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When will the flowers grow therep I can not
tell.
Oh, many and many 3 rain will beat there
first,
Stormy and dreary, such as never fell
Save when the heart was breaking, that had
nursed
Something most dear little while, and then
Murmured at giving God his own again.
The woods are full Of yiolets. know;
And some Wild swsekbriars grow 20 pesr ths
place; ~ s. ~
Their time is not yet come. Dead leaves and
snow
Must cover first the darling little face
From the wet eyes, forever fixed upon
Your last still cradle, o most precious onel
Is he not with his father? So trust.
Is he not his? Was he not also mine?
His mothers empty arms would yearn toward
the dust;
Heaven lies too high, the soul is too divine;
I wake at night and miss him from my breast,
And-human words can never say the rest.
Safe2 But out of the world, out Of my sight,
Ny way to MIN through utter darkness lies:
I am gone blind with weeping, and the light
If there be light is shut inside the skies
Think you to give my bosom back his breath.
would mot kiss him from the peace called
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DENTISTRY.

W o o D s E E L D, O Fl y.
Teeth extracted without pain By the use
Of nitreus oxide or laughing gas. q
tS0hics in Hoehisr's building.-mae5'7sr
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
Does Its Own Feeding,

An English mechanic has contrived to
make steam engine do its own stoking.
A large sheet iron hopper is set above
the mouth of the furnace and in front of
the boiler. This is the receptacle for
Goals. Below the hopper steel crusher
is made to run somewhat rapidly, and,
as the Goals fall by reason of their own
gravity upon this grinding apparatus,
they are reduced to the uniform size of
cob nuts by the action of the crusher.
Thence the equalized fuel drops upon
pair of iron disks or fans inclo.ed in
box, and running in opposite directions
ata high velocity. The fans are in fact
the furnace feeders, for as the box has
but one opening, and that leads to the
fire, they literally blow the GOALS into
the latter and distribute them equally
over the whole surface of the fire bars.
The feed is regulated in quantity ac-
cording to the heavy or light work the
engine may be doing, by means of
single adjusting set screw. This is the
automaton stoker. The furnace fires are
fed and steam is kept up in the boiler
without the turning of shovel, and all
that the fireman has to do is to smoke
his pipe and whistle down in coal
mine"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
Experiments with Eucalyptus Trees.

The Sacramento (Cal. Record Union,
in late issue, publishes the following
important piece of news The Central
Pacific railroad company have arranged
to have 10000 eucalyptus trees set out
along five hundred miles of the right of
way of the company. 1t should not be
understood that that is the whole num-
Der of trees to be set out. 1t is but the
first installment, and is for commencing
the work. The object OF this plan is to
note what effect the planting of trees will
have upon the climate. 1t is the theory
that large numbers of them will increase
the humidity of the atmosphere and les
sen the liability to droughts. The de-
nuding of hills Of their timber and the
clearing away of forests has direct ef-
feet upon climate, as is well established,
and the intention now is to sec how far
artificial means will be effective in re-
storing the balance believed to have been
lost by the clearing out of our forests,
as we'll as the scattered groups of forest
trees. In this connection it is to be
noted that the directory of the Good
Templars' Home for Orphans, at Vallejo,
has now in progress the work of setting
out three thousand of the eucalyptus
globulus upon the grounds of the home,
which will make quite forest when the
trees shall be fairly grown.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
A Wealthy Thief.

Al one of the Paris police courts a rich
and elegant Russian lady has lately been
condemned to three months imprison-
ment for theft. She is the pretty young
wife Of Capt. Garianoff: Korewitchenski,
serving in the Russian cavalry. Her age
is twenty-six, and she has a daughter
OF eleven who was implicated with her in
stealing a number of articles from deal
er in fancy goods. On searching their
apartments a large quantity of articles
were discovered which had doubtless
been taken from many establishments
during considerable period OF time.
Many Russians of distinction attended
the court on account of the social position
OF Mime. Korewitchenski, who was SOM
berly but elegantly costumed. At the
first interrogation she burst into tears,
and vehemently denied the charge. Her
child, however, acknowledged the rob-
berries, both of her mother and self.
Capt. Korewitchensk had hastened from
Russia to be present at the trial, and
urged his wife's innocence, stating that
her income was 10000 francs, and that
she had no need to appropriate the pos
sessions of others. As it was apparently
case of kleptomania, the punishment
was rendered light. The child was ac-
quilted.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
The Priest and Physician.

A French journal says that famous
French surgeon, lately deceased, who
was brusque and unpublished, found, on
entering his house one day, an old priest
who had been long waiting his return.
"What do you want of Inc ?" 81 want
you to look at this" meekly replied the
priest, taking off an old wOolen cravat,
which revealed upon the nape of his neck
hideous tumor. ",You'll have to die
with that" coolly remarked the surgeon.
"I thank you, DOCTOR" simply replied
the priest, replacing his cravat, "and am
much obliged to you for warning me, for
can prepare myself, as well as my poor
parishioners, who love me very much. !"
The surgeon, who was never astOnished
at great things, looked upon this priest,
who received his death sentence unmov-
ed, with amazement, and said: "Come
tomorrow, at eight o'clock, to the Ho-
tel Dieu, and ask for me-" The priest
was prompt. The surgeon procured for
him special room, and in q month the
man went out cured. When leaving he
took out of a sack thirty francs in small
change. at is all have to offer you,
Doctor" he said; 81 came here on foot
from Rouen in order to save this" The
doctor looked at the money, smiled and,
drawing handful of gold from his poe
ket, put it in the bag along with the thir-
ty francs, saying: "It'sfor your poor" :"
and the priest went away. Some years
later the surgeon feeling death to be
near, bethought him of the priest, and
wrote to him. He came at once, and the
surgeon received at his hands the last
consolation of religion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
Thoughts for Saturday Night.
Need teacheth unlawful things.
Genius is only great patience.

Genius is only great patience.
All philosophy lies in two words,
"sustain and abstain"
Be calm in arguing, for fierceness
makes error a guilt and truth discour-
tesy
The best snd sweetest flowers of para
disc God gives to his people when they
are upon their knees. Prayer is the
gate of heaven or key to let us into para
disc.
Garments that have one rent in them
are subject to be torn on every nail, and
glasses that are once cracked are soon
broken; such is mans good name once
tainted with just reproach.
Mems lives should be like day-more
beautiful in the evening; or like sum-
lner-aglow with promise; and like all:
tumn-rich with golden sheaves, where
good deeds have ripened in the field.
Conscience is clock, which in one
man strikes aloud and gives warning, in
another the hands point silently and
strike not, meantime hours pass away,
and death hastens, and after death comes
judgment.
1t is an observation no less Just than
common, that there is no stronger test
of mans real character than power and
authority, exciting as they do every pae-
sion and discovering every latent vice.
A fair reputation is plant delicate in
its nature and by no means rapid in its
growth. 1t will shoot up in night like
the gourd OF the prophet; but, like tha /
gourd, it may perish in q night,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
What Shall He Do!

An editor writes Editing paper is
a nice business. If we publish jokes,
people say we are rattle headed. If we
omit Jokes, they say we are an old fossil.
If We publish original matter, they blame
us for not giving selections. If we pub
ish selections, folks say we are lazy for
not writing something they have not read
in some other paper. If We give a
complimentary notice, we are censured
for being partial Ii we do not give COM
pGmentary notices, folks will say we are
jealous. If we do not cater to the wishes
of the ladies, the paper is not fit to tie up
a parcel or make into a hustle. If we
remain in our office and attend to our
business, folks say we are too proud to
mingle with our fellows. If we go out,
they ray we never attend to our business.
If we wear poor clothes, folks say bust
ness is bad. If we wear good clothes,
they say we never paid for them, Now,
what are we to do?
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
The Indian Famine.

Mr.. Monier Williams writes from Ma
diira that at least 15,000,0O0 human
beings will have to struggle for exist
ence, if they are not actually struck down
by famine, or by the disease which
famine brings in its train. OF course
this estimate has reference only to the
poorest classes. A sad feature
in the spectacle is She condition of the
cattle. AS I travelled from ono place to
another, often diverging from the neigh
borh, cd of the railway to less frequented
outlying districts, I saw hundreds of
lean, half famished kline endeavoring to
exc out doomed existence on what
could only in mockery be called herbage.
When it is remembered that the COW is
principal source of sustenance to Hin
docs of nearly all castles, and that no
such animal Us cart horse is to be
found in India, all agricultural labor de-
pending on the OK, some idea may be
formed of the terrible calamity involved
in q mortality among cattle. Even the
COWS and oxen that survive will be al
most useless. Utterly enfeebled and
emaciated, they will have little power
left either to yield milk or to drag plow
through soil caked and indllrated by
months of unmitigated sunshine. But
the saddest feature of all is, the condition
of the human inhabitants of this great
peninsula. L will simply recount what
L know; and testify of what L have seen
with my own eyes in the capital of this
presidency. Only fortnight ago saw
many thousands of poor famine-driven
creatures from the villages round Madras
collected on the shore and on the pier.
They were crowding round the sacks of
rice grain, with which the sands for at
least mile were thickly covered and al
most concealed from view, the grain
bags being often piled up in the mounds
to the height of fifteen feet or twenty
feet. Yet no onslaught was made on the
grain. A few men scattered about,
armed with canes, were guarding the
sacks for the merchants who owned
them, and were sufficient to prevent any
attempt at depreciation, though here and
there 1 detected surreptitious efforts,
not so much to make incisions, as to en-
large any happy defects already ap-
parent in the material which enclosed
the coveted food. What generally hap
pened was this: Very few of the grain
bags were so well made as to make any
leahuSe Impossible, una SprlnhllnSS OF
rice were thus scattered about every
where. The knowledge Of this circum-
stance was the cause of the vast con-
course of miserable, half starved, enact
ated creatures who had walked many
miles to the spot. Men and women, old
and young, even cripples, mothers with
infants on their hips, and naked chill
dren-all more or less pitiable in their
leanness and in their hard-set aspect of
lnisery-were earnestly engaged in CLEAN
ing up every grain that escaped from the
sacks on the pier and on the shore.
Many were provided with coarse sieves,
by means of which few rice grains were,
with infinite pains, separated from bush
els of sand.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
VOL. VII.
Called by the Angels.

lhe farmers wife is sitting alone
In the dusk of winters day,
While over the hills the shadows fall,
And over the meadows gray,
And the cares Of many busy hour
Steal fast from her heart away.
Her eyes have wandered through mist of tear,
To the churchyard under the hill,
Where the snow, like the wings of broodine
dove,
Lies soft and pure and still,
And where her treasures so long ago,
She laid at the Masters will.
And ah how oft as the days go by,
She starts, as her listening ear
Has almost caught on the passing breeze
Voices SO sweet and clear.
"'Tis the angels calling - she thinks. "Ah, me
1t is weary waiting here"
The farmer from his work. at last,
In the dusk of winters day,
And he sits him down by his faithful wife,
And she parts his locks SO gray,
And looks in his face with loving smile
That years never steal away
And back again as her dim eyes turn
To the hills where the shadows fall,
She thinks "My treasures are lying there.
But He has not taken ALL
Since one is waiting beside me still
Till the angels voices call"
But the weeks are slow, and the aged two,
In the dusk of many day,
Will watch the shadows come and 70
Ger the meadows cold and gray,
Ere they, at the Masters will, may lie
Where their treasures are laid away.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22

That n recognized code for treatment
OF prisoners of war should exist we be-
lieve to be most desirable. We have
frequently heard it said-among others,
by Nj. Dunant-that the treatment OF
French prisoners by the Germans in the
last war had, to French eyes, been so
bad that should war again occur between
them, and France take prisoners, they
would suffer for the past sins of the Ger
mans. We may claim some right to offer
an opinion on this matter. We have
ourselves been instrumental in giving re-
lief to French prisoners who were un-
doubtedly suffering extremes of hard
ship. We have seen some of the saddest
sights that war has ever shown the
French army captured at Sedan, cooped
up in that narrow peninsula, suffering
the pangs of hunger the captive army
of Metz, marching out under the dis
dainful eyes of its conquerors, the SOL
diers haggard, worn, weary, throwing
themselves down in the deep black mud,
in the sheer bitterness of despair, while
the pittiless rain poured down upon
them. We have seen the French pris-
oners in the camp at Mainz, cold, bitterly
cold, with the snow deep on the ground,
many in thin clothing, and stockingless
feet, fed by but one meal day, and that
often given in the early morning of one
day, and not till the evening of the next
Nay, worse, we have seen the prisoners
of the army of the Loire literally freez-
ing to death in the open railway wagons
in which they were for days retained in
that severe winter, on their road to Ger
many and we have heard, on unques-
tionable authority, of men being taken
out of those wagons when they reached
their journeys end frozen to death. And
yet we say these are but the inevitable
hardships of war. ar.-BlacktCood's Maga-
zine
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
Vitality and Cunning Of the Locust.

In 1865 1 made experiments to see
how soon locusts would drown. After
confirming them in water twelve hours
they soon showed signs of life when
placed in the sunshine, and in few
minutes began to move. / tried freez-
ing, and came to the conclusion that they
could be frozen up any length of time,
and the warm sunshine would revive
them. In 1847 tried animal poisons to
see what effect they would produce on
locusts. put the poison on celery,
which the locusts prefer to other vege-
tables, and after observing the effect
formed the opinion that they could eat
their weight of any animal poison with
out ill-effect to them. AS soon as they
hatched out and began eating in April,
1875, L took can of coal oil and pan
for thepurpose of making fagot to burn
some that had just begun to eat my
wheat, coming from q sandy knoll in the
field. / poured the oil in the pan, and
in moving about the pan caused two or
three to leap into it. I perceived that
they changed color instantly, and to all
appearance were dead. 1 then forced
them in and observed the same results.
On placing them in the sunshine it failed
W DIulS luell W lllc iiSS'tiu. ulpSl N"lV
tried coal tar with the same happy re-
suit. Turpentine, alcohol, alkai and
croton oil will kill them, and from the
results OF my experiments l believe that
anything that will kill vegetable life will
destroy locust life under the same con-
ditions.
know no insect that exhibits the cum
ming of locusts after they are four weeks
old. When very young they appear to
have no sense as they will leap into
water or fire if in their course. After
four weeks old they will perform acts of
cunning that are incredible to the unob-
serving. In 1875, after they ate my
neighbor's crop on the east, they set out
for my field. L turned water between
his and my field, and caused it to flow
four or five feet wide in places, and let
it flow through the wheat ten or fifteen
feet wide in places 1 soon found them
crossing by thousands, swinging from
blade to blade of the wheat that stood in
the running water. then cut the wheat
out, but at the junction of a ditch 1 had
left two fence poles in the form of letter
V, the lower ends crossing near the
water of the creek, and the upper ends
on either side OF the ditch. They soon
found passage. and would and did climb
down pole fifteen feet long over the
water of Bear creek, and up the other
pole into my field They were making
the passage in one continuous stream
when 1 made the discovery, and the
ground and wheat were covered near the
passage by those that had crossed
MiilrQuEee NetUS
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
A Skeleton.

The st. Paul Dispatch has discovered
skeleton closet in the State capitol.
lntemperance has been increasing in tie
Legislative halls and statesmen have been
on sine die benders. Some of the COM
mittee rooms have been turned into pri-
vate bar-rooms, which are run at the ex-
pense of the State. 1t is alleged that
one of the committees obtained an allow
ance of $500 for expenses; that $40
went for a cupboard and $40 for keys
that the balance was used to buy liquors
to put into the cupboard; that the drink
ing men in the Legislature were supplied
tippling, ~ 'S-3
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
The Roman Sentinel.

When Pompeii was destroyed there
were very many buried in the ruins of it
who were afterward found in very diff
ferent situations. There were some
found who were in the streets, as if they
had been attempting to make their es-
cape. There were some found in deep
vaults, as if they had gone there for Sc
curity. There were some found in lofty
chambers. But where did they find the
Roman sentinel? They found him stand
ing at the city gate, with his hands still
grasping the war weapon, where he had
been placed by his captain. And there,
while the heavens threatened him; there,
while the earth shook beneath him; there,
while the lava stream rolled, he had stood
at his post; and there, after thousand
years he was found,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
How n Woman Drives a Tack,

Did you ever see a woman drive n
tack She holds it between her first
and second fingers and pushes it little
ways into the carpet. Then with the
other hand she takes up the hammer, al
ways with the wrong side down. She
hits three or four delicate blows, not
raising the hammer half an inch from
the head OF the tack, hut pinches her
fingers, let's go and hits it sideways, SO
that it enters the floor on bias. Then
she pulls it out, selects another tack from
the box, and sticks dozen into her
hands while doing it. Finally, with an
effort, she makes the point clinch the
floor, and with one blow she settles the
matter by knocking the head off.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
In the Churchyard at Tarrytown.

Here lies the gentle humorst who died
in the bright Indian summer OF his fame !!
A simple stone, with but date and name,
Marks his secludod resting place beside
The river that he loved and glorifed..
Here in the autumn of his days he came,
But the dry leaves of earth were all afiame
With tints that frightened and were multi
piled.
How sweet a life was his how sweet death
Living to wing with mirth the weary hours.
Or with romantic tales the heart to cheer !
Dying, to leave q memory like the breath
OF summers full of sunshine and Of showers,
A grief and gladness in the atmosphere.
Lonqfello,o.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
Ravages of the Rinderpest.

Earl Fortescue in the House of Lords
called attention to the outbreak of rim
derpest in Essex and Yorkshire and
ask the lord president of the council
what steps have been taken to prevent
the spread of the disease. The privy
council has issued notice stating that
the cattle plague has been detected at
Bow and Stepney, both within the
metropolis, and also at Hull. A fresh
outbreak is reported at Hull. 1t is
among stock in the vicinity of the first
outbreak, though the entire herd where
the latter occurred were Immediately
slaughtered.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22

RNDERPEsT.-A circular letter hss
been sent to collectors of ports by the
United States treasury department an
nouncing that it is understood from the
public prints that the rinderpest has
again broken out in England, and conse-
quently importations of neat cattle and
hides of neat cattle coming from that
eruutry arc therefore prohibited until
further ordere,