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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02

The Conduct of Life.
that we do, let us do it,

Be it good that we do, let us do it,
Giving soul and our strength to the deed;
Let us pierce the hard rock and pass through
it,
And compass the thing that we need.
Does fate, as dark cloud, hang over,
And cover our heads from the light,
Does hate mock the heart of the lover2
Must wrong be the victor of right?
ct in late there is freedom for each one
To make or to- mar, as he will;
Aud the bolts OF i'll fortune that reach one
May main, but they never shall kill.
Ever onward and upward pursuing
The aim that is thine for the day,
Adding strength to thy strength by thy doing,
Thou shalt gain it, nor iaint by the way
Aud though thou art buried with small things
Though menial thy labor may be,
Do thy utmost in that and in all things,
Thou still shalt be noble and free.
Dost thou love7 let it be with full measure;
Nor mingle with coldness or hate
Of others the joy of thy pleasure,
The passion that crowns thy estate.
BeJto every man just; and to women
Be gentle, and tender and true;
Fo: thy own do thy best; but for no man
Do less than q brother should do.
s. living thy days full TO number,
In peace thou shalt pass to the grave;
Tnou shalt lie down and rest thee, and sIum-
ber,
Beloved by the good and the brave.
-TtnAieyS .Mdg1eme.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02
The Escurial.

The Escurial is the palace of the
kings of Spain, one of the largest
aud most magnificent in the world. 1t
was begun by Philip II. in the year
1862, and the first cost of its erection
was 5000, 600 ducats. 1t forms vast
square of polished stone, paved with
marble. II may give some notion Of the
surprising grandeur of this place
to say that, according to the COM
putation of Francisco delos Santes,
| it would take more than four
days 20 go through all the rooms and
apartments, the length of the way
being reckoned thirty-three Spanish
leagues, which is above 100 English
miles. There are l40O0 doors and
IL 900 windows belonging to the ediiieer
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02
Parting.

Z thou dost bid thy friend farewell,
But for one night though that farewell may
be,
Press thou his hand in thine;
How canst thou tell how far from thee
Fate or caprice may lead his steps, ere that
tomorrow comes ?
Men have been known lightly to turn the
corner OF a street,
And days have grown to months,
And months to tagging years, ere they have
Looked in loving eyes again
Yea, find thou always timeto say some earnes
word
Between the idle talk, lest with thee hence
forth,
Night and day, regret should walk.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02
TIMELY TOPICS.

The proof that petroleum sources are
almost worldwide appears to be abund-
ant, and its use would also seem well
nigh coeval with civilization. In one
of the 1onian islands there is spring
which has yielded petroleum more than
1900 years. The wells of Armenia, on the
banks of the Zaro, were formerly used for
lighting the city of Genoa. In Persia,
too, near the Caspian sea at Baku, nu-
merous springs of petroleum have been
known from the earliest times; and
those of Rangoon, on the Irawaddy, are
said to have yielded before the general
lied nations, some 100000 hogsheads of
Oil per annum.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.


High back combs are no longer worn.
None but Derby hats are of plain
felt
Polka-dotted stockings are much
worn.
Bead embroderies retain their popu-
larity.
Cardinal and old gold remain fash
ionable.
Gold and tingel will be as fashionable
rs ever.
Crown braids and puffs have gone out
of date.
The new coiffures are all very fiat and
smooth.
French and India costumes will again
be worn.
Short dresses are worn on all sorts of
occasions.
Dotted fabrics are growing in fashion,
| able favor.
Fancy feathers will be worn only on
Derby hats.
English and French styles are not at
all alike this fall.
Anchorite hats will be worn with Pill
grim suits.
Jersey webbing is found among the
fall importations.
Crimped and fluffy hairdressing' has
gone out of fashion.
New laces are embroidered with gold
and silver threads.
Fifteen yard-square handkerchiefs are
sold for costume.
Strings of pearls in the coils of the hair
are again fashionable.
Plush will take the place of velvet in
millin cry.
Jet ornaments are used to excess on
fall hats and bonnets.
The Hermit polonaise is the novelty
in fall garments.
Ostrich tips and plumes will be more
worn than fancy feathers.
Plush and satin will be used together
in trimming costumes.
Side combs of coral, celluloid, ivory,
shell and jet are much worn.
The new plaid mixtures embrace clan
tartan, Madras and French plaids.
Polonaises, basques, round waists and
pointed bodices are all in vogue.
Petticoats are much wider, to fill out
the wider skirts of the new dresses.
New cheviot checks show the same
mixtures of color that the gentlemen S
cheviots do.
Buttons on fancy boots now match
those on the costumes on which they
are worn.
Cords play an important part in the
trimming Of dresses and wraps.
Derby and jockey hats will be covered
with plaids and checks to match Co.'S
tunes.
Plush and satin will take the place of
Surah silk and lace for millinery pur-
poses this season.
Natural or very fine artificial flowers
are worn in the hair, to match the bou-
quets of the corsage.
Trains are still worn for full dress,
but short dresses are also admissible on
ceremonious occasions.
The fashionable coiffure is now low
in the nape of the neck, but short
women cling to the high hairdress
ing.
bons, and gold cord braids and laces
appear among the new millinery goods
Combination garments, uniting thu
chemise, corset cover, and short petit
coat in one, are found among new lin
gerie.
Among importations of esrIy tal
goods are quantities of fine, all-woo
plaids, in bright colors on plain, darl
grounds.
The infinite variety which has pre-
vailed in fashion for several season
past, is repeated in the rew autumn
styles.
Wide belts of saddle girth canvas
fastened with straps of leather AM
buckles, are worn with all sorts o
demi-tOilet costumes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02

Among the patents recently taken out
is one which claims to be new and
useful mode of producing rain, or pre-
cipitating rain-falls from rain-clouds, 3"
as a protection against drought. The
invention consists in sending balloons
into the cloud regions, carrying torpe-
does and cartridges charged with eKplo-
electric force. 1t is also claimed by the
inventor that not only can rain be pre-
cipitated when it is needed, but that too
great quantity can be checked in any
given locality by causing the rain-clouds
to be discharged before they have
reached that place. Hdrper's Weeblp
suggests that this novel plan, if practi-
cable and successful, might equalize the
droughts and feeds in our land.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02

A London periodical gives some re-
markable railway statistics in the yearly
return by the board of trade for 1879 In
the United Kingdom the trains have
travelled 222, 100000 miles. and have car
ried more than 65,OOO,OO passengers.
With the exception of the Tay bridge
disaster in Scotland, by which seventy
three persons were killed, this enormous
amount of work has been done with the
loss of only two lives by accidents. And
the number of persons injured was much
less than in previous years. This speaks
ployees on the railroads; but the report
adds that, owing to the negligence and
misconduct of the passengers, eighty
five must be added to the bill of NOR
tality.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02
Ladies' Cooperative Dress Association of
New York.

Subs criptions are still being received
for the stock Of the Ladies' Co-Opera-
tive Dress association of New York, the
sum of 100000, which was the amount
stipulated as being necessary to obtain
before the asso ociation should commence
operations, not yet having been paid in.
Miss Kate Field, the lady who has been
the leading spirit in this movement to
obtain for wouen the benefits OF co.
operation in buying dress material, etc +,
is now in Europe where she has devoted
herself to acquiring information as to
the workings of similar organizations
there and in forming connections which
will be useful to the proposed associa-
tion in this country. She has induced
Mr.. Tulbrook, distinguished solicitor
of London, who has organized several
similar associations in England, TO visit
the United States with a view of aiding
in the formation of the association in
New York. A number of well-known
New York ladies and gentlemen are
named as trustees, and have not only
given their services gratuitously but
have also contributed literally toward
the preliminary expenses. The shares
of the association are twenty-five dollars
each, and it is thought that the amount
required to begin operations will be
subscribed in a short time.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02

Some of the most eminent scientific
men now accept the view taken by Ad-
hemar, namely, that continents have
not been depressed, but overlooked by
the ocean. Owing to the procession of
the equinoxes, the mass of water is
transferred from one hemisphere to the
other once in 800 years, and the sun
remains eight days longer in one hemi-
sphere than in the other. At the present
time the winters of the southern pole are
eight days longer than with us; the ice
continent has consequently formed
there, aud the mass of ocean is to be
found in the southern hemisphere. and
the ice covers the space upon and around
the south pole more than twice the area
of all Europe. The extreme of cold at
the Antarctic pole was reached about
600 years ago, since which time the eli
mate has been becoming milder, while
that north OF the equator has been grow
ing colder.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02

There is British goat society, and
from the report of meeting of the as.
sociation which was held recently, we
learn that the Earl of Rosslyn is presi-
dent, the Baroness Burdett- t-Coutls is a
patroness aud the Duke of Westminster
and the Earl of SALISBURY are vice
presidents. We learn, further, that the
object of the society is to direct attention
to the Importance of the goat as source
of mi TX supply, In Ireland the goat is
regarded as the poor mans COW, and one
goat could supply milk enough for the
requirements of an ordinary household
during the greater part of the year. The
expense for keep would be almost nomi-
nal, for the goat ate every kind of herb
or vegetable. The flesh of the kid is de
clared also to be very delicious eating,
and the society resolved to give kid
dinner in the Agricultural hall during
the dairy show in October. The goat
bias fair to become popular and useful
animal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-02

Almost any man Gun stand adversely.
but it takes strong mind to grapple
with sudden pl osperity. An instance of
that comes from Washington. Angus
tin j.. Amber passed Friday night in
Jail, sleeping off the effects of big
spree. He was a man of rare ability,
and invented many useful things. One
device for smelling ore had a fortune in
it. But Amber had no money, and he
took in company a couple of st. Louis
men, and they in turn took him in
They patented the invention in their
own names and let Amber amble out in
the cold. He sued them and for years
the suit went on. Resolutely for years
the determined man fought the veal hy
swindlers from one court to another
Suddenly, last June, to his own aston.
ishment, he won the case, being awarded
1875 shares in the company and S677,
434 in cash. The success turned his
head, and he went on prolonged spree.
He was sent to Jail tor twenty days.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-07-21

regain their tonicity; the patient,
poisoned by weeks of close confine-
ment in a stove-heated, carbonated
atmosphere, revels in the pure air,
fresh from old ocean and pertumed
by contact with the pine there is
decreased need or reliance in drugs
and a stay here, if p,otracted for a
series of years, often effects cures
that are wonderful.
What could be more delightful or
beneficial to an invalid than the first
twenty days of January last
seventy six OF them bright, breezy
and bracing; the temperature aver
aging So, 73o and 81 ; barometer
averaging 3O.12, 30.l4 and 3O.12?
No wonder the painracked peo-
pie, fresh from the chilly pray OF
Northern snow storms, with memories
of frost, slush, mud and snow, con-
trasted our climate with theirs, and
dreamed OF Paradise being typifed
in this land, where mere existence is
a delight. Others who feel, as l do,
that the possibilities OF life are ex.
tended, can hardly find words to ex-'
press the qualification tor such a
sanitarium.
The remaining months Of April,
May and June show a regularity al
most as marked as those already
tabulated, and completely overthrow
the complaint occasionally made,
OF sudden changes in our weather.
This charge is wholly unfonnded,
but note the record below:
The barometric average for
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ing fence and cal itat his leisure.

ing fence and eat itat his leisure. 7
hate all other birds from the crow
down to the mocking bird-and him
most. The hateful epicure; he will
spit out aanice fat grasshopper from
his mouth 10 pounce down on Your
ripe Trophy tomato yes and leave
the incest worm and iiy two miles 10
Till his craw with your incest grapes
He will eat all the cayenne pepper
that you plant and ncS leave a flo on
your bushes. 1t be has now added
to his other offences tisat Of distribu.
ting insects through our groves, l saw
kill him. But it those gentlemen
who disagree with me about nv
bird notions desire 5have the mock
ing bird, will tell tiiem how to oct
them. Plant one acre IN the Angus.
tine grape, one. halt an acre in toma.
toes, one-fourth OF an acre in CAYENNE
pepper, fifty tig trees, and they will
gather to them by the thousands.
Then they will have songs to the tune
of its being ate up. could tell you
more about them but / am tired OF
the subject. LEARNER.
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DeLand volusa County Florida Wednesday, July 81, 1880

here tell me that by getting it in
early a second crop can be grown
from the stubble, which, while not
turning out so largely as the first.
/ often makes very fair crop.
notice the Dispatch speaks OF
the present season as having been
highly remunerative to market car.
deners. | dislike croaking but
know both from personal experience
and contact with those largely en-
gagged in it. that where one has made
money three have lost and still a
greater number who have Just paid
expenses. True, cucumbers brought
a good price late in the season; but
the reason was, the dry spell killed
nearly all the vines, and very few
had cucumbers to ship; besides, let
any one engage in gardening and he
will soon lind out that quotations in
the papers and returns from his COM
mission merchant are two different
things, and that too, without the
merchant being at all to blame. For
instance, sent consignment to a
Philadelphia house, of tomatoes and
egg-plants. Quotations of egg-plants,
So per crate sl8 per barrel. A
postal received says, tomatoes sold
50, egg-plants looked like they were
scalded, not sold" Probably they
were scalded during transportation.
Notwithstanding all the blowing
about ventilated cars large proper
tion is shipped in close box cars.
DID any OF your readers ever stand
by when train comes up on hot
day. and when close box car was
opened, suddenly step into it; unless
they have they know little about the
furnacelike heat there.
/ have nine or ten acres of
rice looking well ; and will not be
satisfied unless get forty bushels to
the acre; also splendid crop Of
sweet potatoes just a booming, and
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Florida as a Resort for the Lung.
Diseased.
IA. D.. faa Fzorfda lfirror.

Jas. C. Neal, NJ. D., IN Floyida Mirror.
A year ago the readers of the Miy.
ron will remember theory | tried to
demonstrate, that tile value Of Flor.
ida, as health-resort for the lung.
diseased, lay not SO niycn in its clear
skies, gentle breezes and warm air.
as in the remarkable equality OF air.
pressure. With view OF confirm.
ing this hypothesis, ! beg to ask the
special attention of medical readers
to resume, Of Sri-daily observations
upon standard barometer and ther.
mometer, taken)duringI the last six
months.
Archer lies tn .he4Ys5st of heavy
nine { 4 . s
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Pine-Apples in Florida.
' 1Os9dlRT 30 "a
NUMBER ".


,tr, NEMBER, ~. 1853
Written for the, Florida Ag,aculturist By Rer J.
H. White,
The prospective platter after deci-
ding to invest. at once begins to in
quire about methods. A knowledge
of thenature of plant often suggests
methods for its management; hence
the propriety of few words in re-
gard tolits nature. 1t belongs to the
natural order Bromeliac or pineapple
family. A single native genus of
this order 1Sllnudsio is found in the
United States. Several of its species
are found in Florida and some of
them not elsewhere. The pineapple
An0sdss0 Sati00 belongs to another
genus of the order and is closely al
lied to the Epiphytes,i.e., plants grow.
ing on other plants, but not nourished
by them. 1t is native Of tropical
America and is found growing wild
in other countries and may be indigo
neous thereto. 1t is tropical in its
origin, and is found to be so in fact
1t cannot endure any degree of frost
without injury. A slight frost only
kills the leaves; this seems only to
diminish the size of the plant and if
not near fruiting will soon be replaced
by growth. Ii near truiting when
the leaves are killed, the fruit will be
small. Water frozen in the plant is
said to kill them but of this I have
no knowledge. AS the air is the ma
tive element of many plants of this
order, so, sand seems to be the natu.
raj element of this one. This would
indicate that sand either in the bud
or in the axis of the leaves is not nee.
essarily fatal to their growth, and ex
perience justifes the supposition.
Nature seems to have provided a
remedy for ordinaf sciseumstances,
in the twofold action of their own
tgrowth which is continually lifting up
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the trees and it is almost the univer-
sal practice to surround the rectang.
ular orchards or gardens with lava
wall nine or ten feet high. They
plant also within the walls a hedge
of quickly growing evergreen trees
which is allowed to over top them
by twenty feet or so. They also
cattertall evergreens wherever there
is clean space among the orange
trees, which are pruned and regulated
so as to keep we'll below this level.
Mgrica. taya, LdowatS CanariensiS and
Persea Ladic0 are hedge plants. but
are supposed to affect the soil preju-
ideally Pitt0spOaetno undtsiaatna and
p. t0birG are found to thrive we'll on
quintas exposed to the sea breeze
The main industry is culture OF the
orange. The fruit comes 10 wonder
full perfection and insare reasonable
amount OF wealth to the producers.
The cultivation is simple and mex
pensive. The land Is worked for a
year or two and young plants of
good varieties from layers or gratis
are planted at distances of eight or
len yards. Strong plants from these
layers begin to fruit in two or three
years. They come into tull bearing
i'll from eight to ten years, when each
tree should produce about 1900 or
anges. They are lightly pruned,
little more than the spiny shoots be-
ing removed. The surface of the
ground is kept clean and tidy with
a hoe and it is manured ( early or at
longer intervals by mex I'd intro
duced in olden times into \ Atain by
the Romans. Lupins, straw, pods,
and seeds are dug into the ground;
any other manure is rarely used.
The orange begins to rlpen early In
and from that time to the
of May. Sailing vessels,
and latterly steamers, hurry them
f0 the t.oe - .te4 4.aas$
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Bob IngersOll on Stlngy Men.

T. !
Idespise a stingy man. / don't see
how it is possible for man 10 die
worth $4,000, 900 or $10,OOO,OOO, in a
city full of want, when be emeets almost
every day the withered hand of beg.
gary, and the white lips of famine.
How aman can withstand all that and
hold in the clutch OF his hand $40. 900.
OO0 or $30,000,000, is past nv com.
prehension. / do not see how he can
do it. / should. not think he could
any more than he could keep a pile
of lumber when hundreds and thou.
sands were drowning in the sea. Do
you know / have known men who
would trust their wives with their
hearts and their home, but not with
theifPocket- -books-not with dollar.
When1 see man OF that kind, | al.
ways think he knows which is more
valuable. Think ofmaking your wife
a beggar. Think OF her asking YOU
every day for dollar or two dollars.
or humbly beg for fifty cents.
"What did you do with that dollar /
gave youm Think Of having a wife
that is afraid ofyou4 What kind of
children do you expect to have with
a beggar. and a coward fora mother ?
Oh, 4 tel you, # you have but
dollar in the world and you have got
to spend it, spend it like a king
spend it as though it were a dry leaf |
and Yod the owner Of unbounded |
forests. That's the way to spend it |
l had rather be beggar and spend |
my last dollar like q King, than to be
a king and spend my, money like a
beggar9 |. If it's got to go, let it go. /
Get the best you can for your family
and look as well as you can yourself.
When you used'to 90 counting, howl |
nice you lookedF tAh, your eyesl
was bright, your step was light, and
you. just put on the very best you
could. Do you know that it is in.
sufterable egotism in you to suppose
mat woman is going to love you
always, looking as bad as you can.
Think ofitl! Any woman on earth
will be true to You forever when you
10 your level best. s1l 9ai A1ioAS
! Plantl tansy at thes roots. of your
plum trees Or hang branches of the
eiant fonnthe limbs lot the trees, aud
n fsdgO $40 JT5Ut r3sIi 5s4g0f y. .-.
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es-@7~t sal<s~a Il l.
an undivided halt interest in IA part of the
domingo Reyes Grant and known on the maps
OF united States surveys as section IS, town
snip 10 south, range 80 east and said parcel con.
tanning 500 acres more or less. Terms cash.
purchaser to pay for conveyance.
JOHN SAULS, Commissioner.
Enterprise, Mar, 26, 1880.
The above sale is postponed to the first Mon.
dav in August, 1880, being legal sale day. I04
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Real Estate.
ORANGE PARK.

Containing 1900 Arrcs,)
-ON THE
81. OIINS RTv.R
L Miles south OF Jacksonville
HHE LARGEST three year old town in
Florida. The reason this place has settled
so fast isthat we are only one hour from
the metropolitan market of Florida for all onr
products Then for Northern shipment stean
ers land at this wharf many times doiIv We
nave Il irst-clasS hotel two stores two daily
mails, three churches, Sunday school pnhIicc
ana select schools, first-class steam oIist mil
house, etc. P"oAiis
B u II NO SALOON
This beautiful location ON the highest banks
or the st. Johns river is settling up very fast
WIN the very best class of Northern peonie
IL would pay you to come and see Their ySaoo
table gardens and strawberry beds and thar
young orange groves, Zone party has shinned
100 quarts of strawberries llp to Nav Isti ~
oettle near a sure market and don,f he hmm
bugged about ~ Auiii
l'BELOW THE FROST LINE.n
There IS no such thing in Florida. Write for
copy OF hey West Rey Jan Stll, 1873 which vii \
eApIoue that humDug ass set forth by land
ageLlts g oi some OF the interior counties of this
Orange Park is all that is claimed for If in
every particular Write for paper, etc., to
w. c. BENEDICT.
(sole Proprietor.)
ORANGE PARn,
IT, Clay County. Florida.