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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
Why Young ChildrensRead Trash,

MIR. Charles Dudley Warner discuss
ing the question of children's reading
in the Christian Union calls attention tc
the comparatively small number of per-
sons, even in this country, who read.
We boast" he says, "about the circu-
iatlon OF our newspapers. The best oi
them are daily marvels ofnews, of infor-
nation, of miscellaneous reading, of en-
tertainment of all sorts. They are the
cheapest things manufactured in modern
days. Considering the capital in brains,
industry and money put into every
number, they are at their price the Won
der of our civilization. And yet the
most wonderful thing about them to me
ls the smallness of their circulation COM
pared to the population. Take such a
center as New York, with a compact
popul ulation of nearly two millions, and
radiating lines of quick distribution
that enable the newspapers within a
few hours t. reach millions more, and
set against this the actual circulation OF
the three or four commanding journals
1t is mere bagatelle.
Stlll there are many newspapers,
and large proportion of the population
sees one every day-that is, of the city
population; but the number of people
who master the contents of daily
hS"oPupSl lO1 DICK
out of them the items of business or
amusement or politics that interest
them. And it is hardly fair to credit
our people with the habit of reading be-
cause they glance at the daily news
papers, or because in the country they
are in the habit of spreading the excel
lent weeklies over their faces to keep
the flies from disturbing their Sunday
nap. believe that the majority of bust
ness men read book very rarey; the
majority of young men in business and
IN society fancy read little-they do
not give their evenings to reading, and
are not apt to take up a book uni ass it
becomes the talk of society. People who
spend great deal of money on dress, on
dinners, on amusements, would think it
exiravagant to buy book, and if one is
commended to them they will wait till
they can borrow it or get it from the
library. They do not hesitate two min
utes about an ordinary two-dollar din
ner, but they will wait months to bor-
row fifty-cent book"
He concludes that lone ofthe reasons
why the, young who read at all read
nothing but trash, as they are said to
do, is because their parents, or older
persons about them, either have not the
habit of aiding or they also read trash.
In such households as l have described,
where the elders go about declaring that
there is nothing to read, the children
catch the tone and think there is moth
ing to read-that is, nothing except the
latest story book or the picture paper.
In a lower strata of society, where the
mother has neither time nor inclination
to read anything, and the father pores
over the Police Gazette, it is quite natural
that his son should take the Bows Oun
story-paper about ruffians and burglars.
The short of it is that the children in
this country follow their elders. And /
suspect that the vast majority of people
care little for reading, except as it fur
nishes them smatteriRg of news or
gives them a temporary excitement"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
In Castle Garden.

NJ. Quad, of the Detroit Free Press
gives II picture OF life at Castle Garden.
New York, where emigrants are landed
as follows: Once beyond the offices the
visitor descends steep stairway to find
himself in II pia"e somewhat resembling
a round house for LOGON olives. Here is
Il circular space large enough to hold
1000 or 5000 people. 1t is heated by
coal stoves, well supplied with benches.
and has every convenience demanded by
people whose stay is seldom more than
two days. Two thousand emigrants
were sheltered there the day l walked
down among them. They were Swedes,
Danes, Poles, Germans, Irish, French
men and Englishmen, and over in one
corner a group of Laplanders nibbled at
luncheon and talked among themselves.
In one corner was family of real old
Dutch stock. The grandfather and
grandmother were there with their
black pipes and wooden shoes, the father
and mother with their fat, ruddy cheeks
and coarse wooden garments, and eight
children were sleeping on the benches,
or looking from the windows. Three
generations were there in one group, and
the old people looked hearty enough to
feel sure of dozen years more OF life
The interpreter spoke few pleasant
words to the father TO draw him out,
and here was his simple story:
" | am II little bit afraid, though
don't let the old folks know it. Every
thing is very strange to us here. l
know this is not a prison, but l am not
quite satisfied about it. We are going
to a country called Brasky (Nebraska),
where some of my old neighbors have
settled. | have bee wanting to come
for sever Il years, but father thought we
would be fooled. He can't see how one
man car have so much land over here.
We don't know how you get along with
out king. How is it that your men do
not have to go in the army unless they
want TOP Everything goes in such a
hurry over here that l am afraid. l
have money to buy land, but I'm afraid
it won't grow cabbages like our ground.
My old friends in Brasky wrote me that
you have no storks here. l am sorry
for this. l can say New York and
steamboat in English, and | shall
soon learn to talk the language. You
see my old mother is crying. She has
three children buried near our old home,
and she is afraid she will never see their
graves again"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
Notes for the Farm.

If you are troubled about the grain
! chest with mice, watch for their holes
and scatter little copperas in them. A
few grains will drive them away.
If your horseis troubled with scratches
mix up little saltpeter and lard and
put upon the sore part, renewed daily
until cured. Keep clean by using CASTLE
soap.
Professor Dana says COW will make
about seventy pounds of manure day,
| or twelve tons a year. This includes
both solid and liquid, and is worth from
s to SO II ton.
1t is generally conceded that sweet
corn makes the most and best relished
fodder for cows. The first seed costs
MOI e, but nothing in proportion to the
benefit to the dairy.
The dairy stands in need of nothing
more than a mechanical milking ma
chine. 1t would reduce the expenses of
dairying nearly one-half, and take from
it the excess of worry and care that now
burdens it. Ten cows to the milker is
now the rule, that being as manv as the
average man can thor )ughly milk in an
hour. The great loss to the dairy is
want of profitable work for these men
tween milking, as two men can feed
a. many COWS as ten men can milk
Land and Home.
If there is any truth in the following
it is important: A statement comes from
South America that "A singular property
Of tomato leaves has been discovered by
Il fruit-grower. Having cut down some
tomato vines he used them as mulch
around his peach trees. He soon dis
covered that the curculio, which was
destroying his fruit, had abandoned the
trees surrounded by the tomato vines.
Following up this accidental discovery,
the free use of tomato vines proved a
p riect protection, not only against the
curculio, but other noXious insects.
The american Cultirator says it may
be a comparatively slow operation to
milk one COW in five minutes, while on
the other hand ten minutes time might
be called quick operation in milking
another. Anr person whose hand is at
all sensitivei to the touch will, if he
forces the milk down TO the end of the
teat faster than it Can escape, find the
milk rushing back, meantime the COW
showing the movement to be one of
pain. Always milk so that the operation
shall be pleasant one to the docile ami
NAL. atfording her relief in the careful
emptying of full bag OF its contents.
Where care and gentlenesS are the rule
in this particular, the COW will welcome
the coming of the mixer as the approach
of friend
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
Two Big SWindIers.

A singular story of wholesale swim
ding and lnconceivable creGulity comes
from Rome. About year ago, a young
and beautiful wo ran, believed to be an
American, and credited with the possess
sion of an enormous fortune, arrived in
the Italian capital, accompanied by
a young man belonging to one of the
Oldest and most distinguished Roman
families, and by a monkey. She had no
other travelling companions. Shortly
alter her arrival she was married to the
young aristoorat, whose name the Ital-
ian papers conceal under the title of
Signor X. The couple went upon a
wedding tour, and spent money with
lavish hands. They selected the city of
Portici for their home, saying that they
wished to live in retirement while await
ing the completion of lnadame's twenty
fifth year, when she would come into
full po$sessi on of her fortune and would
receive six millions of dollars. Every
one was ready to give credit to such a
great heiress. A Roman gentleman, in
whose villa the couple lodged, loaned
them $4,000, and guaranteed payment
for $4,000 worth of jewelry, which
they bought in Naples. They made
debts among the Neapolitan merchants
and bankers to the amount of $4,000
In RUme they victlmlzed the storekeep-
ers heavily for diamonds, corals, costly
furs and other portable articles of high
price. Nothing seemed too costly, pro-
vided they could get credit forit They
even had the handles of parasols and
umbrellas Iset with precious stones.
They contracted to buy the Villa Mira
fiori for $40, 900, bought seven carriages
and forty horses, and ordered private
railway car md yacht. Within year
they managed to make debts to the ex-
tent of over half million of dollars.
The date fixed for payment was in all
cases the first of March. Il, February
the couple went to Paris and then to
London, movement that seems to have
excited no suspicion among their credi'-
ors; but on the first of March news
came to Rome that they had gone to
America, taking with them an immense
quantity of baggage. A few days later
a banker in Rome received letter from
the husband saying that the will max
ing his wife rich heiress had been set
aside, and that they had gone to Amer
lea, hoping with perseverance and indie
fitigable effort to regain the position
they had occupied in he world.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
A &9.hn Eight.

A Carson City paper reports the fol-
lowing lively law proceedings: Yester-
day attern on young man came into
Justice Cary's courtroom, with the rim
of his hat drawn down over his eyes,
and remarked: do YOU know me?"
Il think" replied the court, meekly,
THAT you are the clap sentenced for
stealing about year ago"
That's just the hairpin / am," re-
piled the other, land here's $40 for my
ine."
"But you served your term in Jail, ;"
said the judge, land owe no fine"
THAT'S all right, old boy; but I'm
about to commit an assault and battery,
and guess I'll settle now. You're the
man propose to lick"
"Oh, that's it," reioined the court,
pocket ng the coin; "then you can start
in, and We'll call it square"
The young man advanced to the court
and let out his left. The Judge ducked
his head and, rising up, lifted the in
truder in the eye with right-handed
and sent him over against the wall. In
moment the court was climbing
over the man, and in about three min
utes his face was hardly recognizable.
The man begged the court to let up,
which he finally did. AS the fellow was
about to go out Cary went after him
with: "See here, young man, / don't
think the fighting you did ought to be
assessed at any more than So 50-here's
Sl7 SO in chanae. | amt charging you
anything for fighting, but just for my
time. Next time / won't charge you a
cent" The rough took the change and
the next t: ain for Virginia City.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
The Reign Of Terror in Russia

st. Petersburg correspondent
writes: Not year ago and the emperor
was the father of his people, driving
along in a single sledge or droschky,
just like any other person, taking his
chance of even tumble over the tram
way rails, and not only happy but safe
in the midst of his subjects. How the
picture has changed. Not many days
ago was pushed rudely on one side to
make room for crowd of cavalry. who
came rushing by at more than the pace
of the wind, and in the center of which
rides the czar at gallop. The streets
are slippery with partly melted ice and
snow, the crowds and the vehicles make
the road difficult of rapid transit, and
yet on rushes the cortege, for the great
white czar must not be seen for more
than an instant lest he should be killed.
And then following him comes, at an
equally impetuous rush, Melikoff, the
dictator, accompanied also by his guard.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
FOR TUE FAIR SEX.


Amethyst beads are substituted for jet
on purple silks.
Yellow will be much worn through
out the summer.
Wraps matching the dress will not be
worn this season.
Blackberry buttons of fine jet are worn
with black dresses.
The rose will be the favorite artificial
| flower this summer.
Striped borders are used with the
dark blue navy linens.
White net spotted with gold will be
shown for wells this summer.
Stitching, cords and tassels OF rows OF
braid are used to trim dresses.
Black cashmere embroidered with fine
dots is made up with plain cashmere.
Some of the new coat waists have the
fronts prolonged to the foot of the
skirt.
Large, wide scarfs of Spanish lace are
substituted for the old-fashioned lace
shawl.
Hortense net is new kind of yellow
ish, Spanish blonde, and is used for
veilings.
Heliotrope color will be used for pip
ings this year, as well as blue, red and
old gold.
Diamond buttons worth So 600 fast
ened gown worn at a Partisan ball the
other day.
Real India pongee will be worn for
overdresses this summer by those who
can afford it.
Deep bead fringes arranged to form a
kind of epaulette, are worn with some
sleeveless waists.
Many of the new sets of jewelry are
chased so that the different pieces look
like bits of brocade.
Black silk outside garments will be
less fashionable than those of black
cashmere this year.
The round enameled brooches that
have been out of fashion any time this
ten years are worn for bonnet pins.
Scarfs of dotted net. fastened with
knots of roses, are ustd instead of hoods
by Partisan girls returning from con-
certs.
India muslin, with figures button-hole
stitched upon it, will be fashionable
material for dresses this summer.
Nearly all colarettes have standing
rows Of lace at the throat. Those
which have not should be worn low on
the shoulders.
Wreaths of cup moss in crimson silk
are seen on some of the new hats. Small
white wood flowers are so arranged as to
fall in a fringe beneath the moss.
Short round skirts seem to be accepted
as correct for walking dl esses this sum-
mer, Those made without founces and
slightly gathered are the newest, but
they are not pretty.
Handkerchief dresses are ma 1e up with
plated waists, the border being so dis
posed rs to form belt, and they have
overskirts looped high on the left side
and short underskirts.
New polonaises have the skirt sewed
on at the waist line, except in the back
breadths, which are left uncut and are
slightly draped. The fronts are buttoned
from the throat to the hem.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
Some Artista In Hair.

Twenty ladies sitting on platform hav-
ing their hair dressed by twenty skillful
operators was a spectacle recently seen
in London. 1t was styled a Sotree deS
coifures, and was witnessed by large
and delighted concourse OF people. The
skill, celerity and artistic knowledge
displayed in perfecting some of these
elaborate coiffures is said to have been
marvellous. There were all kinds of
fancy and historical headdresses of the
time of Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI,
Louis XIV, and the directoire. Posi-
bly, the greatest triumph was a navel
Gus edifice of hair, designed to represent
the billows of the ocean, on which a
tiRy model of q ship tossed as the wearer
moved her head.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
The incidents occurring in Colorado

The incidents occurring in Colorado
very-,'ay life fully demonstrates the
uncertainty of property and that hag-
gard want may take wings and fly away
when least expected to do so. A short
time ago a young fellow in his teens, and
"a nobby air, visited one of the first class
jewelry stores in Denver, and selecting
an elegant gold watch and costly cha n,
stepped to the desk and carelessly drew
his check for the amount. The jeweler
somewhat obviously examined the
check, ,remarking that he supposed it was
all right, although he did not know the
customer. "Why, yes, you know me-"
exclaimed the young man; my father
used to do your washing, tut six months
ago he went to Leadville, where he dis
covered mine, AID has sold it for
$50, ,000." The jeweler then remembered
the boy, whose statement was perfectly
true
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
Where-Her RnxY Was.

Tie Boston girls are rushing into
violinity in a way that is terribly sug
gestive OF the horrors which unborn
generations are to sup upon-which re-
minds us OF an incident. At one of the
eV, evening end tddding ing schools the "Profes-
abruptly: "Where is your bow, Miss
RosinwellG" "Oh," she said, abstract
edly, "he's waiting for me outside, |
gu S." And then every drop of blood
rushed inl o her face, and when she be-
gan to practice, her violin gave vent TO
cries as OF one undergoing torture. If
it felt all the venom the young lady put
into her work, the cries we're all too
mild in their heartrending weirdness.
She was just as mad as she could be-
Bo ton Transcript.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

An old PHYSICIAN retired from practice, having had
placed In his hands by East India missionary the
formula of simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure for Consumption, BronchitiS
also positive aid radical for Nervous Debility and
all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of has felt his uty
to make II known TO his suffering fellows Actuated by
this motive and desire to relieve human suffering will
send free Of charge TO all who desire H. this recipe In
German French, English with full directions fof pre-
pairing and using Sent by mail by addressing with stamp
naming this paper. W. W. SHERAR lao Powers
Block Rochester. NJ. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

vegetine put up in this form comes within
the reach Of all. By making the medicine
yourself you can, from a SOC. package con-
tanning the barks, roots and herbs, make two
bottles of the liquid Vegetine. Thousands
will gladly avail themselves OF this oppor-
tunity, who have the conveniences to make
the medicine. Full directions in every pack
age.
Vegetine in powder form is sold by all
drugs lists and general stores. If you cannot
buy it oi them, enclose fifty cents in postage
stamps for one package, or one dollar for two
packages, and l will send il by return mail.
Ii. r. Stevens. Boston. Mass.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
How to Get Sick.

Expose yourself day and night, eat toe
much without exercise; work too hard
without rest; doctor all the time; TAX,
all the vile nostrums advertised; and
then you will want TO know
How to Get Well,
Which is answered in three words
Take Hop Bitters! See other column
Erpress.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
A HousehoId Need.

A book on the Liver, its diseases and their
treatment sent free. Including treatises upon
Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jaundice,
Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, Dyspep.
sia, Malaria, etc. Address DR.. Sanford, 1852
Broadway, New York city, N. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

There are three graces in Kentucky
Martha. Mary and Margaret Devoe, of
Jessamine county. They were born to
the same parents in the same hour in
1927, and have grown up 10 be middle
aged spinsters together. When they
were young ladies their father exacted
from them a VOW never to marry and
never TO separate until death. This
promise they have ysligiously kept.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

Adam Walker killed himself at Au-
rora, ILL.,, because he had been sentenced
to Imprisonment, and on the very same
day Marcus Boppe. tramp, committed
suicide at Lancaster, Pa, because q
magistrate refused to send him to prison,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

1t has been long known that fishes re-
turn to about the same place in the
same rivers each year to spawn, but it
is recent discovery that they go up the
left hand side of the stream and coming
down take the opposite side. Fisher
men may be benefited by remembering
his.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

The VoItafc Belt Co.. Marshall, Mich.
Will send their Eectro-Voltaic Belts to the
afflicted upon 80 days trial See their adver-
tisement in this paper headed, "On 80 Days
Trial y
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
Vegetine.
One Package in Powder Form
Cured Scrofula.
HOW TO BEDUcE YOUR DOCTORS BILLS.
se BREMEN ST., East Boston, Mas.

% BREMEN ST., East Boston, Mass.,)
Sept. so, 1879.
Mr.. II. r. STEvENs-Dear Sir: My little daugh.
tor Stella has been afflicted long time with Scrof.
ula, suffering everything. employed differen,
physicians in East Boston, but they helped hei
uone. bought some of your PevDER FoRM vEGE.
TINE, and my wife stepped and gave It TO the child
according to the directions, and we surprised
in fortnghts time to how the child had gained
in flesh and strength. She is now gaining every
day, and can cheerfully recommend your remedy
TO be the best we have ever tried.
Respectfully yours, J. T, WEBB.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

When exhausted by mental labor take
Kdney-Wort to maintain healthy action
of all organs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

Over one thousand cheese factories
are operated in the State of New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01

Stop coughing at once by the immediate use
OF DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup; 25 cents bottle.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
Consumption Cured.

Prevent crooked boots and blister ed heels
oy wearing Lyons Patent Heel Stiffeners.
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vegetine Is Sold by all Druggists.
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