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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
Indian Stnge drivers.

A correspondent, writing from Las
Vegas, New Mexico, SAYS that he got the
superintendent to tell him about his
stage line. which runs from Vinita, In
dian Territory. to Las Vegas, New Mex
leo, about 900 miles. and passes through
some of the most dangerous Indian coun-
try in the world. 1t has l08 drivers,
thirty of whom are native Indians. The
line carries the United States mail daily
and what passengers it can get, although
Z the Superintendent is as yet the only
white man who has been over the entire
route.
Can you trust your Indian driversp"
l asked.
"Oh. yes,n said he. 4" Every body
said at first that | couldn't do anything
with them; but / had to do something,
for the redskins had habit of killing
the white drivers in some localities. |
got some Ct them broke in ut last, how
ever, and they do very well. They like
the salary, for it enables them to put on
style above their brethren, and tell you
they do like to dress. 1t catches the
squaws, and the young men like that as
well as you fellows down East One
day an Indian driver ran off after buff
falo, and was gone two or three days.
sent men to hunt him up, but he came
back before they found him with dead
buffalo and Uncle Sans mail as uncon-
cerned rs if nothing had happened. l
discharged him. and it taught the others
a lesson.
You ought to see them hunt paths
at night. If they can get glimpse
of a single star they can find their way
the darkest night that ever blew. Some
of them are great astronomers. They
have an idea that there was once a gre at
flood which covered the whole earth.
Everybody was drowned but seven
chiefs, who were strong enough to climb
to the top of the highest mountain in
the country. They would have been de-
stroyed also had they not prayed to the
Great Spirit so fervently that their sup
plications were answered. They lived
to great age and replenished the earth.
When they died they each became q
brilliant star in the heavens. These In
dians know the principal stars by the
names of departed chiefs. This belief is
prevalent among nearly all the savage
Indians in the southern part of the In
dian Territory"
:" Are any of your Indians desperate
charactersPh
"Some of them. Six of my drivers
saw The Custer massacre. They proba-
bly, took part in it, but they claim that
they were near by herding ponies They
describe the whole bloody affair, but
will not tell who killed the whites. Gus
ter has many friends, and they are afraid
of them"
"Have any of your Indians ever seer
the cars?" .....
Ies, seven chiefs went up to Vinita
one day, and l got them to look at q
locomotive. 1t suddenly whistled and
blew off steam, and you ought to have
seen those seven Indians wilt. They
fell down on their knees in CONSERVATION
and began to pray to the Great Spirit
| guess they thought the engine was the
Great Spirit, but don't know as to that
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
he Next United States Census,

A Washington Post reporter has inter-
viewed General Francis A. Walker.
chief OF the National Census Bureau.
in regar to taking the census next year.
The reporter asked.
How will agricultural statistics be
secured?
6 1t would not pay to employ special
agents TO take agricultural figures" said
the general, land tliis duty will be in
trusted to the enumerators. This wide
field. There are probably 5000, 900
farmers in this country, and you will
see the objection to employing especial
assistance when the ground can be COW
cred as well by the regular force"
Does this apply to all granger in
tercsts?"
No; there are certain branches,
such as fruit culture, live stock and i'm
portant crops, where special agents must
necessarily be employed, and the work
will be done as never before. The special
officers will collect facts and figures re-
lating to the growth of these crops, and
fruits. meat transportation and eXporta-
ton, and the shipping of live stock to
England. Lumber, honey, beeswax, pea
nuts ard other industries that are becom-
ing of great importance, will also re-
ceive the special attention of this agent
and the product ofthese efforts will form
valuable adjunct to the census, and
show II vast difference to those of former
years. Heretofore, these statistics have
been grossly erroneous and inadequate.
Then the law provided for no special
assistance in procuring these facts, and
was so constructed that Goldfish, coal oil
and mining were placed on the same
schedule.n
IscducatiOn class of itselfP"
at comes under the branch of social
Statistics which embraces education,
schools, libraries, newspapers, wages.
wealth, debt and taxation"
. a most important branch"
YES, and will be collected almost en-
tirely through special agency, as will
also vital statistics, pauperism, crime,
idiocy and deaf muteism."
How have they been collected be-
fore?"
BY enumerators, or else by deputies
of the United States marshals in the sew
eral districts
What force will be necessary, and
when will it be selected?"
''There will be $50 supervisors, one or
more TO each State, according to it's
size. The supervisors districts will be
formed and announced about the middle
of October, and the appointments will
probably be made at the meeting of Con-
gress in December. In January the su-
pervisors will appoint the enumerators
The special agents will be selected as ne
cessity requires"
How many enumeratOrs will be re-
quiredP" -t ....a 81 I'd
81 suppose about $1,000 to 10000, and
those in the country will be required to
complete their labors during the month
of June, 1880. Those in the city are con-
fined to the first two weeks of the same
month. The reports will come in as
rapidly as completed" ...,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
Plain Words to Careless Girls.

The tender and general feeling of SYM
pathy for the suicide Lavinia Roach
will rapidly abate now that the girls
history is known. She seems to have
started in life with unusually good pros
poets, for though Eumbly born and bred
she was so pleasing in face and manner
as to excite the kindly interest of her
betters. Had she maintained the self
control which is within the power of
every woman she might to-day be II
happy wife instead of loathsome
corpse. She preferred to have "good
tlme"--an expression not uncommon
among girls, and not necessarily of n
bad meaning, though the beginnings of
tied good time are never with bad in
SAINT the end is almost universally dis
graceful. To keep company with men
apparently above their own station
men who dress well, have money and
call themselves gentleman-is by such
girls held to be a delightful honor, but
not II particle of honor or respect does it
ever bring them from their male com
paniOns. What they usually get is
shame, disgrace and terrible wounding
Of affections really pure that may have
been honestly stimulated under promises
tUOlishly believed. Some of these
women have character enough to begin
Il new life, but the streets of any large
city after nightfall show what becomes
of most of them. Perhaps the womanly
incentivet to love some one unselfishly
may be as strong in them us it ever was,
but who viii accept their love? The
story of Lavinia Roach, pretty and lady
like to the day of her death, gives suifi-
cient answer. If young women would
extract the greatest possible happiness
out of life let them never exchange the
pleasures of their own social circle,
humdrum though they may be, for the
society of bright young men who can
give them suppers and invite them to
balls, drives and excursions. Men
whose intentions are honorable WOO
girls Mt their homes, not by stealth and
in out-of-the-way places.-NeW York
He1,nId
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04

stroying life itself, should be avoided, and
this safe and more effective medicine used
instead. Those disorders of the bowels,
stomach nnd liver which frequently accom-.
pany RI eumatic and gouiy ailments are inva-
riably removed by this excellent botonic cor
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.f-..t A Hint TO WOrkfngmen. -f al IaI
The honest workingmen OF the country,
many of whom have large and increasing
families to support, have been the chief sut-
terers from the great financial pressure under
which we have 1nbored for the last few years
Diminished wages have not been attended by
a corresponding diminution in price OF every
thing which the workingman needs. Rents,
fuel, food and clothing are cheaper, but these
do not constitute all the necessities. IL is
sometimes necessary for him to employ n law
yer or physician, yet the fee rates OF physicians
and lawyers are MS high us they were in
" flush times. Yet cheap medicines are as
necessary as cheap rents or fuel. Cheap medi-
cines are not necessarily poor medicines. 1t
must be obvious to every intelligent person
that medicines, compounded and put up at
wholesale, can be sold ut much lower rates
than whom retniled from the doctors pill bags.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Purgative Pellets have completely
restored persons who have spent hundreds of
dollars in, vainly seeking reliel from private
practitioners, and all at Il very slight expendi-
ture.
TO develop healthy and harmonious action
among the organs OF secretion, digestion and
evacuation, take DR.. Motifs Vegetable Liver
Pills. which healthfully stimulate the liver,
give tone and regularity to the liver, counter
net tendency to costiveness and purify the
blood. Their cathartc action is unaccom-
panied by gripping and is never violent and
| abrupt, but gradual and natural. These pills
are OF the greatest assistance i'll overcoming
| scroillous tumors and eruptive maladies. All
druggists sell it.
Only one American Cabinet or Parlor Organ
maker has ever succeeded in bearing off the
| highest honors at any worlds exposition,
| where they came in competition with the best
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04

Prof. Brun, of Geneva, has described a
curious case of poisoning in a child of
two years of age. 1t was caused by
eating a combination of cabbage and
figs. The cabbage, he says, must have
produced a great abundance of Tactic
acid, which, in the presence of the figs,
developed enough of butyric acid to
cause the death of the child.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
Easily Incurred. Terribly Obstinate,

Is rheumatism. Even at the outset, he Or
binary remedies are frequently powerless to
, ope with it. This is more particularly the
case when tendency to it is inherited. 1t
hhould be combated before it becomes chronic,
When the first twinges are felt, recourse
should be had to Hostetters Stomach Bitters,
q depurent which expels from the blood those
irritating principles which, by contact, cause
Inflammation and pain IN the muscles and
10 nts. Poisonous medicines which are usu-
ally administered for this disease, but which,
in slight overdose, may terminate it by de-
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04

From the report to the British Board
of Trade it appears that the number of
persons returned as having been killed
in the working of the railways during
4,Oo7' OF these, ls5 persons killed and
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04

When you are down-hearted and the
world looks black to you, you ought to
be hospitabe enough to entertain hope
of better days.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
HEART DISEASE AND LIVER CON
PLANE.

MIDDLEBURGn Snyder Co., Pa
Dear Sir:--I have been tr"nbled with Heart
Disease andLivcr Colnrlai.t, and had spent
a great deal Of money Tor medical aid without
receiving any benefit, until procured some OF
your Indian Blood Syrup from your agent, e.
l.. Burlington. I can now testify from my
experience as to the great valne of it in such
diseases. HENRY ZEMCHAS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
FIFE INDIAN BLOOD SYRUP TIE Eif!rF
U u.H.. w MEDICINE.

II" PIrTsBuhGH, Pa, Augusl ., 1910.
Dear Sir:-I was troubled with Kidney Dis
ease and Liver Complaint. l tried everything
which l thought might do me good, blt did
not find the right medicine until got 59-cen
bottle of your medicine, which entirely cured
me. 1i AHi aa Mrs. RANDALL,
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LIVER COMPLAINT.

JACKSONVILLE, March 8, 1879.
Dear Sir:-Knowing, from experience that
your Indian Blood Syrup is a sure cure, for
LIVER Complaint, Iconfidently recommend it TO
th'suiferng humanity REBEccA MEL.
CURES CHILLS AND RILIOUSNEss.
10 3Ao ui4I EDINGTos, Feb. l, 1879
Dear Siri--I was troubled with chills had
them Every other day Tor six months; had two
doctors attending me when your agent per-
shaded me TO try your Indian Blood Syrnp,
and can say never had chill after taking
The nrst dose. cheeriully recommend it to
all. LIZZIE WINK.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04

LIVER COMPLAINT AND CIIILLS.
BRSsALEM p. o., Feb. 25 1879.
Dear Sir:-Having tried your most excellenl
Indian Blood Syrup and found it valuable
medicine for Liver Complaint and Chills, |
would recommend those who are afflicted to
give il q tria.. .f Mrs. @. ARTMAH.
RECEIVED GREAT BENEFIT 'FRONT.'.
a HoLMsBuRG, 23d Ward, Philadelphia,
. Feb. q, 1879.
Dear Sir:-I take great pleasure in saving
that have given your valuable Indian Blood
Syrup fair trial in my family and receive
great henent IRON il. SAINT ~ SoLLr'
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DYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTuON.

I1SPEPSIA AND INDIIESTIIUN.
BYBERRY, 23d Ward, Jan. i, $40.
Dear Sir:-Your most excellent Mdl:.n Bloc
Syrup has given perfect satisfaction when use
or Dyspepsia and Indigestion. ga l.d.
THEoD. HAWK
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04

stroying life itself, should be avoided, and
this safe and more effective medicine used
instead. Those disorders OF the bowels,
stomach md liver which frequently accom-
pany rheumatic and gouiy ailments are inva-
riably removed by this excellent botonic cor
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04

TESTED BY TIME.--For throat diseases,
colds and coughs, Browns Broncha
Troohes have proved their efficacy by test
Of many years. 25 cents a box.
GleM lnnkaon.s Besl sweet NnXY TobaccO
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
TIE MARKETS..

Jackson7s Besl Sweet Navy Tobl
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
The Price of Quinine.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
o The quinine manufacturers are natur.
ally indignant at the passage of the bill
removing the duty, and like most angry
people are trife illogical. They assure
the southern members that the price ol
the drug will 60 up instead OF down that
in place of three dollars and thirty-fve
cents per ounce the price will be five
dollars; and in the same breath declare
that they have withdrawn all orders for
bark, and will in all probability cease
manufacturing altogether. Why7 Man
ufacturers do not usually close up a bus
mess just when the profits are doubling.
If, too, as they assert, the Philadelphia
firms have sold the drug at small profits
which they might have made extortion-
ate, and also refrained from adultera-
ting it out of conscientious regard for
the wellAbeipg of the American people,
why do they not persevere in their phils
anthropy now, when, as they threaten,
We are to be poisoned with bad cinchona
and they can save us without loss to
themselves? Their threats and forebod.
ings may prove true Or not, but they
will not alter the verdict that their mon,
epoly has been selfish and extortionate.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
English and American Farming,

A recent number of the London
Economist gives an interesting, and, az
it would seem, very careful comparison
between farming in England and farm.
ing in America. In England one acre
yields on an average thirty bushels of
wheat, while in America it yields on an
average only thirteen. The American
farmer must, consequently, cultivate two
and q half acres to produce the same
quantity of wheat as the English farmer
raises on one acre. How it is, then the
paper asks. that the American farmer
can, nevertheless, not only complete with
the English farmer, but even beat him
in his own market7 The answer which
first presents itself to this question is the
enormous difference of rent in England
and America; but this difference is, as
the paper shows, nearly, if not altogether
obliterated, by the cost OF transportation
from the western fields to the English
market. The real advantage which the
American farmer has over the English
lies in the cheapness OF cultivation. In
the settlements along the the Red river,
in northern Minnesota, plew may run
through the ailuvial soil for more than
fifty miles in straight line without en-.
countering stone, tree or hill, a
feature to which England does not offer
the faintest approach.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
Log Rolling Elephants.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph in British Burmah
writes: "The other morning at Ran.
COON General Grant and party were in
vited to inspect teak 'sawemill, to see
the wonderful intelligence of the ele-
plants that are used to carry and pile
the logs. Teak, you know is very
heavy wood-it is one of the great sources
of revenue to Burmah--but to work for
his mahout the animal will lift the end
of a heavy log by his tusks, placing his
trunk on it to keep it steady; then
gradually working his way toward the
centre finally balances the log and carries
it carefully to lpile even higher than
himself, or if it Is wanted to saw the log,
he will push it along beneath the circu'
lar saw, his trunk interposed between his
foot and the log. They will do almost
anything, and from their tremendous
strength you can understand what they
can accomplish. At branch mill at
Montinain they breed them for this pur.
pose, but it takes twenty years before an
elephant can do hard labor"
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
An Independent Editor.

A good editorial story of David Hale,
one of the early editors Of the New York
journal of Commerce, is related in the
Independent. An angry New York
merchant once came into his Office and
bitterly abused some article he did not
like, and ordered the paper stopped. Mr..
Hale turned to him and said: "It
shall be stopped, sir. And let me re-
mind you, sir, that this is the second
time you have stopped it, and that now
I shall not allow your subscription to be
renewed. You shan't have it again" J"
These were the days when the Journal of
Commerce wssa real necessity for mer-
chants, and the irate merchant saw the
predicament in which he had put him.
self. "Well," said he, "you need not
stop it now. Let it continue for the
present." He went out quietly, and
left MI. Hale laughing, ,who never
heard any more complaints from that
man,
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
A Musical Trick of Cllopin's.

It is related that Frederic Chopin
could always quiet his fathers pupils no
matter how much noise they were max
ing in the house. One day when Pro-
fessor Chopin was out there was fright.
full scene. Barcinski, the master present,
was at his wits end when Frederic hap-
PLY entered the room. Without delibers
alton he requested the roysterers to sit
down, called in those who were outside
making noise, and promised to impro.
vise an interesting story on the piano if
they would be quite quiet. All was in
stantly as still as death, and Frederic sat
down to the instrument and extinguished
the light. He described how robbers
approached house, mounted by ladders
to the windows, but were frightened
away by noise within. Without delay
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
The Comets of Old.
Burlington Hawkeye.

burlington Hawkeye.
A new comet is coming-sit down, sit
down; what's the use of getting excited ?
Tit is only visible from the second peak
of mount neutrality-suspicious. in
central Asia, only there with a three
story telescope, and then it is only visi-
bic twenty minutes at midnight, apd not
then unless the atmosphere is exactly
right; and when it is visible it only looks
like star about half the size of the
little one in Jobs coffin. By all the starry
worlds that swing in space, when "we"
were boy the comet used to come
around every summer, with heads on
them like ire.balleoons, and tails that
stretched from the big dipper to the
southern cross, and wagged back and
forth like bewildered torchlight pro>
cession, and came 80 close to the earth that
they put the moon out. Out on these
single -barrelled comets, three for qua-.
ter, that they get up for us in these
degenerate modern days! We wouldn't
walk from here to Asia to see a hundred
Penn.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30

they fed on the wings of the wind into
q deep, dark wood, where they fell asleep
under the starry sky. BE played more
and more softly, as if trying to lull the
children to rest till he found that his
hearers had actually fallen asleep. The
young artist noiselessly crept out of the
room to bis parents and visitors, and
asked them to follow him with light.
When the family had amused themselves
with the various postures of the sleepers,
Frederick sat down again to the piano
and struck up thrilling chord, at which
they all sprang up in fright. A hearty
laug gh was the finale of this musical
ioke
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
Solicited postry:

THE PORTRAIT.
This is her picture as she was;
1t seems thing to wonder on,
As though mine image in the glass
Should tarry when myself am gone.
Igaze until she seems to stir
Until mine eyes almost aver
That now, even now, the sweet lips part
To breathe the words OF the sweet heart:-
And yet the earth is over her.
Lsst night at last could have slept,
And yet delayed my sleep till dawn,
eth wandering Then 1t was wept:
For urawsres came upon
These glades where once she walked with me
And as stood there suddenly,
Al wan with traversing the night,
Upon the desolate verge of light
Yearred lcud the IRON -bosomed eea.
Even 80, where heaven holds breath and hears
The beating heart of Loves own breast
Where round the secret Of all spheres
All angels lay their wings to rest
How shall my soul stand rapt and awed,
When, by the new birth borne abroad
Throughout the music of the suns,
1t enters in her soul at once
And knows the silence there for God!
Here with her face doth memery SIT
he snwhile, and wait the days decline,
Till other eyes shall look from it,
Eyes of spirits Palestine,
Even than the old gaze tenderer,
While hopes and aims long lost with her
stand round her imase eide by side,
Like tombs OF pilgrims that have died
About the Holy sepulchre.
Dante G. Rossetti.