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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07
HUMOROUS.

Stirring times--Morning hours.
A high-toned affair--A fife.
In the center of the earth-R.
The rag-sorter does ripping busi-
ness.
Charity covers n multitude of Sins in
China.-NeW Orleans Picayune.
The Elmira AdUeriiSer says that poets
no longer die young. They live to grow
up with the country.
1t was q young housekeeper whosset
the cake she had baked for party out
OF doors one cold night to be frosted.
No matter what it is you have to do,
always take your time. Never look for
a needle in haste act.-iStateSn,Gn.
A con fined prisoner is apt to be an
migrate; and 1t isn't to be wondered at,
considering the many bars to his pleas
ures. .-Marathon Independent.
"Is your house warm one, land
lordP" asked a lady in search of dwell
ing. cit ought to be; the painter has
just given it two coats" was the reply.
Abiding to Beecher's estimate, that
one female housefy will lay 10000 eggs
in n season, the Church Union thinks ''it
a pity a fly couldn't be grated on hem"
Said Jones'" Smith won't have so
soft thing as he has had" "I don't
know" replied Robinson, "he'll have
soft thing So long as he don't lose his
head"
care we extravaganza asks a Boston
paper. eff you pay five cents tor a
cigar when you can beg one, you are,"
says the economist of the Norristown
Herald.
Everything good in man leans upon
something higher" So does everything
bad in him for that matter, as witness
his reliance On p lamp-post when his
legs prove faithless. .--Bos!o7 Courier.
Jones is small; his wife is tall
But both are full OF grittle.
Says he to her: "You dress too much!'
Says she: You dress too little"
philadelphia Item.
1t was a man of considerable means
who said, when thrown from his horse,
that although not in very comfortable
position, yet he considered himself
pretty well off.
A young lady ate half a wedding cake,
and then tried to dream of her future
husband. Now she says she would
rather die than marry the man that she
saw in that dream.
Don't speak all at once, girls. His
serene highness, Prince Herman Eugene
Adolph Bernhard Franz Ferdinand
August Won superintendent Hob en-
stein is looking for wife.
A German life insurance company,
called Der Lebensversicheruug gsgesell-
schaft complains of the irregu .arity of
the mails. Yet one would suppose it
got ali of its letters.-AadreWS' Queen.
Women have ch eek enough to wear
mems hats on their heads, but there is
one thing they dare not do: Not one of
them dare remove her hat in public and
dust OFF the bald spot.-De!roI Free
Press.
Cruelty to any living creature shows
bad heart. The boy who delights in
torturing wasp with pin will surely
come to some bad end if the wasp has a
fair show in its business movements
| Picdyane.
A young lady was speaking to friend
who had called upon her regarding
trait characteristic of her mother, who
always had good word to say to every
one: Why" sal she, e,"I believe il
Satan were under discussion, mother
would havea good word to say for him.
Just then the mother entered, and was
informed what the daughter had said,
whersupon she quietly said: Well,
ny dear, think we might all initiate
Sitan's perseverance.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07
They Plagued Him.

A story is told of an English voter
who possessed influence, and who asked
the candidate to give his son Il letter of
recommendation to an officer at the ad-
miralty. The request was granted, but
when the youth called to deliver his Gre
dentials he found that he had mislaid
the precious epistle. However, he sue
ceeded in obtaining a nomination, and
some weeks after his return home dis.
covered the lost "letter of ofrecommenda-
ton" among some papers. Having
done without it he had the curiosity to
open it, and was startled to find that it
contained an earnest injunction to
throw every obstacle in his way" for,
as the writer added, " i cannot disoblige
this youths father, and if he once enters
the navy he will be plaguingmy life out
to get him ship" The young man
was furious, but the father, practical
minded man. cooily remarked: SIT is
not worth making a disturbance; we
will take him at his word and plague
him for q ship" which was done accord
ingly. with success.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07
VOL. x.
The Supreme Hour.

There comes an hour when all lies lows and
pains
To our raised vision seem
But as the Pickering phantom m that remains
OF some dead midnight dream!
There comes an hour when earth recedes SO
lar,
lis wasted, wavering ray
wanes to the ghostly pallor of a star
Merged in the milky-way.
Set on the sharp, sheer summit that divides
Immortal truth from mortal iantisie;
We hear the moaning OF times mufned tides
In measureless distance die
Past passons-loves, ambitions and despairs,
Across the expiring swell
Send thro' void space, like watts OF Lethean
airs,
Vague voices OF farewell.
All, then from life's long-haunted dream we
part
Reused as a child newborn,
We feel the pulses OF the etornal heart
Throb thro' the eternal morn.
Paul Fl. HGyne, IN Youths Companion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07
A WISH.

There's o legend old of the midnight watch
That at sound OF i,thelmidnightEbell,
A voice ruug out through.thessilent town
And the cry was All is wellP
"Alpsswell :"
Oh, friend, when thy midnight hour shall
come,
With the sound OF the passing knell,
May voice ring out to thy weary heart
And the cry be: "All is well %
"AlPs well !"
W. T. Peters, in Scribner.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07

fined to very young ladies, as they are
worn back on the head, and no longer
shade the forehead and protect the eyes
in the way formerly so comfortable to
older ladies. Young ladies Just returned
from summer in Europe are wearing
the Able hat-a fiat broad shovel-shaped
hat, with low round crown, and brim
rolled up. all around, but higher on the
sides, and not close enough to the crown
to Interfere with the scarf and plumes
that serve for trimming. This is
modification of the English walking hat,
but is worn back on the head instead of
low on the forehead. Another pretty
hat for young ladies is in the shape of a
pastrys cooks cap, and is called by some
the Polish cap, by Others the Scotch
cap, and again the Leonardo da Vinci.
Very small Gainsborough hats are
shown, and these now have the plumes
on the right side instead of near the left
side, which is turned up. Most coquet-
tish of all is haring hat that has a sim
gle indentation in the brim trihe to.
ward the left side This is made up in the
new tigre plush, and in shaded plush,
with the entire bonnet of one fabric,
even to the mammoth bow on the top.
The dark rough fur beaver hats with
brim rolled up all around are very be-
coming, and these with the small feather
turbans complete the variety in round
hats -H1rper'S BdzdT.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07

"who told you that liep" demanded

"Who told you that liep" demanded
Cesare, sullenly.
"Veta Rane, ,"replied Ignace, mechan-
ically.
For Mabyn had lifted her eyes to his
| face with faint, CRATE smile, and he
knew nothing else fU moment but
the sweetness of that g
Cesare gazed at the 10 faces with a
muttered curse of bit despair, and
then turned and was ID in the winter
| gloom,
Night ,und him in e farmhouse
garden before Veta Ram
$50 you played tell-tal So you spied
upon me! Who gave SNh the right, I
would like to knowP" he sneered,
brutally.
II have OF watched you, and it was
true" she murmured, her hand upon
her heart.
He was mad with excitement and his
own bitter thoughts-nay, he had been
mad with an evil scheme for months;
now he was simply raging.
Take care, weak, passionate Cesare
D'Arcill You reck not what those bit
ter word-b'ows are doing to that tender
girl who stands so helpless before you.
First she reeled little away from him.
ALI unheeding, he Went on with his Bit
ter taunts and reproaches.
Oh, man! she loved you, and your
lightest displeasure ever struck cold to
her heart!
He paused suddenly, for she had sunk
down, and lay still at his feet.
Poor child! She never knew how his
yet madder cry of remorse rang on the
night air, when he turned your still face
to the moonlight, kissed your unbreath-
ing lips and found you dead of heart dis.
ease.
So he was not all badP No! Few are.
He was only one of many who curse
their lives, and that of others, with
greed of gold.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07

la addition to this, surveys were made
of private lands in three States and Ter
ritories, rs follows: Californ. a, 58 7Os
acres; Arizona, l49,25e acres New
Mexico, 444, lsi acres. The total area
OF public lands surveyed from the be-
ginning OF surveying operations up to
the close OF the last year is shown to bo
752 557. .l95 acres, leaving an unes.i-
mated area yet unsurveyed of ], ,Oe2 $751;
1877 a,res.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-07
The Pablic Lands OF the United
States.

Commissioner Williamson, of the
United States general land Office, in his
annual report devotes considerable
space to the subject of reorganization
and increasing the present force of the
general land office. From the statistical
portion OF the report it is learned that
there were surveyed during the fiscal
year ending June 30.. 1889, 1868, ,253
acres ofpublic lands, and 652, Is acres of
private land claims. This is an increase
in the amount OF public lands surveyed
of 725,347 acres over that of the last
year. This great increase is attributed
to the operation of the act OF March 8,
1879, which led to a great increase in the
number of applications by private indi.
viduals for public surveys. Disposals
of public lands during the year were
made as follows:
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
ITO BE c0NTrNuKD.I

( A weIl-to do farmer called at the
County Poor House in Troy on Monday,
and after explaining that his wife had
died two years before and that he had
found it difficult to get along in his
household, informed Keeper OSullivan
that If he could find q woman in the
County HOUSE who would suit him he
would marry her. Mr.. OSullivan went
into the women's apartment, and choos-
ing the best woman there took her out
for inspection. The stranger looked at
her in business way, asked her If she
would look after bis house, and vt the
same time informed her that In case he
thought they could agrss be would
marry her.. The woman did not seem to
be overjoyed at the prospect Of becoming
a bride, but agreed to the proposition
made to her. The man went off saying
that he would return again ii the morn.
ing and take the woman away. He kept
his word and the pair went t. Albany.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
SICK HEADACHES!

This distressing ahiiction occurs most frequently.
The disturbance of the stomach, arising from the
imperfectly digested contents, causes severe pain
In the head, accompanied with dsagreeable
nausea, and this constitutes what 10 pOpularly
known a. Sick Headache.
ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE.
MANUFACTURED BY
j. HI. ZEILIN Il CO.,
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
Most stories end with 4 marriage,
Mine begins with one. ...A

Most stories end with 4 marriage.
Mine begins with one. a4N
The marriage was my own; and it was
also Annie Burdens I won't say it was
the happiest day Of my life; but it was
the very happiest up till then. I think
we both liked our wedding-day the better
for knowing that all our friends and re-
lations on both sides though us pair Of
lunatics. The suspicion that they were
very likely right gave zest Of romance
to our hand-in-hand plunge into life
whichs is wanting to those who walk
quietly into smooth waters. So far as
we could make out our lunacy lay in my
having no money and no prospects, and
in her having no prospects and no
money. s4
She, as the second cousin Of a baronet,
should have looked higher, and, as the
Youngest of a country curate's five
daug ghters, ought to have looked very de-
ei4edly richer. Las very young sur
geon with no private means, ought have
waited till / could buy . practice and a
carriage before I invested in wife as
the most expensive part of a medical
trade-plant. The truth of the matter is
that I had come down to D. to see if
the place was really unhealthy enough
to make 1t worth new comeps while to
settle thefs. / found it nothing Of the
Kind, but / found it admirably suited
to find q wife in. So far the Rev. John
Burdon's fifth daughter was concerned,
never did love story run more smooth
ly. Singularly enough, to decide that
the place was not worth trying, and to
decide that Annie was the only girl in
any place worth marrying, took up pre-
eisely the same number Of journeys and
the same amount of time.
We married-w wisely, I thought more
shan fifty years ago; wisely, l think still,
and know. But wisdom is very likely
to look Ike rashness to on-lookers. !
believe We only received q certain
amount Of family countensncs on the
ground that IL we did not marry as
things were on the strength Of what
might be, Annie--whose obstinancy was
as well known ~ her warmth Of heart
would outwait every better chance that
the years Of youth might bring her.
Aftef all, d penniless doctor. with all bis
way to make, was better than nobody,
and--wsll, the long and short Of IT is we
left D. and came to London as rich
as any two young people cao bc who
have not means 70 five together for more
than the space Of honeymoon. g :
fought to say that Ihsd been too bard
lstddent to mako many ffiends, without
being brilliant enough TO stand out from
the mass, and, till I fell in love, without
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
CONSTIPATION!

SHOULD not be regarded o. trining
ailment-iu fact, nature demands the ut
most regularity of the bowels, and any
deviation from this demand paves the
way often to serious danger. IL is quite
as necessary m0veimpure accumular
tons from the bowels as it is to eat or
sleep, and no health can be expected
where costive habit of body prevails
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02

Those who wish . reliable hair prepara-
ton should buy Haips Vegetable '6fcilian
Hair Remover. II Is composed Of the purest
ingredients snd with the striotest care.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
|5jEI3|IIl3![lS:Il Discovery


common common ns sS.s , Fl EsSs ..n e E oo ss s: BY pso
EsTsaHy
swelnG Gsitre
Glanda
mouth internal heat chilli
no
pefe and radical cuIss ., - r.
vuuan, | tnsSed tho
discovery Sold druggst
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
BAD BREATH!

Nothing is 20 unpleasant nothing 10 common.
a. bad breath, and In nearly every Gaze it comes
from the stomach, and can be 90 easily corrected
II you will take Simmons Liver Regulator. Do
not neglect 30 sure remedy for this repusive dis
order. 1t will also improve your Appetite. Com
plexion and General Health.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
PILES!

How many surfer torture day after day, making
life burden and robhing existence of all pleas
ure, owing to the secret suffering from Piles YET
relief Is ready to the hand of almost any one who
will use systematically the remedy that hss per
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ulator is no drastic violent purge, but gentle ~
GiGlant TO nAtura
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
ST. AUGUSTINE HOTEL,
.,.. ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida.

Opens Dec. 18th. K E. VAIL. Proprietor
This well known hotel, one OF the largest and
best appointed IN the South, will afford frstcass
accommodations at the usual terms, viz: 3l6 to %
per week, according to location OF rooma The
house Ia in perfect repair, frescoing, decorating
and drainage having been completed. A frst
class restaurant is connected with this hotel
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Spleen.
Regulate the Liver
and prevent Chflls and
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Restlessnesa, Jsundice
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LIVER REGULATOR.

II you feel dull drowsy, debilitated, have fire.
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HOTELS.
MT. AIRY HOTEL,

MT. AIRY, Georgia
LOO feet above tide water. on the Piedmont
Air Line Average temperature in winter, 49,.
Chalybeate and Freestons springs resident physi-
clan; near the famous gold and mineral regions
Of Georgia. M. G. WILCOX, Manager.
FRED. H. scorrMD, Of Uplands Hotel, Eastman
Ga, and late OF the Windsor Hotel, New York
Assistant Manager.
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UPLANDS HOTEL,
N. or,xr I. =, r.s-. r,....xr ~

A fne winter resort in the pine forest OF Geor-
gia; unsurpassed for health and comfort; table
supplied from best New York markets; terms reas-
enable. For circulars address HOTEL Elk
CHANGE. Ill Broadway. New York, OF c. N. d +.
II. SCOFiELD, Managers ......
, 1880-05-02

gay gay evening the anniversary Of the Missionary
nnoeieIy VIII occur. Tuesday the Rev. G. ".
recK, President Of Heddirg College will deliver
1ne annual address Wednesday at ?
?. n the Trustees will meet in
me Heck Hail chapel; and in the
even'ng the Alumni address will be given by
nev. =. E: strobridge, of New York City.
thursday at a. m. the Alumni reunion will be
nelu aud at ep. m. the graduating exercises Of
tae class Of 1880 will be held in the auditorium
or the Methodist Church. During the week ex-
am.nat1ons will also be held in the institute to
test the ability OF the younr preachers.
Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., will deliver a nolit-
ical speech at Jennings Hall to- morrow even
Ing.
The Public Library will be closed for renoya-
ton from May Is to June l. No books will be
let out after May IL
The Revs r 81. Hatfield, .. D., and F. D.
Homenway. D. D., have gone to Cincinnati as
delegates to the General Conference Of tho
Methodist Church. President Oliver Marcy,
LID, will 20 to the same place this week to ut-
tend the Educational Convention.
The Rev Dr.. Jewell, OF Fond du Lac, Wis., will
ofliciate to-day Mt 10 rs Il M and ut 1880 D. NJ at
ST. Marks Episcopal Church.
The Rev. George c. Koyes, D. D.. will preach
this morning and evening In the Presbyterian
Church.
The Rev. 4. ]. Scott will preach this morning
and evening in the Congregational Church.
The Rev. George h. Pierce will conduct the
usual morning and evening services in the
Baptist Church to-day.
, 1880-05-02

Officer William A. Parker of the West MadI-
son Street Station, met with accident last
evening which, If it does not result in the Gu
tire use of his left arm, will MAIN 1t for life.
At 0:45, as he was getting OF u Blue Island
avenue chr eiirectiy*in front of the station, he
was run down By horse and buggy owned and
driven by some person as yet unknown. The
buggy was going west on the tracks at a furious
rate Of speed, the driver evidently wishing to
catch up to a street-car some distance ahead
Of him, and the officer, not seeing nor hearing
it approaching. fell directly beneath the
horses feet There we're in the buggy
and two women, some say two men, but this
could hardly be true, for the buggy is Of the
ordinary size The accident was witnessed by a
number of people in the netghborhood. and some
Some ran to Parker's assistance. and others ran
after the buggy to capture the driver, who was
pc bet doae &c
get away rs fast as possible. Finding bis horse
1nmanaseanle, the fellow jumped from the
sSe fSe eroa lis 4s'ds idsnfay Sa m
The women were. however, arrested, and the
horse and buggy we're taken to the station.
Both we're very independent, and saucily re-
fused TO give the police any information what
soever reEardng their male ~ p Sdmpanion ai Iae
poor defenscless women. Such a great llun,'
is il f es st ds asy b hessf @an @ 6s{ s asodRa Rasse &c
licked up but they had not been In the cells
long before their foul tongues betrayed their
tr1le character. The gave the names
of Della Galloway and Christina La
Bordy, the former claiming to reside
at No. - Morgan street. At nrst taeS saad tnnt
dilema with baiky horse, and kindly, offered
to drive them home; but, when the police told
them thar they knew that Della mad caHed sew
eral times during the afternoon at the Academy
Of Music, they changed their tactics, and said
the 1e was hired at livery near the corner OF
, 1880-05-02
IS CHANCE SUPREME

# once there stood chaos food,
And time coursed not diurnally,
And beam Of light from boundless night
Was ordered not supernhlly,
Aud then, because no life pulse was
Or heart that throbbed paternally,
Did Chance ordain that such domain
Should not exist eternaHy1
So then devise the vaulted skies,
And draft tfle heavenly canopy
With dndems bf gllttering gems
70 sparkle in it's pailoply?
Drnpc the clouds with y,.pory shfouds
To wnve in matchless najesty,
And string the Tyre of Natures choir
To chant its hulloWed mtnstrelsy7
Weld the power in that same hour
To reach throughout fnflnity,
And hold In place through boundlcss space
The wonders that have entity?
Command and cause all NATURES laws
To blend in perfect harmony.
With al1 to chime through endless time
Like sweet and sacred Psa1mody1
II we reflect, do we expect
That Chance will shaps our destiny,
Leaving pail thrown over all
OF dismal doubt and mystery?
Does smiling Spring no tld1ngs bring
With oil its gorgeous pageantry,
Or Winter bleak no language speak
Like that Of Divinity?
While moments climb the mount Of time,
And onward roll succcssiyely,
Does Chance control the human nan. soul
And g1ljde II on progressively!
Hath Chance designed mans glorious mind,
With nj! of its reality,
And bnde it fly to realms On nigh
To claim its immortality
Did Chance design the towering vtne,
And shhdes of night and morning,
With nll the scene that lies between,
To give such blest adornlng?
o Chance, avannt! thou Spectre gnunti
Away with such temcrity.
For thou hast not shadow got
OF any kind Of verify. ....-.
DR. D. AMBROSE DAVIS.