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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
Old Maids.

Never be afraid OF becoming an "old
maid" fair reader. An old maid is far
more honorable than a heartless wife.
and "single blessedness is greatly
superior in point of happiness to welded
life without love. "Fall not in love,
dear girls, beware" says the song. But
we do not agree with the song on this
question. On the contrary, we hold it a
good thing to fall in love, if the loved
object be worthy one. To fall in love
with an honorable man is as proper as
it is for an honorable man to fall in
love with an amiable and virtuous
woman and what could be more
gratifying spectacle even to the angels
in Heaven than sight so pure-so ap-
preaching in its devotion to the
celestial?
No; fall in love as soon as you please,
ladies, provided it be with a suitable
person. Fall in love and then marry !;
but never marry unless you do love.
That's the great point. Never marry
merely for "home" or q husband
Never degrade yourself by becoming a
party to such an alliance. Never sell
yourself body and soul, on terms so con-
temptible. Love dignifies all things /;
it ennobles all conditions. With love
the marriage rite is truly sacrament
Without it the ceremony is base fraud,
and the act a human desecration.
Marry for love or not at all. Be an
"old maid," if fortune throw not in
your way the man of your heart, and
though the witness may sneer, and the
Jester may laugh, you will still have
your reward in an approving conscience
and comparatively peaceful life.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
A Gllastly War Scene.

A Russian officer, writing to a friend
in Cleveland, Ohio, gives the following
horrible narration, a translation of which
we copy from the Herdldof that city, He
says: Coming to a place where the road
somewhat widened, about two miles from
Tells, we halted, and after driving away
and cutting down in short skirmish o
party of Turks who were busy robbing
our dead, we stopped to form before
going on. AS 1 rode along the front
shouting out orders to my men, an agoniz-
ing cry for help arrested my attention. /
looked round. Nothing but heaps of dead
everywhere. OF these none needed me.
But harkl once more, and again and again
these piteous cries. Hastily dismount-
ing, 1 threw the bride over my sound
arm and ran toward some bushes from
behind which the sounds proceeded, and
there, in small pool of clotted blood,
lay that which I at first failed to recog-
nize as human being, though human
it certainly was in its piteous cries, and
the seemingly gloved hands that clutch
ed air and earth in their agony. The
rest, from the waist upward, was one
mass of raw, quivering flesh-the face
featureless, eye-lids and eyes cut out,
the man fayed alive, all but the hands,
whose white skin at first gave the i'm
preston of their being gloved. This
ghastly object lay few steps from a
dead horse, one of our own regiments 3
golden bays. Faint at heart 1 bent over
The sufferer, evidently one of our own
men, but now mangled beyond recogni-
ton. He prayed for death with his
poor torn lips, and in minute more W.,
our surgeon, and two more of our officers
were by my side. I made room for W.,
who stopped for few seconds over our
comrade, and then rising, sadly shook
his head, murmuring "no help" A
sudden impulse prompted me to seize
the poor helpless hand in my own, and
pressing it, whisper few words of CON-
fort. At the sound of my voice came
the sadder appeal "Nicolai, for old
friendships sake, send bullet through
my heart % This voice sounded so
strangely familiar, and yet I could not
recognize it. "Who are you?" "Alexis
s." Alexis, my old schoolmate, who had
few hours ago shared my breakfast by
our bivouac fire, and then rode away,
handsome and bold, at the head of our
gallant first squadron. He had fallen
wounded, helpless, his horse shot under
him, and the fiendish Turks were slowly
torturing him to death when our ap-
proacb drove them away. Clasping my
hand in his, he still begged for death.
My revolver was empty, discharged in
the scuffle q few moments before. l
looked at W., who silently drew out his,
and shuddering in every nerve, placed
the muzzle against s. s breast, and, with
averted face, fred twice in succession,
while still pressed the poor hand in
mine. We wrapped him ap in my cloak
and placing him in the shallow ditch,
rolled boulder over him, and then,
with our hands still moist with his blood,
we swore to each other never to empty
the last chamber of our pistols, but al
ways to reserve shot for ourselves and
friends, should any of lis, wounded, have
to be left behind. May quick death,
a soldiers's death, be onrs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
A Strange Tradition.

Among the Seminole Indians there is
a singular tradition regarding the white
mans origin and superiority. They say
that when the Great Spirit made the
earth he also made three men, all of
whom were fair-complexioned; and that
after making them he led them to the
margin of a small lake, and bade them
leap in and wash. One obeyed, and
came out purer and fairer than before;
the second hesitated moment, during
which time the water, agitated by the
first, had become muddled, and when he
bathed, he came up copper colored; the
third did not leap until the water be-
came black with mud, and he came out
with his own color. Then the Great
Spirit laid before them three packages.
and out of pity for his misfortune in
color, gave the black man first choice,
He took hold of each of the packages,
and having felt the weight, chose the
heaviest; the copper-colored man chose
the next heaviest, leaving the white man
the lightest. When the packages were
opened, the first was found to contain
spades, hoes, and all the implements Of
labor; the second enwrapped hunting,
fishing, and warlike apparatus; the third
gave the white man pens, inks, and
paper, the engine of the mind-ths
means OF mutual, mental improvement.
the social link of humanity, the founda.
ton of the white mans superiority.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
1 Marriage That Created Sensation.

Thomas Lord is an octogenarian mill
lionaire and the father of family we'll
known in the social world of New York.
He is nearly eighty-fve years old, owns
very valuable real estate near Wall
street, and is worth, according to moder-
ate estimates, not far from two millions.
He has been widower only few years,
and since his wife's death he has lived
quietly in the old family home on Seven
teenth street, near Fifth avenue. AS
might be supposed, considering his great
age, his health is quite feeble, and for
some time past he has not ventured out
without companion.
Annetta Wilhelmina Wilkens Hicks is
the famous erich American widow"
whose dinners and receptions attracted
so much attention in London during the
past few years. Probably the most
notable of these was her dinner in honor
of Gen. Grant some months ago, which
received great deal of newspaper no.
tice. She is forty-eight years old, and
woman of handsome and commanding
presence. She has one residence in
New York and another in London, and
it has been her custom to alternate fire.
quently from one to the other. Her
first husband, whose name she has borne
since his death, was q wealthy Quaker,
of the family from which the Hicksite
branch of the Society of Friends
took it's name. He left her a large
fortune, which she has since been
spending quite freely in lavish So
cial entertainment. London gossip
had it, some time ago, that Mrs. Hicks,
the dashing and wealthy widow, was
about to marry Gen. Schenck, but that
seems to have been a mistake. She
returned to New York in November, and
her temperance was hailed with satis-
faction by the society people who like
receptions and good dinners. No one
had the slightest suspicion, however,
that she came with matrimonial inten-
tions, and if any one had suggested
probable alliance on her part with one
of the oldest men in New York, the
ancient and decrepid Thomas Lord, that
suggestion would have promptly been
written down as absurd. The three
sons of the old man have taken legal
steps to have the marriage set aside to
prevent him from settling his fortune on
his bride. They allege that when he
married Mrs. Hicks he was of unsound
mind, and that he had been allured into
matrimony on account of his money.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
VOL. VII.
Growing Up.

oh to keep them still around US, baby dar-
liugs, fresh and pure,
Mothers smile their pleasures crowning, moth
ers kiss their sorrows cure.
oh to keep the waxen touches, sunny curls
and radiant eyes,
Pattering feet and eager prattle-all young
life's lost paradise.
One bright head above the other, tiny hands
that clung and claspd,
Little forms that, close enfolding, all Of lovee
best gifts were grasped;
Sporting in the summer sunshine. glancing
round the winter hearth,
Bidding all the bright world echo with their
fearless, careless mirth.
Oh! to keep them. How they sladdened all
the path from day to day,
What gay dreams we fashioned of them, as in
rosy sleep they lay;
How eacll broken word was welcomed how
each struggling thought WAS hailed
As each bark went floating seaward, love-be-
decked and fancy-sailed.
Gliding from our jealous watching, gliding
from our clingipg hold,
Lo! the brave leaves bloom and burgeon, 10
the shy, sweet buds unfold.
Fast to lip and cheek and tresses steals the
maiden's bashful joy
Fast the frank, bold mans assertion tones the
accents of the boy.
Neither love nor longing keeps them. Soon in
other shape than ours
Those young hands will seize their weapons
build their castles, plant their flowers
Soon fresher hope will brighten the dear eyes
we trained to see;
Soon closer love than ours in those Weakening
hearts will be.
So it is, and well it is SO. Fast the river near
the main,
Backward yearnirgs are but idle; dswnint
never glows again.
Slow and sure the distance deepens, slow ant
sure the links are rent
Let us pluck our autumn roses, with their sobe
bloom content.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
A Tea Fraud.

The New York San says: In most of
our leading hotels and eating houses the
tea grounds are saved by the servants,
and sold to parties who come around in
wagons at stated intervals. What they
did with the grounds was for long time
a mystery. Lately, however, the secret
has escaped. We hear on good authori-
ty that they are taken to factory in the
vicinity of Central Park, stepped in
acids, and dried in the sun on copper
plates. By this process each leaf is
shrivelled, and made to assume its former
shape. The color is beautiful, and the
old tea odor, so familiar to all who love
this delightful drink, is plainly recog-
nized. The drying process completed,
the grounds are packed in tin caddies or
second-handed wooden boxes, and dis
tributed throughout the country, where
its remarkable cheapness attracts univer-
sal attention. Occasionally little gen.
uine tea is mixed with this preparation.
This adds to the flavor, and the victim
is more easily taken in. Much of this
tea is said to be sold from peddler
wagons, and eggs, butter and similar
produce are sometimes received in ex-
cnange.
The tea is not strong enough to injure
anybody's nerves, but the acids used
may undermine the health and prove ex-
tremely injurious to invalids. The sub
stance is not extensively sold to custom
ers in large cities, through fear of injur-
ing the business of those who collect the
grounds. A tea expert can detect the
difference between this second. hand tea
and the genuine. This faculty comes
from his experience. GAS general
thing" he says, "the farmer can lay
down this rule-the greener the leaf and
the brighter the caddy the poorer the
quality of the tea"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
Human Testimony.

The unsatisfactoriness of human testi-
mopy, under certain circumstances, is
illustrated by the different statements OF
eye witnesses to the Barclay street
disaster in New York. One witness says:
81 heard crash as though the chimney
on a roof had fallen;" another, ST heard
noise I could not describe;" another, :" 1
heard noise like the explosion of
kerosene lamp" another, "I heard
noise like the clashiIg Of large number
of brass cymbals;" another, 81 heard a
roar like the bursting of bomb;"
another, 81 heard no explosion, but the
ceiling seemed to be coming down."
another, who was standing talking to the
witness last quoted, says: "There was
oeafening explosion" Then the fire
marshal says that no explosion has been
proved.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24

1t seems to be the ambition of all
young wives to look well when any one
calls. The other day south side bride
heard ring at the front door. The
maid was out and she rushed up stairs
to "fix up" little before admitting
the caller. There was q moment of
lightning work before the dressing case.
Quicker than it takes to tell it libbon
was fastened at her throat, flower
stabbed into her hair, fash Of powder
on her face, and she was at the door,
all smiles and bushes. The gentleman
said he had walked from Memphis, and
couldn't remember that he had tasted
food since he left Cincinnati, -Ou CITE
De rick.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
The Worlds Three Wealthiest Men

A report comes from Paris that the
California miner, Mr.. j. w. Mackey, is
going to buy papal earldom, and be-
come IpConte di Mackey. He has lately
bewildered everybody by the extrava-
gance of his living, and some of the
newspapers have been computing his
fortune together with the fortunes of the
two richest men of the civilized world.
The table shows heavy balance in his
favor.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24

Three men being in a saloon, one
called for dram, because he was hot 4.
" Bring me another" says his COM
panion, "because 1 am cold." The
third, who sat by and heard them, called
out "Hers boy, bring me glass,
because like it."
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18
How Watches are Made.

1t will be apparent to any one, who
will examine SOLID GOLD WATCH that
aside from the necessary thickness for
engraving and polishing, the large proper
ton of thesprecieus metal used is needed
only to stiffen and hold the engraved
portions in place, and supply the necessary
solidity and strength. The surplus gold is
actually needless, so far as UTILITY and
beauty are concerned. In JAMES BOSS
PATENT STIFFENED GOLD WATCH
| CASES, this WASTE of precious metal is
overcome, and the SAME sOLIDTTY AND
STRENGTH produced at from one-third to
One-half of the usual Gust OF solid cases.
This process is of the most simple nature,
as follOws:-A plate Of composition metal,
specially adapted to the purpose, has two
plates of SOLID GOLD soldered one on each
side, The three are then passed between
polished steel rollers, and the result is a
strip OF heavily plated composition, from
which the cases, backs, centres, bezels.
&C., are cut and shaped by suitable dies
and formers. The gold in these cases is
sufficiently thick to admit of all kinds OF
chasing, engraving and enameliing; and
engraved cases have been carried until
worn perfectly smooth By time and use
without removing the gold. These cases
are for sale by all jewelers., and are guar
aDteed by SPECIAL CERTIFICATE tC
WEAR FOR 20 YEARS. If your jew
eler does not keep them, send TO HAGsToz
u THORPE, Ledger Building, Philadel
| phia, for Illustrated catalogue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18
an Undeniable Trueh

You deserve to suffer. and if you
lead miserable unsatisfactory life in
this beautiful world, it is entirely your
own fault and there is only one excuse
for you,-your unreasonable perjudice
and skepticism, which has killed thou
sands, Person knowledge and common
sense reasoning will soon show you
that Green's August Flower will cure
you of Liver Complaint. or Dyspepsia.
with all its miserable effects, such as
sick headach, palpit&tion of the heart,
sour stomach, habitual costiveness,
dizziness of the head, nervous prostrat.
ion, low spirits, &c. Its sales now
reach every town on the Western Con.
tinent and not druggist but win tell
you Of its wonderful cures. You can
buy a Sample Bottle for 10 cents
Three doses will relieve you,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18
G., B, 4 9. q. R.
ROCK ISLAND b PEORIA RAILWAY.

LEAVE ARRIVE.
Thro'h F'ht 90 m. Galva Ac. 1855 a, m.
Mail q Ell. I'55 p. IN. Mail q Ex. 100 p. m.
Galva Ac. SOS D. m. Thro'h F'ht 4:45 D. m.
The 1850 p IN train makes close connection at
Galva with g & @ for points west; arriving at
Galesburg at 500 p m; at Burlington 7:15 p m; at
Keokuk 9:25 p m; and at Quincy $40 p m; also
making close connection at Peoria with & w
and T P & W roads for all points east and south.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18

constipated bowels, inward piles, cos
tiveness, fevers; torpid liver, yellow
ness of the skin and eyes, indigestion,
dyspepsia, and all arrangements of the
internal viscera, ARE cured by 'Swayne's
Tar and Sarsaparilla pills" Unlike
many other purgatives, they do not IT.
ritate the stomach and bowels by fire.
quent use. They keep the system in
the healthy condition by arousing the
torpid liver to healthy action and ex-
pelhng by the bowels and Kidneys the
matter that poisons the foundation OF
/ life. Be particular to obtain 'Swayne,s
pills" price % cents box, at all lea
dings druggists, and in Rock Island by
John BenQstOA.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18
sorIbner for December.

The December scRrBSER contains fiction by four
OF the leading American novelists, VIZ: MIS-. bur
netts "Haworth's" (the second installnenI, wniCn
''The Great Deadwood Mystery" by Bret harte, q
complete story In semi-satrcal vein and including
one of the most interesting scenes III MS writings
SAn IrIsh Heart' q pathetic Oldport story by T.
W. Higginson, and the ifth iustallment OF Mr.
Boyesen's "Falconberg."
bird Architecture" (The Humming -Birds) are
regarded by the managers Of the Monthly as
among the most exquisite cuts yet published by tne
Riordan, the engravings By Mr. Marsh, Mr.. Cole,
Mr.. King and Others. The text Is WIltsen ~ OF
untechnical manner and describes many ouriO1s
characteristics OF American and other huhnlssng
birds. 1.-THE Clif-Dwellers," by Emma Cna i "a
lain Hardacre embodies the latest uiscoNelies o ~
garding the ruins Of the san juan eHt Of 70o
which are situated In the rock AZ neis "a profes
feet) and is written under the ssncLeh OF Morap
sor HAYDEN Graphic drawings by Lboi is e. Se
supplement the text. "Carloou-hu ThSsrles n
sclibed I'm a personal narrative by CharIesS,, y.
Ward whose "Moose-Huntng," year as13' NJ "
remembered by sportsmen the au .h ST non class
Sandbam furnish the drawings. nc Douk ass
.SCujrreI Of california" has found friend IN John
NiIiT who writes with enthusiasm anu WIN 5sLe
Enowlcdge of this little forest-pianter. hr
hnU I 49, aone Indian boys using the Douglass
a. n TARGET for archery-pracuce. Ine4e Is aiso
sketch of "Dora D'IstIia," the eminent phiiiaah-
throplst and social writer OF WalIachla' WIN I, q
poriraIt after Schiavoni The serials are also IL
I'm public discussion there are some timely pa
lion. ~ be Professor w. c. Sumner; Are Narrow
Guage Railroads Eeonomicalg" by Lorenzo M
johnson, an engineer who has built Doin Droau
and narrow guages, and painters view OF "Art al
the Paris Expo, itlon." Other papers are Under
graduate Life at Oxford" by Ansley Wilcox. my
Look Mt the Queen" by Treadwen Waldeni anO
HE playing She" light sketch of college theat-
ricals In former days. Poems are contributed by
"H. H., :" l.. Frank Tooker "a new poet), Anni
Katherine Green and Henry CO Sldn,,., III.
ment." Literary Materials and Tools" "Socia
Mr. NJ S. Beach relates for the first time the wa!
in which the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo origin
ated, and how q plot TO make the Duke of Mont
pensier Emperor of Mexico was frustrated b.
President Polk "Home and Society has n second
installment of "Hints to Young Housekeepe1s,
and an account of 1.-The Maternity Society," 9Th
Worlds Work" has descriptions Of new appliances
including "Street-car Motor" New Elecui
Lamp" Improved Ironing Machine" Improve
ment in making Artificial Stone,' Automatic De
vice for Reproducing Music" etc, etc. The Tres
and carefully prepared accounts III this depaii
ment are now widely quoted,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18

upon that issue. In addition there is a
large per centage of members elected as.
democrats and republicans who not only
are in favor of silver but also Of retaining
the present amount of outstanding green
backs as part of the currency circulation
of the country. The advocates of
a single gold standard certainly
appear to constitute but q small
minority'of all the people, The democrat
ic party, as party, is everywhere commit
ted to the use of silver and a bi-metallic
standard-to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver. There is little doubt but the
honest sentiment of large majority of the
republican party are equally favorable to
silver; while the nationals are certainly
still further removed from the single gold
standard.
1t is we'll known of course that President
Hayes is on the side of gold; bis veto of
the silver bill under the circumstances IN
which he did it, is as strong evidence as
is needed ia regard to that fact; and the
secretary of the treasury has no doubt lent
himself in that direction in order to secure
cooperation of the banks in his pet scheme
of resumption. but, for all that, we believe
the banks and their allies Uere never more
mistaken in their lives as to the temper
and feelings of the people-or else they are
equally mistaken, if they know the senti-
ment of the country aud yet persist in the
face of that knowledge to evade the plain re-
quirements oflaw, and to destroy its intend
ed effect by open hostility and combination
of banking interests and banking capital
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18

Ny wife has had no attacks since taking
DR.. Bells Fit Cure. She Is recovering
under his treatment ] advise all the
afflicted to try it.