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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
Woman's sphere-A mouse is woman's


Don't let the blood stagnate IN your veins.
You can prevent its doing 30 by increasing it's
volume and purity by stimulating the digestive
organs, and encouraging assimilation, with
that mstohless vitalizing agent, Hostetters
Stomach Bitters. People not afflicted with
any organic or inorganic disease, grow wan
aud hsggard simply because their blood is
thin, watery deficient in nourishing properties
and so meager in quantity that the extremitiea
are very imperfectly supplied with it. and the
superficial circulation extremely feeble. Hence
the bloodless appearance Of the ceuntepanoe.
But when the Bitters are used to enrich and
quicken the blood, the rosy hue Of health re-
turns to the cheek, the frame acquires sub
stance as well as vigor, the appetite improves,
and no digestive qualms interfere either with
its gratihcstion or the subsequent tranquility
of the stomach.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
How the Money was Stolen.

One would scarcely imagine, after the
infinite ingenuity that has been display.
ed in stealing for inpumerable ages, that
any new method could be devised. But a
colored porter employed in shop at
Little Rock, Ark. appears to have ap-
propriated money in an original manner.
The tradesman had continually missed
small sums from his cash.drawer, and
could not account for their disappear
anoe. Finally, he suspected the porter,
and had him searched every evening be-
fore going home. But he could find no
ground for his suspicion, and was at his
wits end to explain the mystery, when
he observed one night that tame fe-
male opossum, in the habit of follow
ing the colored man everywhere, did not
accompany him. The animal seemed
desirous to go, but, for some reason,
could not move. The shopkeeper think.
ing her ill, took hold of her, and was
surprised at her weight. Reversing he,
position, the enigma was solved. A
shower of small silver coins descended
from her pouch to the floor, and betray.
ed the mans thefts. He had overloaded
her on that occasion, aud she could moi
follow as had been her custom wher
more lightly freighted.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13

An American connected with one OF
the consulates in China has translated
some OF the Chinese poems into Eng
lish. Among them are some verses
which prove, alas that the "humorist
ia abroad even in that far land. The
production is entitled "Fanning the
Grave, or the Wife Tested" and tells
how q wife whose husband was sick unto
death promised him that she would not
marry again, until the mold on his
grave should be dry. After his burial
the conscientious widow applied her
self assiduously to hasten the drying Of
the grave by tanning it. This accom-
plished, she married one Ohuang, who,
wishing to test her, feigned sickness,
avowed that he was about to die, and be-
sought her not to take unto herself
another husband.
"Oh, make your mind easy" she sobbing re-
piled.
But alb what grave doubts your last words
Don't say them again, dearest, don't
Tales of yirtuous women in old books I've read
And my bosom with srdor has glowed;
I'll emulate them, 1 have inwardly said
II don't do the same Ill be blowed."
Chuang then dies contentedly and after
he is encoffined makes his escape, dis.
guises himself as young man and
makes love to Mrs. Chuang as together
they watch over the empty coffin. "The
next day the funeral. baked meats serve
as the wedding dinner" The unrecog
nized Chuang shams illness again and
declares that nothing will cure him bu,
the brains of living man or of one who
has not been dead more than three
days" "Old Chuang's will do" says
his relict as she vanishes, whereupor
Chuang taxes off his disguise and settles
himself in the coffin again. His spouse
soon appears with an axe and smashel
the lid, upon which Chuang bounds uI
with "hello |" To an invitation t.
explain, Mrs. Chuang remarks:
"I felt sure you must be living, 80 to weloom
| you once more.
My mourning robes tore OF and my weddin
garments wore"
To which ans wers her lord
"Your tale is plausible, but l think you
better stop;
Don't fatigue yourself by telling lies just lie
the matter drop.
merely shammrg dead.
I'm the youth you just now married-m
widow I've just we'd"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
Forests In EurOne.

The proportion of land covered with
forests throughout Europe is twenty
nine per cent, of which Russia and
Sweden furnish the greatest part. In
Russia, forty per cent. of the territory
is covered with woods, and of this some
200, 900, 900 acres are covered with pines
and other cone bearing trees. Sweden
and Norway have thirty-four per cent,
chiefly birch, maple, pine, fir and willow.
Austria has twenty-nine per cent. Ger
many has twenty-six per cent. and France
seventeen. Far below these comes
Spain, with its cork woods and evergreen
oak forests, covering seven per cent. Of
the land, and Holland and Belgium with
the same. Portugal comes next with
five per cent, and Great Britain llows
with four per cent. The percentage
annually decreases in sll countries
rapidly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
A Mule that Can Count.

There is mule driven on one of the
First South street cars, in Salt Lake
City, apparently little more sensible
than others. 1t is generally on the
morning shift, and has to make five
round trips before the team is changed.
Every day, as soon as the mule comes
on the fifth return trip from the upper
end of the line, it begins to whinny half
block before he reaches Second East
street, and if the change team does not
happen to be waiting, and the driver
has to run to the bank corner and return
before changing, it will stretch its neck
and whinny again. louder than before,
about the same distance before it reaches
the place. How that mule keeps track
OF the fifth trip is more than its driver
has found out.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
A Message by the President.

The following message by the President to
the Senate accompanied letter OF Secretary
Sherman, in which that official reiterated his
former charges against Messrs. Arthur and
ficer at New York:
To The Senate:
transmit herewith letter of the secretary
Of the treasury in regard to the suspension OF
the late collector and naval officer OF the port
of New York, with accompanying documents.
In addition thereto respectfully submit the
following observations
The custom house of New York collects more
than two thirds of al. the customs revenues Of
the government. Its administration is mat
ter not Of local interest. merely but is OF great
importance to the people of the whole coun-
try. For long period Of time it has been
used to manage and control political affairs.
The officers suspended by me are and for
several years have been engaged in the active
personal management Of the party politics OF
the city and State of New York. The duties OF
the offices held by them have been regarded as
Of subordinate Importance to their partisan
work. Their Offices have been conducted as
part of the political machinery under their
control. They have made the custom house a
center Of partisan political management.
The custom house should be business
office. 1t should be conducted on business
| principles. General James, the postmaster OF
| New York CITY, writing on this subject says
| "The postof1ice is business institation and
| should be run as such. 1t ID my deliberate
| judgment that and my subordinates can do
| more for the party Of our choice by giving the
people of this city g good and efficient postal
service than by controlling primaries or dicta-
ting nominations" The New York custom
house should be placed on the same footing
with the New York postofice. But under the
suspended officers the custom house would be
one of the principal political agencies in the
State OF New York. To change this, they
profess to believe, would be, in the langua {
Of Mr.. Cornell in his response, ITO surrender
their personal political rights"
Convinced that the people OF New York, ant
of the country generally, wish the New York
| custom house to be administered solely with
view to the public interest, it is my purpose t.
do all in my power to introduce into this grea
Office the reforms which the country desires
| With my information of the facts in the cNse
and with deep sense of the responsible obi
cation imposed upon me by the constitution
to "take care that the laws be faithfully exc
cuted regard it as my plain duty to suspen'
the officers in question and to make the nomin
atoms now before the Senate, In order tina
this important Office may be honestly and eff
clently administered. R. B. HAYES.
Executive Mansion, JAN 81, 1879.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
A Printers Luck.

Ten years ago John Skinner, lad of
fifteen, befriended Antoine Mercer, a
dissipated native OF st. Thomas, in the
West Indies, who had been driven from
home by a wealthy uncle on account of
a love affair. Mercer learned to set
type, but took to drink and finally dis
appeared, carrying away from SINNERS
house in Port Jefferson, Long island, a
suit OF clothes belonging to the lads
father. Nothing was heard of him
again until recently, when Skinner,
who was setting type on New Haven
paper, learned that Mercer had died in
St Thomas, leaving fortune of $3.50, :
600, inherited from an uncle, to the lad
who had befriended him ten years ago.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13

The excessive corpulency OF certain United
States Senator has long been the butt Of edi-
torisl wit and spicy bon naots from the pens OF
Washington correspondents. Few persons have
suspected that his obesity was disease, and
liable to prove fatal. Yet this is the sad fact.
Excessive fatness is not only disease in itself.
but one liable to generate other and more
serious ones. Chemistry has at last re vealed
q safe, sure and reliable remedy for this
abnormal condition of the system Ia Allan'f
Ant-Fat. Distinguished chemists have pro.
nounced it not only harmless but very bene.
cial to the system, while remedying the dis :
eased condition. Sold by druggists.
Malignant and subtle indeed is the poison OF
serofula, and terrible are its ravages in TIE
system. They may, however, be permanently
stayed and the destructive virus expelled from
the circulation with Scovills Blood and Liver
Srup, g potent vegetable detergent which
eradicates all skin diseases, leaving no vestige
Of them behind. White swelling, salt rheum,
tetter, abscesses, liver complaint and erup
tions Of every description are invariably con.
quered by it. Druggists sell it.
The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. are produc-
ing superb instruments at very low prices; not
much more than prices Of poorest orga nj
Highest honois at every worlds exhibition foi
many years, and two highest awards at th.
last and greatest at Paris. last year, tell the
story of their superiority.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.


For Frank, Harry and Ellie and for dny
Other children toho hare tired just as many
years as ney.)
How many birthdays now have you tried
How many boys take baseball side 2
How many days does wonder last
How many muses. throve In the past
How many tails has navy "cat"2
How many lives the foe OF the rat2
How many syllsbles has this line?
How many lines has this poem inef
What can the answer be but -
Katharine Hanson, IN 81. Nicholas.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13

Surely half the world must be blind
they can see nothing unless it glitters.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13

THROAT AFFECTIONS ANp HoARsENRss. ALI
suffering from Irritation of the Throat ant'
Hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the
almost immediate relief afforded by the use OF
Browns Bronchial Troches." 26 cts box
Some Of the new styles Of Mason Il Hamlin
Cabinet Organs Introduce q style Of finish
with embossed gold bronze ornamentation, by
= new process at once the most elegant and
chaste hnlsh yet employed on such instruments,
Prices are very low for sneh workmanship.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-13

A Greenland clock is known by its
arctic. .-Nesa York NeiOs. A aports-
mans watch is known by its bunting
case. .-NesQ Haven Re9istAr.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-07
TSteubenville Herald.

"Charles Foster is one of the best business
men in the State OF Ohio. He is not reckless or
careless of his business, and never was bank
rupt."-fU Urbana Gazette.
No, but he bankrupted a good many soldiers
families in winning his. reputation for being
good business man.-IColumbus Democrat.
Public men are public property, and
their deeds, as generally known, are
for common distribution; but when a
newspaper, which has had to apollo
gize on several occasions for ''errone-
Gus charges Ito use its own words
lies, as we would say) makes state
ment hitherto unheard of, and with
no foundation in fact, it becomes time
to draw the hne between criminal IL
bel, and campaign talk. No one of
credence has ever dared say Charles
Foster was dishonest in his business
transactions, and his remarkable pop
ularity with those he has lived among
and dealt with, is conclusive proof
that he has always showed a clean
hand, and done the fair thing with
rich and poor alike, and many SOL
dier's wife will testify to his unvary-
ing kindness and charity while her
husband was 'off to the war" It's
all right for the Democrat to lie all it
pleases about political and general
matters, but business is business, and
the less the editors of that paper tam
per with that sort of thing, the better
it may be for them.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-07
JACKSON, OHIO THURSDAY, AUGUST z, 1879.

power. We repeat, there is no proof
whatever that the powers of the cleo
ton laws were in any single instance
used with any other effect than to re-
strain violence and prevent fraud.
There is no evidence that any class of
persons, who were really entitled to
vote, were anywhere prevented from
voting; and if, in any Individual case,
injustice was done through the error
OF Judgment of any official, there is
no evidence whatever that such iso-
lated errors were intended to affect, or
that they were, in fact, anywhere so
numerous as to affect the result in any
district. 1t follows that the result Of
the election was affected only by
restraining Democratic violence and
fraud-by checking in some measure,
for example, the operations of mobs
and rife-clubs at the South, and Of
repeaters in Cincinnati and other cit
les, and the use of thousands of fraud
ulent naturalization papers in New
York, the issue Of which was the most
notorious and daring crime of the
Tweed Ring.
The Republicans may thank Mr..
Southland. Two strong and deeply
rooted feelings will govern a clear
majority of the voters of this country
in deciding upon the issues raised by
the Democrats. The majority of the
people have an intense desire to sus-
tain vigorous, self-denying, national
government. They are for the Union
against rebellion, State rights and null
LITIGATION in every shape or disguise.
And the majority of the people have
also an intense desire to stop the car
rying of elections by fraud and vio-
lence. They are for free and honest
vote as the only basis upon which self
government can stand. Mr.. Southland
and his friends will find that they
have once more fatally mistaken the
temper of the people, as they did when
they favored secession in 1861, and
when they called the war a failure in
1864.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-07
The Levity of Criminals.

We have been much surprised as
well as grieved i'll observing, in the
reports of recent criminal cases, the
levity of those who have committed
the awful deeds the lightness Of feel
ing and, in some cases, even merri-
ment of mind which they have exhib-
tied, some of them in the very face Of
the retribution which was to follow
A few days ago a negro named Robert
Jones was publicly hanged at TarborO,
N. c., for the murder of a white man.
"On the way to the gallows," the re-
porter tells us, Jones talked, laughed,
and poked fun at the Sheriff. He
dwelt long on his religious experience,
and said he was going straight to
heaven" Before his execution he
partook Of some wine in remembrance
of Christ and of his brethren, and
then ended the scene by a general
handshaking. Miss Duer, whose
name and deed filled so much
space in our dailies for couple of
weeks lately, and who was convicted
Of manslaughter and sentenced to pay
a fine of $500, is reported as being in
very good spirits, and about to take
the lecture-feld on the strength of
the notoriety which her crime has
brought her. Latrimouille, French
man who has just been condemned to
death for the murder of a poor, de-
fenceless girl, constantly wore through
out his three weeks trial so broad a
grin that he received from the States
counsellor the nickname of the Grin
ming murderer" Apparently the
whole matter presented itself to him
in the light Of a huge joke.
We are at loss how to account for
such conduct under such dreadful cir
cumstances. Perhaps, if we analyze
carefully the cases cited, we shall come
to one of two conclusions. Either the
consciences of such persons have been
so deadened by sin as to fail to recog-
nize at all adequately the intense GRIM
inality of their deeds, or they have de-
ceived themselves upon the question of
what God regards as true repentance
for such deeds, and on the ground of
which he grants his pardon. We do
not wish even to seem to limit the in
finite mercy of God, but it has occur
red to us, in reading instances of this
kind, that it is possible that it may
sometimes be offered too uncondition-
ally under such circumstances. 1t is
Just as well as merciful provision
that such criminals should have the
benefit of all the religious advice and
help they can wish, but the man who
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-07

Be ii RESOLVED 6y the General assembly Of the
State of Ohio (three- fifths of all the members
a proposition to amend the Constitution of the
State of Ohio be submitted to the electors of the
State on the second Tuesday of October, A: d:
1879, as follows, to-wit: That sections and of
article 4, entitled Judicial" be amended so as
to be and read as follows:
SECTION g. The State shall be divided in to
nine common pleas districts, of which the
county of Hamilton shall constitute one, which
districts shall be of compact territory, bounded
by county lines, and said districts, other than
said county of Hamilton, shall, without diyis-
ion of counties, be further divided into SUBJ
divisions, in each of which, and in said county
of Hamilton, there shall be elected by the
electors thereof respectively, at least one judge
OF the court of common pleas for the district,
and residing therein. Courts of common pleas
shall be held by one or more of these judges in
every county of the district, as often as may be
provided by law, and more than one court or
sitting thereof may be held at the same time in
SEC. 5. In each district there shall be elected
Judge of the district court, by whom the district
courts in such district shall be held, and he
vided by law. District courts shall be held in
each county at least once every year. The Gen
eral Assembly may increase the number of dis
trict court judges to three, in any district or
districts, and may provide for having judge
pro te'npore, to hold any court whenever neces-
absence, or sickness of any judge, and the
amount OF pay allowed a judge pro tempore
whose default causes the necessity of having
the pro tempore judge. The times of holding
by law, but the General Assembly may author
ize the judges of said courts, respectively to fix
the times of the holding of said courts.
AT said election the voters desiring to vote in
favor of this amendment, shall have placed up
on their ballots the words, Judicial constitu-
tional amendment, Yes; - and the voters who
do not favor the adoption OF said amendment,
may have placed upon their ballots the words,
Judicial constitutional amendment, No :"
and if q majority of all the votes cast at said
election be in favor of said amendment, then
said sections three and five herein specified,
shall be and constitute the sections SO number
ed in the said judicial article the Constitution
of the State OF Ohio and said original sections
three and FIVE shall be repealed.
JAMES e. NEAL
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JABEZ w. FITCH,
President of the Senate.
Adopted April 10. 1879.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIo,l
Office of the Secretary of State,
1, Milton Barnes, Secretary of State of the
State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that the fore
going Isl true copy of joint resolution passed
by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
on the 10th day of A pril A. d. 1879, taken from
the original rolls filed in this office.
In testimony whereof, have hereun-
to subscribed my name and affixed
SEAL. my official seal, at Columbus, the llth
day of April, A. ID. 1879.
MILTON BARNES,
Apr.l4 ltaW 6m. Secretary of State.
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The Morning Hills.

He sits among the morning hills,
His face Is bright and strong;
He scans far heights, and scarcely notes
The herdsman'S idle song.
He can not brook this peaceful life
While battles trumpet calls
He sees crown for him who wins,
~ tear for him who falls.
The f1owery glens and shady slopes
Are hateful to his eyes
Beyond the heights, beyon the storms,
The land of promise lies.
II.
He is old and sits so still,
With face so weak and mild,
We know that he remembers naught,
Save when he was child.
His fight is fought, his fame is won,
Life'S highest peak is past,
The laurel crown, the triumph's arch,
Are worthless at the last.
The frosts of age destroy the boy
The loud applause of men
Falls feebly on the palsied ears
OF fourscore years and ten.
He does not hear the voice that bears
His name around the world;
He has no thought of great deeds done
Where battle tempests whirled.
But evermore he Is looking back,
While memory fills and thrills
With echoes of the herdsman's song
Among the morning hills.