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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
A Zulu Artist.

M. Enanda writes to the AH Inter-
change from Zululand rs follows: |
will give you the history. of one. Zulu
artist that knew. His name was
Uqonqota. Please strike the roof of
your mouth twice with your tongue,
making noise like small hammer and
then you will get the pronunciation of
his name He fled to Natal with his
wife, to escape the sentence of death
which Cetywayo had passed on him for
being suspected of witchcraft. lie spent
his time in carving wooden and ivory
spoons, snuff-boxes of many varieties,
made of vegetable ivory, etc.. and also
from reeds, all painted and figured.
Bead work he cxcelled in--also modern
pillows with filigrce carving, wooden
milkpails, ivory and bone perspiration
scrapcrs with snuff-spoon. at one end
and bone combs that looked like three
tined forks. With these forks they
When an OK is killed the ribs are taken
care of to make these useful articles.
must tell you before forget that Uqon-
qota was also II noted poet and sang his
own compositions as he carved or painted
the .snuff-boxes and musical reeds. He
could draw very well considering he
never hal lesson, and his silhouettes
were made with the spearred hot, burn
ing the figures very evenly black though
they were hideous representations. |
regret not having few copies for the
cup and saucer painters ofNew York to
copy. for they would have admired them
hugely.
This Zulu artist was indeed very
original character. He often paid us
visit to see the sewing machine, and
would solemnly exclaim, The white
man will soon find the medicine to cure
death" He tried to initiate some of our
things, and showed much taste for pic
lures. His pottery was more graceful
and the ornamentations looked lifelike.
BY his great industry in art he soon ac-
quired a large fortune, namely, three
wives and kraal full of cattle, calves
and goats; but he did not retire from
business he would peddle his armlets
and leglets, necklaces, spoons, spears.
etc, far and wide over the country. At
last he had filled an ealthen pot full of
English money, and he thought he could
re-ente' lie Zulu country unknown, to
buy more cattle. to buy more wives, to
be grna,er aristocrat, when he un-
eXpecled(y met one of Cetywayo's police
men who was watching for runaways to
Natal, and spear 100 wei aimed felled
him to the ground
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
The SOlan Goose.

The hardy birds, constructed by ma
ture to battle with the clemens, have q
beauty entirely their own-widely diff
fcrent, indeed, from the colored splendors
of the tropical birds; but theirs is II
beauty of ornament rather than of
strength and perfect power. The solan
goose, or gannet, is a wonder among the
flying kind.
Mr.. Frank Buckland has been expert
menting upon the anatomical construc-
tion of the gannet, and says it possesses
in its body the most perfect aeronautic
machinery that can be conceived. There
the feathers and the hollow bones of the
birds, by means of which it is able to in
fate itself like balloon.
The gannet on which Mr.. Buckland
experimental measured nine inches
across the chest but when inflated it
measured fourteen inches. BY suddenly
pressing the inflated body, the dead bird
Immediately gave out the loud call of
the bird when alive, the sound being
produced by means of the air passing
through the voice-boX at the bottom of
the windpipe. The gannet can instan-
taneously eXtrude all this air frome its
lungs, bones and feathers: and this en-
ables it to drop down from Il height upon
its prey in the sea with amazing rapidity.
Some years ago, one OF these birds was
flying over Penzance, in Cornwall, when,
seeing some pilchards lying on a fir
plank, in place for curing those fish, it
darted itself down with so much violence
as 20 stick its bill quite through an inch
and II quarter plank, and kill itself on
tie spot. The bones of the birds neck
me of amazing strength. and as hard as
an iron rod. The head is Joined to the
al las by beautiful ball-and-socket,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
A Tame Humming Bird.

Some time ago a lady living at Gin
cinnati heard bird called as if in pain,
in the yard outside the door, and upon
investigation found young humming
bird in the talons of the family cat. She
promptly rescued the tiny fellow and
found it to be little hurt, though
enough to warrant her taking an interest
its conyalescence. She took it into the
house and kept it till the next day, when,
on taking it to theI door to let it go, the
bird flew up into tree and refused to
go farther away. finally returning to her
hand. Charmed with the confidence
displayed by the pretty creature, the
lady took it fully in charge, and since
then has fed and cared for it as for any
other feathered pet. The bird is of a
beautiful russell gold in color, seems to
know its benefactress, and has charm
ingly coauettish ways. 1t permits its
mistress to handle it without exhibiting
fear, and seems to enjoy being stroked
and petted. When it gets hungry 1t
makes a plaintive call, and is then fed
from fresh petunia, into whose depths
have been sprinkled sugar. moistened
with water in imitation of the honey
that is the natural food of the bird OF
freedom. The bird enjoys its meals Win
pusto. and calls for about twenty ol
them daily. 1t is very seldom that one
of these dainty birds is caught, and sui
more rarely is one kept alive, TO say
nothing of becoming pct, rs is the case
with the one spoken OF.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21


While she lay awake, for sleep she
could not, the terrible thing she feared
came to pass. The guard, careless ut
their post, who scorned her message,
were surprised at their game. The four
hundred had come over the walls by
their scaling-l ladders and gained the
market place. where they were heard
shouting:
"Ghentl Gbentm
The startled people sprung in horror
from their beds. only to see that it was
too late to save their town, even if their
own lives were secure.
1t was an awful night of fighting and
pillaging; and the sight which the next
mornings sun looked upon was of
streets full of armed men, houses broken
open, confusion and destruction and
death everywhere; and out through the
now open gates multitude of women
and children, in the clothes they slept
in, barefoot and half-naked, fleeing for
their lives before the men of Ghent, who
were driving them rs if they had been
cattle; and the poor fugitives, glad to
escape on any terms, went running OIL
on every road except the one to the
enemy's city; and in the end found
refuge in other towns, where the hus-
ward joined them, but the most were
the same as if they were widowed and
orphaned.
There was only one person who dared
take the road to Client, and he crossed
out to it over the fatal meadow, but left
it as soon us he saw at one side the lean
ing cottage, with the little cow-pen be-
side it, where Petronilla lived. The
sentinel had escaped, with his outer gar
ment torn away and a cash across his
shoulder; but he had kept safe sewed
within his leathern doublet q pouch of
gold which he had laid by for his old
mothers support, If ever he should come
back to Oudenarde.
Since he came he had heard that she
had been some years missing from, the
farmstead, which had been ruined by
the wars, and that surely she must be
dead.
He thought that perhaps he would
give this gray-haired woman some OF it
now for his mothers sake. How anxi-
Gus she had seemed, what faithful
soul she was to do so much. how old she
was to have walked so far, and how
kind her invitation had been! :.
This was her hut, then! How poor 1t
was. And those two cows looking over
the fence and lowing mournfully--how
lean and starved they were! lie house
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
The Small Boy I'm a Corn Bin,

Frank, twelve-year-old son of Joe
Williams, had new experience Satur-
day. The youth was up in the new ele-
vator after pigeons. Looking at the
large hopper through which the shelled
corn passed through into the car, it oc-
Cured to him that it would be a pleas
ant trip to ride down with the corn. He
Jumped on and was soon covered up in
the rushing grains of corn. Dan Bush
man, observing that the grain had ceased
flowing. ran his hand in and felt the boys
feet They had to break the spout to re-
move him. He was almost smothered
to death and black in the face. They
blew in his nostfils, worked the chest,
and chafed his hands, and they were re-
warded tor their efforts by slight pulse.
On his removal home medical aid was
summoned, and the youth will survive
his spouting experience.-Eldora (h.)
! Ledger.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
Deserted Fifth Avenue.

DOsCItCu hNOhuVs
By early candle light wander forth
Upon Fifth avenue and the adjoining streets
How silent, how deserted are these marble
The homes of wealth and luxury.
Scarce the glimmer OF chamber light is seen,
The parlors all funerally closed,
The folks are out of town, ...fa
The easements only show some signs of life,
AS Ann and Bridget, lett to keep the house,
There loiter at hour of early eve,
To breathe fresh air and gossip
With Roundsman No 1852.
A cat with stealthy tread
Steals DER the way,
Intent on theft or commune with some other
cat.
Ha! Who are these?
So stealthily peeping forth
As though in fear offoe outside in ambush,
Or sitting well ensconced within the hall,
In dresses dark and somber.
These? This is the family,
4 Who for strong reason
Have stayed in town this season,
Who timidly at night unbar the door
Closed in the day, and in deserted outward
look
Contemporaneous with the rest.
turn away my head.
/ know their pain.
They wish not to be seen OF men.
They're theoretically out OF town.
will not cen spy out their number.
This is true charity.
-.New York Graphic.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
Through China.

We passed through by-roads and fields
of millet ten feet high, and could not see
across the country unless where the har-
vest was cut. The stocks of the large
millet looked like wigwams. We heard
sud tidings of the anime; yet here there
was abundance, so much that this one
province could supply all the famine
stricken. A measure of millet will sup
port Chinaman for month but there
is no enterprise about getting the millet
to the hungry, and the port was soon to
be closed by the winter. There was al
ways some one on the road, though the
houses and villages were few. Now it
was the postman, white mailbag slung
across his shoulders, his hands swinging
vehemently as he went. Then it was
travellers on horseback, armed with
formidable spears with which to frighten,
not to fight, the robbers that infest the
roads of the roads. Peasants were trudg-
ing to market, a farmer was going over
his land. Figures in white came near
the road to watch us pass, and we knew
it was a family in mourning. Some
ladies crossed by a path over the fields
to pay visit to a neighbours house; a
servant followed them, and they stole
shy looks at the foreigners. Here the
reapers were ut work; and if it was the
large millet, they cut down only one stalk
at time, and then bound them labor
iously in gigantic sheaves. A watch
man, staff in hand, was patrolling the
fields to guard his masters grain against
the inroads of the poor. Then we saw a
threshing- hoor-the hard, beaten circuit
of ground, the ears with only d
short straw spread over them. and g
white and lazy mule dragging a stone
round and round. Sometimes the grain
was lashed, but never thrashed with the
fail Where roads met there was al
most always a small shrine of mud, {
few feet high, raised to some local god
shabby superstition that CONTRACTED
with the comfortable look and intelli
gence of the people.-Good Words.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
NO. 26.
Heimgang.

Heimgdngi So the German people
Whisper when they hear the bell
Tolling from some gray old steeple
Deaths familiar tale to tell,
When they hear tho organ dirges
Swelling out from chapel dome
And the singers chanting surges
Heimgang He is going home.
Heimgdng! We are all so weary,
And the willows as they wave,
Softly signing, sweetly dreary,
Woo us to the tranquil grave.
When the golden pitchers broken,
With its dregs and with its foam,
Aud the tender words are spoken,
" Htimgang" We are going home.
n. J. Fl. Duganne.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
Temperature In Cultivation.

At the late meeting of the Michigan
Pomological Society at Muskegon, Mr..
S. b. Peck, in his address of welcome, in
his remarks on temperature and reasons
of failure in the cultivation of fruits and
tender vegetables planted in the home
stead garden, in alluding to the capacity
of different kinds of matter to receive
and retain the heat o. the sun after night
fall said: As q rule those substances
that are .he slowest to receive heat are
the siowest to part with it. Earth and
water, tue two kinds of matter we have
most to do with, are good illustrations (;
the former receives readily the heat of
the sun as soon as he appears, but parts
with this heat rapid y rs soon as he dis
appears. Water is the reverse, slow to
receive and to part with heat, requiring
thirty times as much heat to raise it up
to the same temperature. Our buildings,
whether of wood or brick, hold the heat
received during the day much longer
than the bare earth, and thus influence
to prevent frost in their bulks. An il
lustration of this fact came under my OBJ
servation at the time of a damaging frost
early in May of 1878, that destroyed
most of the apples, grapes and berries,
and all of the peaches, plums and cher
ries in all fiat open exposures near here,
while all of these fruits were complete
success in an inclosure of eight to twelve
rods on which were two two-story and
two smaller buildings, with a well-filled
woodshed. The influence ofthese wooden
structures to retain heat extended to q
distance of seventy-five feet, as l Lao
ample evidence. The same things hap
pened in much less degree on the morn
ing of May 7th, inst. The success O
grapes seems to depend ON the amount O
summer heat they receive. Isabella'
that seldom and Catawbas that nevel
ripeD here in open field have come II
perfection two years in succession
trained two feet distant from the build
! ings above mentioned.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Orchard and Garden Notes.

Ii is better to top-dress an old pasture
well set with grass than plow it up and
reseed it.
plant q fo,v fr,;t +roos ,f o,,o,,, ,,.,;otv
ovorv ,,oar amd un,,, ,,.,bard ,,;J;,i ,,a,,cy
he al ooid I'D GNU '""' o'0'''''' WIN 'o'''
~.
zig tlie cary crop Oh potatoes MS soon
as tbev nov wv oOnta;r tha pntotnlro St ,, ro,
rnr a,,s ' '' ''' viz po''0'
'"nS T,' 30,
ne pest purpose 10 winch coal ashes
Gun pc appnea In town OF country Is IN
making garden Walks. II well lai9
t'owh no weeus OF grass VIII grow, ana
9y use tieY become rs sollc ana more
ouiap'e 'ii"h orlcks'
Let no one PICK frult who has no
Inougnt ior the lie OF the tree ana the
seasons tna5 are TO ioliow. we nave
seen ottharus % Inat looked alter t1e PICK
ins ''s II II haii-soorIn iau rlslteo H. the
'iillDs WERE 50 Iorh anu proken.
The success OF a fruit grower depends
upon sohd reputation Tor honesty. Let
every package be as represented and ike
every other OF its grade. This will in
sure the confidence OF the commission
merchants, the esteem OF the consumers,
ready sale OF the frult and an inward
satisfaction.
Farmers that have n supply of old
fence rails will find them lust the thing
TO place next their tomato plants to keep
the fruit off the ground. Place the short
pieces crosswise and the long ones on
top (lengthwise) each side the plants,
and you have the cheapest, if not the
best, support of the kind to be found.
The Chinese are said to pre.erve
cranes for very considerable period
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
Health Hints.

For people with skin diseases n car
bolic bath should be used.
Always take bath in a warm room
and in tepid water, unless particularly
robust.
Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool
will take the pain out Of the worst
wound. and repeated once or twice, it
will allay the worst case of inhamma-
tion arising from n wound we ever saw.
The prime conditions of health in Il
house depend upon cleanliness, pure air
and unpolluted water, the prompt and
thorough removal of all refuse, and the
perfect exclusion of all foul matters aris-
ing outside the house.
4 medical exchange says that life can
be sustained by the following when
nothing else can betaken: Make n strong
cup of coffee, add boiling milk as usual,
only sweetening rather more; take an
egg, beat yolk and white together thor
oughly; boil the coffee, milk and sugar
together, and pour it over the beaten
egg in the cup you are going to serve it
in.-Boston Journal of Chemistry.
When a finger pricks as though there
was "A thorn in it, and throbs intolerably
when held downward, and yet there is
no external sign OF lnlSclllel, tie prODa-
bilities are that a felon is in prospect,
says an exchange. Go at once to the
butchers and procure some of the spinal
marrow of beef creature. Take a
piece, say about two inches in length,
and, having cut it open lengthwise, wrap
it around the affected finger, covering, OF
course. with cloth. In a few hours
change the piece of marrow for a fresh
one, and continue to keep the finger so
encased until all pain has ceased and
there is no discomfort when the marrow
is removed. The finger will look
strangely white and porous, but the cure
is complete. This remedy ought to be-
come professional. 1t is vastly better
than the surgeons knife, and more effect
| tual
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21

By early candle light wander forth
Upon Fifth avenue and the adjoining streets
How silent, how deserted are these marble
, 1879-01-23
ht' frafl a,,t} ,r,wn Govt ring pf W[sci'

tlr frafs anti .nth,'raw,,rnrt ring pf W[slc1'1
skin VII Vi ,u',rr,.iri tlr In'1T.
f's.fh If The 1niri tt:r'ii III tho forrrastir
wcrr tug mt 1T ~ r Temporary rrs!inm-plart,
vr,r.l s!ccs and 1alt! 1,rsnr ;t,' l",iv iF1t IN
ihr galley. Tie en;r,'ll>' T., 4h caIil VIII nrxs
examined. n,ul fnl1unt ntlns, fr.:sl OVER, rx.
ccpt small aperture through wtcli nothing
but darkness was Visible. The nxt'A stH1t r..
l,,..vc tho !cy N3*rcttnn, ami nl cutranl, Into
through twu OF sIlr tahIl. windows, AMI iI light
witch entered RI vc;!icl auo'cr ktckrn!nr s;,ec.
tncle, saddcr unr t'y far than lit u,trrs, ft'r
Tie Ind, Of wonlan was tount lying PROSTATE III
tho Captain tta'cr''o.n. ! few fcci away, rst,-
trltltltE tNn1ts leu IL In: discovery Di nnuf.er
botiy, it: uuIcr 1nrsft,n uf wtl,rh naa deeply
tn,,,ett.lel In the Thick ler w,,rt, royertd ihe
can l.'W from tltc cnranrc tn The upposi'r ride.
AL t!ie boirs wUrc arranged 0n tItrk rs tle1t.
II ny lhe circumstances allowed Tic interior
~ the Captains stat"-tuoli cttE,fa1rI n1 tcc,
a'nt ic exploring rarty found IN 'ot!tet nn tll.:
dead wDHla.i's hc'k ti,r miniatures ol Il Iliftt.
forr man, alli,ls 81 years uf H1,. ntml pleasing
lehktng w.Ir,at tnin,ut3)-eyidrnt1y the tanta;tl
n,ni .]ns wife. Tn si!e iloor Ut tic tta.c.ronnl
was ~ c''uny crticx With thr figure 1t The Re-
tfcrnrr IN tvury. lic *tate.ruanl ct'ntntne,l twn
RELIGIOUS pictures. q wrt.lng-,lrhk, n me letnc-
efrRt. twu tfuc :rtnf;s. y,ltsrs. t,I,tl kac'ris,
w',lel tla' EXPLORERS would mt touch mill the
authorities hn.l been consulted. 1hH men
t.l,t, My Hilile their faiglhnt journey bnrk to
rlarcnsta liar!'or, wtscrt ihcv laid al tn. .,as-
tylilasH nf their salldcning adventure hrfoFu te
Magistrate, wlto At HHte ttNk steps to have i1e
b",its brought nslu,rr, Together with the ships
ra.scra md other cIccts secured until further
f1ent,'isatfon had been ,nn,te.
4 telegram from St. picrrc announced that
tl'c adelaide Foiauet. Frcncs, hric. hid ls..
been seen WHEN she left that port OH NOV. III,
Will, lual of rudtiAh herring, aud tlrird cap
lin, bouua for Tic purt ot sfarcIllcs. Ia France.
, 1879-01-23
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

al,nnIo,+urn* nf Fart atareu.or-t Tjsfto
is'E .i"ro 'tof,, ,,",. :" n" 'n"ns'a.e nss'"m- IVY
u tse'c'3 M"HnfS A"eernp" tA"e-i iMe
Canning Ai"n I" TIC Softher" Pacific
K"''F"at''
Fonr i. LINCOLN, u. r., Jan. 1l-lt Is rc-
nr, .1, tr,c ,l,,t Enrt g,creraon a;v,r ,n,1cx II,
,ho ry,r u,, Il. o or,,,,,,I II, t,,,, t,rt.r ,,"1
'"e t.'''' "'' w ""'l'ao''e'. u, W. ep'''E' ""'
on f'lnrt na'le 10 convert tlie hi'''d'nRa 'h'o
large l"ardnr. school for EnAIau tuvs and Er,s.
{,nnt. French. ri t,o,nnnny n. Seventh t,av-
o1,v win In am, IN mn i,,,rirt. s.v,nm H.
,,.i;,,''. ~, a,., ,a.a.. r,'s,. j., Ex.,,,,,,
Du'etE eh' "n'' "e1o1c patlcat !" fTenEn'
nnu onc who would give EarGe share OF Ills
thousands to be himself araft..
\ railroad will he uut down on the frozen
x:I.e,ur md lcfora ,l,,. tn ,,o. ~. 4h,,o Inn.
'ss"''' ''''' 'ei''e ''s1 I'VE s'se wv 'n.co "'".
'ltcd Thousand cross-t'es lamlc'l M the west
side for ,le use OF the hundred miles OF road
that Will lie built The contng brasqn,
Tl,. f:.v,ru,,crt tr,.rr,,,i, linn h,tuoo, pts,
a.,,, ~, ~. u..,., ,,", ."' o.."oen nls.
every !ny since the enId wave rolled down upon
us. IL Is rs Eou.l as no wire nt all. Two u,es.
sprcs In tw, months constitute Tim tLro,,11,
ns'css i. t 70 sawH . VIII lr cause q tls break Ak
titrl,t: and tic roid .nnns II rycrr f'.sy n,irs
jiIr ,ost Of sending nrs,,acsis ,1uuinaI. Th.rc
Is a ,.itci, In thu deuari;l,cnts al Wn.hin1tnn.
"nd ihc ,rn,,c s,et IL. H. ,af"t,rurh,nr I,,. f
nothing, We urowj. however. heca,ise In. wIr,.
isn,t n1cr,,tnr. S''' '"e "'''
rt,r Hun, Frederick Ulltucs. Chairman az tjr.
Executive Eutumitirr Ia lin cnn,inT n,aI, ri III.
Esr.f,,.rn pn.iii, Rniro,'i NJ. fuiiInvs " ia .
wraitlIy yer,nunt lawyer. WIN ,uad.. is ior,tI,,r
in 1un f'raurtsc.,. lur,nnir,,r in 1Sn liz !. NM;
tfu. hrnyIf,st imt,vii,oi .tncI h,,i,t,r T., IT,,
Sur,i,ern Pacific, carving tniiiIun md t,alf.
nm, ,,nt,r hn yi,'s unrr i;n.t1ns T." - ,,s,,,'r,"r
uf AllHs, tG,,.n,nl ,,,res of -. in. wi'rat tn"l
as tl s,,,, shines HMM. III. IL th lrni ~ ti,
lind tttnmittrc. ntI hos iI,r r,,,,trtnni,v NJ
prttin, runIl I,iI.. hut nm hu,trr ti,ou f,nt
ryIn,tr a,,,i htnarcsa ~ ,,trrs law. HIlin,, ia
siron,r tnuI. tntcilr"t,,.iiy. viii, }nn in in,.
nnrinY 1,rvrinn,nrrt ri III. Snrii,rrr I,tItt and
it, ih,,.l rrant tnt ,,or},l mt rirrt ,i,.r1rdi.
mt,o,. Inv tt,ohn imsrIf ifr i. nt, ardent frf..,nl