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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15
Mending Matrimonial Chains.

A curious institution for the purpose
of matrimonial reconciliation exists in
the old provinces of Prussia, in which
the population amounts to, more than
seventeen millions, who are mainly Pro.
testants. The courts have, of course,
the power of granting divorces f; but be-
fore any suit of divorce can be enter
tanned, very singular process must be
gone through. Man and wife are required
in the first instance, TO present themselves
before some clerical or lay authority for
the purpose of being, il possible, re-
conciled. When the marriages are be-
tween persons of different religions, the
magistrate may be applied to for this
purpose. But the people of these
testants, and in the vast majority of
cases the clergyman is the Ieconciling
authority prescribed by the law. The
plaintiffin such quarrel must, in the first
instance, go TO him and state his OF her
grievance, and the clergyman must next
hear the wife or the husband, who, in the
contemplated suit, would become the
defendant. When he has heard them
separately, SO rs to become acquainted
with the strength and the weakness of
the case on both sides, he then hears
them together, and exerts all his powers
of persuasion to effect reconciliation.
If he fails in his efforts, the parties can
proceed with their suit but some very
interesting statistics have recently been
issued at Berlin with respect to the sue.
cess of such efforts. 1T appears that il
1878 the number of married couples
who desired a separation WAS 1926. Oh
these, no fewer than 1929 were recon.
ciled by the intervention of clergymen.
In 603 of these cases the reconciliation
proved Intellectual; but the general re.
suit, without taking into account pending
cases, was that nearly third of the
whole number of matrimonial disputes
were thus appeased. In 1874 the num-
Der of quarreling couples and the pro,
portion of those reconciled were about
the same. Even failure in the first in.
stance does not seem to destroy the eff
cacy of the resource for of those who
renewed their quarrels a second time,
about third were once more reconciled.
The success of the clergy, in fact, in this
function is so considerable, that they
have earned the honorable title Of
peacemakers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15

For little while his mother watched
him. Then she went close.
Grantley," she said, in trembling
voice, "what is it9 What ails you Z
Tell me -
"It's only that I'm fool, mother, u
he answered.
But-Grantley, what about ?"
He lifted up his young, worn face then,
and answered:
Mother, don't you knowl It's
about Ann Burdock. It's been very
hard to bear, but if she does marry any
one else-I-shall kill myself, 1 think.
Life doesn't seem worth having"
Life doesn't seem worth having, if
you can't have Ann p the mother said,
in puzzled sort of way. "But why,
what is there in her ?"
"What there never is in more than
one woman to any man, MOTHER" said
Grantley.
Somehow, from the far-away years OF
youth, a memory came back to his mother
that helped her to understand him.
She felt that she had done very ill, and
if confession could do any good, she
would even confess. At least, if she
could not quite do that, she would lei
him know the truth about Ann.
Grantley, dear" she faltered, "you
you had quarrel ?"
eyes," he answered.
But if she had written to beg youl
pardon you'd have forgiven her ?"
She almost hoped that he would say
"No that she need not go on.
But he answered
Yes-but she never wrote"
" think she did, Grantley," said the
mother. II know she did. I-I-an
accident happened to the letter. lit
got burnt ;but I'm sure it was an..apology.
Indeed, saw few words. but 1 didn't
think you cared 80. You see tit fell
into the fire."
"Why did you not tell me before p
cried Grantley.
"Wel,, I somehow didn't like" was
all the mother could say. "And why
don't you go and ask her about it, ond
see what it was ?"
Poor Mrs. Webb, when her son, after
many questions, had taken her advice,
cried bitterly. She might have felt
even worse had she heard what Ann was
saying.
The story had been told, a reconcilia-
ton effected, declaration made to the
effect that Mr.. Millet had never been
loved. And then Ann Burdock said,
with laugh
"But, Grantley, your mother burnt
that letter on purpose. Only q man
could believe the story you've told me.
She did not want me for q daughter-in-
law. 1 owe her no grudge-remember
that, and don't tell her what say"
Grantley never did. And old Mrs.
Webb has often been heard to say that
Ann Burdock has turned out better than
could have been expected
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15
Thirty Years Separated.

There are some strange features in an
action pending in the Twelfth district
court ut San Francisco, for a divorce
and division of common property.
Martha Stevens is the plaintiff and
Coleman Stevens the defendant. A
separation in fact has been in existence
between the parties for the long period
Of thirty-three years, the plaintiff, ac-
cording to the story, having barely
tasted the sweets of the honeymoon
when her husband deserted her, leaving
her almost penniless, and in condition
which increased her troubles. Mrs.
Stevens is fifty-eight years of age. She
married Coleman Stevens at New York,
on November l, 1S43, and she states
that two days after their marriage the
husband went to visit his father, some
two hundred miles distant, where he re-
mained. The following March she also
went to his fathers. She took this step
because she was advised that her hus-
band was going after a young girl, pros
pectively rich. She found her husband
very friendly, and he frequently called
upon her, as she resided in neighbor-
ing house. Then they both lived at his
fathers house, but not as married
people. On the 18th of May, 1874, she
signed deed for the sale of land from
Coleman to his father, and then they
started for Michigan. 1t was the under
standing that the money realized from
the sale of the land would be invested
in land in Michigan. They arrived at
Goshen the first day, and remained
there all night. The next morning he
said he had made up his mind not to go
to Michigan, and proposed to return to
his fathers house. At Charter station,
en- route to his fathers, her husband
jumped off the train. She looked out
of the car window and saw him running
across the fields, and that was the last
time she saw him until she met him in
San Francisco last year. At the time
her husband jumped the train she hal
about twenty dollars in her pocket, but
no other means of support except a little
land she owned After doing house
work for q time at Williamsburg, she
learned the milliner's trade, and opened
little store. She went to New York
once or twice year to purchase goods
The winter following the close of the
war she went with her daughter to
Oanden MILLS, Mlcn1Ban, where sne re-
mained until February, 1875, when she
went to California. She states that she
never received any support from her
husband from the time he deserted her
until granted alimony in the present
divorce case. The first intination she
had of the whereabouts of the missing
husband was letter from his father,
written in December. 1872, in which he
asks forgiveness for favoring Coleman.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15
Profit of Sheep Raising in California.

There is more profit on the average
in keeping sheep in this country, says
the Visalia (Cal. } Age, than in any other
country on the globe. With the excep-
tion of Holland and Belgium, the annual
weight in flesh of America exceeds that
of any other country. In those two
countries the average weight is sixty
pounds in America fifty-two pounds.
But owing to the higher price received
here for wool the annual revenue from
each sheep here is just double that
in Holland. The annual revenue here is
$2. 16, on the average Australia is next
highest, $3.50; Spain next, $1.45. Only
five other countries exceed 81, and in
Russia and Greece its revenue is only 40
cents. The average weight as we'll as
the price will be largely increased when
the vast focks of coarse woolen sheep in
the West have been bred up to the con-
dition they undoubtedly will be in few
years from nov,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15

APPLE CUsTARD PIE.-One pint of
sweet milk and three grated sweet apples,
two we'll beaten eggs, little salt, sugar,
and nutmeg to taste. Have only an un-
dercrust.
Brown BREAD.-One pint of corn
meal, one pint of rye meal, two-thirds
cup of molasses, one large spoonful of
vinegar, one heaping teaspoonful OF
saleratus, dissolved in little warm
water, one-half teaspoonful of salt, mix
we'll with warm water, quite soft, and
steam three hours. Put in the oven fif-
teen minutes and brown.
Ox-TAIL SoUP.-Cut the tail in seven
OF eight pieces and fry brown in butter;
slice three onions, and the same of car
rots; fry them in the pan after removing
the ox-tail; place the onions and carrots,
after frying, in cotton bag, with a
bunch Of thyme; drop it into soup pot
with the ox-tail; cut up two pounds of
lean beef, CRATE over it two carrots, place
it in the pot; add four quarts of water,
some pepper and salt, boil five OF six
hours, strain it; thicken with O very
little flour, boil ten minutes longer, and
serve hot.
CHICKEN SA1AD.-A pair of boiled
chickens, seven or eight pounds in
weight (not old fowls), cut in small dice,
about quarter of an inch square; two
lunches (seven or eight heads) of celery,
the white part only; slit each head in
half, wash well, leave it in ice water some
time to make it crisp, drain well, cut the
size of chicken; add chicken and celery
together in large bowl, season with
white pepper and salt to taste; use about
half this dressing; mix we'll, add two or
three tablespoonfuls of vinegar; dish up
in a pyramid shape, on a platter large
enough to put border of lettuce, cut in
shreds or picked in small pieces, around
it, spread the balance of the dressing on
the top, put the lettuce and three hard
boiled eggs, cut in four pieces, lene TIL
wise around the dieh, take the heart of
q head Of lettuce and put in the center;
few capers sprinkled over the dressing
is good.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15
Editor and Landlord.

Landlord" Mr.. Editor, I'll thank
you to say 1 keep the best table in tho
city,"
Editor" IL thank you to- supply
my family with board gratis.
Landlord" thought you were glad
to get something to fill up your paper. :"
Editor thought You were CAD to
feed men for nothing
It's poor rule that won't work. both
WAYS.
ESit landlord in rage, threatening to
have nothing more to do With the office,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15
Jennie, the Milkmaid.

Jennie, the Milkmaid.
My heart is 80 light,
1 sing.day and night,
Sock, Boss,
Sook.
My pail is now ready,
I carry it steady,
Moo, Boss,
Moo.
My Jamie comes whistling,
He knows I am listening,
SO, Boss,
SO.
He smiles in my face,
And then takes my place,
Stand, Boss,
Stand.
/ sink right by his side,
My warm bushes to hide,
Wink, Boss,
Wink.
He looks down in my eyes,
1 peep up in surprise,
Low, Boss,
Low.
"Look, Jennie, look yonder ~
turn in great wonder,
Back, Boss,
Back.
Round my neck his arm steals,
On the air his laugh peals,
Slow, Boss,
Slow.
On my lips, quick as light,
He sprigs like wight,
Turn, Boss,
Turn.
Then away run fast;
He sings out " Caught at last
Bye, Boss,
Bye.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15

The boss team-A yoke of oxen.
Two-button kids-A young goat fight.
Hotel-keepers are people we have to
put ND with"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15

SuET PUDDING.-Two and one-half
eupfuls -four, one teaspoonful salt, one
cup suet chopped fine, two eggs, scant
pint, milk, one-half teaspoonful soda,
one-half cup apples chopped fine, one
teaspoonful each of cloves and cinnamon.
three teaspoonfuls molasses; steam one
and three quarter hours.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14
A " Square Deal.''

A curious story comes from Paris: 1t
is not SO very long since young man,
well dressed and apparently rich, entered
a :clandestine gaming house. He was
playing at ente-et-quarante, and had al
ready won little pile Of gold.
"Red wins" presently said the banker,
and proceeded to hand over hundred
napoleons to the unknown one, for the
stakes were high.
But the stranger made no attempt to
take the gold, and returned no answer to
the three or four questions put to him in
reference to the game. His eyes re.
NAMED fixed on the red, while his features
assumed CHASTITY paleness. A player
touched his arm-he was dead. Then the
banker coldly withdrew the one hundred
napoleons, coldly observing that play was
in the nature Of reciprocal contract,
which could only be entered into be.
tween parties, both of whom were capa.
BILE of contracting, and therefore, never
between live man and dead one
The cause of death was heart disease
and the official report was soon drawn w
in proper form. It contained, as may bt
imagined, no sort Of reference to gaming
house.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14
TltaIls and Men.

BLESSED are the meek" exclaims the voice
OF inspiration, but can man be meek with the
consciousness that dread edmonsteris con-
Stunning his yitals. We are not race of Titans.
A Promctheus might standlchained to the tor
turing rock with avulture perpetually gnaw-
ing his liver and his face ever wear an expires
sion of heroic and even meek endurance But
Prometheus has left no descendants. With
vultures disease consuming his liver, the mod
ern man makes himself and every one around
him miserable. Frctful, gloomy, hypochon-
drical, he sees the world and life all on the
wrong slde-the dark side-and whoever dares
to assert that there is a sunny side, he regards
as an enemy, or at best q mocker Of his imag-
mary woes. Unlike the mythical Titan, the
victim of disease is not succorless. There is
On arm to rescue-a balm to cleanse and heal.
As remedies for this most depressing of all d.
seases-"Liver complaint are more ef-
ticient or popular than DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pei.
lets. The Pellets etfectually remove the effete
| and poisonous matter, while the Medical Dis
covery imparts strength and health to the en-
| tire system. They are sold by druggists.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14
About Widows.

Winter-kept apples, old wine, cloud
eel meerschaum, vase around which the
scent Of roses still hangs, all these have
rare, ripe, evancscent flavor that suggest
but cannot express, the charm Of the
widow. A young widow is, perhaps the
most interesting object in nature-or in
art. She represents experience without
its wrinkles or its gray hairs. She has
matronly beauty and maidenly freedom
combined. She is grief with laughing
eye-sorrow in honse of festival
silver moon in sable cloud. She is too
sweet for anything! Like all good things,
she can only be created at great sacri-
fee. Mrs. Browning says that a man
must be pretty thoroughly spoiled before
he can leave widow. This black swan
this mournful Phgnix-rises, only out
of the funeral urn that holds the ashes of
husbands heart. Poets, statesmen,
heroes, and philosophers have each felt
the indefinable influence of widowhood.
It falls alike upon the just and unjust.
Edward Plantagenet married the widow
Elizabeth Grey, though he knew she
brought civil war for her dowry. Ned
Walker, Joe Addison, Sam. johnson,
George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte,
John Wesley, Tony Weller, Ben. Disrael,,
and all the boys married widows. Henry
VIII. was so fond of them that he took
two, and King David was so pleased with
Abigail, the widow of Nabal, whom he
took to wife, that he turned Bathsheba in
to widow on purpose to marry her.
When Judith ceases her cogitations over
the virtues Of the late lamented Manassas
Of Bethula, puts off her mourning and
adorns her herself in brave attire to set
out for the camp of Holofernes, we feel
instinctivcly that she will come back with
his heart, his crown, or head, whichever
she goes for. When the old widow, Mao
mi, counsels the young widow, Ruth, how
to lay snares in the harvest fields of her
kinsman, and spring her net on the
thrashing floor, we know at once that the
wealthy bachelor, Boaz, might as we'll
order the wedding garments. Allan
Ramsay wrote song telling how to WOO
q widow. He might as well have left
directions how to get struck by lightning.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14
DAVID GRAY'S ESTATE.

Over his forge bent David Gray,
And thought Of the rich man across the way.
"Hammer and anvil for me-" he said,
"And weary toll for the children's Dread,'
.For him, soft carpet and pictured walls,
A LIE Of ease in his spacious halls"
The claue Of the bells on his dreaming broke
4 flicker of fame, whirl OF smoke.
or lii travis, forge grown white hot,
Coat and hat were alike forgot.
Az up the highway the blacksmith ran,
In face and mieu like drunken man.
school.housc afire!" Mems hearts stood still
A-women prayed as women will:
While 'bove the tumult the wailing cry
enlightened children rose shrill and high
Night in it, shadow hid sun and earth;
The rich man sat by his costly hearth.
Lord Of wide acres and untold gol
But Wifeless, childless, forlorn and old
He thought Of the family cross the way;
II would, be said," were David Gray"
The Blacksmith knelt at the children's bed
To look once more at each smiling head.
any darlings all safe! Oh, God!" he cried,
my, sin Thy boundless mercy hide!
"Only to-day have learned how great
Hath been Thy bounty and my estate"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14

Saying smart things does not pay. It
may crafty your spite at first, but it is
better to have friends than enemies; if
you cannot make people happy, at least
refrain from adding to their misery.
What it this woman is not your ideal Of
womanly perfection, or that man your
model man? Your mission on earth is
not to remind them of the fact. Each of
us has faults Of his own or her own; in
correcting them we shall find ample occu-
patton. A sting" or a "dig" never did
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14

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any good-never helped any one to be
better. One who falls into the habit of
giving them soon looks ill-natured. It is
not always possible to join the Mutual
Admiration Society and be good men,
Der, but at least one can hold ones
f0n0ue
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14

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SANDAL:WQQQ

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The essentials for wide popularity ore fully
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Soap. 1t is universally esteemed by the taste
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With such nice adaptation the success of this
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14

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Rheumatls1n Quickly Cured.

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case Of rheumatism on the face of the earth.
druggists Send for circular to Helphenstine
q Bentley, Druggists, Washington, DC.
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