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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01

"One afternoon I was hurrying along
the street as fast as the snow and ice
would let me toward the residence of
Miss Constance Howard, and had arrived
within few door of the house, when [
saw small, plainly dressed young
woman cautiously descending the steps,
and then as cautiously, with eyes bent
on the ground, advancing i'll my direc-
ton. She wore no veil, and as she drew
near to me l studied her face with pleas
IRE. 1t was such bright, brown, hon
est, innocent face.
|. "Well, sir, was looking so earnestly
at this bright, brown, innocent face, and
not minding my steps at all, that never
saw a large lump of ice directly in my
pathway, aud tumbling over it in the
most awkward manner, was precipitated
into the very arms of NE small woman,
my tall hat striking her full in the face
and then bouncing off into the street.
regained my perpendicular in time to
hear a half distressed, half-sharp little
voice exclaim Oh, my tooth 7 and
see pair of peculiar gray eyes raised
reproachfully to my face, as a pair of
woolen gloved hands went uE. to a pair
of charming crimson lips. Before l
could utter word of apology and regret
she had glided, sided or skated aws !,
and stood looking like fool, and won
dering whether I'd better glide, slide OF
skate after her, when l saw something
glittering on the ice at my feet ]
stopped and picked it up--a fairy tooth
You needn't look 80 horror stricken,
Earl it wasn't real one, of course.
""Tisn't likely 1 could have struck the
young creature so violent a blow as to
knock tooth that had grown there out
Of her mouth without knocking her
down. 1t was false one, but the tiniest
l had ever seen in my life, false or real.
l looked at it a momeut and put it into
my pocketbook. The first question that
asked Constance, when she came down
) into the parlor to receive me, was:
"'Who is the small woman who left this
house short time ago-brown as a gyp-
sy, dark arched eyebrows, nose retrousse,
mouth like a baby's, gray eyes, with a
queer look in them, and wooden gloves p
" Pray, how long did you look at
herr? said Constance.
go Two minutes, answered 1.
" You saw a great deal in two min
ntes, she retorted, with o disagreeable
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01
Beaten by a Large Majority.

The Detroit Free Press says A boy,
aged twelve, whose uncle is member OF
the Legislature, was permitted to make
a trip to Lansing few days ago in order
to visit the State House. He came home
chuck full of importance, and when his
little brother ran to meet him at the gate
William coldly waved him back and
said
refer you to the committee on fish,
cries, bub, and how's my dog %
His mother was glad to see him, and
when she asked if he had enjoyed him
self he replied:
"Oh, suppose so, though now move
to strike out all after the enacting
clause"
"What sort of talk is that, Willie,
dear 2" she asked in great surprise.
"Never mind the talk, mother, but
move the previons question and bring on
the pancakes. y
The hired girl came in with the dinner
and wanted to know how he liked Lam
sing. He looked at her with great dig
nifty aud replied:
&C now move to lay your petition on
the table, Hannah, for future considera-
| tion."
She got mad about it, and William
slyly informed his mother that it was his
opinion that Hannahs title should be
made to conform to the body of the bill.
He went out to see the boys after dinner,
and house painter asked him where No.
657 was.
"Well have call of the House and
see," replied the boy, as he looked
around.
Whose house?" asked the painter.
cor you can rise to q question OF
privilege" continued the lad.
81 don't want no sass," said the paint.
Ell, who thought the boy was making fur
of his red nose.
"Of course not. Let's pass the bill
to a third reading, or else go into com
mittee of the whole and debate it,
Il think you need dressing down 7
growled the painter, and he banged vii
liam into snowbank and pushed heal
of snow down behind his collar.
"Have the minority no rights yelled
the boy, as he kicked the painter on the
shin.
He would have been wolloped had no
his mother appeared. The paintel
moved away at sight of her, but callet
out:
"I'll see you again, boy"
81 refer the whole subject to father
with instructions to report bill to wall
you into the police court" replied tn
representative, and he went in to tell hi
mother the difference between suspend
ing the rules and rushing bill, or re
ferring it to the committee on cornfeld
till some one came around with tn
cigars
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01
Infectious Disease Propagation.

in view of the alarming prevalence Of
scarlet fever in many parts of the coun-
try, the following hints by the British
ings: There are three common ways by
means of which infectious diseases may
be very widely spread. 1t is very
usual practice for parents to take children
suffering with scarlet fever, measles, etc. +,
to public dispensary, in order to obtain
advice and medicine. 1t is little less
than crime to expose, in the streets of a
town and in the crowded waiting room of
a dispensary, children afflicted with such
complaints. Again, persons who are re-
covering from infectious disorders bor-
row books out of the lending departments
of public libraries; these books, on their
reissue to fresh borrowers, are sources
of very great danger. In all libraries,
notices should be posted up informing
borrowers that no books will be lent out
to persons who are suffering from dis
eases of an infectious character; and that
any person SO suffering will be prose
cuted if he borrow during the time of his
illness. Lastly, disease is spread by
tract distributors. 1t is the habit fol
such well meaning people to call at q
house where person is i'll and leave him
a tract. In week or so the tract is
called for again, another left in its place,
and the old one is left with another per,
son. 1t needs not much imagination tc
know with what result to health such g
practice will lead if the first person be in
scarlet fever or smallpox.
DIR. Hutton offers warning on the
reckless manner in which parents allow
their healthy children to run into the
houses of acquaintance who have mem
bers of their families suffering from scar
latina, etc., and states that he has seer
the infection thus carried from the pa
tient, and several families attacked.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01
A French Story.

One day, on the Boulevard Pereire,
Paris, mad dog started in pursuit of a
velocipede, mounted by t boyo fourteen,
named Dupraty, living in the Boulevard,
No. 16. The chase was terrible one,
and ended in the fall of the boy. Hap
PLY it was in the iron of the velocipede
wheel that the teeth of the mad bulldog
closed. Il There ended the first
act of the drama. The second follows.
In an impulse of l9ssionate joy at seeing
her son saved from SO great danger,
Nine. D!praty pressed her lips to the
wheel of the velocipede. Some hydro
phobic virus had remained on the iron.
and after an agony of fortnight the
poor mother died, raging mad.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01
A student named Talford. on re

A student named Talford, ON returning
to his home in Missouri recently from
college in Indiana, became insane on
the cars, and leaving his sachel of books
in his seat, leaped from train ON the
North Missouri railroad, as it was going
Mt full speed He was captured near
Renick, Missouri, in dense thicket,
and was taken to be wild man, He is
held in Jail for Identification,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01
Roger M. Sherman was arguing a

Roger Nj. Sherman was arguing a
case, and made point which the Judge
did not at once see. "Mr. Sherman, Z"
said he, 81 would thank you to state
the point so that l can understand you. +"
Bowing politely, Sherman replied in his
blandest manner "Your honor is not
probably aware of the task you are i'm
posing on me-" ...
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01
VOL. VII.
Better in the Morning.

You can't help the baby, parson
But still want We to go
Down an look in upon her.
An read an pray, you know.
Only last week she was skippin' round
pullin' my whiaLers n hair,
A climbin' up to the table
Into her little high chair.
The first night that she took it
When her little. cheeks grew red,
When she kissed goodnight to papa.
And went away to bed
Sez she: ''Tis headache, papa,
Be better in mornin'-.bye;
Nm somethin in how che said it
Jest made me want to cry.
" But the mornin' brought the fever,
And her little hands were hot,
An the pretty red NV her little cheeks
Grew into crimson spot.
But she laid there jest ez patient
Ez ever woman could,
Takin' whatever we give her
Bettern grown woman would.
"The days are terrible long an slow,
An she's GROWN WIS in each
An now she's jest slippin'
Clear away out NV our reach.
Every night when l kiss her.
Tryin hard not to cry,
She says in way that kills me-
Be better in mornin'--b
"She can't get thro' the night, parson,
So | want yc to come an pray,
And talk with mother little
Youllknow jest what to say
Not that the baby needs it,
Nor that we make any complaint
That God seems to think He's needin'
The smile Nv the little saint"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01

l walked along with the corporal
To the door of his humble home,
To which the silent messenger
Before me had also come;
And if he had been titled prince,
would not have been honored more
Than was with his heartfelt welcome
To his lowly cottage door.
Night falls again in the cottage;
They move in silence and dread
Around the room where the baby
Lies painting upon her bed.
''Does baby know papa, darling?"
And she moves her little face
With answer that shows she knows him
But scarce visible trace
OF her wonderful infantile beauty
Remains as it was before
The unseen, silent me ssengcr
Had writed It the door.
"Papa k s-baby--Ts-so-tir
The man bows low his face.
md two swollen hands are lifted
Il baby's last embrace.
And into her fathers grzzled beard
The little red fingers cling,
Wlile her husky whispered tenderness
ears from rock would wiring,
'Batv -is-so-s sick-papa--
t--don't--want--yo you--to-cry :"
The little hands fall on the covcrlet---
better--in -mornin' :"
And night around baby is falling,
Settling down dark and dense
Does God need their darling in heaven
That He must carry her hence?
prayed, with tears III my voice,
sthe corporal solemnly knclt
Wfh such grief as never before
HIS great warm heart had felt.
Oh frivolous men and women.
Do you know that aronnd you and nigl
Alike from the humble and naughty
Gocth up eyermorc TIE cry:
My child, my precious, my darling,
How can let you die?"
Oh !. hear ye the white lips whisper
" e-better-in--mo
-Leonder S. Coan, IN Concord Monitor
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23
Thousands OF Amdavits.

Many having used patent" and pre-
pared medicines and failed in finding the
relief promised, are thereby prejuuiced
against all medicines. Is this right 2
Would you condemn all physicians be-
cause one failed in giving the relief prom
ised ? Some go to California in search of
gold, and after working hard for months
and finding none, return home aud say
there's no7gold there. Does that prove il Z?
Many suffering with Catarrh and pulmo-
nary affections have used the worthless
preparations that crowd the market, and in
their disappointment say there is no cure
for Calarrn. Does that prove il? Does II
not raiber prove that they have failed 10
employ the proper remedy? There are
thousands Of people in the United Safes
who eau make an affidavit that DIR. Sage's
Caiarrh Remedy and DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery have effected their en-
tire cure. Many had lost all sense Of smell
for months, and pieces OF bone had repeat
eddy been removed from the nasal cavities.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23

A MANUFACToRY OF CRIPPLEs for beg
gng has been unearthed in Hungary. 1t
seems that, 20 years ago, a man named
Trouileson, his mistress and her brother
came 10 Radna and started this establish
ment, amassing large fortune out of the
horrid trade. Children were kidnapped
from all the surrounding cities, brought TO
Radna and placed in the hands of The mu-
tilators, and thus were produced the horri-
bly, dis6gured bsggars for which the city
has been noted. A medical professor OF
Prague discovered the place and notified
the police, aud the result was the arrest of
the proprietors and disclosures which have
horri6ed all Austria. In filthy hall, as
the officers entered, we're huddled 100
wretches, legless, armless, blind, distorted;
in the hospital were three children, just re-
covering from ampuIalions of hands or
feet, while in pit beneath the torture
chamber were putreiying human limbs.
That the existence of this den was not un-
known TO the authorities is shown by the
fact that the mayor and two other officials
have been arrested for accepting brides 10
keep the matter secret while the infuriat-
ed people can hardly be restrained from
anticipating on the criminals the tsrdy JUS
tice OF the guillotine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23

The GROWTH OF FREEMAsoNRY.-N
withstandng the bad times, Freemasonry
is growing rapidly in England aud is finan-
cially in a good condition. The Grand
Lodge was established in l7I7, and there
are now 1000 lodges and nearly 500, OOC
members in England and Wales. In Scot
land and ireland there are over l 900 lodges.
According 10 tho London Standard the
three great central charities of the order,
the Boys School, Girls School and Be-
nevolent Institution, received last year
$50, 600 in the aggregate, being the largest
total amount ever received by them in aLy
one year, and exceeding that of 1875 by
$1,000. Though it has made progress all
over the world, in no other country has the
spread of Freemasonry been so marked as
in England. In this country 1t has made
great progress within the last few years.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23

CHINESE Ivory CARv1NG.-There is at
the Office of the Consolidated Virginia
Mining Company magnificent specimen
of Chinese carving in ivory. The piece Of
carving is about sixteen inches in height
and is elaborate almost beyond description
or comprehension. At tho base are several
human figures and the figure Of horse
some three inches in height, all carefully
and artistically wrought, while at the dis
lance OF about ten inches above is seen a
ball about four inches in diameter, on the
surface of which are hundreds of human
figures, standing or reclining In inches,
most wonderful in the elaboraieness and
delicacy of the carvings surrounding them.
Inside Of this ball are no less than twenty
one other balls, or hollow spheres, each as
delicate and beautifully wrought as the first
or outer shell. All these spheres may be
turned and moved about in such a way
that the figures carved on them may be
seen. Above this nest Of spheres are a
number of human figures all bearing the
Chinese "human face divine" which fig
ures are OF about the same size as those at
the base. This splendid specimen OF Chin
ese work was sent to Mr.. Mackay
by friend residing in China. To carve it
must have been the work of years. Vir-
1inid City (NeU.) Enterprise.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23
The blue GsIas. Cure,

General A. J. Pleasanton, originator and
strenuous advocate of the theory that blue
glass, interposed between the sun and any,
Thing that grows has a very stimulating
effect, says his first experiment was to
build a grapery, in which every eighth
row of glass was blue, so that during the
day the sun cast blue ray of light on ev-
cry leaf in the house. In five months amer
setting them, his yearling cuttings had
each grown some forty-five feet in length
and were an inch in diameter a foot above
the ground. The second year, besides con-
tinuing their growth, the vines bore 1000
pounds of unusually large and luscious
grapes. These vines have kept on The
same way ever since. Gen. Pleasantou
then experimental on animals, raising
pigs and calves under roofs of blue and
plain glass, in equal proportions. The fee
BILE were made strong, and growth was so
forced by the stimulation that heilers
reached maturity in fourteen months, and
bulls in a third that time. Now he raises
all his cattle under blue glass.
As soon as he perceived the success of
this treatment on vegetable and brute life,
the now confident discoverer subjected
weak and ailing humanity to similar con-
dilions. The cases recorded in his book
aud in letters which are now being pub
lished In New York and Chicago are en-
barrassingly numerous. A PHILADELPHIA
doctor was induced to try blue glass for his
wife, who suffered from neuralgia, The
sash Of window was fitted with alternate
panes OF blue glass, and the lady gave the
neuralgia spots sun-baths, receiving relief
with each application, and recovering en-
tirely In three weeks. Two major generals
cured themselves Of rheumatism in the
forearm in three days, and two years after
had had no return OF the disease in apv
shape. The General himself, who is get
ting old, tells how he took his own pre-
scription when he received a severe fall.
last October. The doctor said he would
suffer long time from the conclusion, but
he tried a sun-bath with blue and white
light, and in three days every effect of the
serious accident was removed. Before
leaving these certainly surprising testimo-
niles let US note the curious fact that, in
Two cases, an afi1ictiVe badness has been
euredi one lady. a meningitis patient who
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23

PASTE THAT WILL KEEP.-The sourins
and mouldering OF paste used by book bind
ers and workmen in other trades, which,
according to circumstances, occurs in about
two or three days, may be entirely avoided
according TO the statement of Herr Lang,
by the addition and thorough mixture
with the freshly prepared paste of few
drops of salicylic acid. When thus treated,
paste may be Kept for weeks in heated
room without losing its freshness, and even
when it has by long standing become dry
and Tough, may be at once rendered fluid
and serviceable by treatment with hot wa
fer
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23
Trae Merit Will VIII.

few years since the proprietors of DR.. Morris's
Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and Horehound intro
duced it here. 1t was not pulled, but sold IN its
already 1t has become the most staple and popular
pulmonary remedy in the market. II quickly cures
the worst coughs, colds, Group, bronchitis, asthma,
and ineipient consumption. Nothing acts nicely
in whooping cough, and 1t is pleasant that children
readily take it, Containing no opium, other dan
gerous drug, II Is as safe ~ il Trial size 10
cts. large sizes, so cts. and One Dollar Sold by N
THORN CO., Brattleboro.
Also Agents for Prof. Parker's Pleasant Worm syr-
up, which never fails Pleasant to take, and requires
no physic. Price 25 cts.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23

TUG OusptI IN UIONtf, VI.
II have been troubled for several years
with difficulty of The heart and lungs,
have applied to several physicians for help,
and have tried almost every remedy rec
commended, without receiving any assist
ance; but had been growing weaker and
weaker, until, hearing of WIsTAR's BAL
SAM OF WILD CHERRY about year since,
commenced using 1t, with immediate re-
lief 1t has not only restored my lungs to
a sound stale, but am entirely relieved of
the difficulty or disease OF the heart.
have no hesitation in saying that it is the
best lung medicine before the public; and
l cheerlully and cOnscientiously recon.
mend it TO all persons suffering with pull
monary complaints"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23

had Y9rn a wig four years, rejoicing in the
recovery OF her hair as we'll as her health
on account Of the magic blue glass. Here
and there physicians are allowing that
there is something in IT, The aquarium in
New York is lighted by blue panes alter
mating with white, and the fishes are said
to be uncommonly happy nnder The blue
rays. A Chicago hospital has fitted the
windows OF several OF its wards in the
same way, and the plan is under discus
sion, also, in the New York hospitals.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23

Cannot be cured by snuffs washes or local applca-
tons is weakness of the constitution developing
Itself IN the nasal organs rst, afterwards extending
70 the throat and lungs, ending generally in Consump
ZION, II not checked by proper remedies. Pains In
head back lons and weakness Of Kidneys are its at
tendAnt diseases More people have Catarrh than any
other dlsease II Is easily cured Thousands Of cases
cured IN New Hampshire the past three years by the
COHsffufioHaI CafGJTh Remedy. Certificates 10 bach
the above, aud treatise CAtarrh in . sa-paRe nam
phet, sent free on application to Littlehed Co. bro.
prletors, Manchester, N. H. Send name on postal
card ana Il VIII cost only cent. Price, 81 per bottle
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~ Passenger trains will leave
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p and Saturdays only $3.50 p. m, connecting at
South Vernon with Connecticut River Railroad trains
for Springfield, Hartford New Haven, and New YORK
aud with Vermont and Mass Railroad for Brattleboro
RETURNING--Leave South Vernon at :O5 a. m
rs p m, and Saturdays only 1880 ,. m ar
rival Of Connecticut River Il. Il. trains FOR Keene,
Bellows Falls, Fitchburg, Boston, &c.
gB- Passengers from Brattleboro for stations on
Ashuelot Railroad leave Brattehoro at 6:l5a m. and
1896 p. m. r. STEWART, supt.
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