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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
In a Sap Trough.

Millard Fillmore, in extreme youth,
was rocked in Il sap trough for want of a
better cradle. His old pastor, Mr.. Hos
mer, describing IL visit to Washington
during Fillmore's administration, says
that he and DR., Kendall went to one of
bis receptions, and as they entered saw
the President and his family and cabinet,
and his father at his side. "As soon as
we had been very cordially received, DR..
Kendall drew me aside and whispered:
WAS there ever since the world begun
such contrast as that group and the
baby in the sap trough? 1t was indeed
a contrast. The President was hand
some man, of fine bearing, in the prime
of life; and his father was venerable, tall,
and not much bowed down by his eighty
years; his full gray hair and intelligent
face at once drew attention; and he stood
there by his son, as no other father then
had done, as calm and self-possessed as
in his justice court in some log cabin of
western New York. I was to be in
Washington a few weeks, and Esquire
Fillmore was 10 return home with me;
but one day l met him and he said: 4
am going home Tomorrow l said:
But why not wait for me? No, no,
said he, will go. don't like it here;
it isn't a good place to live; it isn't a
good place for Millard; I wish he was at
home in Buffalo"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

have taro patches, where they plant taro
and thus secure fresh supply of poi, q
delicacy dear to the native palate. They
nearly all own horses, which they at
times drive at furious rate. The aver
age Kanaka, no matter where you find
him, is sure to ride his horse to death
some day or another, and the women, in
this respect, are the same as the men.
But this is one of their grea enioyments,
and they will indulge in it, even amongst
the lepers. When not horseback riding,
planting taro or otherwise engaged the
lepers do little legitimate loafng
around "the country store" where they
barter and trade or keep inquiring for
letters whenever vessel touches at
Kalaupapa, the only landing at the set
Element. No vessels are permitted to
touch there except on special business
connected with the lepers. Whenever a
vessel touches it is holiday for all the
natives who are able to ride down to the
landing. When foreigners arrive the ma
tives are sure to reap good harvest,
because, though they charge nothing for
the use of their horses, it is the custom
to pay the owners whatever you see fit
in return for this kindness. Some of the
natives manage to accumulate a little
money by trading and speculation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
A Human Breakwater.

The London Builder says: "The
bursts of rain in the Carnatic are tre-
mendous. As much as five inches of
rainfall in a single night is not infre-
quent, and Sir A. Cotton has known as
much as nineteen inches of rain to fall
in that time. The smallest rill that is
allowed to trickle over the edge of an
enrthen bank wears itself passage and
becomes a destructive torrent with ex-
treme rapidity. On one occasion the
water in the Veranum tank is said to
have overfowed the whole twelve miles
of the bund, and to have preached it in
thirteen places. On another occasion
the engineer in charge of bund, finding
the water rising with more rapidity than
he was able to meet by the supply of
earth, made wall of the bodies of his
laborers, causing them to lie down close
to one another on the top of the threat
ened part of the dam, and thus keeping
back the two inches or three inches OF
water, which, if unchecked, would soon
have wrecked the whole bund and ruined
wide district, until their places could
be supplied by basketfuls Of earth. 1t
was an original expedient, but it saved
the district. What the laborers said
about it we have not heard.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
Anecdotes Of Commodore Vanderbilt.

One of Commodore Vanderbilt's as
sociates in his various railway enter
prise3 was Sam Berger, wag as well as
a director. At one of the meetings the
commodore said he didn't see how it
was that Jay Gould got at all the facts
and figures about New York Central.
"Tll tell you how you can prevent his
Knowing anything about your roads, ="
said Sam.
"How ?" asked the commodore.
"Elect him a director" was the re-
ply. The alltocrGtic fashion in which
the old man managed the road is well
known.
A speculator wished Sam to induce
the commodore to go into an operation
in the street.
eff the commodore will take hand we
can make a million without the possibili-
ty of losing dollar" said the hopeful
operator.
No danger of loss ?" said Sam.
"None at all, and sure to make all the
money we want" was the reply.
"Well, don't know about the old
man," said Sam, "but, if you feel SO
sure about the thing, L have no doubt 1
might get his son Cornelius to join you. I"
Sam got word one evening while Mt
dinner that the commodore would like to
see bin. Hastily partaking of little
food he repaired to the old gentleman's
residence, forgetting in his hurry to put
a cigar in his pocket After the bust
ness was finished Sam said "Com-
modore, you brought me away from my
dinner in such hurry that I didn't get
my smoke ! believe L would like to
try cigar." (The commodore was
smoking fragrant Havana.)
All right, Sam" he replied, "you
will find match on the mantelpiece. "
Sam smoked when he got home.
The bearish Twenty-third street party
were heavily short of Central. The
commodore was buying all any one
wautcd to sell at constantly advancing
figures. Sam happened in at the bear
garden, and of course The talk was of the
commodore's purchases. 81 tell you, "
said one of the bruins, more savage than
the rest, "the old man ought to be
taken care OF ; he has lost his head"
"I don't see any one that l suspect
OF having found it, was Sans quiet re-
mark, and nothing more was said ON that
subject.
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Under an Avalanche.

A Denver paper says: One of those
fearful visitations peculiar to all noun
famous countries, and known in Colo
RADIO as Il snowslide, occurred at the head
of Halls gulch, sweeping the boarding
house of the Whale mine quarter of
mile down the gulch, and burying its in
mates, eight persons in all, under
mountain of snow, from which the bodies
cannot be rescued until the summer
thaw reduces the drift. The boarding
house contained six men, one woman and
a child, and it is stated that one of these
escaped, though letter fails to confirm
this item of good news, but says that all
the inmates were buried beyond reach. ;
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
The Month Of January.

January, the first month of the year,
consists of thirty-one days, and is said
to have been added with February by
Numa to the Roman year, which pre-
viously had but ten months. It was
named from the double faced god Janus,
to whom its first day, which looks back
upon the past year and forward upon that
to come, was sacred. Ii had originally
but twenty-nine days, but two additional
days We're given to it by Julius Caesar
when he reformed the calendar. 1t was
symbolized in Rome by consul in con-
sular robes, because those magistrates
were installed i'll Office the first day. 1t
corresponded in the Athenian calendar
with the latter half of Peseidon and the
first half of Gamelion. Among the Sean
dinavians it was called primitively
month OF Thor, and later Ice month.
The French revolutionary calendar
merged it in parts Of Nivose and Plu-
viose. It was not uniformly the begin
ing of the year among Latin Christian
nations until the eighteenth century. It
was not the first month Of the year il
England till 1852, when the Parliament,
by an act passed the preceding year,
altered the mode of reckoning time from
the Julian to the Gregorian style. At
that time it directed that the legal year,
which then commenced in some parts Of
England in March, and in others in
January, should universally be deemed
to begin on the first of January. The
Anglo-Saxons called January Wolf
month.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
Come Now and Let Us Reason Together.

Why do people so frequently say to DIR.
Pierce: a. suppose your Golden Medical Dis
coyery cures everything?' Because it has been
the practice of knavish charlatans to manufac-
ture worthless nostrums and attempt to dupe the
ignorant and credulous by recommending them
to cure every form Of disease. To such an
extent has this been practiced that it is no Won
der that many have acquired prejudices against
all advertised remedies. But DR.. Pierce does
not advertise his standard preparations AZ
'cure-alls," does not claim that they will per-
form miracles but simply publishes the fact
that they have been developed az specifics for
certain forms of disease for which he recon-
mends them. after having tested their efficacy
in many hundred cases with the most gratifying
success. 1t is a fact known to every well in
formed physician that many single remedies
possess several different properties. Quinine,
for instance has a tonic quality, which sug-
gests its use in cases of debility an anti-peri-
odic. by which it is efficacious in ague and u
febrifuge property, which renders it eificaciOus
in cases of fever. The result of its administra-
ton will also vary with the quantity given and
the circumstances under which it is employed
SO, likewise. the Golden Medical Discovery pos
sesses both pectoral and Alternative, or blood
cleansing properties of the highest order. By
reason of these two prominent properties it
cures two classes of diseases. First, those of
the respiratory organs, as throat, bronchial and
lung affections, chronic coughs and asthma,
and second, diseases of the blood and glanduar
system, in which affections all skillful phys-
clans employ Alternatives az in cases Of blotchea.
eruptions, ulcers, swellings, tumors, abscesses
and in torpor of the liver or biliousness. "
While its use is, by its combination of proper
ties, suggested in cases of pulmonary consump-
ton, yet you need not take it expecting it will
cure you if your lungs are half consumed, nor
because il is recommended as blood medicine
would its proprietor advise you to take it ex-
pecting it to cure cancer 1t will not perform
miracles, but it will cure many grave forms of
disease
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
THE NIANUFACTORY.

The Estey Organ mandatory is well worth
visit to any interested in mechanics and art
progress. The works are situated on an eleva-
ted plateau, overlooking considerable portion
Of the village of Brattleboro'. They consist of
eight main slate covered factories, which are
forty feet apart, three stories high, one hundred
feet long, and from thirty to thirty-eight feet
wide. Near by is a gas house, which supplies
not only the factories, but some portions of the
village, with Illuminating gas of excellent quail
ity. steam fire engine, named 81. Estey,"
is kept constantly ready for use and may be
manned at moments notice by drilled com
pany Of the workmen. A perfect system of
speaking tubes and electric bells establishes in
Simultaneous communication between the Office
and all parts Of the premises. Over five hun
dred workmen are employed and every care is
taken to secure for them health, comfort aud
safety, as well as a perfect and economical
working of the establishment Many of the
little rooms occupied by the tuners are made
charmingly cozy with pictures and flowers, ar
ranged to suit the taste of the occupants. The
cheerful hum Of machinery mingles with the
chirping Of thousands of reeds, and sends forth
not discordant song Of industry which pene-
trates many Of the pleasant homes of the work
men.
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THE MAKERS.


The firm Of J. Estey & Co. is made up of
Mr.. Jacob Estey, his son, julius J. Estey, and
his son-in-law, Levi X. Fuller. Mr.. Estey,
senior, is the veteran reed organ maker of
America, if not of the world. He begun the
business in Brat sleboro', thirty years ago, in
single room, with six worlmen, and has make
his way constantly forward, in spite of more dis
asters and drawbacks than often attend such
enterprises. This TACT is due to the man him
self. He has made himself, through force OF
honesty energy, shrewdness and perseverance.
Plodding on and on, smiling at disasters by fro
and flood, planting his feet resolutely on all
obstacles with indomitable faith in himself and
his work, he has reached very proud place
among his fellows, while still in the prime of n
hale and vigorous manhood. His executive
ability is great. He knows every detail of the
vast business and watches its daily progress
with marvellous approach to omnipresence.
But, however absorbed he may be in this direc-
ton, he has never neglected his highest duties
and privileges as citizen. Always foremost
in everything conducive to the public welfare,
actively interested in affairs of church, State
and society, his influence has been wide and
good and the cordial esteem he has earned SO
honorably waits impatiently for fitting oppor-
tunity to do him honor in kind.
The younger members of the firm, who have
been active partners for decade of years. had
been trained in the business under the tuition
OF their senior for some time previous, and the
partnership only served to concentrate their
energies. They are young men of sterling
natural ability, and seem to have been particu-
larly well fitted for the positions assigned them.
Mr. julius Estey is at the head of the counting
room and supervises the mathematical intrica-
ces of the immense business with clear-head-
ed faculty that might well be considered n
synonym for uniform correctness. The count
ing-room of manufactory is where its heart
beats Health there means strong and
regular pulsation through all the veins and
arteries Of workshop and storehouse. Mr.. Fuller
is at the head Of the mechanics of the concern.
His native talent, stimulated by a thorough
mechanical training, has been invaluable and in
dispensable in the long and uninterrupted Sc
ries Of experiments and inventions which, un-
der his ready and intelligent guidance, have
been combined in the complete whole known as
the Estey Organ. Both these gentleman are,
equally with their elder, in the van of every
movement that tends to promote the public
| wealth and prosperity as reliable progressive,
faithful and enthusiastic in all such matters as
in their personal affairs. Character stamps
| these mell as it does their manufactures. Posi-
tive merit is the underlying princiys of their
| success. -
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
"All Talk and No Cider.o

Sam and Ben were two Indians, both
uncommonly fond of cider. The mission
ary had n barrel of fine cider, and he
liked to hold religious converse with
Ben and Sam. One day Ben said to
Sam "Why do you go to the minister's
so often?" " To talk" was the reply.
And what do you talk % Genesis,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Exodus
and 'Pocraphy.'" Hugh ! Say it
over. What else ?" "Peter, Timothy,
Jonah, Ananias and Levitieus." "What
else ?" Babylon, Moses, Judas Iscariot,
Saint John and Nebuchadnezzar. "And
then?" "Why then I get mug of
cider and CO." The next Saturday night
found Ben at the minister's. The latter
was busy on sermon, and was not
talkative. Ben sat till there was pause,
and the minister looked up. Then he
uttered, with n tone intended to be
sweetly pleasing and attractive: "Gene-
sis, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
Exodus an 'Pocraphy." The minister
stared at him, but before he thought it
worth while to say anything, his mind
reverted to his sermon. Then Ben pro-
ceeded in q tone of sadder earnestness
"Me say Peter Timothy Jonah -
ADMINISTRATIONS" "Ah, yes" replied
the clergyman, abstractedly; every
true" He put away his work with a
sigh of relief, and then thought of set
ting to find out what his visitor really
wanted. Ben, however, anticipated him
by uttering with the determined accent
OF one who wouldn't be misunderstood or
wronged on any account "Me say
-Moses-Judas 'Scariot-Saint
Observation-Disclosures !" "Ben, what
do you mean?" said the clergyman, at
last startled. "Me mean," said the H.
dian, with calm dignity-"me mean
niIar -
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
THE ESTEY. ORGAN.

Every organ which leaves the Estey manufac.
tory from the little Cottage Gem, with its four
octave manual and single set of forty-eight-
reeds, to the Double Bank Pedal Organ, with
seven full sets Of reeds and sixteen stops, bear
the uniform stamp of entire faithfu ness in
manufacture. No need to puff such wares ad
nduseun,, with flaming advertisements like a
quack medicine no need to push their sales by
cheapening the price. A simple statement of
fact is their best recommendation. They are
as perfect as human ingenuity, care and skill
can make them, and are sold at the lowest
price consistent with fair profit. Whenever
improvements are possible they are adopted at
once, whether in workshop, machinery or instru-
ment. Under such circumstances, it ceases
to be wonder that the sale of the
Estey Organ is increasing with such
rapidity both at home and abroad and
that enlarged facilities for its production are al
ready necessary, although the Estey establish
ment has been for years the largest reed organ
manufactory in the world Nine thousand
organs were turned out last year. These organs
represented business of over ono million dol
lars Such figures are more eloquent in testi-
mony of worth than the most flowery and skill
fully worded sentences.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

At the death of one of England's most
eminent physicians, all his effects were sold by
auction, and among other things was u scaled
package marked "Advice to Physicians" which
brought great price. The purchaser, on OPEN
ing the packet, read as follows: Keep the
head cool, the bowels open, and the feet warm"
If physic is necessary, use Parsons PWgdtire
Pills they are the most scientifically prepared
pill that has appeared in the last hundred years.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
Liver COMPLAINT,

In this disease WIsTAR's BALsAM has lin
doubtedly proved more efficacious than any
remedy hitherto employed and in numerous
instances where patients had endured long and
severe suffering, without receiving the least
benefit from various remedies and when mer-
curry had been resorted to in vain, tho use of
the BALsAM has restored the liver to healthy
action, and in many instances effected perma-
nent cures, after every known remedy had fail
ed to produce the desired effect.
From VIM. G. Potter, Waterford, N. Y.
"a few years since was SO severely attacked
With yer t complaint to be unable sb
best physicians in our place, but they gave me
no relief. After suffering for more than year,
being confined to the house much of the time,
procured bottle ofWIsrAR's BALsAM OF Will
CHERRY, and before had used one-half of it
was able to resume my business as usual.
Fifty cents and 81 a bottle. Sold by all drug.
gists
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Good Advice.

When you go to New York check your bag
are large, airy and elegantly furnished the
table unexceptonable, and when you leave the
bill is made at $3.50 and $500 per day--priccs
having been reduced from $500 per day. 1t is
the largest hotel in New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

Coon ADv1cE.-If there is any of our
readers who doubt the wonderful curative Of
fects Of Durang's Rheumatic Remedy, let them
write to any prominent person in Washington
city, where it is manufactured, and they will
learn that it will do even more than is claimed
for it. Sold by all retail druggists and at
wholesale in all large cities. Price, 81.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

There can be no mistake about it,
"Matchless plug tobacco takes the lead.
Old fine cut chewers say it gives better satis-
faction and is cheaper than fine cut. You
cannot be imposed upon, as each plug has
tag. Try it once and you win always chew it.
Manufactured by the Pioneer Tobacco Com
pany, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

Deaths Door Stands Wide Open

For those who suffer cough to "run on" until
the lungs separate, or the windpipe and the
bronchial tubes become hopelessly diseased
but for all who resort to Hale's Honey of Hore-
hound and Tar in the early stages, there is inn
mediate relief, and the absolute certainty Of a
permanent cure. Sold by all druggists.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

We received very pleasant letter of
return home, for bottle Of Johnson's Anodyne
Imminent, which we gave him, and which he
says has entirely cured him of the troublesome
and dangerous cough he had when here.
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THE
E:sTEy ORGAN.
The Instrument, the Makers,
and the Manufactory at
Brattleboro', VT.
THE INSTRUMENT.

FoV people in the civilized world to-day,
among those wlo are interested in music and
the forms of musical expression, have not
heard of the Estey Organ, and smaller still is
the number of those who do not, after practical
acquaintance with the superior merits of that
noble instrument, cheerfully concede the proud
claim of its makers, that
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

Catarrh, unless checked in the early
stages, leads to dangerous diseases of the throat
and lungs. Taken when the symptoms first ap-
pear, Sanford's Radical Cure for Catarrh is in
stantly effective.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25

Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam, the great New
England cure for coughs, colds and consump-
ton, Cutler Bros. q Co, Is, Boston, only genuine.
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from HERR RUBENSTEIN, Director of the Imperial
the Musical Society at Moscow.l


Of hsh and doubt not their
in
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produced the rlk
sinIar to fine
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1From CAMILLE DE SAINT sAENs Composer, Pianist and
the Madeleine Church. Paris.l

the Organs Mess Ehy Co., and been charmed with the
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-CHAp 9h,
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From RICHARD WAGNER, the Composer

beautiful noble
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See advertisement of James Bitters.
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A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS.
nr We WANT 500 MORE EIRsT-cLAss
SEWING MACHINE AGENTS, AND 500
MENoF ENERGY AND DABILITYTo LEARN
THE BUSINESS OF SELLING SEWING MAJ
CHIMES. COMPENSATION LIBERAL, BUT
VARYING ACCORDING TO ABILITY, CHAR
AcTER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE
AGENT. FOR PARTICULARS, ADDRESS
Wilson Sewing Machine Co., Chicago,
s27 b s2s BROADWAY. Esw York. 0, New Orleans u.
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beautiful round ana enecnve
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G&E5iE4!!gi G&E5NiiEHH!gI!iA!I" !"ESBl9S5fI!SF EXPOSITION

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purity variety combination and durability
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