphs require the telling of 2,6OO,-
coo trees, and the annual repairs $50, 900
more. For matches alone there are an
nually sawed up 100000 cubic feet of
wood. In 1870, $4,000 acres we're
stripped for brick making. Shoe pegs
take 100000 cords of white birch an
nually. In 1870, for pine packing boxes
and for wooden ware, vast quantities of
valuable timber were used, and sawed
logs footed up in value to over $103,-
100000. Add to this voracious demand
that made for ordinary fences and fire.
wood, and to that add the wauton des.
truction of forests for mere clearing,
when sometimes the timber felled sub
serves no useful purpose, and we begin
to get some idea of the rapidity with
which our forests are disappearing, and
to discover the reasons for the solicitude
for the future, felt by those who have
most carefully studied the subject of the
destruction of our growing trees.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
A Sad Story.

About thirty-five years ago hand
some planter arrived in New Orleans
from Martinique, accompanied by his
wife, creole, in the full bloom of youth
full beauty. They settled in magnifi-
cent house near Lake Pontchartrain;
three children were born to them; the
husband was successful in business; the
wife was an attractive hostess; their life
was sarnished with sunshine. One night
gambler met the lady at bal n1asglle,
and she fell in love with him. Secret
interviews followed, and finally she
abandoned her luxurious home and fed
to Cuba with her seducer. The husband
followed them, but was unable to hunt
them down. After his return to New
Orleans his children were stricken down
by Southern plague, and he was re-
duced to beggary. The whirligig Of
time had crazed this helpless soul. He
was taken to madhouse, where he re-
mained for twenty-three years, and
finally, when former friends had forP ot.
ten him, and he was no longer an object
of interest to the outside world, he was
released, helpless and penniless, to die
as chance befell him. In his wander
ings he reached Baltimore, carrying with
him, as link connecting him with hap
pier days, the New Orleans and Mobile
papers which told the story of his wife's
desertion, the subsequent death of his
children, and of his confement in the
madhouse.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
A COlOred WOman's Taxes.

AS the officer in section of Boston
was about posting poor colored
woman's house to answer the require
ment of the law, previous to selling for
non-payment of sidewalk assessment, he
was met by the colored woman, who in
quired the cause of the notice. "lt is
for non-payment of taxes" Taxes
what for?' asked the poot woman.
"For sidewalk" "Oh! ah, that's it,
heys Well, put him up; old woman's
days most ended; one after another the
good Lords gone and taken the chill
dren, the old mans gone to rest, and the
old woman's left all alone. Put up the
notice; put it up, I say, and sell; sha'n't
need it much longer, anyhow. Bless
the Lord; pretty soon I'll 60 home to
reign with Jesus, then there won't be
any taxes to pay, and the poor old
woman'll be at rest" The tax man said
that was different reception from that
which he received from another woman,
whose house he posted at the other end
of the street.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
Sensation Of Starving.

For the first two days through which
a strong and healthy man is doomed to
exist upon nothing his sufferings are
perhaps more acute than the remaining
stages-he feels an inordinate, unspeak-
able craving at the stomach night and
day. The mind runs on beef, bread and
other substantials, but still, in great
measure, the body retains its strength.
On the third and fourth days, but espe
cially on the fourth, this incessant crav-
ing gives place to sinking and weak
hess of the stomach, accompanied by o
nausea. The unfortunate sufferer still
desires food, but with loss of strength
he loses that eager craving which is felt
in the earliest stages. Should he chance
70 obtain a morsel or two of food he
swallows it with wolfsh avidity; but
five minutes afterward his sufferings are
more intense than ever. He feels as if
he had swallowed live lobster, which is
clawing and feeding upon the very Ioun-
dation of his existence. On the fifth
day his cheeks suddenly appear hollow
and sunken, his body atenuated, his col
or is ashy pale, and his eyes wild, CLASSY,
,annibalish. The different parts of the
system now war with each other. The
stomach calls upon the legs to go with it
in quest of food the legs, from very
weakr css, refuse. The sixth day brings
with it increased suffering, although the
pangs of hunger are lost in an over
powering languor and sickness. The
head becomes giddy; the ghosts of well
remembered dinners pass in hideous
procession through his mind. The
seventh day comes, bringing increased
lassitude and further prostration OF
strength. The arms hang lifelessly, the
legs drag heavily. The desire for.food
is still left to degree, but it must be
brought, not sought: The miserable
remnant of lie which still hangs to the
sufferer is burden almost too grievOus
to be borne, yet his inherent love of ex.
istence induces desire to preserve it, il
it can be saved without tax upon
bodily exertion. The mind wanders.
At one momenthe thinks his weary limbs
cannot sustain him a mile, the next he
is endowed with unnatural strength, and
if there be certainty of relief before
him, dashes bravely and strongly for
ward, wondering whence proceeds his
new and sudden impulse.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
The American Woman.

The special correspondent of the Lon
don Times writes from Newport There
is in the well bred American woman a
friendly frankness and fearlessness OF
manner of a kind which, as far as my
experience goes, is not to be found in
any other woman in the world, and
which ilresistibly.s. invites the merest
strangers confidence. 1t is due, sup
pose, to the on-European way in which,
as a girl, she has been brought up, and
when, for want of perfect breeding, the
manner oversteps the right line, so that
frankness degenerates into forwardness
and fearlessness into boldness, it be-
comes as exceptionally painful as, in its
perfection, it is exceptionally pleasant.
She is, too, almost sure to be quick
quickness is essentially an American
Characteristic, though whether due to
climate or education, or both, cannot
say-so that you feel she will see at once
what you mean more clearly, perhaps,
than you can say it; and even if she
makes wicked fun of you and your
country, which, grove to say, she is
somewhat fond of doing, the fun is so
good, and SO evidently not fun of
malice but of merriment, that a man
must be sadly priggish or vain who can
feel anything but amused at it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
Advice to Drinking Men.

The question is frequently asked, says
the Boston Traveller, what course q
drinking man should pursue to rid HIM
self of the craving appetite for liquor.
None but one who has been there
knows how terrible is the appetite and
how difficult it is to resist its demands.
The desire for just one more drink be-
sets every man who has ever fallen a
victim to the curse, and the cries for
something to fill up the void without
return to the Intoxicating cup are heard
everywhere. 1t is a pleasure to an
nounce that such substitute does
exist. A drinking man can supply him
self easily with the remedies used at
nearly all of the inebriate asylums and
be his own physician at his own house,
without the necessity, expense and
publicity of visiting any reformatory in
stitution.
His laboratory need contain only a
small quantity of cayenne pepper, pot
OF concentrated extract of beef and q
few grains of bromide of potassium.
When the desire for drink recurs, make
q tea from the cayenne pepper,
as strong as can be taken with any de-
gree of comfort, sweeton it with milk
and sugar, and drink. This tea will
supply the same place that glass of
liquor would fill, and leave no injurious
effects behind. Repeated daily, or SO
often as the appetite returns, it will be
but few days before the sufferer will
have become disguised with the taste of
the pepper, and with the appearance OF
this disgust disappears the love for
liquor. The fact is proven every day.
The extract of beef is to be made into
beef tea, according to the directions on
the pot, in quantities as may be needed
for the time being, and furnishes q
cheap, easily digestible and healthfgl
nutriment, it being made to stay on
the stomach when heavier articles of
food would be rejected. The bromide
of potassium is to be used carefully and
only in cases OF extreme nervousness,
the dose being from fifteen to twenty
grains, dissolved in water. This is a
public exhibit of the method of treat
ment adopted at inebriate asylums. In
addition thereto the drinking man
should surround himself with influences
which tend to make him forget the de-
grading associates of the barroom and
lift him upward. He should endeavor,
SO far as his business avocations will
permit, to sleep, bathe and eat regularly,
and obey the ordinary laws of health.
By the adoption of this course, ener-
getically and sincerely, no man who has
the will to reform can fail to do so.
Hundreds and thousands can attest the
truth of these statements.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
The Late Alexandra Dumas.

NJ. Alphonse Karr had just establish
ed himself at Nice when NJ. Dumas hap
pened to be passing through that town,
and was cordially invited to dinner by
his old friend. Next day accordingly
the author of the /" Three MuSketeerS "
presented himself at the time appointed,
In company with twenty-five acquain-
tances whom he had picked up that
morning in his walks abroad, and whom
it seemed to him the most natural thing
friends house. A Russian princess was
also OF the party, and everything went
off as merrily as marriage bell. At
dessert the princess drew a diamond
ring from her finger, and begged Dumas
to write his name on her glass, request
to which the great novelist gallantly ac-
ceded. Then one after another of the
twenty-five preferred the same petition,
which was cheerfully granted, and each
guest took away his glassin remembrance
of the pleasant evening they had passed
together. M. Karr looked on approx
ingly, but he may have been meditating
at the same time over the cost of twenty
three handsome glasses, which had all
been borrowed for the occasion. A more
whimsical adventure is said to have be-
fallen another distinguished French
writer who had fingered with friend
somewhat longer than usual over the
afternoon absinthe at O cafe. "Let us
go and dine," he said at length, when
thirty or forty gentlemen instantly rose
to accompany him. They too had lin.
gered, having intended for reasons of
their own to abstain from dinner that
day, when they suddenly heard those
words of cheer, and interpreted them
into general invitation to dinner. M.
Dumas could alone have done justice to
the situation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
A THANKSGIVING DINNER.


vermont turkey, oyster sauce;
Broiled sweet peppers.
canadian mutton chops;
Gold slaw salad.
Plum pudding.
To make turkey wing soup Qurkey
wings may be purchased cheaply from
poultry dealers -; the wings of four tur-
keys are sufficient to make soup for
eight persons): Trim the small ends; cut
each one in five pieces; put them on the
fire in q stewpan, with two ounces OF
butter fry them till the butter is clear
and the meat lightly Drowned; drain the
butter off, moisten with two quarts of
beef broth and three pints of water,
season with little salt, white pepper
and bunch Of parsley, garnish with
penny shaped cut carrots and turnips,
white stalks of two heads of celery cut
in square pieces, and dozen and half
small white onions, lightly sugared and
fried in butter just long enough to give
them light brown color; boil the whole
about forty-five minutes; at that time all
the Ingredients ought to be done take
out the bunch Of parsley, skim all the
fat off, taste and serve.
To prepare boiled cod Newfoundland
fashion: Have two middle sized very
fresh cod remove the heads, tails, fins
and intestines save the sounds,
tongues and livers cut each cod in four
pieces boil them on q CRATE in fish
| boiler, with the sounds and tongues in
salted water when done, drain them
very we'll on the CRATE and keep them
warm ; boil the ivers in salted water,
highly acidulated with vinegar to take
out most Of the strong oily taste and
odor dress the fish in a large dish ;
range around some thick slices of fresh
peeled boiled potatoes; /; season with salt
and pepper pour over half pound OF
melted but not boiled butter; send to
table with the ivers served on folded
napkin in a separate dish and garnished
with parsley leaves.
To prepare and cook turkey, with
oyster sauce Dress and boil the tur-
key in not too large stewpan, with
salt, two carrots cut in pieces, gar
nished bunch Of parsley, large onion
with three cloves stuck in, and four
stalks of celery and two leeks tied to-
gether; add water enough to cover the
turkey; set on the fire, let boil, skim
we'll, and cook slowly until the turkey is
| uOuc-lG udhcS dUOub lOIGy
drain it into another pan, cover it and
keep it warm; at the same time, cook
about three dozen good sized oysters in
their liquor, with pint of turkey broth
and two ounces of butter; when done
drain them; then strain through nap.
kin sufficient quantity of oyster liquor
and turkey broth and make an Allemande
sauce with it; dress the turkey in q
large oval dish, mingle the sauce with
the oysters. season with white and 9
pinch of red pepper, the juice Of q
lemon and tablespoonful of chopped
parsley; pour some of this sauce ovel
and around the turkey and send the
balance in large bowl.
Mutton chops cut across the saddle
we'll flattened, seasoned with salt an6
pepper and lightly Dreaded with fresl
white bread crumbs, then carefully
broiled and served with ladleful o.
clear rich gravy. The mutton ough
to be young, fat and stale.- World.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16

"the way OF his death |" But the pa
drone was not to be hurried. He seemed
to like to linger on the pain his slowly
uttered words brought with them, little
guessing how they were paining me
also.
He went on: "Ever a prodigal from
his youth upward my boy grew worse
and worse as he reached manhood. l
had looked that he should inherit my
business and good name, for they were
both worth inheriting at one time. l
kept an hotel at Bergamo, and for q
while he was my chief waiter, but his
vicious courses brought ruin on us
both He contracted debts which 1 bad
to pay; ran away in evil company, and
heard nothing of him for years. When
1 did it was, as usual, with demand for
money. He was then in Switzerland as
waiter, believe, at the hotel of Les
Trois Sages-the signor knows it, OF
course, all the English know it,; and
there, afterward heard, it was that he,
in the act probably Of attempting some
desperate crime, fell one night into the
Rhine and was picked up dead as ap-
peared. Only by miracle could it
have been that his body was not carried
straight away down over the falls at
Schaffhausen; but it seems that he got
entangled with the chain of the ferry
which crosses the Rhine, as you know, a
little below the hotel. Here again by q
miracle it chanced that he was seen by
some men who were early working at
some timber RATS, and was by them car
ried ashore, as have said, for dead !"
/" But was he - I inquired, with an
anxiety could ill-disguise, as the old
man paused.
d" No, signor; it was not his destiny to
be drowned-would that it had been,
for then he would have been saved from
the commission of his greatest crime
No; he was restored, to return to me and
pile upon me further anguish.
" He came back to Bergamo year or
two after to a smaller inn, which was
then keeping, and in drunken brawl
with some of his loose companions he
used his knife with fatal result upon
an unarmed man, whose friend on the
instant stabbed my son to the heart
That is all, signor; but the remembrance
of his career has been far worse for me
than the darkness"
"And the WATCH" suggested, with
sense of relief quite inexpressible,
twas found in his possession ?"
" Yes, sgnor; but doubt if he had
come by it honestly, for they tell me
there are device and letters on the
back in no way belonging to him. But
still treasure it for his sake, or rather
fo- his mothers, for he was all that re-
mained to me of her, and she idolized
him for the five years that she was
spared after his birth ; and," added the
old man, in O somewhat more cheery
tone, as if the recital of his troubles had
relieved him, ga good English watch if
useful to blind man." = ---
Most assuredly the last thing in my
thoughts was to deprive him of his
treasure. was only too we'll repaid for
my loss by what L had just heard ; only
too grateful for being able after all even
to look back with complacency upon
what nevertheless still call My
Murder! |"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
Farewell.

FAREWELL
Farewell! my darling the words must be
spofen
Now we are parting for ever and aye.
Tears may be flowing, and hearts may be
broken;
All let me tell you my love while may.
Here in my arms, darling, cease your wild sob
bing,
Silently lie with your face on nay heart.
LISTEN, my own one, for you it is throbbing
Well nigh to bursting, because we must part.
All your fair gold hair about me is streaming,
And your soft white arms around me are
press'd,
Down in your gray eyes the love light is CLEAN
Bright IS the jewels that flash en- your
breast.
That can I do, sweet? Our love dream js
over,
Dark is the path must traverse alone;
Not one bright spot shall ever discover
When I have left you, my darling, my own
Life is but made up of all such sweet seeming,
But it has sorrows that no time can quell;
Ours has just come to us-we have been dream
ing
Too bright dream of love-darling, fare
well
Farewell for ever mo meeting tomorrow,
Nothing but memory with us to stay;
Here must leave you, alone in your sorrow,
Weeping and lonely, and far away.
But you will think of me only and ever,
Breathing my name in each pure trusting
pray'r;
And when you bend the knee to the great
Giyer,
Darling. my spirit will surely be there
FAREWELL my own one! The words have been
spoken,
Given and taken the last parting kiss;
Tears may be flowing and hearts may be
broken,
But in the world, love, what reck they Of
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
An Interruption.

An English paper relates the abrupt
and extraordinary termination of we'd
ding party at Sheffield. All were enjoy
ing themselves immensely at the house
of the parents of the bride, when the
atmosphere suddenly became unbear-
able. The guests begun to cough vio-
lently, and rushed into the open air.
Some one had saturated piece of cot
ton wool with cayenne, lit it and thrown
it into the passage. The bridegroom
succeeded in placing it outside, but was
so overcome. that he narrowly escaped
death. The police were not able to de-
tect the perpetrator.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16

HIS REAsoN.-One of the Savannah
benevolent association encountered on
his beat. the other day, an applicant for
aid. He asked: Have you husband,
madam 2" "Yes, SIR" "What is his oc-
cupation 2" Cotton hoosier, sir" Qabor-
ers who stow cotton in vessels, and
whose wages are five dollars o day under
favorable. ..eircumstances). "Well, why
don't he go to work he can get plenty
to do2" "Sure, sir, they won't give but
four dollars day." That settled her
application. Equally futile was the
claim of man for three dollars day
for nursing his wife.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
Wanted to be Remembered.

"Would you like something to re-
member me by, now that am going
away for some timer" remarked young
fellow at the Lake Shore depot to
friend.
"Yes, would, dearly" replied the
friend.
swell, then," said the one who was
about to depart, "lend me $10."
The friend was remembering too many
old associates in that way already, and
so complained that he hadn't a cent with
him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16

The total value of gold produced in
the United States from its first dis
covery in California to 1868 was 81, 1892,
O,0O0; and of silver, $26l, ,450, 600
making 81, ,594, $50, 900.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-20
by Grubbs g Williams. u sa,.s
Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers-
Eleventh street between Main and Bank.

A VALUABLE COTTON-AuLL AND
IN TIE Mhs ciTY n Of MANcHEsTEk, VA 70 BIZ
SOLD BY AUCTION ON FRIDAY TIE 9TH
DAY OF OCTOBER, 1879, AT IL, O'CLOCK, M
On the day and at the hour named, we shall sell by
auction to the highest bidder upon the premises in
the city Of Manchester opposite TO the city Of Rich
mond, Va, the large BRICK COTTON.MILL and
MACHINERY belonging to the :. Manchester Cot
about 600 spindles, and other machinery I'm pro-
portion, and has perpetual lease OF waterpower TO
run ut least l206O spindles. The largest part OF
the machinery has been recently purchased, and IS
oil, the most modern and approved style. 10 ~
Tic cities or Richmond and Manchester two
growing places, anord q market on the SPOT for al
most the entire manufactured products OF the mill
Eighteen TENEMENT HOUSES I'M Manchester,
occupied by the Operatives, and number ofBUHD-
ING LOTS VIII also then be sold at arctisn.
TERMS: For the mill and machinery, So 900 In
cash; the residue In equal payments ut six, twelve
eighteen, aud twenty -four months. For the tene-
menfs and lots, one fourth cash; residue &C four,
eight, and twelve months purchases TO execute for
the deferred PAYMENTS negotiable notes with interest
added from the day Of sale, satisfactorily endorsed
and further secured by deeds OF trust.
Either one or the committee named below, or Cap
tain EDWARD GnAHAsI,s the treasurer and sgent
At wl fiSs a, pss ssSsire
1--WE ). Wss safa'E Ekinsp.
ISAAC DAVEs MORT Jn a., s. 5s
81 JOHN a. TUCKER. .'5s
Henderson, N. O.,
Committee for sale. u
G2UnBs q WMLIAAs,Aucti oneers. se29 \
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-20

The GO bully boys" of your sister city arc
working like beavers to make the demon
stration of next. Saturday night one OF the
grandest and most successful ever held IN
Manchester. Yesterday the handsome
crayon portraits Of Tilden, Hendricks, and
Walker, which will be used for large trans
parencies, were completed. They were the
work OF Dir. Gallagher and Colonel Henry
Jordan, and were generally admired by all
who saw them. The programme for the
evening comprises torehlight procession
from Mayo's bridge up Hull street, headed
by Kessnich's band. This Will serve Us an
escort for Governor Walker and the speak
ers from Richmond. There Hiil be bon
fires on every corner from Maye's bridge to
Twelfth street, and altogether fine turn
ont Il expected.