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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
Speculative Trunk Buyers.

The proprietor of the Everett house,
st. Louis, recently had sale of the bag
gage left at his hotel by frauds and i'm
pecunious patrons. There were eighty
three trunks and valises offered for sale,
and the total amount realized was SS3.
A large crowd was present, but the bid
ding was fer from spirited, as the con-
tents of the trunks were not exposed to
view. Many laughable incidents hap
pened. One old gentleman persisted
on prying open the trunks with big
knotted cane, and would only desist
when made to do 30 forcibly. At the
commencement of the sale he was OBJ
served to be closely eyeing huge Sara
toga which had been left at the Everett
house by female adventures. When
this trunk was cried he anxiously fum-
bled in his pockets and brought forth
ten cents, with which he started the
bidding. Finally it was knocked down
to him for 50. "Open it, open it p
yelled the crowd, and he did SO. The
first thing seen WAS roll of newspapers,
and the last lot of bricks. among which
was found sheet of foolscap with this
inscription on it: "Sold again and
never got your money back. Yours in
haste" A boy bought trunk for forty
cents and found in it about $40 worth oi
clothes and valuable breastpin, evi.
IDENTIFY intended for lady. A laborel
purchased rickety receptacle, held to.
gether by ropes. It was full of papers
and letters, the latter written by lady
to her husband and full of pitiful tales
of poverty, distress and sickness. Tc
enumerate all the mistakes In buying
would take column. Suffice it to say
that grocer bought some surgical in.
struments, druggist sack of dried ap
Piles and a quantity of beans, and 6
market-woman a complete skeleton
carefully polished and set on wires but
not put together. The sale wound ur
with free fight, which the police had
some trouble in stopping. The Nation
al Hotel RepOrter.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
Hints Abont Accidents.

A child rolls down the stairs. or falls
from height, and in either case strikes
its head with force. What shall be done
till the doctor comesf We would give
the following directions, as nearly as
possible in the order in which fthey
should be adopted: Raise the child
gently in the arms, and carrying it to
the nearest sofa or bed, place him on it
--unless crying loudly, when he can be
soothed quickest In his mothers arms.
All the clothing should be loosened,
especially about the neck, to afford the
freest circulation of the blood to and
from the head. To equalize the circu
lation and prevent inflammation, the
head should be kept cool and the ex-
tremities warm. Cooling lotions OF
arnica or witch hazel and water, or sim
ply water, should be applied to the
head on thin cloths, we'll wrung out 80
as not to wet the pillows and bed-clothes.
No more than two or four thicknesses
OF linen should be used, because thick
cloths prevent evaporation, and what
was intended to cool the head acts as
poultice and makes the head hotter.
Ice and ice. cold water should not be
used unless the head is very hot, as it is
believed that children have been killed
by the application of pounded ice to the
head. Bottles of hot water or hot irons
are all that is necessary, besides the bed
clothing, to heat the extremities. All
applications of mustard and other irri.
tants possess no advantage over these,
and have the disadvantage of disturbing
the sufferer. Should the patients face
be very pale, and signs of fainting ap-
pear, camphor or ammonia should be
applied to the nostrils, and little
brandy or wine be given. Then the
room should be made as quiet as posi-
pie and every means used to invite "na-
lures sweet restorer," sleep. We know
the popular idea is that patients suffer
ing from any injury to the head should
be kept awake by all means ; and it is
mainly to combat this erroneous notion
that we are prompted to write out these
directions. No injury-or degree of in.
iury--of the head contra indicates the
sufferers sleeping. In fact, positive
harm may be done in trying to prevent
sleep. Rest is what the brain and blood
vessels want more than any one other
thing; and, if not allowed, what would
have passed off In few hours or days
may be prolonged into inflammation +,
with all its dangerous consequences. OF
course the air of the room should be
kept pure-windows and doors open, if
the weather permit-and the presence
OF persons not absolutely necessary for
hidden. III. Vail, M. d., in the
Christian Union.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
Wonderful Facts.

Sir Ashley Cooper relates the case OF q
sailor who was received in st. Thomas
hospital in state OF stupor from an in
jury in the head, which continued some
months. After an operation he sudden
ly recovered so far as to speak, but no
one in the hospital understood his lam
guage. But Welsh milk woman hap.
pening to come into the ward, answer
ed him, for he spoke Welsh, which was
his native language. He had, however,
been absent from Wales more than
thirty years, and previous to the acci-
dent had entirely forgotten Welsh, al
though he now spoke it fuently, and
recollected not a word of any other
tongue. On his perfect recovery he
again completely forgot his Welsh, and
recovered his English.
An italian gentleman, mentioned by
DIR. Rush, in the beginning of an illness,
spoke English; in the middle OF it.,
French; but on the day of his death
spoke only italian.
A Lutheran clergyman, of Philadel-
phia, informed DR.. Rush that Germans
and Swedes, of whom he had large
number in his congregation, when near
death always prayed in their native
languages, though some of them, he was
confident, bad not spoken them for fifty
or sixty years.
An ignorant servant girl, ment oned
by Coleiidge, during the delirium of q
fever repeated with perfect correctness
passages from number of theological
works in Latin, Greek and Rabinical
Hebrew. 1t was at length discovered
that she had been servant to learned
clergyman, who was in the habit of
walking backward end forward along a
passage by the kitchen, and there read
ing aloud his favorite authors.
DIR. Abercrombie relates the case of a
child, four years old, who underwent
the operation of trepanning while in a
state of profound stupor from fracture
of the skull. After his recovery, he re-
tanned no recollection either of the opera
tion or the accident; yet, at the age of
fifteen, during the delirium of fever, he
gave his mother an exact description oi
the operation, OF the persons present,
their dress and many other minute par.
ticulars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
How Careless Men Can be With Money.

A correspondent says {: My friend
was a paymaster OF large railroad
company, and one day he went out with
$50, 900 to pay the men. The money
was wrapped up in an old newspaper,
and he carried it under his arm. He
stopped at a way-side hostelry for din
ner, and left the money on chair when
he went out. He had not gone many
miles from the place when he missed it.
He flew back and asked the woman if
she had seen parcel. "There's bit
of newspaper on the chair beyant," said
she "perhaps that it )" which it proved
to be, and my friend returned happier
and wiser man. Another circumstance:
A man know of lost a roll of bills
amounting to $4,000. They, also,
were tied up in newspaper. He told
friend, and the two talked over the
loss and the probability of finding the
money. The friend made him tell all
the ground he had been over since he
had the money. The last place was
the postoffice. The night was wet over,
head and slushy under foot. They
stopped at the postofice, and going to
the place where the man had been, and
found two or three torn bits of newspa-
per. 1t was the same. They looked
further, and found the lost treasure. 1t
had been kicked in turn by every one
who came into the Office, and when
found, was all united and completely
soaked in slush. They seized it eager
ly and returned to their hotel, where
they spent several hours in cleaning it.
1t was all there aud at last they got
it dried. The grateful man took his
friend out and bought him the hand
soonest watch that he could find.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
yi,axs R,yaiin. In YelIowne e.s

VisaRs RIvaiipg In YelIowness
That Of q "heathen Chinee," if belonging
to one of our race, can scarcely be described
as attractive. But worse than this, it is the
index Of a disordered liver-of liver that
needs arousing and regulating, The remedy
is at hand, prompt, efficacious A course OF
Hostetters Stomach Btters will expel the mis-.
directed Bile from the blood and divert it into
the proper channel, open the bowels, remove
the dyspeptic symptoms which invariably &C.
company biliousness, and counteract the rap
idly developing tendency to dangerous conges.
tion Of the liver, which must always exist wher
the skin and whites OF the eyes assume this
yellow hue. The pains through the right
lower ribs, side and shoulder blade, the nausea
furred state of the tongue, and unpleasant
breath, which indicate liver complaint, in
short all its disagreeable concomitants, are
soon remedied by this sovereign corrective
which, in addition to its regulating properties
abis medioinsi stimuiant, % appetizer tie ant m
nervine,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
A Real Blessing to Women.

Mrs. Walter Hinckley, of Cotuit,
Mass, called, in company with her hus-
band, on DR.. David Kennedy, of Ron
dout, N. Y, the proprietor of the medi-
cine lately introduced into this place,
happily named FAVORITE REMEDY,
and made the following interesting state
ment: "For many years I had been a
great sufferer from what was called a
fbrous tumor; had secured the assist
ance of the best accessible medical men
and used many of the patent medicines
recommended, but without obtaining
any relief. On the contrary, I grew
worse, until had given up all hopes Of
recovery. Our neighbor. Mr.. John M.
Handy, came from Rondout and brought
me bottle of your FAVORITE REM
EDY. Before had used half of it
experienced a marked improvement,
and all my neighbors noticed the great
change. I have taken some four or five
bottles, and am entirely free from pain
gained flesh, appetite good, sleep we'll
in short, feel like new heinP. I have
recommended the FAVORITE REM
EDY to many of my acquaintances. and
all, without an exception, are loud in its
praise. To say that feel thankful is
expressing my gratitude in the mildest
form. You are at liberty, doctor, to re
fer to my case; and l hope all will
believe me when I say that the FAVOR
ITE REMEDY has proved real bless.
ing to me, and that no woman suffering
from any of the complaints peculiar to
our sex can afford to be without it. But
doctor, you must take more pains to tel
the people how to avoid the mistakes
they have made. To this end, request
them to remember that your name il
DIR. David Kennedy and the medicine il
called what it is, in fact) FAVORITE
REMEDY, price only one dollar, ant
that you are practicing physician ant
| surgeon of RONDOUT. N Y"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
Lukens' "Pith and Point"

Breast high-The crease in your shirt
bosom.
You're quite stranger" as the
eggsheil said to the fedgeling.
A self educated man is not always one
who has learned to school himself.
Corporal punishment. When that
poor subaltern is reduced to the ranks.
Impetuosity is like the ocean UNDER
tow, for it carries us beyond our depth.
The horsethief, who came near be-
ing tarred and feathered, plumes him
self on his escape on pitch-dark night
-NeaO York Ne,Os.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13

foe to life and health. Sorofnla. NAV he ar.
rested by the aid Of Scovills Blood and Liver
Sirup, a botanic depurent which rids the 4ys-
lem of every trace of scrofulous or syphilitic
poison, and cures eruptive and other diseases
indicative OF tainted condition of the blood.
Among the naladies which it remedies are
white sw ellings, salt rheum, csrbuncles bill
ousness, the diseases incident to women, gout
nd han off
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13

No one ever succeeded in extracting
honey from spelling bee. Didn't eh ?
A young man who attended spelling
bee in this town three years ago took
rherefrom young lady whom he recent
ly married, and he calls her "honey /"
for short, and thinks she is ten times
sweeter than that saccharine product of
the bee. What he will call her few
years hence is question we hand over
to our puzzle solyers. s.-Norristoaon
Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13

The New Haven Register opens the
baseball season early, and scores home
run as follows: "When the head of
the household arrives home at night and
observes his oldest boy hanging his
head in corner, he is prepared to learn
that he has broken the best vase in the
house in early practice for the baseball
season."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13

There are times when even the timid
AMI inoffensive hare may prove dan
gerous foe-for instance, when you
have eaten too much Of him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
OHEW
The Celebrated
" MATOHLEss "
Wood Tag Plug
mnpA0O0

Don't take medicine nor supporter for female
weakness. Write DIR. Swan, Beaver Dam, Wis.
for free pamphlet.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
Fa.hionabIe Fooiishness.

There ia no modern fashionable notion quite
30 absurd as the generally-received idea that
to be beautiful and attractive woman must
possess wan, spirittelle face and figure of
sylph-like proportions-a fragility in nine cases
out of ten the result of disease. By many
fashionable bellies, it is considered a special
compliment to be spoken Of as frail and deli
cate. They forget that the naturally delicate
the pale and disease-stricken faces that meet
us in the city thoronghfares, look out from
the luxuriant carriages of wealth, and glide
languidly through our crowded drawing rooms.
II disease were unfashionable, as it ought to
be- not a lady in the land but would take every
possible precaution to secure the fresh, bloom
ing face and well-rounded figure that only
health eau give. Ladies should remember
that much as gentlemen may profess to admire
the face and form paled and emaciated by dis
ease, when they choose wife they prefer a
blooming, healthful, buoyant- spirited woman.
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the ac-
knowledged standard remedy for female dis
eases and weaknesses. 1t has the two-fold
advantage OF curing the local disease and i'm.
parting vigorous tone to the whole system
1t is sold by druggists.
Probably there is no better Judge of musi-
csl instruments, or of the opinions of musi-
clans respecting them, than Theodore Thomas
He says the Mason and Hamlin Cabinet Organs
are much the best of this class of instruments
made, and that musicians generally agree in
this.
A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat requires i'm
mediate attention, as neglect oftentimes re.
sults in some incurable lung disease. 'Brown'i
Bronchial Troches" will almost invariably give
relief. Twenty-Five cents box.
CHEW
The Celebrated
{" "MAToHLEss
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
The PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York. Boston and Chicago.
Don't take medicine nor supporter for femal,
weakness. Write DIR. Swan, Beaver Dam, Wis.
for free pamphlet.
Chew Jaeksop's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13

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, 1879-07-12

most painfully nwaro that there aso very nunv
persons who arc living In grcnt misery on ac-
count of wrong marriages; many OF whom con-
ttnnc 80 To live {moro properly dib) bccnusc they
dare not faco public scntimcnt ngntust divorce.
Now, "a It nppcars to nv mind {aM1 think l
am not alonn), divorce bears lilo same relation,
to matrimonial affairs that bankruptcy docs to
commercial matters, md when ono finds himself
40 completely bcwIldcrcd bv his matrimonial
entanglou1cnts that lifo becomes bnrt}nnsorne.
and hn not onty Is Mlscrnblo himself. hut makes
ht: wtfe equally 80, then ID presented tho incl
nnrte l@nc o'ss'g o. ivorcs sonrt through Wose
This subject thkes such wtdc range as VIC np-
psoach II Tint we tlaro not hone to trcspass so
greatly upon tho prlsilcgcs which The Homo At"
tortls "a to enter mtnusc!y into It's "details upon
opinion. atid chiefly to bo tcsircd from the
stonntclT. with the matter, yet with a. much
truth md honesty. than inen.
tlesoisto and competely deyotl ot Joy than t,la.
Of unlinppY matrimonial alliance. No matter
from what cat'so nrislnE, tho "star Of hops"
that gfttterca 80 brightly before has aIncc be-
como "lcadcn ball, synonymous with misery
dftlon-sucll 4 verltabio "loll upon carth"-
there Is no cscnpat 8urelY such scutln1ent does
mt flnd acceptance In anv logical mind. Far
better would It 10 to dissolve the bans. wbtch
are tho source Of 80 muef dscord md let the
prisoners 60 FREQ ind effect such alliances there.
after as their nntures md experiences might
suggest na fitting. It might 10 we'll to limit
divorce to "ohc opcratoti,t thus crrtaflnE nny
tG.tdencY to abllha Of tho privilege: butt In view
Of tho immense amount Of misery now existing
in consequence uf erroneous connuhf!ity, III the
nnnc Of peace a1'd progrcss let something be
dollc to alav tho suffcrngs Of this dcspa!r!ng
multitude. Ladies' to the front. nEtEAsr.
, 1879-07-12
"SOClETY GIRLE,H
4 DEFENDER or THEN.

IN FMe EuAuF u ans tf]oHHta
OAK PAHE. ILL.,, July. al say 1t In kindly
snlrlt, Andy, but you nuke the same u.tstukc
.=saa hna 80 often bccn made before; In trot-
a4a. up two young men to 10 contrnsted u.ul
sit!clsed you take tlle two extremes, totally IT,
norlng tho fact that neither Of them 10 q fa,r
ea,nplo Of tho majority OF young men. Why
not tal'; ubout tho ordinary youth and Of Ills re-
cept!on Into society, Instead OF bringing up such
extraordinary casesa 1t Il the saHle il! ull dis
cuss'ons on the subject Of girls. 1t would scem
fFoln tle writings vi mauy contributors that
there are but two casscs Of Gtrls, VIZ. those
who, after tho d!ssoat!on Ut thu night before at
solne ball Or party, lte around all day rcaln,
novels, whi'o Tho poof, carcwurn mother loes
I'll tho dtshwashlng ind AcrubhIng; md tllu
ottcr kind, who would by fur prefer carryug
soup to s0Enc poor OLD woman with tlle SUI all
lux tn goHg to the ulcatTu With u yuupE gcu-
tlutnan escort. This lntter oto Is Ut last sought
in n,arrlage by b wealthy gentleman somo leu
or fifteen years her sentur, a,nt utter caring in
the vioat remarkable luunllrr tDr her thrre
while te frivolous young lady, wllo Ut last ,1ar
rtcs 'iashY clerk Oh u small snlasY. alway has
stx cryil!. unfortunately ltus euI,lly ul.L pct-
uFesqnelY, to slow MllstE- Now, l,Ayo l:uuwll
girls, aud girls, anu girls, ind nm GLAD to cls-
3ess that aYV Hcver met either Ut tilusu crsa-
lures. Aud waut to giyu 4 few illustrations
ot what cpusider fulr sa1uplsk of tur girls, /
i.avy kuown then. tn Lntl, largu u! snail rlt[cs
Ut tlla East unst West. ussd MY Illustrations are
now " living. Aild ubying, asI1 aaYiny their b.-
fn.." bly, llrst IL u young gira whose tuothsF
lteu Whiu thu wa4 III her curly teens, uud wllu
tskes thu piaec of housekeeper fur her father,
aud assntues khu care pf her i1Yal!d sistes anj
, 1879-07-12

CT brothers or sister. who aro mn better nor
worse thnn the average, aid for wliuM tley pre-
sumhbly have natural amount Of affection.
Among one or tUo Of them Il Is noticeable, ont
their little brothers OF 10 or l2 do not usuaily
emhracn them farycnlly bcforo go[nE TO school "a
IN the morning, nor 9oto praycr.mcctlnR win
them evenings IN preference to oil other an.nsc-
tlcy will PROBABLY manifest q devotional spirit
in connection with soma other fellows sister,
III facs, they arc tust ordinary girls, brought
up with the advantages Of iHte1sacnt pafents
md friends, In an intelligent community. who,
while they dearly love "good time" l9 con. @
sdcrao'y mora reading md thinking, ht,t! taik
more among themselves ou serious subjects
{reffgtons aud ott.erw!se) than people rtvo them
credit for; girls who fiare pretty clenr IDEA o5
what they want TO do n1lsl be In this world, mt!
who hopc TINT fifty years from now the world
imay Be just tho least bit bcttor because they
have been In it.
wanted to say something about Joung Ecn.-
t!emsn in connection with tte "eoetoty gonts"
more than I intended, md will resist the
temptation. HONEST AND TRUE
, 1879-07-12
DANCING.
MORE STARTLING gxp.nsENcRs.


CHICAGO. July 9.-1t has been Il long timn
sncc llaya writer, anything to Tic Ilunc, but
JuIlcts letter llaa bruught rnu out.
ngreo With her tl.at sortety needs reforming
very much.
A short t!nc ago was at II reception given
by one Ut tic higt.tnucd clubs Ut CIR ctY, and,
of caIrso dancing was tilc ch!et amusement Of
tlle eye!linE.
| never indulge In stripping Tho lEcht fam
tastle,h hst ! spout !ew .nintltnl In lot>l.llr.
With tila actions Ut many OF lllu faies anil ge,-
tlcmcn who. presumably, bctuugcu to otr t'sst
families.
Dauring is all very we'll In itself. Int tie
squeezing aht llliygl.y Is really nbon.lnnblo.
IT thu Elr!s you'd teAr what IL said Ut thcin,
ncrhaps tlley would ho moro careful III their
tl0ns.
A. The reception overheard so'lo gentlemen
talking atn,nt tllu ualletg, uiet t!is reulnrks
Which they made weru fur from, complimentary,
Onr doesn't blame l'.e Ernltunteh fur maisln:
nll '.n6lectn Ut u girl II sllu Il willing. but
think timt II tla Indus wcru tt,ore particular tlu
gentlemen wauId respect tllrtII nlnrr.
j le poWpr tu reform sorety it's principally
In thu hAtls 1T tln aaus. utl until they realize
It a 20 10 work tn rcuncdy l.e sY,s, DIR soetu.
t} will remi(u .Is it In.
"ClMtty begins Ut home. 'alnl reform should
begin at ,on,o ats0, anl byasn!-hy, tlr rufoslna-
ton will be obsetyahle III public.
expect t1lAt shall be sent tu Coventry fur
expressing my pr!yntu opinion publicly, but,
nercr 1n!nd, laye l,ud my say. iluDlg.