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FAITHFUL MARGARET.


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FREDERIC TIE GREAT.
THE ART OF BEAUTY.

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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
PillOried and FlOgged.

A recent dispatch from Wilmington
Del, says: This morning, at few
minutes past ten o'clock, in cold, driz-
zling easterly rain storm, the first OF
the culprits to be fogged as a punish
ment for felony in this county at New
castle was marched into the jail yard,
attended by the warden and sheriff.
Mounting rickety old ladder, two
prisoners were promptly pilloried. For
on hour they stood there in the face OF
the few spectators who ensconced them
selves in corners of the jail yard to be
sheltered from the rain which pelted
pittilessly upon the victims OF the pill
lory. At the expiration of an hour they
were released. One retired.
The other, William Barry, hardened
criminal, by the way, who boosted that
he had been in thirty-six different jails
in the country, was strapped to the
whipping post, stripped bare to the
waist, and received quite severe fog
ging. He felt the punishment severely,
and looked imploringly at the sheriff as
the lash descended twenty times on his
bare back.
A lad named Mcclure, evidently of
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ance. A young fellow named Kiefy,
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ence.
The next three were colored men one
convicted for larceny, the other two fol
felonious assault. They each received
the usual twenty lashes and wriggled and
roared under the infiiction.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
)GWAY ELK COUNTY, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1877
The Valley of the Jordan.

The Jordan Valley, from Lake Tiber-
las to the Dead Sea, is about seventy
miles in length. Three miles is its
average breadth, although it widens at
places into plains ten miles broad. These
plains are beautiful GASES, which fact
will remove the impression, now popular,
that the whole region is O sterile desert.
There are many streams running out OF
the mountains on either side, and in
every case, where the river leaves the
foot of the hills, there is ruined village.
There is little difficulty in picking out
among these many of the localities men,
toned in the Bible. Along the course
of the Jordan we find ruins of many of
the bridges built by the Romans. One
of these, Just below Lake Tiberias, con-
sists of ten huge arches, and must have
been handsome structure. By irriga-
ton the valley of the Jordan, embracing
200 square miles, may be made as fertile
as the Nile, and will support half mill
lion of people. The expense would be
trihing, and anything that grows in the
hot-beds of the world can be produced in
the Jordan Valley. The valley and ad-
joining ones have numerous hot sulphur
springs. Some miles east of the Jordan,
just below Lake Tiberias, is small
basin containing a large hot spring and
some ruins which indicate that it was at
one time a popular resort. There are
remains of large theater and many
houses that must have been magnificent
in their day. The whole country is filled
with ruins.
There are popular traditions that
Sodom, Gomorrah and other wicked
cities of the plain are submerged. The
belief is erroneous, and the Dead Sea
has never exceeded its borders. These
cities must have existed at the northern
end of this body of water. Every link
in the chain of evidence leads to this be-
lief. On the plain at the northern end
of the sea are some rebuilt cities, exactly
corresponding in number and position
to the cities of the plain that were des-
troyed by the great confagration men,
toned in the Bible. At one place are
three cities, above ground, in " layers. "
First are the mud houses of the Arabs
next under these is city built by the
Romans still under that is Hebrew
city, and still lower down, where men
have turned up the earth thirty or forty
deep, there are the ruins of still another
age.
In ancient times, there cannot be the
slightest doubt, this land was densely
populated by wealthy people. The
ruins which dot the country and the
fact that the Romans thought it worthy
of conquest prove the assertion. There
are to be seen still, among other things,
the re mnants of more than five hundred
miles built by the Romans. The work
manship was superb, and even at this
day the drives are frequently well pre-
served. These, too, go to show the
former importance of the country, which
demanded such a costly means of in
ternal intercourse. The valley is inter.
sected with irrigating canals, built by
the ancients, showing that they had
more intelligence than any that have
lived there since.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
A Lady's Long Trance.

The Des Moines Qowa) Register of a
recent issue, says: Yesterday evening
there stopped at the Given House Mr..
and Mrs. Shade, of Guthrie county, ac-
companied by some attendants. They
are escorting to Mount Pleasant Mrs.
Shade, who has been in an almost con-
tinual trance ever since last June. Some
time last March, without any premoni-
tory symptoms, the lady became insane,
wild at first, and finally violent. She
was visiting a sister near her own resi-
dence. Soon after her arrival there she
began to talk strangely, and few days
later was raving with insanity, and at times
very violent. On the 18th of June Mrs.
Shade had spasm, from which she
passed off into comatose state, which
continued without intermission until
October l, when she awakened and con-
versed, although incoherently. The
next day she again fell asleep and has
not since been awake. She is fed by
forcing her mouth open and placing the
food inside. Her respiration is regular,
but a little more frequent than that of
most people of her age, which is twenty
nine. She has one child, boy of four
years. The first evidence of wakefulness
she has exhibited since the I'd of October
was the day before yesterday, when she
was carried from her home to a vehicle
to be transferred to the cars. The
little boy climbed into the wagon
and placing his arms about his
mothers neck, kissed her. Tears i'm
mediately rolled from the closed eyes,
but they remained closed, and there was
no other sign of waking. She is to be
taken to the asylum for the insane at
Fort Madison.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
How the Texas Cowboy Lives.

A letter from San Antonio, Texas to
the New Orleans Democrat, says One
of the distinctive features of Western
Texas is the cowboy, so-called. Hereto
fore there have been bnt few inclosed
pastures. The cattle and horses have
ranged at will over the prairies, and
when a norther prevails they become
widely scattered. When the spring of
the year returns, then dozen or more of
the young men of a neighborhood mount t
their mustangs, taking each Il spare
horse, the company having several
sumpter horses, and scour the prairies
for many miles, some times fifty or sixty
one direction. These excursions last
about ten days or two weeks. They
bivouac at night, TX their own meals,
seldom enter house, drink quantities of
black coffee. generally without sugar,
kill a yearling when they need meat, and
are truly rough and ready riders, This
kind of life seems to have an inexpressi-
BILE charm for the young men. 1t is an
exciting scene to see them in full chase,
with their lariats whirling over their
heads, their mustangs as much excited
by the race as themselves. From this
school comes the noted Texas ranger,
and it would be hard to find better
tanning for cavalry soldier,
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The Husbands Happy New Year.


Bright and fresh, if a triAe too frosty
For scent were we after the hare,-
The morning is splendidly bracing,
The country delightful, though bare. -.
The sky is turquoise in color,
The sun, while it dazzles the eyes,
Warns the skaters, but six solid inches
The ice on the brook-water lies
The wood in the, distance is purple,
With barely leaf, green or sere;
1t is surely day of good omen
That brings in Happy New Year.
What, darling, astir, and SO early2
Your hands, both your hands, within mine
Your face is as fresh as the morning,
Your eyes with its happiness shine;
The sun turns your hair to its color,
There's nothing in Nature so bright;
Forgive if my words seem to latter,
They only express my delight.
My heart like bubble is floating,
So buoyant, and yet 30 sincere,
As. with all its intenest devotion,
wish you Happy New Year
All that happiness means desire you,
All that Heaven bestows on its own,
Nav it be without bounds, or its limits
Be set by your wishes alone;
Life is chequerd, but then the pure metal
Is lighten'd, you know, by alloy,
And life sometimes gives by its sorrow
The zest that we find in its joy.
But there, lam growing didactic
And wrongly OBTAINING you here,
Hand in hand, while only intended
To wish you a Happy New Year