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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-16
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.


Fancy furs are to be much used this
winter.
Purple will, ii is said, be fashionable
this winter.
Changeable goods will still be worn
this winter.
Monte cloth in dark colors will be
worn this winter.
Poke bonnets are ugly in all materials
except straw.
Black velvet outside garments will be
much worn this season.
Black and white net, spotted with
large dots of chenille, is used for neck
ties,
Rifle green and pheasant brown will
be among the fashionable winter col
| or5.
Raw silk and even armure is to be
made up into handkerchief costumes
next winter.
Old-fashioned paste buckles are worn
on the belt by those who are lucky
enough to own them.
Gold beads and chenille are mingled
In the Hat trimmings which are placed
on the crowns Of some bonnets.
The lawns with stripes and borders
| will be as fashionable next season as
this, and sensible women buy them
eagerly.
The Languedoc lace is initiated so
successfully that the real lace cannot be
distinguished from the cheap imita-
tions.
When an evening dress is trimmed
| with flowers the wearer should carry a
large bouquet of the same blossoms in
| her hand.
Pongee dresses embroidered in Chinese
style in red and blue, are among the
summer gowns that can be worn
through the autumn.
The capuchin cloaks are made of Surah
and Vienna cloth combined, in cashmere
and pekin and in white serge with braid
trim ming.
Small mantles covered with chenille,
and untrimmed sacks with bright
buttons, are liked for outside wraps to
be worn cool days at the seaside.
Muslin chfmisettes set into the open
ing of linen collar that is folded away
from the throat are something of an in
novation, but are said to be very pretty.
The hats with netted silk over the
brims will probably be generally worn
this autumn. Their only trimming is
the thick cords knotted ABOUT the crown.
Several new kinds of plush are i'm
ported for the winter, and the material
will probably be made into bonnets,
coats and jackets, and also into trim
ming for the finest gowns.
Red beads on a ground of white lace
are used to make a trimming for white
evening dresses; but they are less eifec-
tive than those on which there is faint
dash of color.
The handkerchief gowns which are
to be worn this winter are to be very
simply made, and as they need no trim
ming are less expensive than many suits
which cost less by the yard.
The jet kerchiefs used to trim bon
nets last year are replaced by Jet scarfs,
which are tied in knot on the top of
the bonnet, and made into bows to fasten
the strings under the chin.
The Genlis bodice is the name given
to n waist with a yoke, hood and a
belt. 1t disputes the reign of the coat
waist. The Genlis hat has a SCOOP brim
and is worn with white veil.
The red and yellow handkerchief CO.'S
tunes are called pensioners pride" in
France, in allusion to the red and yellow
handkerchief in which the old soldiers
at the Invalides delight.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-16
House Plants,

The question so often raised by our
correspondents as to whether it is
healthy to keep plants in our living
rooms and sleeping rooms is answered
by Doctor j. M. Anders in q recent
number of the Philadelphia Medical
Times. Experiments made by him
show the value of plants as natural and
perfect atomizers.". The aver age
rate of Transportation for plants having
thin, soft leaves-like geraniums and
lantanas-is found to be an ounce
and half of watery vapor per square
foot of leaf surface for twelve diurnal
hours of clear weather. At this rate q
great tree, like the Washington elm at
Cambridge, which has been estimated
to have 100000 square feet OF surface,
would exhale seven ard three.quarters
tons of water in twelve hours. The
rate of Transportation for a house plant
is at least fifty per cent. more rapid than
for one in the open air; and it is evident
that number of such plants must have
a material influence on the humidity of
the air in which they are kept. Expert.
ments made by means of the hygrome-
ter show conclusivety Lh at house plants
may properly be classed as therapeutic
agents. As to their unwholesomeness be-
cause of giving off carbonic acid gas at
night, it has been shown by experiment
that it would require twenty thrifty
plants to produce an amount of gas
equivalent to that exhaled by one baby
sleeper. A practical application of the
data gained by experiment is given in
the carefully-prepared formula: Given
a room twenty feet long, twelve feet
wide and ceiling twelve feet high,
warmed by dry air, a doson thrifty
plants, with soft, thin leaves, and leaf
surface of six feet square each, would, if
well watered and so situated as to re-
ceive the direct rays of the sun (pre-
ferably the morning sun) for at least
several hours, raise the proportion of
aqueous vapor to about the health stand
ard. 1t is evident, then, that every house
mother can keep the air of winter rooms
moist by having thrifty plants in them
and there is every reason TO believe tha
the lives of many persons who die from
pulmonary complaints might be pre-
served by this agency, at once so agree
able and so salutary. In many instances
consumptive tendencies have apparently
been counteracted by working among
plants.-American Cultivator.
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PunctuaIitY.

Somo one definoo punctuality to be
" fifteen minutes before the time" At
any rate, it is not one minute after the
time.
1 must tell you an anecdote of the
first Marquis of Abercorn. He invited
a number of friends to dinner. The
hour for dinner was five, and all those
invited knt W it, of course. Well, the
hour arrived, and but one of the guests
had come. Down sat the marquis and
this one guest to table. The marquis
was punctual, If only one of the others
was.
By-and-bye another guest dropped in,
and was very much mortified to find
dinner being eaten. And one by one all
the rest came, and were likewise morti-
fed. But the marquis had taught them
all good lesson, and venture to say
that the next time they were invited
none of them got in to the coffee only,
but were on hand for soup.
General Washington was so very
punctual that, on one occasion, some
friends Who were expecting him at q
certain hJur, on finding that he had not
arrived, all concluded that their watches
must have got wrong; and sure enough
they had, for Washington soon came,
and was not minute late. No doubt
his habits of punctuality helped to make
him the great man that he was.
l knew a clergyman once throw him.
self into the Mississippi river and swim
eighteen miles down stream to keep an
appointment for afternoon service. ]
travelled through the Upper Mississippi
region shortly after, and for hundreds
of miles from the place where he lived,
out toward the border, l heard of his
great feat. The border men respected
such man, and called him "the min
lister who made the big SWIM"
Nor is any one too young to begin the
cultivation of habits of punctuality
The boy who is on time at school, on
time in class, on time when sent on an
errand, and so on, is apt to be the pune.
tual business or professional man. The
habit of promptness is likely to cling al
through life.
Some persons, on the contrary, 90 all
through life in slip-shod, down-at-the
heel way, and never prosper. They get
to a wedding as people are coming off,
They are late at church; don't meet
their notes, go to protest, and are in
trouble generally.
Washington's way was the best. The
Marquis of Abercorn was in the right.
That Mississippi clergymen did nobly.
And these three are good examples for
our boys and girls to follow. Never be
behind time, and, il you can, be a little
ahead of it, and you will never repent OF
the habit OF punctuality.-Golden Days.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-16
A Big California EARN.

a former citizen of Missouri, Doctor
Hugh j. Glenn, has now farm of 65.-
600 acres in Colusa county, California,
in the Sacramento valley, $4,000 of
which are in wheat. The yield is
twenty-five bushels in favorable seasons.
Of this years crop Doctor Glenn says,
although he has on hand $50, 1000 sacks,
each holding l40 pounds, he thinks they
will not hold his wheat. He has his
own machine and blacksmith shops.
boring, turning and planning machines,
buzz-saws, etc. He manufactures his
own wagons, separators, headers, har-
rows and nearly all the machinery and
implements used.
he has employed fifty men in seed
ing and $50 in harvest, 200 head of horses
and mules, fifty-tive grain-headevs and
other wagons, $50 sets of harness,
twelve twelve-foot headers, five sulky
hay-rakes, twelve eight mule cultiva.
t6ols, four Gem seed mowers, eight
Buckeye drills, eight mowers, one forty
eight-inch separator, thirty-six feet
long and thirteen and half ligh, with
a capacity of nineteen bushels per
minutes; one forty-inch separator,
thirty-six feet long; two forty-leet ele-
vators for self-feeder, one steam barley
or feed mill, two twenty-horse power
engines. The y.eight-inch separa-
tor ,threshed on August 8, 1879, SITS
bushels OF wheat in one day. The
working force to run the separator i:
sixty men, eight headers, twenty-five
header wagons, 100 horses and mules.
The average run of the machine is l 800
sacks, containing two and one-third
bushels each, per day. The utmost
capacity OF the machine is 5000 sacks
or 1000 bushels per day. The harvest
| ing force cut and thresh simultaneously
and in fifteen minutes from the time the
header begins in the grain the wheat i:
in the sacks.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-16
The Hudson i'm Winter.

Some bright, breezy day you casually
glance down the river and behold sail
"a sail like that of pleasure yacht Of
summer. Is the river open again below
there? is your first half defined inquiry
But with what unwonted speed the
sail is moving across the view! Before
you have fairly drawn another breath it
has turned, unperceived, and is shooting
with equal swiftness in the opposite
direction. Who ever saw such lively
sail! 1t does not bend before the breeze,
but darts to and fro as if it moved in a
vacuum, or like shadow over scene.
Then you remember the ice-boats, and
you open your eyes to the fact. Another
and another come into view around the
elbow, turning and flashing in the sun,
and hurting across each others paths
like white-winged gulls. They turn so
quickly, and dash off again at such
speed that they produce the illusion OF
something singularly light and intangi-
BILE. In fact, al ice-boat is sort of dis
embodied yacht; it is sail on skates,
The only semblance to boat is the sail
which the skates or runners-three in
number-are rigged. is broad and low
upon this the pleasure-seekers, wrapped
in their furs, or blankets, lie at full
ength, and, looking under the sail,
skim the frozen surface with their eyes.
The speed attained is sometimes very
great-more than mile per minute,
and sufficient to carry them ahead of the
fastest express train. When going at
this rate the boat will leap like grey
hound, and thrilling stories are told of
the fearful crevasses, or open places in
the ice, that are cleared at a boun y
And yet, withal, she can be brought u
to the wind so suddenly as to shoot the
unwary occupants off, and send them
skating on their noses some yards.
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He Took the Hint.

Young Mr.. Latehours was sitting on
the porch the other night watching a
seventeen-year-old girl trying to keep
awake long enough to see the morning
star rise. They talked astronomy.
6 wish / was STAR" he said, smil-
ing at his own poetic fancy.
u would rather you were comet"
she said, dreamily.
His heart beat tumultuously.
"And whyP" he asked, tenderly, at
the same time taking her unreslsting
little hands in his own; "and whyP" he
repeated, imperiously.
"Oh," she said, with brooding earn
estness that fell upon his soul like bare
foot on a cold oilcloth, because then
you would only come around once every
], 500 years."
He didn't say anything until he was
half way to the front gate, when he
turned around and shook his fist at the
house, and muttered between his teeth
that Shy the dads it would be thun-
dering sight longer than that before he
came around again" But by that time
the poor girl was In bed and sound
asleep. Darlington hGwkeys.
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Tests or Forbearauce.

The exact point where " forbearance
ceases to be virtue, Wis sometimes hard
to determine. AS rule, we are re.
qulred TO accept of penitence and
promises OF amendment from offending
partles, exercising toward them much of
tnat cnarlty that coverelh a multitude
OF faults" Brt then the cloak of
charity, large and elastic as it is, may
be rent asunder in straining too far.
There are some phases of depravity
whlcn 1t cannot cover. The following
incidents, one of which occurred in
tennessee and the other in Georgia, with
couple OF Baptist ministers, both of
whom we knew, will illustrate our
meaning:
In church, of which the Rev. Duke
klmbrong, long since dead, was pastor,
there was member whose infirmities
had be come chronic, so that his case,
like some litigious persons we have
known, almost constantly on the docket.
he had transgressed, asked pardon,
and been forgiven, until the patience oi
both church and pastor was about ex-
hausted. at conference of the church,
the offending brother arose with the
usual story, that at some public gather
ing he had taken dram, it flew into his
head (the wicked thingD and turned
him or the world upside down; and fall.
ing upon the floor in the deepest appar-
ent agony and grief, begged his brethren
to forgive him, and his old pastor to
pray for him, repeating the request sew
eral times with all the accompaniment
that tears and rolling over the floor
could lmpart. The old pastor sat very
gravely with his head down, rokinQ
his nose, perfectly unmoved by the
| tragedy before him. After awhile the
| appeal became so moving that he quietly
rose from his scat. and looking around
| with CAIN dignity, said: eff anybody
has any confidence in Brother j,
he will please come forward and pray
for him. Fol-, my part have lost al
confidence in him."
The other incident is related of Rev.
Jacob King, of Georgia. A similar case
occurred in one of his churches. Nc
public occasion could pass but that the
offending brother became, as the phrase
is, how come you So" Time and again
he was up before the church to answer
to the charge of drunkenness, until the
patience oil all parties, as in the above
case, was threadbare. Finally the
offender. came up with the old story
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and petition for for
giveness. Brother King, who had by
nature an unusual flow of humor, rose
from his seat and, assuming a serious
tone, said 10 the congregation: Brethren
are you keeping countP You all know
that we. can onIy forgive seventy times
seven-four hundred aud ninety times
That is the last limit of the law. You
must keep tally, for it won't do to tran.
scend the limits of that law" Having
said this he gravely took his seat, and
left the church to manage the case as
best they could.
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yhe erararr of tI,e world.

Minnesota, although now claiming to
be the greatest wheat-producing State
in the country, surprising with the 40,-
900, 900 bushels of this years crops the
highest mark of California, heretofore
the heaviest wheat-producing State, is
prepared to see the banner pass farther
westward and northward, intoS Dakota,
A well-informed writer on this subject.
in letter from st. Paul, declares that
the comparatively small farms of Min
nesota, which are themselves monstrous
in size, according to the standards of
past generations of agriculturists, can
not begin to hold their own in rivalry
with the great wheat tracts planted and
reaped by wholesale in the James River
Valley and about the headwaters of the
Red River of the North. These Red
River farms are operated by corpor-
ations, employing regiments of men,
worked and fed with the discipline of an
army, and transported from tract to
tract by the carioa from the elevators
of the owners. The land is not only
cheap, but is four times as fertile as the
most fertile lands in Minnesota. and re-
wards at that rate the most care
less cultivation. Five hundred thousand
acres of wheat land have been brought
into cultivation within two or three
years. Under such corporate COMPETE
tion on the frontiers of the Northwest,
the individual farmer on older lands is
overslaughed and discouraged. AL
though for years he may have been
forced to accept only what the railroads
transporting his grain calculated to be
enough,to keep him at his hard life, they
gobbling the rest in charges, his chance
was not so slender as it has become
since the corporations themselves took
to farming on these wonderful lands.
The same unequaled wheat soil and eli
mate extends far north into British pos
sessions, SO there are English capitalists
who fancy they see the great wheat sup
ply of the world in the future, pouring
out from Hudson Bay. Five new rail.
road lines have been built up into the
Dakota wheat region, and British terri
tory within year or two, and the
Northern Pacific is pushing a branch
line due north to compete in the race
for the fabulous wealth in the wheat
lands still unopened beyond the British
line. Boston Transcript.
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The Power Of Enjoyment.

Comparatively few people possess
uniformly cheerful dispositions. Most
OF us have our sad hours and moods.
But, whatever his disposition, a man is
bound by'the.laws of his own being, and
by those of his social relations. to cul-
tivate the virtue of cheerfulness assidu-
ously and constantly. He has no more
right to injure his neighE or's happiness
than to interfere with his pecuniary
property, and he cannot indulge in
venting i'll humor or spleen, with
gloomy forebodings or complaints, or
even carrying sad, sour frowni1g Wis
age, without sensibly diminishing the
enjoyment or comfort of others, and
thus infringing on their rights. Any
individual who has tried to do so can
win himself from dependency and sur
illness. The power OF enjoyment is in
itself faculty capable of Improvement,
and as practice always enhances power,
it is a good thing to form the habit of
enjoyment. 1t is not true that the
sources OF pleasure are few and rare,
but 1t is sadly true that we pass them
by unnoticed. We crave the excite
ment of business or politics or tashiona-
BILE lie, and forget the world OF inno-
cent enjoyment that we trample under
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-16
A Nice POrterhouse Steak.

Mr.. Setemup came downstairs to a
ten o'clock breakfast with vacant
countenance and a backward tendency
in his hair that made his two eyes ache.
He sat down at the table and picking up
his knife and fork, glared in uneasy
wonder at something in the platter be-
fore him. 1t had evidently been fried
in butter and was intended for food. Mr..
Setemup harpooned it with his fork and
lifted il up bodily, gazing at it with
ever increasing wonder. "What under
the sum-" he exclaimed, at last, sis this
thingp "Well," replied his wife. with
just shadow of sigh, sit looks like
your new soft felt hat, and that is what
] thought 1t was. but you pulled it out
of your pocket when you came home
this morning and said it W as nice por-
terhouse steak and you wanted it broiled
for breakfast. You needn't give me any
OF il; I'm not hungry" And Mr.. Set
emup, who was just wild to know what
else he said when he came home, and
what time it was, for the life of him
didn't dare to ask Burlington Hasok-
eye.
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An Enthusiastic Endorsement.
GORHAM, N. H., July IA. ls'

GoRHAM, N. H., July IA, 1879.
Gents-Whoever you are, 1 don't
know; but / thank the Lord and feel
grateful to you to know that in this
world of adulterated medicines there is
one compound that proves and does all
it advertises to do, and more. Four
years ago l had slight shock of palsy,
which unnerved me to such en- extent
that the least excitement would make
me shake like the ague. Last May
was induced to try Hop Bitters. used
one bottle, but did not see any change; {;
another did so change my nerves that
they are now as steady as they ever
were. 1t used to take both hands to
write, but now my good right hand
writes this. Now, il you continue to
manufacture as honest and good an
article as you do, you will accumulate
an honest fortune, and confer the great
est blessing on your fellow-men that
was ever conferred on mankind.
Tim BURCH.
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A Husbands Testimony,

My wife was troubled for years with
blotches, moth patches and pimples on
her face, which nearly annoyed the life
out of her. She spent many dollars on
the thousand infallible (P) cures, with
nothing but injurious effects. A lady
friend, of Syracuse, N. Y, who had had
similar experience and had been cured
with Hop Bitters, induced her to try it.
One bottle has made her face as smooth,
fair and soft as a child's, anu given her
such health that it seems almost a
miracle.
A MEMBER OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
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An exchange says: "The cats have be.
come so thick in New York that Mr.
Bergh has determined to make war UPON
them" 1t is not stated how thick the
New York cat has become, but if it has
grown twenty-four inches around tho
waist, Mr.. Bergh is perfectly justifable
in making war upon them. A cat nc
thicker than a rolling pin can make more
operatic music than dozen families can
consume Herald.
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foot. Nature and art 0 fer their treas
ures in vain, the loveliness of child
hood, the attractions of home, the real
satisfaction of honest labor, the simple
pleasure OF little things, all plead for ut
terance, but we repulse them. How can
we possess cheerful spirit and glad
heart when we scornfully despise our
simple pleasuresp Every innocent means
gloomy thoughts persistently banished
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1E111IRH'IsHTII N1tTOs
Messrs. Ely Bros, druggists, Owego, N. Y.
Gents.-I have been afflicted for the past
twenty years, during the months OF August
and September; with hay fever, and during
this time have tried various remedies sug.
gested by my friends for its reliet without
success. About month since | was induced
by a friend who had been benefited by its use
to try your Cream Balm. have used it &C.
cording to directions with very favorable re.
suits, and can confidently recommend its use
70 all who are similarly, afflicted.
RoBFRT W. ToWNIFY (ex.mavorN
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A LADY, AUGUSTA, ME.

CLEVELAND, o., Oct. %, 1870.
My better half is firmly impressed
with the idea that your Hop Bitters is
the essential thing to make life happy.
She has used several bottles, and
would like to have you send me dozen
at lowest price.
B. PoPE, Secretary
Plain Dealer Co.
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"More food and less medicine, more o.
nourishment and strength, less OF the debili.
tatipg influence OF drugs is what our exhaust
ed constitutions require" said Baron Lebig.
when he perfected the composition OF the
Malt Bitters," prepared by Malt Bitters Co.
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They met, they smiled, they wept,
they loved. He called her Jane, she
called him Thomas; a richer man rode
down the lane, and Tom brought suit
for breach of promise SLeubenviL' e