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Passengers from up-Sound
ports will take Puget Sound mail steamer
and make connection with the City OF
Panama at Victoria. Steamer Dakota
goes through to Olympia.
These steamers leave Victoria at noon
on the day advertised. Tickets are good
only on the steamer for which they are
purchased, and are not transferable. For
freight or passage apply on board, or to
III. l.. TIBBALS,
General Agent for Puget Sound,
Port Townsend.
, 1878-10-17
NOTICE!
To Whom it may Concern.

George EIdridge having left my
house and protection as his guardian,
without cause, all persons are posi-.
lively prohibited from giving him
credit on my account.
WILLIAM ELDRIDGE.
Chimacum, Oct. 8, 1878.
, 1878-10-17

FIRST YEAR. SECOND YEAR.
Latin Grammar, (B) Latin Grammar tA)
Natural History, Greek Grammar,
Elementary Algebra, Caesars Commentaries
Rhetoric, Ancient History,
Natural Philosophy, High Algebra, tAl
rnysiolsgy, High Arithme C, ,tA)
High Arithmetic, tB) IGeOmetry, tB)
Physical Geography, Elementary Astron my
English Grammar, English Grammar, tB
THIRD YEAR. FOURTH YEAR.
Cicero's select orati'ns Horace's Odes,
Virgils Ineid, Livy
Greek Readers, IIerodotus
Anabasis. Memorabilia,
German Reader, Evidences ofChristian,
Trigonometry, VIM Tell, fity.
Mensuration, survey Moral Science,
Navigation, ting, English Literature.
constitution U. s., Physics,
p0nt1cal Economy, Geology,
Chemistry. Logic
Exercises in Composition and Defamation
throughout the course to the 4th year. when
original orations, written reviews, abstract,
ETC., will be REQUIRED.
, 1878-10-17
Course of Study.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.

FOUR GRADES EACH REQUIRING ONE
YEAR FOR COMPLETION.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Age of Animals.

A bear rarely exceeds twenty years.
A dog lives twenty years; a wolf twen-
ty fox four to sixteen years. Lions
are long-lived. One has been known to
live to the age of seventy years. Rab-
bits seven. Elephants have been known
to live to the great age of four hundred
years. Alexander the Great, having
conquered Purus, king of India, took a
great elephant, which had fought val
iantly for the king, and named him
Ajax. He dedicated him to the sun,
and let him go, with this inscription !:
Alexander, the son of Jupiter, hath
dedicated Ajax to the sum-" The ele-
phant was found with this inscription
three hundred and fifty years afterwsrd.
Pigs have been known to live to the age
of thirty years; the rhipoceros to
twenty. A horse has been known to
live to the age of sixty-two years, but
averages from twenty to thirty. Camels
sometimes live to the age of one hun
dred. Stays are long-lived. Sheep ex-
ceed the age of ten. Cows live about fif-
teen years. Cuvier considers it proba-
BILE that whales sometimes live for a
thousand years. Pelicans are long
lived. A tortoise has been known to
live to the age of one hundred and
seven. Insects, as a general rule, are
short-lived, though there are many ex-
ceptions to the rule.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
KILLING A FRUIT THIEF.



Result OF n Trial for Shooting Man
Stealing Peaches.
Referring to the close OF the Tannehill
murder trial, letter from Washington,
Pa, says The facts in the case are
briefly these: On the evening Of August
IL, 1878, William McNutt, aged twenty
six, went to the blacksmith shop of
Isaac Patch, in Houstonville, and pro-
posed that they should go to Mr.. Tame
hills peach orchard, about five and a
half miles distant, and get some peach
es. The proposition was agreed to, and
they set out in one-horse wagon. On
the way they passed the house of Samu-
Ell White, and persuaded Joseph Nc.
Mutt, who was working at Whites, to
accompany them. The three arrived at
Tannehill's little before nine p. N. In
passing the Tannehill house they saw q
window raised and light burning, and
therefore drove past the orchard, hitch
ed the horse short distance in the
wood, near the road, and waited nearly
half an hour for the Tannehills to re-
tire. From the wood they went to the
orchard. They had not been there more
than a minute, as Joseph McNutt and
Patch testify, before shot was fired.
None of them knew from what direction
it came. The three jumped over the
fence and ran laughing up the road.
After they had run a short distance
William McNutt began to stagger and
then fell by the roadside. Patch hur-
ried for neighbor, and in about half
an hour they had brought the wagon
and started home, but William died on
the way. The man that fred the shot
was John Tannehill. In less than FIVE
minutes after the shooting he returned
to the house, and, on being asked if he
had seen any person, said that he had
seen three men in the orchard and had
shot to scare them away. He did not
know that he had shot any one until the
next morning.
The shooting created much excite
ment, and there was some talk of lynch
ing Tannehill, who was arrested and
released on bail. At the trial there
was a strong array of counsel on both
sides. The defense showed that Tan
nehill did notsee the man that he did
not shoot with intent to kill that pub
lie sentiment applauds q man for de-
Tending his property in this way from
nocturnal thieves and plunderers, and
proved the unexceptionable good char
acter of Tannehill. The prosecution
held that Tannehill carelessly, if not
purposely, shot in the direction of the
thieves, knowing them to be about
that it was criminal offense so to do,
and that the law gives no man the right
to defend his property by such violent
means. The jury, after deliberation
of six hours, rendered a verdict of "man
slaughter"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
"sir p

"Sir r.
"That's me, madam, and I rejoice
from the bottom OF my heart at your
good luck. Then you dreamed of cof-
fms. Did you see any figures on 'em p
ct don't remember"
"Well, I s'pose the undertaken will
put enough figures on 'em for that mat
ter. To dream of .cofffns, madam, sig
nifles that you will shortly have an
OFFER"
Is--that--so " she softly replied,
blushing again.
"It is, madam. Less than month
ago woman came to me who had been
dreaming of coffins, and within three
days she had an offer"
"And she accepted him ?"
cit was an offer, madam, to nurse a
woman with the roomytiz salary $3 per
week and found"
"Mr. JOY" said the gentle dreamer,
as she rose up and made a grab for her
train, Il shan't go out as nurse-not
just yet"
"I wouldn't either. It's very try
ing position, particularly where the
patient is Respondent, and imagines that
you want to murder her.
Mr.. Joy, am very much obliged.
"'Tis well-'tis we'll. Good-day."
She sailed away, her face as red as a
coal and her nose up, and he sat down and
muttered to himself:
"She believed every word of it up to
the offer, and just cause 1 wouldn't
lie about it, she goes away, feeling dis
persed and put out. That's the way
with 'em-onsartin, unhappy, and on
grateful. ."-Detroit Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Rules for Spelling a Child.


1. Begin young by giving him what
ever he cries for.
2. Talk freely before the child about
his smartness as Incompatible.
g. Tell him he is too much for you,
that you can do nothing with him.
4. Have divided counsels as between
father and mother.
5. Let him learn to regard his father
as a creature of unlimited power, ca
PRECIOUS and tyrannical or a mere
whipping machine.
6. Let him learn Qrom his fathers
example) to despise his mother.
7. Do not know or care who his com.
panions may be.
8. Let him read whatever he likes.
9. Let the child, whether boy or girl,
rove the streets in the evenings good
school for both sexes.
10. Devote yourself to making money,
remembering always that wealth is q
better legacy for your child than princi-
Piles in the heart and habits in the life
anil let him have plenty of money to
spend.
IL. Be not with him in hours of rec
reation.
-. Strain at a gnat and swallow q
camel chastise severely for foible,
and laugh at vice.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Old As the Nation.

Newark, N. j., claims to have re-
markable couple of centenarians. They
are Mr.. and Mrs. Wright, aged LOG and
100 years respectively. Mr.. Wright
was born in Morris county, N. j., some
time during 1772 or 1773, and remem-
bers seeing General Washington riding
out on horseback while the Continental
army was encamped near Pompton.
Notwithstanding his advanced age he is
quite as full of life as man of sixty
usually is. But few weeks ago he
walked from Bloomfield to Pine Brook,
and he walks to church every Sunday.
His senses seem as acute as ever, and he
relates stories of his life with evident
relish. He is not addicted to the use of
liquor, and says he never smoked but
once. Mr.. and Mrs. Wright have been
married for seventy years, and have
several great-great- grandchildren.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Cincinnati Breakfast Table" d let


Now, if anybody can beat that modern
izing any of the old poems, please step
to the front.
The correspondent who writes on both
sides of the paper is sure of success in
the waste basket.
Most young men are on the lookout
for good openings, and yet they don't
like for the old man toshow them the
door.
You cannot tell man who is con-
tented in the world merely by looking at
him. The neatest fitting boot often
covers raging corn.
The melancholy days are upon us
when every man you meet informs you,
with tears in his eyes, that he has "the
worst cold he ever saw"
It makes young man feel very much
as if some things in the world we're all
vain to sing "Come to my bosom, come
love-" under window, and then happen
to see sign "To let" on the door.
A Western editor steps high under the
motto, "Equal and exact justice to all
men," but his wife has to saw the wood
ana carry the baby the whole round trip
whenever she seeks delusive pleasure at
q picnic, all the same like any other
woman.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has most laudable
object, but if they can succeed in so re-
constructing the moral character of the
mule as to make him less careless with
his heels they will confer lasting favor
on the human family.
NEW WAY OF STATING AN OLD FACT.
Into thirty diurnal sections of time, is the
month Of September divided
April, June and November likewise, and it has
also been decided
That thirty-one days, and nights as well, some
eight of the others containing,
Leaves twenty weight days apd a piece of night
for the Valentine month remaining
But when leap-year comes, with skip and q
jump, lest February repine,
He adds on a day to the calendar count, thus
making it twenty-nine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Are Fat People Healthy1

Why are fat people always complaining asks
some one who entertains the popular though
erroneous notion that health is synonymous
with fat Fat people complain because they
are diseased. Obesity is an abnormal condition
of the system iE which the saccharine and
Hated to the partial exclusion of the muscle
forming and brain-producing elements. In
proof Of this, it is only necessary to assert the
well-known fact that excessively fat people are
never strong, and seldom distinguished for
mental power or activity. Besides, they are
and they are the frequent victims of gout,
heart disease and apople1y. Alans Anti-Fat
is the only known remedy for this disease. It
contains no acid, is absolutely harmless, and is
warranted to remedy the most confirmed case
of obesity or corpuleney.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Though Shaking Like an Aspen Leaf

Though Shaking Like an Aspen Leaf
With the chills and fever, the victim of mala-
ria may still recover by using the celebrated
specific, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
not only breaks up the most aggravated at
acks, but prevents their recurrence. tits in
fnitely preferable to quinine, not only because
1t does the business far more thoroughly, but
also on account Of Its perfect wholesomeness
and invigorating action upon the entire system.
showing the decisive nature Of its effects, and
that it is no mere palliative. Physicians con-
cede its excellence, and there is a constant in
hux Of communications from persons in every
class Of society avouching its merits, and bear
ing witness to its superiority over other reme-
lar throughout the West, wherever fever and
ague prevails, as it does in many Of the fairest
and most fertile portions of that vast region.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Immense Labor Performed by Bees.

Nectar is the term applied by botan-
lists to the sweet-tasting fluid which is
secreted within the cups of flowers and
the object gained to plants by it's pres
ence is that insects, induced to visit
flowers for its sake, are useful to the
plants by effecting cross fertilization,
an additional amount of vigor being
thus conferred on the seeds which sub
sequently results in contrast with the
evil effects produced by continuous
"breeding in and in." The formation
of nectar is observed to take place most
freely in hot weather, and to be prevent.
ed by cold or wet. So great economy is
exercised by the plant that it is only
formed at the time when insects visits
would be beneficial, that is, when the
anthers are ripe and shedding their pol
len, or when the stigma is mature and
ready to receive pollen. By biologists
the visits of bees, butterflies, and other
insects are believed to have exercised in
past time an important influence in
modifying the size, shape, color, etc., of
flowers. Nectar is of course the source
whence bees derive honey. but it also
affords food to many kinds of insects
which do not possess the same habit as
the former of storing it up, Professor
Alexander s. Wilson, of Glasgow, has
recently Investigated the amounts of SUI
gar contained in the nectar of various
flowers, and laid the results of his Ia
bors before the British association. He
extracted the nectar with water, and de-
termined the sugar before and after in
version by means Of Fehlings copper
solution. From his table of analyses,
which for our present purposes it is un-
necessary to reproduce here, we select
clover as an example. He found that,
approximately, 100 heads of red clover
yield 0.S gramme of sugar, or 1875 give
l gramme Q6 grains), or 1875, 600 kilo
q 1.5 lbs.) of sugar and as each head
contains about go forets (125, ,000x60),
$500, 900 distinct flower tubes must be
sucked in order to obtain 1.5 lbs. of
sugar. Now as honey, roughly, may be
said to contain rs per cent. sugar, we
have kilogramme q 1.5 lbs.) equiva.
lent to 5,600,0 900 flowers in round num-
bers, or, say, two and half millions of
visits for one pound of honey. This
shows what an amazing amount OF labor
the bees must perform, for their indus
try would thus appear to be indispensa-
BILE to their very existence. -Scientifc
american
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Where Wit Won.

What's the woman charged with p
said the court. "She's dead-beat and
vagrant, your honor" said the officer
who arrested her. Then the woman
spoke up and said: If I can prove
that I'm all right. will your honor let
me go?" "Of course" said the court.
"Then," said the prisoner, "here's the
family Bible, by which you'll see I'm
Mol wight "Saw my leg of, "
shouted the officer, who saw the point,
"if she hasn't beat the court, too" And
the court rubbed it's nose with its fore
finger and gently murmured: "Dis-
charge the prisoner. Mobile Register.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

1t is astonishing with what rapidity ulceroua
sores and eruptive maladies are cured by
Henry's Carbolic Salve, an external antidote to
unhealthy conditions of the skin, which is pre-
ferred by physicians to every other preparation
containing G the carbolic element. 1t is undoubt-
edly the finest antiseptic AMI purifier extant.
1t acts like charm on purulent eruptions and
has also been successfully used for rheuma-
tism and sore throat. All druggists sell it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

Familiarity with the writings of the grea
poets is necessity to any one who wishes to
appear we'll in company. For 10c. We will send
q book Of 160 selections from the beautiful mel
odies of Moore, the grand poems Of Byron, and
the unequaled songs of Burns, and so popular
songs. Desmond 4 Co., 915 Race st., Phila
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

II you fail to find Pixies Centennial Salt
Rheum Salve in your city or village, and will
send us the address Of your best druggist, We
J. ], PIKE q Co., Chelsea, Mass.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

IMPUHTANT NOTICE.-Farmefs, Famk
les and Others purchase no Remedy equal to Dr.
TOBIAS, VENETIAN LlNIMENP for the cure Of
Cholera, Diarrhea Dysentery, Group Oolio and Sea-
oath accompanying each bottlsJ and externally for
ghronio Rheuwatism, Headache, Toothaohs. Sore
Bsss 3d SSres Pens i'm u Limbs Back ard ohsss The
ons who has used it but continues to do 90. mAny
stating i vas Ten Dollars Bottle they would not bs
the Depot speaking Of its wonderful curative proper
ties. Sold by the Druggists 1t 40 cts. Depot ~
Murray St., New York. \
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

A thoroughly good Cabinet or Parlor Organ
Is worth two poor ones. Mason & Hamlin make
the best. The prices are q little higher than
those Of poorest organs, but 1t is much cheaper
the end to obtain the best.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

A French metal worker at Paris lately
found that his hair had turned perma-
nently green, from some chemical cause
to him unknown.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

Hon. O. R. Parsons, mayor of Rochester, was
radically cured of Bright's Disease by Craig
Kidney Cure. Depot AZ University Pl., N. Y
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten
ceous Dentifrice. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

No family in this broad land should under
take to keep house without Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment many have tried to but failed. 1t is
worth more to family than whole medicine
ches'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

For upwards Of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOWB
SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children
with pever-failing success. 1t corrects acidity
of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea,
whether arising from teething or other causes.
An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. bottle.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

The most contemplate fraud that has been
practiced upon farmers and others in the last
few years is the selling of immense packs Of
worthless horse and cattle powders. There is
only one kind now known in this country that
are unadulterated and those are Sheridans.'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
HOMES IN The West

Excursions to Lincoln, Nebraska,
Leave New York and New England tho
No. IL will leave NEW YORK, TUESDAY,
November 18Th. Fare about half regular
guaranteed For descriptive Land Circulars, Informs.
PLINY MOORE, 317 Broadway, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

An ESTABLISHED 2EMEDY.-"B Browns Bron-
cnial Troches are widely known as an estab-
lished remedy for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis,
Hoarseness, and other troubles Of the Throat
and Lungs. 25 cts.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
IMPORTANT NOTICR.-Farmers, Famh

Uhew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

Three dozen Boxes 1-4 gross, will be
sent TO PEDDLERS, sTOREKEEPERS,
DRUGGISTS, (exprcssngc paid, on receipt
of S4.O0-abOut eleven cents box.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
CHEW
The Celebrated
"MAToHLEss"
Wood Tag Plug
TOpLccO

The PIoHEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston. and Chicago.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

ness"
"And ycu can tell me the significance
of this one ?"
"Humph Should think I could In
the first place you dreamed of socks.
That's sign that the woman next door
is jealous because you are better looking
than she is, and she's been slandering
you."
"She has Then I'll pull her peaked
nose !" exclaimed the dreamer.
"Then you dreamed of a door-key.
That's a sign of an accident. Be care
full, madam, and don't hit the clothes
line in splitting wood, and don't go up
on ladder over ten or fifteen feet"
81 never, never climb ladder, sir j.
Don't youp So much the better.
But be careful how you go down cellar
during the next few weeks. I allus
back down a pair of stairs. That gives
you chance to dig in your toe-nails if
you go to fall. Also, don't jump on a
street.car when in motion"
81 never do, SIR"
"Then.you dreamed of telegraph wire,
madam. That's another bad sign. Don't
you go around the backyard bare
footed, or you May cut your heel on an
old bottle and have fatal case of lock-
jaw"
ct go barefooted ?" she gasped.
81 hope not, madam, and if you eat
any peanuts for month to come throw
the shucks away. Even if they don't
hurt you there is only two per cent. of
nourishment in EN-"
She looked at him in amazement, and
he kindly went on:
"You heard horn blow, and that is
a good sign. I've known women who
had struggled with cold feet for eigh-
teen straight years to dream of horn
blowing and be perfectly cured in five
hours"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

This is pleasant little incident, and
it has the merit of being true. The
young gentleman is we'll. in social
circles, and his modesty is the only rea-
son why we withhold his name.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07
Nt|8I|H|S{f|E|Z(a!S

Thousands of Infants slowly starving because o
the inability of to furnish proper nourishmen
Do not fail to Ridges Food.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

PRICE % CENTS j BOX, BY MAIL o5 CENTS.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-20

Ben Butler is looming up wonder
fully. The other day at Gettysburg
his popularity Overshadowed that of
President Hayes and his cabinet.
Whya He has brains enough to ap.
preciate the condition of the country
and courage enough to insist upon the
true remedies. His advocacy of
greenback doctrines and his defence
Of starving labor have endeared him
to thousands of hearts. We quote an
item illustrative of his standing in
his own state:
In conversation with a prominent
labor refOrmer who has recently
made tour of the state, We learn that
there is deep-seated. earnest wish
expressed by leading men of all par.
ties and conditions that General But.
Ter will allow his name to be used for
governor in the coming election. His
personal popularity and his independ-
ent stand on all the living issues all
point to him as the strongest candi.
date whose name could be presented
to the voters of the old bay state
Esse.r County Citieen.