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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
A Bird that Cries "Pa, Pa, Pa 2"

Let me tell you about some Queer
birds that saw in South Africa. They
are called "Hadeda" by the natives, and
are as large as crows, with long legs and
bills, and wings that are dark-green in
one, light and golden in another. The
birds look like gentlemen in dress suits
with their hands folded under their coat
tails.
The hadeda lives in marshy places,
but they are easily tanned to live in
houses, and soon go in and out as if they
were part of the family. And, indeed.
you might almost think they were part
OF it, for, when they cry, they say "Pa,
pa. pa" quickly, like an impatient child.
Two of these birds that / saw were
very fond of the father of the family,
and would follow him about all day.
On Sundays they would even walk after
him into church unless he locked them up
at home. Once they actually did walk
into church, marching gravely up the
aisle, and taking their stand near their
master, who was the minister. behind
the little lectern or reading desk. II
was very funny to see these three solemn
figures standing there, and it was lucky
the birds did not think to call out "Pa,
pa, pa" just then, for the congregation
laughed quite enough as it was. The
birds wouldn't go away, although the
minister told them to in severe tone
so he had to walk out. and they followed
him into the open air. When he came
in again he shut the door close behind
him and so kept them out.-M. E,aanda
in 50. Nicholas.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Griswold calls sick man an ill-look-
ing fellow.
There are more than 2,0U0 retail cigar
stores in New York city.
The champion State for divorce suits
The matrimonial state.
Cincinnati has new paper devoted to
the interests of lame animals.
Queen Victoria reads the great papers
of London every day before noon.
One touch of nature-When you ge
your nose FROST t-bitten.-NeW York NetOs
In the United States there is one
newspaper in every $500 of the inhabit-
ants.
One weekly newspaper in England has
reached the enormous circulation OF
more than 100000.
Vice is a monster of such hideous
mien, he who adopts it must be mon
strous green.-BpfGlo ErpreSs.
Compositors are the most gentlemanly
and self-contained of men. They never
want finger in the pi.-NeU York Mail.
81 should like to see that gold mine"
said Smythekins, as he watched them
counting quarter. .eagles in the treasury.
--Nea0 York Mail.
When he is twenty-one the boy is sup
posed to have outgrown the switch, but
that is just the age when the girl begins
to need one.-Ntto York Star.
The man who knows just how a
newspaper ought to be run is always
ready to back up his convictions with
capital-talk.-NeaU York People.
"When freedom from her mountain height,
Uniurled her standard to the air, "
She saw q woman's hat-the sight
Made freedom sneak away and sweare.
Toronto Graphic.
A rural editor has lost faith in the
luck of horseshoes. He nailed one over
his door recently, and that morning there
came by mail three duns and seven
stops and man called with revolver
to ask who wrote that article? ?"-Mers-
der, Recorder.
A workman on the railroad at Flor
ence, Italy, was run over and killed.
His sweetheart laid herself on the track
| to die in the same manner, but the train
only injured an arm, which was subse-
quently amputated. Still determined on
suicide, she tore of The bandage and bled
to death.
A conscientious, observing daily news
paper man has perhaps better oppor-
tunity for studying human nature than
falls to the life of most any other profes.
sional, for the reason, if for none other,
that men expose their weaknesses in a
newspaper Office, whereas they would
hide them in the presence of a lawyer, a
physician or clergyman. .--Can,den Post.
| Young man, don't swear. Swearing
never was good for sore finger. 1t
never cured the rheumatism nor helped
draw prize in lottery. 1t isn't re-
commended for liver complainr. 1t
isn't sure against lightning, sewing ma
chine agents, nor any of the ills which
beset people through life. There is no
occasion for swearing outside of a news
paper Office, where it is useful in proof
reading and indispensably necessary in
getting forms to press. 1t has been
known, also, to materially assist the
editor in looking over the paper after it
is printed. But, otherwise, it is very
foolish and wicked habit Washington
Republic.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
A Young Marksman's Feats.

Captain Bogardus, champion glass
ball and pigeon shot, gave an exhibition
at St. Paul, MINI. After TIE captain
had finished, Eugene. his fourteen year.
old son, took the stand, and for nearly
haitian hour held the audience in breath
less attention. Eugene is youthful
prodigy, says the Globe. For one so
young his feats have never been equaled.
With his little rifle, resembling more a
toy tirearm than death-dealing instru-
ment, he astonished the lookers-on by
breaking forty-seven out of fifty glass
balls thrown into the air, besides many
other odd and difficult feats. When
DR.. Carver gave his exhibition at the
fair grounds, last season, people looked
upon them as remarkable and wonder
full. But now comes mere youth, who,
almost with toy rifle, does equally, if
not more, difficult feats. Carver used a
large rifle, of which Eugene's is but a
miniature copy. Eugene's shooting re-
cord yesterday is ahead of anything DIR.
Carver has done. Despite strong wind,
he not only showed himself able to break
glass balls, but to hit half dollars, quar-
ters, marbles, nickels, and even three
cent-pieces. His quiet, impassive, re-
firing demeanor is also matter of wo :
derment. Apparently unconscious OF
performing any extraordinary feat, ] I
continues 10 load and fire his little piece
in no way elated at his success. Eugent
is certainly a prodigy, and will, no doubt
astonish the world with still more re-
! markable performances in his line.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
The InhOspitabIe Family.

The other day a genuine tramp with a
Stomach yearning for a picked-up meal
undertook to enter a yard on Winder
street. A large, fierce dog stood at the
gate to give him hostile welcome, and
after vainly trying to propitiate the ami
NAL the tramp called to lad of ten who
was making kite on the veranda:
"Hey, sonny"
4" Yes, I'm hay" was the reply.
Say, bub, call off yer dog"
"No use-ro use," replied the lad.
" Even if you got in here mas waiting at
the kitchen with kettle of hot water,
Sarah's working the telephone to git the
police. and I'm here to holler murder! =
and wake up the whole street. ."-Free
Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
House Cleaning.

Beds should be cleaned, mattresses
summed and bed clothing aired. Win
ter clothing and blankets, which have
been packed away for the summer,
should be taken out, examined and we'll
aired. Where carpets have been on the
floor all summer, thorough sweeping is
all that is required to clean them. For
this a carpet brush is better than a
broom and patent carpet sweeper
than either. The carpet sweeper, how
ever, will not go into the corners of the
room and these must be cleaned w til
brush and dustpan. This Troublesome
corner brushing is obviated by the
modern fashion of leaving strip of
stained floor around the edge of the
carpet. Where the floors are covered
with mating it is generally agreed to
be wisest to leave the mating down
and put the carpet overit. The mating
keeps hetter on the floor than if taken
up and stored away, and at the same
time helps to preserve the carpet. Two
thicknesses of paper should be laid be-
tween them. Newspapers will answer
for this purpose, but common brown
wrapping paper,>such as grocers use, is
still better, on account of its absorbent
qualities. When it is used the mat
sih6 WIN usually Dc lOunu Ducu cleaner
the next spring after the carpet is taken
up than when it was laid down. For
cleaning mating, damp corn meal or
wheat bran sprinkled over it and then
swept off is excellent. Soap should
'neyer be used on mating, it yellows il
badly. When the mating is SO dirty as
to require washing, salt water will be
found much better for the purpose.
Every one knows how iron castors on
furniture stain straw mating. There is
nothing which will remove these stains
without injury, but they may be pre-
vented by placing tiny round mats o.
straw coarse crochet cotton under each
roller. When depressions occur in the
mating an extra thickness of paper must
be put, in. order to prevent the carpet
from wearing off in that spot. The new
patent tacks for mating, made in the
form of small staples, are much better
than the old style. When a breadth O
mating is to be pierced turn both pieces
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
The Story OF the =" Resolute."

Never before, says New York paper,
was there vessel that had more
wondrous record than the old Arctic
exploring ship Resolute, from the tim
bers of which piece of furniture is to
he made for Mrs. Henry Grinnell, OF
this city. Early in 1854 court-martial
sat at Sheerness, England, to inquire
into the abandonment, on Sir Edward
Belcher's Arctic expedition, of the In
vestigator, the Resolute and the AS
sistance. These vessels, with two others,
had been sent forth to search for the
lamented Franklin and his devoted COM
panions, and their three captains, Bel
cher, Kellett and Mcclure. had been
obliged to return, not only with no news
of the missing explorer, but without
stalwart and powerful sailing-craft,
when she was finally fastened in the
foes of Melville sound. and believing
that she could never get away again, Sir
Edward gave orders reluctantly to
abandon the ship. The crew made
everything snug below and aloft; then.
one May day, in 1854, bade adieu to their
floating home, and returned safely with
their fellows to England. One morning
of summer, off the Labrador coast, an
American whaler named Hartstein spied
abark-rigged ship, strangely silent. lying
aground. He bordered her, and found
everything in perfect order; every brace
trimmed, every rope coiled, with colors
flying at the mizen peak, but not soul
on board. Presently he discovered that
this was the Resolute. She had drifted
for over 1000 miles without starting a
rope, from Melville island through Bar
rows straits, through Lancaster sound,
round by Cape Liverpool, past Pond 8
bag, down Davis straits, to the shoals
OF Labrador. The ice had melted, the
foes had opened, currents had taken
charge of her, and the lonely ship, with
none but the forces of the sea for her
pilot. and only invisible hands on her
wheel, had floated safely and soundly
past all the reefs and rocks which stud
"seafaring man" made her out. He
brought this abandoned British vessel
into Boston harbor us sound as on the
day when she started from England.
Our government behaved nobly about
the Resolute. We paid Hartstein his
salvage out of the treasury. Then the
Washington authorities set riggers and
ship painters to work upon her, tidied
her up inside and outside, and then sent
her across the Atlantic under an emf
uent officer, with the English flag at the
main and the stars and stripes aft, with
the compliments OF "Uncle Sam " to her
Britannia majesty. The people of Eng
land were greatly pleased by this act OF
generosity on our part, and Queen Vic
toria went herself on board to receive
from our officers her ship, for which she
thanked them most sincerely. 1t is 8
pity that this old wanderer should have
TO oe Pfo6en Eat up out out 1t IT is
should come out of her timbers to the
widow OF the American gentleman
who, at great expense, searched so often
for Sir John Franklin.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
In the Last Pew.


She sits, bent DER, with wrinkled face,
Poor and forlorn'y old no grace
smooths the sharp angles of her form,
Long buffeted by liie's slow storm.
All else around is fine and fair;
The stained light falls, golden glare,
In seeming mockery on her loose, gray hair.
The preacher, faultlessly arrayed,
Tells how our hearts afar have strayed,
And how all souls should be content
With those good blessings God has sent.
And one, of all that selt-poised throng,
Hangs on his words nor deems them long.
And humbly thinks only her heart is wrong.
She meekly mumbles DER the hymn,
Her eyes with age and tear.drops dim;
What can their gay world hold ior her
This worn and weary worshiper?
Now, rustling down the aisles in pride,
They toss bright smiles on every side,
Nor does she know the hurts such fair looks
hide.
And still she sits, with tenr-wet face,
AS loath to leave that sacred place;
The organ, with quick thunders riven,
Lifts her sad, trembling soul to heaven; ]
She feels sense of blissful rest,
Her bony hands across her breast
She clasps. and lowly sighs: "God knoweth
best"
One day, within some grander gate
Where kings and ministers must wait,
While she hopes humbly for low place
Far from the dear Lords shining face,
Above the chant of heavenly choir
These words may sound, with gracious IRE:
"well done, good, faithful servant, come ur
higher"
&C. M. Il. Winslotc, IN Good Company
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
A Remarkable Suicide.

Another remarkable suicide has taken
place in Russia. A. Nihilist of wide
prominence at Odessa and a former
student at the university, was recently
arrested and thrown into a Jail, where
he suffered so much from the filthy state
of his cell that he burnt himself to
death rather than endure the torture
any longer. Though he had been in the
cell many months, it had not once been
cleaned, and SO vile were the odors given
out by the accumulated refuse that he
complained of sutfocation. giddiness and
ftinting fits. He begged the keeper to
clean the place or urge on his trial, but
to no purpose. Still he implored for re-
lief, and at last the governor of the Jail,
carried with his appeals, ordered severe
corporal punishment to be inflicted upon
him and that his hands be tied behind
his back with n stout rope. In that
condition, and smartlng from the blows
he had received, he was left alone
stretched out on the sloping boards.
That constituted his only bed. He was
able after a struggle to get into sitting
position, and there contrived with his
teeth to bite hole through the glass
which contained the Gil in burning
lamp on bracket above his head. The
oil soon ca;Aght fire, and the prisoner
allowed it to run down over his body,
setting his clothes on fire. Without a
cry or groal he lay down in the flames
to die. Soon the odor of his burning
flesh brought officers to his cell. now
filled with black smoke and flames
Not a word did the prisoner utter, but
fixed his eyes coldly ON the keepers
while they put out the fire. He assured
the officers he should have been content
opinions, but that the inhuman tortures
of his cell he was unable longer to en-
dure. His body at the surface had beer
entirely carbonized, but he lived thres
and a half hours after the flames were
extinguished.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
VOL. TX.
The Children.
Do you love me, little childrenf


Do you love me, little childrenf
Oh, sweet blossoms! that are curled
(Liie's tender morning-glories)
Round the easement of the world!
Do your hearts climb up toward me
As my own heart bends to you,
In the beauty OF your dawning
And the brightness OF your dew,
When the fragrance OF your faces,
And the rhythm OF your feet,
And the incense OF your voices
Transform the sullen street,
Do you see my soul move softly
Forever where you move,
With an eye OF benediction
And a guarding hand OF love!
Oh, my darlings! am with you
In your trouble, in your play,
In your sobbing and your singing,
In your dark and in your day;
In the chambers where you nestle,
In the novels where you lie,
In the sunlight where you blossom,
And the blackness where you die.
Not blessing broods above you
But it lifts me from the ground;
Not thistle-barb doth sting you
But suffer with the wound;
And chord within me trembles
To your slightest touch or tone,
And / famish when you hunger,
And l shiver when you moan.
Can you tell me, little children,
Why it is l love you so!
Why I'm weary with the burdens
Of my sad and weary woe!
Do the myrtle and the aloes
Spring blithely from one troe,
. Yet 1 love you, oh, my darlings!
Have you any flowers tor me!
I have trodden all the spaces
OF my solemn years alone,
And have never felt tho cooling
Ofa babe 8 breath near my own;
But with more than father passion,
And more than mother pain,
have loved you, little children!
Do } on love me bnck again?
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30

The midnight marauder should Lot be ban-
ished from our dwelling any more quickly
than should a cough or cold OF any kind be
driven from the system. DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup quietly yet positively places all colds
under its control. Price 25 cents.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30

A Philadelphia firm appends the fol-
lowing notice to its advertisements
IN. B Customers from the country,
purchasing $5 worth OF goods from us
will be furnished with dinner on stat
ing they saw this advertisement" This
is serious blow to the chrome business,
as the country customer will not hesi-
tate to choose ice-cream and pie in pref
erence to chromos. Foster.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30
RIDGwAY, ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY OCTOBER &c

1t was two buckets of soap! His word
was given, and he kept it,. as a man of
honor and a Judge should do. So he
came within one of being a soft soap
peddler.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-30

Let everything be taken at its face
value and men with cheeks of brass
would not go for much.-Picayane.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-19
FROM THE PASSES.

PORT EADs. Jan. 10. 9 y. m.-Wind west north
west. fresh. Fog has cleared away.
Arrived: At 10 o'clock last night, steamship
~ u. Ward. Jr.. Pizzati master. from Belize
Honduras. via fruit islands. with fruit to d
Oteri n Bro.
Norwegian bark Plimsall. Peterson master. 81
days from Bordeaux to master
american bbtU Il, fteTton. Robinson master
?odays from New York. In ballast, to Louis
Kanser d Co.
Spanish bark Jose Aurell, from Havana II
ballast. to Gilbert, Green Il Go.
Sailed: Steamship Memphis, for Liverpool
steamship Chas. w. Lord. for Vera Cruz: bari
Prince Charlie. for Liverpool: bark Taurus
schooner Susan Scranton: schooner Zlnga. fol
Port Oortez.
The American ship Riverside arrived on tn,
fourteenth for orders. and sailed this D. M. fol
Galveston.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-19

So bid February. Corn not omen: asx naked
May Pork firm - s50Ds 81 X February sold nj
4.25. o. saw
Union Stock Yards-l57 cars stock renor,ed
Estimated receipts OF hogs to-day IA 0oo. of,niai
Yesterday 401f; for past week 2,sa aaf . ofyiciai
shipments yesterday 46i2; TOR past week "a fpi
Light grades "a 7bees 80 mixed packers, "a 7sdn
. 10 heavy shipping "a esa3 is. Cattle-Eati.
niated receipts 1900: market quiet,
l2:25 .. M Pork-t8 81. bid March ~ p,6a
sNh April Lard-&5 gb asked February fs OF ].
M arc 90 isepe y. April;
asked January. stN asked Tebraary ssa AJAX ID
March. Corn-304 February. 3iI March, s2l.
April. 32lte133S May. '<'
/ p. m. Wheat. quiet: No. red os,.@sax Feb
ruary. 95h@D95sS March. sax cash No. red e0A
cash. Corn steady: 3nh February 311S March
32h April, salsM33S May. 2gt6ee29ss cash. Oata
lower; n bid January 21H bid March. ain
cash. Whisky unchanged ut 81 o.. Provisions
excited. Pork 81 bid March. Cut meats -dry
salt clear ribs. 10 to 40 days, 4.1OD4.15. now
held higher. Bacon clear ribs 5@5h March
Lard On bid.
CINCINNATI. Jan. 10. 30 p. m.-Pork- % II
asked. Bacon "a. ~. 8. Hams 1893. Cut
meafa 80e3A. Al, ~. Lard $50. eetG7s. Hogs
% s0eD3 4o receipts 1914, Whisky 81 03.
LIyEhPooI. Jan. 49, 1906 .. m.-Cotton active
Orleans 59sd: sales II 600 bales Of which 1000 arc
for OK port and speculation.
Whcat-Western spring 6s 1ad6p8s I'd: West
ern winter ss eddoos. Flour Wes' ern canal IS. d
22s. Corn-New mixed 22s Sd. Oats ~ Cd
Pork-Prme mess Western 40s. Lard-Prims
Western 31s. Long clear 2as: do shor
clear 2<s Cd. Tallow-Amefican 3Gs cd.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-19

The theory at one time held by. many that
the supply in the Pennsylvania region would
sooner or later become exhausted seems to
have been pretty thoroughly exploded by
events, tho Yield having attained TO proper
lions little dreamed OF by the most sangulne
during the earlier commercial history Of the
article. Our country, moreover, holds the
same supremacy now that IL has always held.
Petroleum has been found In other countries,
but at present we need fear no serious COM
petition. because Of the general flow Of our
wells and the apparently inexhaustible sup
ply that Is 30 easily accessible from ports OF
shipment"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-19

OCEAN FRgIaHTs. the last few months
we arc told that "some fifty steamers, with n
combined tonnage Of 100000 tons, have been
added to the steam service Mt the four ports"
OF Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more Most OF these vessels have been built
with special reference to the transportation
Of freight, and, IL IL thought, will prove
formidable rivals In the carrying trade to
both sailing vessels and passenger steamers.
Az far as the latter are concerned the time Is
not far distant when they will be obliged to
sacrifice either their freight to their passen-
gers or their passengers to their freight. The
new idea which Is embodied In recent steam
vessels, and which divides them into CLASSES
and devotes them TO special kinds Of work,
will, 1t IL thought, sooner or later find accept
ance everywhere. 1t Ia the same principle
which goes by tho name Of the subdivision
Of labor In Industrial pursuits, and which Is
called "a speciality" In the learned profession.
Passenger steamers may be able to continue
the transportation Of freight for some time
to come, but eventually they may find them
selves compelled to make speciality Of either
the one thing or the other. It will be mani
testify futile for them to attempt to compete
In the carrying trade with steam vessels that
nre just a5 swift and sound, which are built
for and devoted to the one purpose. Not only
do the freight steamers cost less than their
passenger rivals, but 1t Is claimed that In the
consumation Of coal and In the wages Of sea-
men and officers, they possess important ad-
vantages. Whatever may DO the immediate
effects OF such change upon the steam pas
senger interest, the publiGwould not be likely
to suffer from It,. Accommodations for pas
seDgers would improve on the vessels es-
peclally devoted TO their transportation, and
Il the perils OF ocean travel should not be
diminished, It's discomforts would ut any
rate DO greatly lessened.-I Baltimore Bulle-
tin.