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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
The Yeas.

silent-silent! like Gods blessing on sim
bewildered earth
Coming-coming a glory and promise
at their birth
wondrous- us--wondrous, white-winged heralds,
with wordless mystery,
Bearing with them CLEAN and glimmer Of the
far-off "iasper sea-"
y-swiftly-down our earth-way; bring
ing treasure all unknown;
Reaching ont still hands to touch us with tho
radiance of a Throne
sient-silent goiug-going out beyond our
utmost reach
Bearing with them 30 much sweetness scarce
we knew they came to teach.
swiftly-swiity-w we struggle for little
less or more,
Down their tide dear footprints vanish, leaving
ours upon the shore
Calmly--calmly- our pulses beat to ev'ry
siren tune,
On their waves our sunlight trembles, and our
day grows dim at noon
Onward-onward-end ever at Gods foot
stool All, will He
Merge these weary fragments into His serene
Eternity2
--Ne,U York Evening Post.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
Be Social.

We are social beings, and the home
circle, alone, however attractive, will
not satisfy. The old.fashioned singing
school, the husking party, the lyceum,
the grange, the Good Templars' lodge,
or division of the Sons of Temperance,
whatever draws together the young men
and women, the boys and girls, for
development of mind and character and
Tor social enjoyment, is to be welcomed.
All the better, too, if the parents can
renew their youth, or enter heartily
INTO the young peoples enjoyment,
There is but one object in the world
more pitiable than the adult man or
woman who feels no thrill of sympathy
over the happiness of the Young, and
that most pitiable of all is the old head
on young shoulders, too dignified to ac-
cept the keen wisdom OF the old Roman
poet, :" 1t is pleasant to be foolish some.
times" Work and play each have their
time, and advancing years bring no
pangs for the innocent sports and enjoy
ments OF the youthful days long past.
We grow old all too soon, but if the
heart is fresh, and in sympathy with the
world around us, it matters little how
we count cur years.--zHs Homestead.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
Absent Minded,

A letter from New Preston, Conn, to
the Litchfeld Enquirer, contains this
anecdote: A man who had been sort
ing tobacco for one of his neighbors,
stopped at one of the stores on his way
from work and purchased pair of shoes.
He threaded his dinner-pail upon his
arm, took the shoes in the same hand,
and with the other thrust deep in his
breeches' pocket, started for home.
Having got opposite DIR. Eds he missed
his dinner-pail, and, thinking he had
left it at the store, back he went for it.
AS he went through the door it swung
to, and hit the pail strung on his arm.
His only ejaculation was, Thunder I
thought I left it p' He's the Same man
who took his watch to New Milford to
be repaired and two days sfterwatd
found it in his vest pocket.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
A Free City Of COnstantinOpIe.

Constantinople under Turkish rule
became the centre of vast system of
plunder and conquest. The city was
enriched by the spoils of Europe and
Asia. A large multitude gathered
there. But its legitimate commerce
has never been large. The race
which held this golden key of the
worlds commerce has never been able
to open the store-house. They were
like barbarians in possession of COM
plicated machine. The sultans have
simply wrung their wealth from the
plundered peasantry, and lived genera
tion after generation in their rich pala-
ces on the Bosphorus. No building, no
work OF art, no machine or invention,
50 far as we are aware, has ever been
discovered or constructed in Constanti-
nople by Turk. The Greek has done
all. The race has basked in the rich
sunlight of that deliciour climate, and
has enjoyed all the luxuries and beau.
ties of the Golden Horn for more than
four centuries, has seen the current of
the worlds history flow by, and has
never contributed single blessing or
favor to mankind. Outside of the capi.
tai, its dominion has been to Christians
curse and burden inside, it has per-
mitted all things to remain as they were.
As a free city, it might, like Venice OF
old, or Hamburg in later times, be the
centre of worlds commerce. The
Greek has an aptitude for trade, and,
no doubt, the merchants of all countries
would gather there. The burdens that
baye hitherto rested on all production
and industry in the Turkish empire
wonld then be removed, and we might
see new centre of civilization where
Slavic barbarism has reigned so long.
But this will not be till the empire of
the race OF Osman has come to its end,
and that must be yet in future, not
remote, but not immediate. York
Tines.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
Her Economy.

The dried apple of to-day has a hun
dred yards the start of the dried apple
OF ten years ago, but yet all people are
not willing to admit it. A Woodward
avenue grocerwas yesterday trying to
induce woman to buy a three pound
package, instead of half bushel of
green apples, telling her that she would
save money by the operation.
Yes might save money, and again
l mightnt," she unused.
" I know you would" he urged.
f" But If took home dried apples in.
stead OF green, there would be no
parings for the children and no cores for
my husband to chew on during the long
evening. And there's the worm-holss
they're awful nice for my canaries. D
She took green apples. .--Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
Fashion Notes.
Chene silks are revived.

Chene silks are revived.
Macrame lace is revived.
Polish styles are coming in vogue.
Soft-finished percales are preferred.
Table naperyis trimmed with Macrame
lace.
Grape effects are seen in new spring
goods.
Vatican backs are revived for princess
dresses.
Moonstones and cat's.eye Jewels are
very fashionable.
Scotch ginghams are woven to produce
bourette effects.
Velvet and satin are the materials for
matron's ball dresses.
Black and white lace over white satin
is revived for ball toilets.
Moss greens, India reds and indigo
blues are retained as spring colors.
The new colored grenadines show
India colors and Turkish designs.
The coming bonnet is capote of
shirred silk with tulle cap under it.
Cheap cotton and wool goods show q
great improvement in the method of
manufacture.
Knotted, bouele or rough surfaces,
polka dots, and Greek squares are con-
spicuous in spring fabrics.
New grenadines are rough, knotted
and 6ouele threaded, and woven also in
Mexicaine, brocade and canvas effects.
Black grounds relieved by figures of
white, gray, brown and high colors ap.
pear conspicuousiy among thenew spring
goods.
BasqueB are simulated on fourreaux,
but are no longer made separate gar
ments in the most fashionable dress.
making establishments.
A novelty is black grenadine lamine.
woven with fiat threads of metal-old
gold, silver and tinfel red, thrown into
both warp and wool.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
A DOMESTIC CHAPTER.

La was favorite expression of Mrs
Mayne's, AS long as q child of mine
llves with me, no matter if she is as big
as the house, she has got to mind me. p
But when girls have become perfectly
Indifferent to such threadbare assertions.
and are really too old to submit to have
their ears boxed, talk as you may, what
is mother to do?
Very much in this predicament was
Mrs. Mayne with her daughters, four
good-looking, good-for- nothing, charm
ing girls, who, afflicted with the mania
for pet names, only too common now-a-
days, had transformed themselves from
plain Amanda, Cecilia, Esther and
Margaret into Annie, Ceci, Essie and
Midge. Then to complete the family
circle, there was Oliver, half-grown
lad with full-grown grievance. To be
alternately snubbed and petted, COOLED
and domineered over by his sprightly
sisters, who were all older than himself,
was bad enough but when hie mother
not only disciplined him rigidly for his
own offenses, but because those saucy
iades couldn't be conquered, would
make him suffer for it, that was alto
gether too much. Had Oliver Mayne
been of philosophic turn of mind, he
might have seen in all this tagging a
sort of retributive justice for the woes
of the fair sex under the dsspotism of
man, but alas he was not /; SO he read
"Mr. Midshipman Easy" and, when
he dared, play truant and prowled
around the waterfront with ideas in his
head.
Yet in spite of all her inconsistencies,
Mrs. Mayne was mother among thou
sand. What would she not do to push
her daughters on in society? So, while
they were brought up as much like fine
ladies as was possible with her limited
means, she was cook, chambermaid and
seamstress by turns they gave their
best energies to the glide. the cream of
their goc d nature to gentlemen friends,
and imbibing taste for dress and fash
on well nigh insatiate.
To such length had this motherly
self-sacrifice been carried that there
had been months in Mrs. Mayne's life
when Sunday was no more day of rest
than any other; and while the girls were
rustling into church with their stylish
suits she was as likely as not shut up at
home, sewing away for dear life on some
fnery for them. All this she would do
uncomplsiningly, but Of little brief au.
thor,ty she was extremely tenacious,
and liked to be consulted by her girls
on even the most trivial occasions.
As old as the human race, is the liking
TO have ones own way; 80 with these
young rebellious spirits, nothing was SO
trying as to be obliged to say, "May ?"
Ono Saturday, toward neon, the girls
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
VOL. VIII.
The Old Sampler.

Out Of the way in corner
OF our dear old attic room,
Where punches Of herbs from the hillside
Shake ever faint perfume,
An oaken chest is standing
With hasp and paddock and key,
Strong as the hands that made it
On the other side of the sea.
When tho winter days are dreary
And we're out Of heart with life,
OF its crowding cares a-weary
And sick Of its restless strife,
We take lesson in patience
From the attic corner dim,
Where the chest still holds its treasures,
A warder, faithful and grim.
Robes of an antique fashion,
Linen and lace and silk,
That time has tinted with saffron,
Though once they were white as milk.
Wonderful baby garments
'Broidered with loving care
BY fingers that felt the pleasure,
As they wrought the ruffies fair.
"A sword with the red rust on it,
That flashed in the battle tide,
When from Lexington to Yorktown
Sorely mems souls were tried.
A plumed chapeau and buckle,
Aud many a relic fine;
And all by itself the sampler,
Framed in with berry aud vine,
Faded, the square of canvas,
And dim is the silken thread;
Bnt think of the white hands dimpled,
And childish, sunny head.
For, here is cross, and in tent-stitch,
In wreath of berry and vine;
She worked il, hundred years ago,
Elizabeth, aged nine.'
In, and out, in the sunshi-e
The little needle flashed;
And in and out on the rainy day
When the merry drops down FLASHED,
As close she sat by her mother
The little Puritan maid,
And did her piece on the sampler,
While the other Children played.
You are safe in the beautiful heaven,
"Elizabe'h, aged nine !"
But, before you went, you had troubles
Sharper then any of mine;
Oh ! the gold hair turned with sorrow
White as the drifted snow,
And your tears dropped horc where In
standing
On this very plumed chapeau.
When you put it away, its wearer
Would never need it more,
By sword-thrust learning the secrets,
God keeps on yonder shore;
And you wore your grief like glory,
You could not yield supine,
Who wrought in your patient childhood,
GEL zabetb, aged nine."
Out OF the way in a corner,
With basp and paddock and key,
Stand tie oasen chest of my fathers,
That came from over the sea
And the hillside herbs above it
Sake odors fragrant and fine,
And here on its lid is garland,
To elizabeth, aged nine"
For love is of the immortal,
And patience is sublime,
And trouble thing Of every day
And touching every time
And childhood, sweet and sunny,
And womanly, truth and grace,
Ever can light life's darkness,
And bless earths loneliest place.
-Mrs. III. Z. Sangster.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09
For Women Only.

The New York Sun gives ihe follow
ing notice Of one of Mr.. Ialmages
questionable sermons. which kept MIS-
hearers i'm a roar of laughter:
Mr.. Talmage said, a he began yes
terdav's ermon hat the reason ne
had preached ten TO men ahos
none 10 was. that the women
are better@than men. He did MOI say
this out of compliment Oh III g~aliantrH'
although when women are bad theE
are dreadful. Laughter. STATISTICS
urove this. They have fewer teiapta-
lions. are naturally r~everentlaI ana
loving. and il IS easier for them 10 be
come christians. They are the ma
joritv in church. on earth, and sup
pose they viii be- three-fourths of the
population in Heaven. In a beautiful
homestead in Bethany, a widow was
left 10 take charge of the premises.
The pet Of the premises was Mary, a
Younger sister, IA with a book I'M
der her arm. has no appearance OF
anxiety or perturbation. Christ and
several Of his friends arrived at the
house. They did not keep him wait
ing till they ad justed their dress, ana
after two or three knockings. hasten
TO the door and say. Why. IS that
vou:" No. They were ladies, and
ALWAYS presentable, though they might
not have on their best. Ii we always
had on our best. II best would not be
worth putting N. Laughter. 1hey
threw open the door and greeted
Christ with Good morning. BE seat
ed Martha went off TO the Kitchen;
while Mary, believing IN division OF
labor, said. Martha, you so and COOK,
and III be good" Laughter. some
thing went wrong in the kItchen
Perhaps the fire wouldn't burn, or the
bread wouldn't bake, OF Martha sGald-
ed her hand. At any rate she lost her
patience; and. with ~besweated brow,
and. possibly. with pitcher in one
hand and the tongs in the other, rush
ed into the presence of Christ. saying.
Lord. dost thou not care that my
sister has left me to serve alone:
But Christ scolded not a word. He
seemed to say. .'My dear woman.
don't worry. Let the dinner so. Sit
down on the ottoman beside Mary,
your humble sister," When a man
comes home from business and sees
his wife worn out, he thinks she ought
to have been on Wall street, II then
she would have something to worry
her. He does not know that she con
ducts a university, a clothing esta
lishment, a restaurant, q laundry and
a library while she is also health otti-
Ger, police and president OF her resi-
dence. IGreat laughter.
They have to contend with severe
economy. Ninety-nine out Of a hun
dred are subjected to it. If q man
smokes very expensive cigars and eats
costly dinners in New York. be is ex-
ceedingly DESTROYS Of making five do
lars do the work Of seven at home.
The wife is banker in the household:
she is president, cashier, teller and
discount clerk and there is a panic
every few weeks. Laughter.) This
severe discip inc viii make Heaven
very attractive to you. Their Will be
no rent to pay. Every man will live
in his own house, which Will be a
mansion, at that. If Stewards fifth
avenue mansion were lifted into the
celestial city, glorious, glorified Laza-
rus, who sat in rags on earth, would
be ashamed to enter it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09

The correspondent II the Baltimore
Gazette says: Jerry Huckstep. an
elderly colored man. living near Lib
erty Mills, Va, has met a singular
and terrible death. The show of John
was moving from Orange
courthouse to Madison Courthouse.
headed by several elephants. The old
man was attracted by the procession.
and approaching the caravan. was at
lacked by one of the elephants and
crushed to death. His body was shock
inglv mutilated. aud death was al
most instantaneous. WhGn oyertaken
by the vicious beast. the old man va
on his wayto work. and had hi dinner
II his pocket.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09
No ching To Do.

The brave man or woman viii al
a find something to DO. | know a
little 0ma who. by her husbands
illness, has been reduced to work for
a Livelihood. She will do ANYTHING
which Is honest. One week She does
some copying. The next week she is
at her sewing machine: a FRIEND eyes
are weak and she happened to say She
was looking for a seamstresS. At once
our heroine for are not such heroines:)
stamped on her pride, which squirIned
horribly and said "Remember, She
was your bridesmaid. and doesn't
know how very poor you are you'd
better pretend you know Of a seam
stress" Down came the foot, and
words are spoken bravely eff | NAV
take the work home, | will be verv
glad to do IL" Another time there IS
sudden sickness. and a nurse is re-
CURED. She goes and so, gradually.
she acquired d reputation for intense
earnestness in fulfilling her dutv-that
OF earning money for her children
and, one thing leading to another. she
learns how to support her family ON
fOrtaDly and with ease. Where there
IS a will, you can generally find a way.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09
A Scathing Paragraph.

The New York Express does not add
mire the manner in which ladies dress
for balls, at the present day, and thus
assigns the reasons for its dislike:
1t is a question fairly to be consid-
ereG in the present style of female
dressing, just where propriety ends
and indecency begins. The academy
is brilliant with beauty and on the
ball nights brilliant with the sparkle
of diamonds, and the lustre of bright
eyes, which many a bachelor would
give half his patrimony to win, and
which husbands are proud of possess
ing. But it is scarcely a compliment
to the mOdesty of our wives and
daughters to find, amid the fashiona-
bic a~sselnblages which do credit to our
society that ladies who would shudder,
to be wen in a crowd, with one of the
soiled doves which hover about the
world, exhibit themselves the centre
of d circle Of admiring conference.-the
such a lavish display OF arms, neck
and bosom that ever an anchorlte
would forget his vows and take one
long. lingering glance at the female
loveliness before him. All this may
be winked at by society but the true
principle Of mOdesty, which hides
from the common gaze the wealth Of
beauty God has given to the fairest of
his created beings, should not be out
ragged by dresses cut so low in the neck,
that scarcely any movement of the
wearer q be made without an expo
sure OF the person, at which even an
embryo cOurteSan would shudder.
We do not desire to be severe. but
thsre l. limit even to fashionable
license. Baby waists do well enough
for the nursery ana for very Young
people they are admitted to the stage
in the ballet they are ~charningly at
traCtive at home. in the boudoir,
where the husband, only, is admitted
but when ladies invite criticism or
comparison Of their charms from the
general public, by placing themselves
on view with scarcely anv neck cov-
ering other thar a shoulder strap TO
hold the corsage up. there is room for
Improvement IN modestv, and decencv
itself has some right 70 respect.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09

Rev. DR.. Martineau tells a very fun
ny story about a German play. lie
says that IN II Of the scenes Adam is
represented as running across the
stage on his way to the Garden of
Eden to be created. But science has
done away with all that. 1t tells us
that there Y was an Adam nor a
garden, nor anything except a glacial
period and a molecule, and the popular
mind is SO mixed that we are like the
young lady after the lecture =
Yes, l think 1t was perfectly splendid
l am sure | feel awiully wise,
With my head full of glaci rrs and iceheros
OF such a ridiculous size:
ana the masses of wnat-do-you-cau it,
The dirt that is ever SO old
And came down on The ice 10 New ,Jerzay-
1T must have been awfully old.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09
gables department.
a Christian Lady's View.

We are pleased at your giving
some religious items among your
locals. 1t is quite the rule, | believe,
to notice all the balls, and theatricals,
but there are some people who are IN
terested in more serious things, &c.&c.
irelcOme. as we'll as useful, visitor In
the family, and our esteemed friend
may depend there is no class OF a
than the Christian men and women OF
our city and State.-ED r. & VI.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09

Famin;ue "Fixins."

The crude, chaotic creature styled
man. has but one single feature of his
conventional apparel upon which TO
lavish his labor and upon whlch To
found his ~hopes-his cravat- When
he succeeds in impressing upon this
trife in cambria the appearance of
having been tied in n great hurry. and
tied very badly. then his work Is done.
and his sole opportunity for dlstin-
gushing himself from the herd OF
people in black and white has been
exhausted. But lovely woman. If 50
bold a paradox may be permitted, Is
AL crayats: from the Utmost, most
hidden mysteries TO the outmost, most
obvious bit of lace. her attire. on any
given occasion. in all its multltudin-
Gus parts. is "A matter for deepest
thought and most deliberate study.
To pry into the 'wildering a OF ar
ticles which constitute the war-paint
OF the civilized woman of this fair
land. would be a thankless task a
task from which any but the boldest
we'll might shrink appalled,, n even
to contemplate the result as a whole Is
quite sufficient to overawe the stouteSt
man. Yet our fair sisters. beau
teous sw~eethearts and our peerless
WINS lo-ddN at "iSStiiiS 800 ti1
dark problem of dress, while We
weak men-are forced to stand affair
off. with never a finger stretched out
to give them comfort and aid. Ii Is
true that we have no fear as to the
result. for on too many occasions have
we seen the same ordeal gone through,
and in the end "A brilliant triumph
bursting forth in the teeth of apparent
defeat-a dazzling she. clad IN raiment
vel calculated 10 put to h blush not
only Solomon and the Queen OF Sheba
but also the very lilies of the field.
With such a past in our memory, each
of US is we'll assured that when the
band strikes up a march tonight, and
our blooming DANES and damosels trip
lightly up the broad ton Stair-them-
selves the fairest flowers of all the
flowers that line the way-the tangle
of silks and laces in which they will
be clad will be all that wish of man or
eye OF woman al require. Heart
thrObs will be stilled to placid beatings
IN the calmnesS of satisfaction bright
eyes will be brighter with the knowl-
edge that victory is achieved, and only
purest happiness will swell up in the
female breast when in memorys
chamber fingers the assurance. gwen
by the double mirror and indispensitiy
requisite TO female felicity, that all j
right behind. -Phiiudeiphi4 Times.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09

There Is a movement on foot in
England in the direction Of dress re-
form. 1t IS not proposed to wear more
clothing as an insurance against the
London fog and its rheumatics. but to
make believe that the climate Of Eng
land Is tropical, and to introduce the
scant but certainly graceful garments
of the ancient Greeks. The probable
result OF all this is well described bv
Punch -
costumes of the n Greeks. A ,,ootv
prospect truly
ihe5 dressed ln-wel, no! ve'y much, md
"eat about quite coolly.