The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-12-11
TIMELY TOPICS.

put up in the United States last year
reached the great total of 9,966 900
Maryland leading off with 6,840. 900;
New Jersey, $500, 900; Delaware, 1884,
600; New York, l,6S0,O00; Massachu-
setts, $50, 1000; Pennsylvania, ls2, 900;
Pacific coast, 1000, 600; Western and
other States, 100000. Yet many of
the pl esent generation can recall the
time when the tomato was regarded rs
curiosity. ..-----.... .
Hereare DIR. Thomas Guthrie's excel
lent reasons for being total abstaineI
1 have tried both ways; speak from
experience. lam in good spirit because
take no spirit; am hale because use
no ale; take no antidote in the form of
drugs because l take no poison in the
form of drinks Thus, though in the
first instance sought only the public
good, have found my own also since
became total abstainer. | have these
four reasons for continuing to be one
first, my health is stronger; second, my
head is clearer; third, my heart is
ligh ter; fourth, my purse is heavier.
Scarlet fever is a scourge as much to
be dreaded in Northern cities as the yell
low fever is in the South. A leading
cause of the disease being spread is from
ladies visiting houses where there are
cases, or attending funerals of those
who have died from the malady, thus
impregnating their clothing and carry
ing the germs to their own and other
families. This disease should be treated
in manner similar to smallpox as re-
CARDS quarantine regulations. 1t is not
less terrible in its fatality, and not un-
frequently leaves the convalescent
with deafness, blindness, or some other
serious affection.
Official whippings are continued regu-
larly at Newcastle, Del, and are re-
garded as n matter of course by the resi-
dents. On the last whipping day five
convicted thieves were punished. The
first was German, who was not
severely lashed, and he walked away
smiling. The second was a tramp, who
bore the ordeal without finching. Two
negroes. who came next, writhed and
muttered under the pain of severe blows.
The fifth was boy of fifteen. He was
so frightened that it was necessary to
force him to the post, and at the first
stroke he desperately freed himself by
pulling his hands out of the staples. A
lldIlukCGClllel WAS uSeu W ldSlclY llllll
but he got loose again before the pre-
scriped twenty blows were completed,
and pathetically begged the sheriff not
| to strike so hard.
The movement in temperance known
rs home protection, which, in reality, is
woman's ballot on the dram. shops, is
gainingin favor in all parts of the coun-
try. Five of the annual conventions of
the womens christian temperance
unions, held in the separate New Eng
| land States, have passed home protec-
| ton IL solutions indorsing that line of
! work. At the late annual meeting of
the National Women's Christian Tenn
pCrance Union in indianapolis, a resolu-
tion was passed to the effect that the
organizations there represented should
in each State be free to choose their own
methods of work." thus removing all
restrictions of that body from such State
women's unions as shall decide to ask
for the temperance ballot. Eleven State
organizations already indorse this move
ment; only three really oppose it, and
their ranks, it is said, are by no means
solid.