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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-26

any MID. short course 81 this medicine will re-
store the oet functions nd procure health and hap
sinSa whore before was dependency and gloom.
The specific medicine Is teiag used with wonderful
success
Pspphlei sent free 20 all Write Tor them and
got fuli particulars.
RTtce, Specific % per package, or six packages
for ts.U Will be sent by mali on receipt ~ money.
Address all orders, ). II. SIMPSONS MEDICIN CO.,
Nos M and l0d Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.
~ SOLD IN Lancaster by all druggist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-26

Cures Burns Cuts and Bruises.
Cures 5urps, Cuts and Bruises.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-26

loss Of memory,
premature oil q
age aud diseases
thatload con
sumpnon,ingan-
ity and an ceiy
grave, or both
NJ matter how
shAttered IN 9
system may BID
from aseee Of.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-26

Sold BY JAMES A. JONES, Lancaster Wis. Price soc
and S1OO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-26

CURES RHEUMATISM CURES COUGHS and COLDS
CURES RHEUMATISM CURES COUGHS and COLDS
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

What the carpets are saying-"Shake."
General Hancock is ifty-six years old
and weighs 297 pounds.
# ship arrives in port second late
they dock it. YonkerS Statesman.
A Defiance (Ohio) farmers mare
gave birth to a colt with five horns.
About 1900 persons are employed in
the manufacture of silks in this coun-
try.
When man is rolling in wealth hi
fortune is appropriately expressed in
round numbers.
The clip of wool for 1879 was the
largest ever shown in the United States,
amounting to 233, $780, 600 pounds.
How it must make a donkey laugh to
see what an insignificant little ear q
whale can boast.-Boston Transcript.
About 1886, 300, 900 gallons of beer were
manufactured in the United States in
1879, and 1,245, 500,0 gallons in Great
Britain.
Household decoration makes great
progress in tenement quarters. We note
that old hats have taken the place of
cast-off clothing in broken window
panes.-Puck.
A benevolent Detroit dentist an
! nounced that on a certain day he would
pull teeth free for poor persons and
provide laughing gas. He used 700 gal
Ions of gas and extracted 27l teeth.
A reformed photography was intro
duccd into all the Prussian schools on
April l. All new school-bouks will
hereafter be printed with the reformed
spelling, and no educational works with
the old spelling will be used in schools
after the lapse of certain interval.
The governments of Austria, Bavaria
and Wurtemberg have also adopted the
new spelling.
The United States consul at the Fiji
| islands says that on the largest of the
group there are two splendid rivers, on
| the banks of which are more than fifteen
hundred acres planted with sugar
canes. The dried meat of the cocoanut
-copra-is the chief article of export.
1t is sent to England and Germany; and
| there are more peanuts raised there
than can find market.
Cruci6x, the winner of the Oaks for
| Lord George Bentwick, did more in less
time than any horse that ever had ap-
peared on the English turf up to lis
time. He ran twelve times within as
many months without ever having been
! beaten, and won ten thousand two hum
dred and eighty-seven pounds in public
| stakes. The triumph of Cruci1x were
| all achieved between July g., 1889 and
June 5, 1910, considerably less than
| twelve months.
The tree-felling electric battery is an
extension of a well-known and very USE
lul surgical instrument for removing
warts, etc. A small platinum wire is
drawn tightly around a tree and con-
nected with a battery, by which the
wire is heated white hot. The wire is
kept taunt as it burns into the wood
until it burns through, leaving the tree
standing, but needing only little force
to bring it down.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
{. The Emperor's Tree"

When Chuntche, the founder of the
present Using dynasty, assembled the
throne OF China, he planted a tree in the
courtyard of the temple called Tanche-
ssu, which is situated in the hills short
distance west of Pekin. 1t is believed
that the ruling family will remain in
power so long as this tree exists. At
present it shows no signs of decay, and
has apparently long life before it, but
there is still more extraordinary SUI
perstition attached to it. Saplings
sprout our periodically from the root
and with the death of ea h prince one
withers away, while fresh one appears
in honor of the new emperor. Eact
sapling bears the same relation to the
individual prince that the tree does tt
the dynasty; and no. unnaturally th'
| emperor for the time being watche
with considerable anxiety the growth
of his particular sapling. The tree i
named The Emperor's Tree" and i
may be worthy of noting that the sap
ling of the present emperor is said TO b
extremely vigorous and iourishing.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
An Antarctic Exploring Expedition.

The Italians are the last people who
have become enthusiastic on the subject
of polar expeditions, their interest hav-
ing been awakened in all probability by
the visit at one or two of their ports of
the explorer, Nordenskjold, while on
his return trip in circumnavigating tie
continents of Europe and Asia. The
Italians assert, with no little force. that
it is hopeless for them to think of COM
peting with the northern nations in Arc
tic explorations, as they are wanting in
the experience which their rivals have
acquired by large number of unsuccess-
full voyages, but that there is a fresh and
and untried field open to them in the
vast and uneXplored tracts of land and
water around the South pole. 1t is
therefore an Antarctic voyage upon
which the expedition which is to sail
from Genoa in May, 1881, will enter. 1t
is little singular that 10 more atten-
ton has been paid to explorations in
that quarter of the globe. We know
relatively nothing more about 1t now
than we did when Captain Cook made
his discoveries of mountainous coun-
try directly south of the continent of
Africa in I775. D'Urville, Wilkes and
Ross have confirmed the statements of
some approach to eXactness, the shore
line of the Antarctic continent, as it is
called, but there che information ends,
and whether the land is merely a large
island, or whether it extends its un-
broken barrier over the southern polar
regions, is a matter which the Italians
have now an opportunity to demon
strate. 1t should also be remembered
that there has never been an Antarctic
expedition since the utilization of steam
power as a motor for large vessels, and
hence the Italians will be in many ways
better prepared to extend their re-
searches than were those in whose tracks
they follow.
No doubt, one of the reasons why
such slight interest has been taken in
Antartic voyages is the extreme diff
Guilty that has hitherto been expert
enced in gaining high southern lati-
| tudes. The vessels from America that
go each summer to Archangel, ON the
White sea, for Russian hemp and flax,
go nearly as far toward the North pole
as Sir James Ross or Lieutenant Wilkes
ever went toward the south in their sew
eral voyages. 1t is well know that the
ice area around the South pole is much
greater in extent than that whi h sur
rounds the North pole, fact that is ac-
counted for by various hypothesis, the
most probable of which is that the
southern hemisphere is SO largely made
up OF water areas that its average tenn
perature is considerably cooler than tn,
northern half of the globe, where i'm
mense tracts of land radiate and perpet
uate the heat received from the sun
While it is highly improbable that tn
Italian expedition will succeed in reach
ing the South pole, it is fair to presum
that it will be able to solve number G
unsettled geographical problems, and
may also be of service to the CONNER
eial world by demonstrating the exisf
ence of vast guano deposits and profit
able seal fisheries which may be easil
reached by well equipped merchant yei
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
IN PERIL.

"Lois-Lois Arnold! Drat the girl!
Where is she nowp"
The speaker was an energetic-looking
middle-aged woman standing in the
door of n small house in the side street
OF Il village
"What's the matter, Mary?" queried
her hus band, kindly faced man, us he
stepped into the porch beside her.
Matter enough! Why, here it is
six o'clock and the table ain't even set
for supper. can't find Los nowhere.
What's more, Reu ben, ," che added, with
an anxious look, Il mistrust she's after
no good"
"Why, how do you mean, Mary?"
" I'm afraid she's off with that Dray-
ton"
What, that city chap"
eyes. He's been moopin' around
here sight more'n | like, lately. l
saw her putin on her best white frock
two hours ago. and | thought then that
more'n likely she expected to see him"
And Mrs. Arnold shook her head sol
emnly.
At this moment young man turned
the corner of the street and came toward
the couple. He was tall ard well made,
and evidently carpenter by occupa.
tion. as the kit of toois he carried tes-
tilted.
Here comes Paul Haynes, now,n
said Mrs. Arnold. Perhaps he's seen
her" And, with friendly nod she
called out, ''Seen Lois anywheres round,
PaulP"
"No, haven't" replied the young
man, pausing; then added, anxiously,
" You amt worried about her, are
youp"
"Oh, no; likes not she is in to one of
the neighbors." said Mrs. Arnold. with
feigned Indifference; and, as Haynes
passed on, she said to her husband: 81
wasn't going to have him mistrust any
thing. Lois had sight better marry
him; he wants her bad enough, and he's
such good fellow"
Lois Arnold WIS the niece of the good
couple who were thus anxious about
, her-a pretty, wayward little thing, who
had already given as much anxiety to
her sober protectors as does the wanton
duckling to the respectable hen she who
rears it.
At this moment the culprit was walk
ing down a green lane not far from her
nome, making her way toward it, in
deed, but very slowly.
She was not alone She was leaning
on the arm of a man about thirty, evil
IDENTIFY n denizOn of the city. He was
rather good looking, with intense dark
eyes, and yet there lurked an expression
on his face that might have inspired
distrust in one more experienced than
our country girl.
And you say we must part here,
LoisP" he said, pausing under the shade
of large tree, and drawing her into
the shelter of some bushes.
"Yes, Frank" she replied. 81 dare
not have you 90 any further; and shall
be late at home, as it is. Aunt Mary will
be sure to scold."
Lois" said the young man suddenly.
taking both her hands in his. 6 would
you like to escape those seedlings for
everP"
"What do you mean, Mr.. DraytonP"
asked Lois, looking up at him with
startled eyes.
/" | mean will you go back to the city
with me? Will you give yourself to me
entirely, my own pretty petP"
And he caught her suddenly in his
arms, imprinting an audacious kiss on
her trembling lips, and fairly over
whelming her with the force of his
emotion.
After moment Lois drew little
back from that almost fierce embrace.
and looking frightened and bewildered,
talteredi
This Is SO sudden"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
Daniel Mcfarland.

Among the invalids who assemble
regularly every morning in the little
chapel at st. Vincent's hospital, to send
thanks on high for earthly blessings is
Daniel Mcfarland. who shot Albert d.
Richardson, i'll New York He sits
doing in the large ward at the Sisters
hospital in this city, a pensioner upon
the county, and quite unknown and for
gotten. He was pointed out to re-
porter who picked his way in among the
cots to the one where the fallen man sat.
and said:
"Mr Mcfarland"
Hii-so- What?"
"This is Mr.. Daniel Mcfarland, be-
lie eP"
son. my name. Yes, yes. Daniel
Mcfarland. That is it"
You once lived in New York, Mr.,
Mcfarland"
Yes, sir, recollect it. 1 did once
live in New York"
If my memory serves me correctly
you were once very wealthy in that
cityP"
was in quite comfortable circum.
stances at one time, SIR"
Do you hear often from your wealthy
New York friendsp"
Il hear from no one"
Are you comfortable herep"
"a pauper on the county could moi
expect more"
"You are pennilessP'
"Penniless and friendless, dying
among strangers in a county almshousl
in the wilds of the Rocky mountains. ~
LeGdUilLe (COl) Democrat.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
Some Facts Not Generally Known.

A barr i of petroleum will generate
sufficient heat to reduce ton of iron
from the ore, and it requires ton and
a half of coal to do as much.
One pound of beans is said to he equal
to four pounds of rice in its nutrient
properties. and superior in this respect
to an equal amount OF wheat.
Careful measurements of 800 boys
showed that in a very few of them were
the legs of equal length, the difference
being as rule a small fraction of an
ch.
The Scientific american asserts that
telegraph wires attached to a house, or
passing over one, do not have the ten
dency to attract the lightning to the
house.
A method of preserving cooked meats,
patented in Australia, consists in pack
ing it in wooden boxes, which are
dipped in hot stearine and then allowed
to cool with a coating of the wax.
M. Decasine has observed that the
use of tobacco by children causes them
to have palpitation and irregular action
of the heart. Also that it predisposes
them to laziness and the use OF alco-
holics.
In parts of Italy an insidious disease
called "hellaga" is proving fatal to
large numbers of the population, its
cause being attributed to the eating o.
deteriorated maze and the unhealthfu
state of the novels in which the coun
try people live.
At a late meeting OF { he Liverpoo
Engineering society, Tile alscussIon wa
mainly upon the practicability of usi1l
the tremendous power of the tides il
place of that of steam produced by tn
burning Of coal. The general epinio
seems to be that the tides will ere lon
be utilized
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
The End.
The course of the weariest river

The course of the weariest river
Ends in the great gray sea;
The acorn, forever and ever,
Strives upward to the tree.
The rainbow, the sky adorning,
Shines promise through the storm;
The glimmer OF coming morning
Through midnight gloom will form.
By time all knots are riven,
Complex although they be,
And peace will at last be given,
Dear, both to you and to me.
Then though the path may be dreary,
Look onward to the goal
Though the heart and the head be weary,
Let faith inspire the soul.
Seek the right though the wrong be tempting,
Speak truth at any cost;
Vain is all weak exempting
When once the gem is lost.
Let strong hand and keen eye be ready.
For plain and ambushed foes;
Thought earnest, and fancy steady
Bear best unto the close.
The heavy clouds may be raining
But with evening comes the light;
Through the dark are low winds complaining,
Yet the sunrise gilds the height;
And love has his hidden treasure
For the patient AMI the pure;
And tine gives his fullest measure
To the workers who endure;
And the word that no law has shaken
Has the future pledge supplied;
For we know that when we "awaken"
We shall be " satisfied"
-Tinleu's .Mnonzink.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06
A Bit of a Sermon.

~ Dhb vi a. OCIUlOus
Whatso'er you find to do,
Do it, boys, with all your might
Never be little true;
Or little in the right 4
Trif1es even
Lead to heaven,
Iriaes make the life OF man;
So in all things,
Great or small things,
Be as thorough as you can.
Let no speck their surface dim
Spotless truth and honor bright!
I'd not give fig for him
Who says any lie is whitel
He who falters,
Twists or alters
Little atoms when we speak,
May deceive me,
But believe me,
To himself he is q sneak!
Help the weak ii you are strong,
Love the old if you are young,
Own a fault if you are wrong,
II you're angry, hold your tongue,
In each duty
Lies beauty,
II your eyes do not shut,
Just rs surely
And securely
As kernel in q mutt
Love with all your heart and soul,
Love with eye and ear and touch;
That's the moral OF the whole
You can never love too much
lis the glory
OF the story
In our babyhood begun;
Our hearts without it,
(Never doubt it),
Are the worlds without sun,
II you think word will please,
Say it, il it is but true,
Words may give delight with ease,
When no net is asked from you.
NctuS uihy OlIen
Soothe and soften,
Gila Joy or heal pain;
They are treasures
Yielding pleasures
1t is wicked to retainl
Whatsoe'er you find TO do,
Do it then with all your might;
Let your prayers be strong ant true
Prayer, my lads, will keep you right.
Prayer in all things,
Great and small lhings,
Like Chris ian gentleman;
And forever,
Now or never,
Be MS thorough as you can.
- GO0t " OrdS for the YOuag.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06

Congressional Delegate Cannon, of
Utah, is an Englishman, round and red,
and has four wives. The delegate from
New Mexico. Mariana Otera, was born
in the Territory which he represents.
He was Educated in ST. Louis, and was
at one time a republican judge, with
much popnlarity Delegate Brents, of
Washington Territory, was born in
Illinois, whils. Ainslie, of Idaho, is a
native of Missouri, and Bennett, OF
Dakota, is an OHIO man.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06

A Nebraska widow went out upon the
highway to rob travellers and get money
to buy seed wheat, but the first passer
happened to be widower and she COM
promised by marrying him. = Detroit
Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06

Louis Watso, he Indian chief, who is
over 100 years Old, and who lives at
Lake George, has received a pension
from the English government for SER
vices rendered as chef OF the Abenaquis
in 1879.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-06

1t seemed that oysters may be arti-
fically propagated by chopping up the
male and female oysters together. DR..
w. j. Brook says that the young oys-
ters thereupon Immediately begin
forming. In few hours the embryo
can swim in the water. Its shells, at
first small and apart, soon grow down
over the edges and finally form the
hinge. In twenty-four hours it is able
to take food, and it grows to size suffi-
cient for food in about three years. An
average oyster contains from six TO
nine million eggs. A large oyster con-
tains fifty million eggs
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-08

FATAL AFFRAY AT NEwBERRY.-In-
formation has just been received Of a
fight at Newberry yesterday, which result
ed in the shooting oftwo men by the name
of Chappell by man named Harp.
The dispnte arose about a cock fight.
One account says that both of the Chap
pells were killed. Another that one was
killed and one fatally wounded.
Since writing the above we have re-
ceived the following particulars.
Bill Harp and Press and Jim Chappell
had cock fight in Newberry Christmas
morning. After the fight was over the
Chappells wanted the money which, it
seems, Harp had won, and had abused
him all day. Finally, at night, Press
Chappell called him into saloon, saying
he wanted to see him on business. When
he entered they closed the door on him,
abused him by cursing him. When
Harp could stand it no longer, he
asked to be released, and tried to get by,
when Press Chappell fell upon him and
said he would have the money or kill
him. Harp then drew q derringer and
fired, the shot taking effect in the chin,
just under the lip. He then quilted the
place. Jim Chappell followed him with
a bowie knife. Harp retreated as far as
he could, and asked Chappell to 60 back,
as he didn't want to hurt him. Chappell
remarked, "Ill take you dead or alive"
Harp still retreated, and finally threw up
both hands and said, "For Gods sake,
Jim Chappell, don't crowd me; don't
want to hurt you" Chappell still fol-
lowed and remarked as before, when
Harp drew his pistol, and saying, "if you
force me, here goes; do it in self.de-
fense," fired two shots, one taking effect
in the region of the heart and the other
in the shoulder, killing him instantly.
Press Chappell was not dead late last
ing, but the ball had entered his windpipe
and he was unable to swallow anything.
He is just lingering. Harp is in the
Jail yard but not confined. We learn
that Jim Chappell is late from the peni-
Tertiary. The Chappells are from the
neighborhood of ChappePs Depot and
Harp from Newberry village. All white
men. .-C0lumbia Register.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-08

The Senate committee, with General
Taft as chairman, appointed at the first
session of the last Legislature to investi-
gate the investigating committee, of
which Senator Cochran was chairman,
reported just before the adjournment of
the Legislature, completely endorsing
the committee and approving of its work.
It seems that there was difference be-
tween Taft and Mr.. Cochran, which led
the former to desire to catch the latter in
some irregularity in the work of the in
vestigating committee. In order to do
this he had a committee appointed to
overlook the accounts and work of that
committee. 1t seems that large
amount of the testimony was copied in
the handwriting of-a member Of Mr..
Cochran's family, and Mr.. Taft expected
to show that large sums of money had
been paid for this work, while the testi-
mony and vouchers showed that it had
been done gratuitously, and that the
State actually owed Mr.. Cochran bal
ance on the compensation provided for
the committee. The report of the COM
mittee was adopted by the Senate, and
thus the investigating committee has
been vindicated and Mr.. Taft completely
foiled in his expectation of involving Mr..
Cochran.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-08
NsOLENT AND UNFOUNDED.

The following article from the New
York San deserves unqualified comdem-
nation, for it is both insolent to the South
and without justification in the facts. If
the Sun is only as true to Democracy as
the South is there will be no complaint
as to its course. This paper, however,
seems to take pleasure in abusing the
South and our people whenever oppoitu-
nifty affords, and has done the Democrat
ic party and the country as much harm
as any paper in the country by its per-
sistent abuse and misrepresentation. The
article given below is a fair sample of
the fabrications which emanate from its
columns:
Mr.. Don Cameron was made Chairman
of the Republican National Committee,
not only because he is bold, rich and
powerful, but because he is personally on
the best of terms with many of the South
ern leaders. This is remarkable, but it
is also true. He wines and dimes them,
and transports them free to horse races
and other entertainments.
Besides, Mr.. Cameron is always ready,
as his father was before him, to grind a
little axe for any of them in strait; to
get an appointment made, a contract pro-
tected, or a railroad pass provided.
Those who think these relations of no
importance may remember how he
shouldered into the Republican Senate
Gen. Butler, of South Carolina, when all
the organs were denouncing him as the
author of the Hamburg massacre.
The conspirators of the third term look
forward to a period in their game when
they may need Southern support, and in
case it should be necessary to count
Grant in, aud seat him by force, they
want the Confederate long-swords on
their side. This is the meaning of the
Grant demonstration among the worst of
the late rebels.
With the existing Administration, with
the regular army under Sherman and
Sheridan, and the flower of the Confed-
crate brigadiers, the conspirators think
they would be strong enough to defy the
people, North as we'll as South. The
Confederates traded with Hayes, and
why should they not trade with Grant?