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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
Household Hints.

After buttering your cake tins scatter
little flour over them and the cake is
absolutely certain not to stick to the
tin. If your oven is likely to bake hard
at the bottom put paper i'll the bottom
of the tin. Butter it well first.
Cellars thoroughly treated with white
wash made yellow with copperas will
not be considered desirable habitations
for rats and mice.
When washing fine laces do not use
starch at all in the last water in which
they are rinsed put little fine white
sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the
result will be pleasing.
To brown sugar for sauce or puddings,
put tle sugar in perfectly dry sauce.
pan. If the pan is the least bit wet, the
sugar will burn and you will spoil your
saucepan.
When putting away the silver tea or
coffee pot which is not used every day,
lay little stick across the top under the
cover. This will allow fresh air to get
i'll, and will prevent mustiness. 1t will
then be ready for use at any time, after
having first been thoroughly rinsed with
boiling water.
Nothing is better to clean silver with
than alcohol and ammonia; after rub
bing with this take little whitening or
soft cloth and polish in this way !;
even frosted silver, which is so difficult
to clean, may be easily made clear and
bright.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

presided over by Sir James Paget, and
of which the queen and Prince Of Wales
have consented to be patrons. -Four
general addresses will be given by as
many men of distinguished interna-
tional reputation, representing France,
Germany, America and England. Pro.
fessor Huxley, who is a member of the
Royal College of Surgeons, as we'll as
man of science, has accepted the respon-
sibility of delivering the English adj
dress. In the vast range of topics which
the discussion and papers will embrace,
perhaps none will excite livelier in
terest than military surgery and medi-
cine. The chief subjects under this
head will be the hygiene of armies and
fleets, the health of soldiers at home and
abroad, and the best means of extending
to field and other temporary hospitals
the recent improvement in the treatment
of wounds and injuries by what is called
the antiseptic method.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

KOHL JELLY CAKE.-One cup of white
sugar, three eggs, one teaspoonful of
cream tartar mixed in q cup of flour,
half teaspoonful of soda in two table
spoonfuls of sweet milk; stir well and
bake in spare tins. When done spread
with jelly and roll while warm.
CRACKER OMELEL.-Beat four eggs
and add teacup of milk into which has
been stirred one tablespoonful of pound
ed cracker and one even teaspoonful of
flour; stir it well and pour on o we'll
buttered griddle, not too hot; turn it
as soon as it will do, and then fold it
over twice and turn it on to warm
plate.
BLIND B1RDs.-Take a piece of beef
steak as large as your hand and spread
1t on the table, cut piece of bacon as
large as finger and lay it in, then cut
some onions fine and spread them over,
salt and pepper it to taste, add o pinch
OF juniper berries, roll it up and tie it
with some thread so it will not open,
stew and fry an hour.
POTATO SLAw.-Boil potatoes, peel
them and slice fine, take small piece
of bacon and let it fry out, then slice a
few onions and let them fry till light
brown, put spoonful of flour in and
let it get yellow, then pour in little
water and vinegar, and then sprinkle
salt and pepper over the potatoes and
raw onions, pour your sauce over them
and they are ready to serve.
OAT MEAL CAKEs.-Place one pound
of oat meal in a bowl l. in one pint of
boiling water drop about half an ounce
of butter or salted lard pour this boil
ing over the meal, stirring it as quickly
as possible into dough turn out on to
bread board roll it unil as thin as it
can be and hold together cut into
small, round cakes and bake on O grid
die, first one side and then the other.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
POPULAR SCIENCE,

NJ. Shvedoff endeavors to maintain in
the Journal of the Russian Physical and
Chemical society that hail is of cosmic
origin and is variety of meteorites. r.
A German chemist has established the
valuable fact that wood impregnated
with parafine oil is preserved for many
years from rot, even under circum.
stances most favorable to decay.
A correspondent of Nature gives the
following natural experiments with DO
larized light: Break off a plate of ice
and hold it between the sky and pool
of water. Its reflected image will show
the beautiful colors due to polarized
light. The incident rays should come
from part Of the sky about ninety de-
grees from the sun, and reflection
should take place at the polarizing
angle for water, and the plate will prob
ably require adjusting to bring out the
maximum effect.
Statistics show that since 1854 there
has been an-increase of risk from light
ming in various parts of Germany, Aus
tria and Switzerland, while there is no
corresponding increase in the number
of thunder-storms. Herr Holtz, who
has been investigating this matter, in
clines to the belief that the causes for
the greater liability of danger from
lightning are to be sought in the changes
produced of late by man on the surface
of the earth such as the clearing of
forests, the increase of railroads. and
the great use made of iron in the con-
struction of houses.
A report by DR.. II. Trimen, of Ceylon,
on india rubber, states that the plant
which produces the Ceara rubber is
very hardy, and will grow in dry,
rough soil and in a moderate dry, hot
atmosphere, while the Para and West
India rubber plant require q rich al
luvial soil and constantly hot, moist
mosphere The tree grows to heighs
of about thirty feet, and has a dense
rounded crown. In two years it attains
diameter of four or five inches when
it may be tapped. The cultivation of
this tree will reduce the price of rubber
to reasonable rate.
M. Chappuis thinks that the blue of
the sky may be due to ozone present in
the upper regions of the sky. He argues
that the electrical discharges constantly
taking place will produce ozone; and
the recent researches of himself and NJ.
Hautefeuille have shown that ozone, at
any rate when near its condensed point,
is Of blue tint. He has examined the
absorption-spectrum of ozone and finds
nine dark bands in it, three at least of
which correspond with known bands in
the tpIluric Snprtlun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
WISE WORDS.
Fortune unmasks men.

Fortune unmasks men.
A boaster's virtues are on the sur.
face.
1t is the worst wheel that squeaks the
most.
Better three honrs too soon than one
minute too late.
Experience is the name men give to
their follies OF their sorrows.
Discomfort is the want of self-reli.
ance, it is the intirmity of will.
Good breeding shows itself most
where to an ordinary eye it appears the
least.
Stay not until you are told OF op-
portunities to do good; inquire after
them.
The worst education that teaches self
denial is better than the best that
teaches everything else and not that
Opportunities are very sensitive
things; if you slight them on their
first visit you seldom see them again.
Self-respect is the noblest garment
with which man may clothe himself
the most elevating feeling with which
the mind can be inspired.
The law OF the harvest is to reap
more than you SOW. Sow an act and
you reap habit; SOW habit and you
reap character; SOW a character and
you reapa destiny.
We perhaps never detect how much
of our social demeanor is made up of
artificial airs until we see a person who
is at once beautiful and simple; without
the beauty we are apt to call simplicity
awkwardness.
A cheerful temper, joined with inno-
cence, will make beauty attractive,
knowledge delightful and wit good-na-
tured. 1t will Tighten sickness, poverty
and affiiction, convert ignorance into an
amiable simplicity and render deformity
itself agreeable.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
Sun1OWers for Funl.

Says the Nelsonville (AIinn.) Noun.
tdileeer: The Emerson International
publishes an article headed Corn for
Fuel" and gives an extract from the
jackson Republican showing that ior
heating purposes corn is much cheaper
than wood. We have always been of
the opinion that much more econom-
ical fuel than wood can be grown by
prairie farmers, but doubt if corn
can be made success in this country.
We recollect seeing an article some
time ago recommending the growth of
the common garden sunfower for pur-
poses of fuel, and at the time were
much impressed with the arguments ad-
vanced. We believe that some such
rapidly growing and bulky vegetable as
the sur flower is the true solution of the
fuel question in this country. The seed
Of sunfower abounds in oil of a very
combustible nature, and the stalks
burn freely. An immense quantity can
be grown to the acre, and the plant is
thoroughly adapted to our soil and eli
mate. Mr.. William Cowan, of this
place, had patch few years ago that
exactly resembled grove of young for
est trees. The stalks were stout and
straight as young poplars, and shot up
to height of from twelve to fifteen
feet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
[Mondovi (Wis.) Buffalo Co. Herald.]
Notions Of the First Settlers.

Mr. W. H. II. Amidon, one of the first
settlers in the town of Chinatown,
Wis, and one of the most industrious
and hard-Sorking men in the county,
has been very severely troubled with
rheumatic pains during the past few
years, so much at times that he was dis,
abled from performing manual labor.
Leaning of the wonderful cures effected
by the use of ST. Jacobs Oil he procured
a few bottles, and experienced immedi,
ate relief. Many others of our acquaint.
ances'have used it, and express them.
selves as highly gratified with the relief
it has afforded them. This king OF
medicines can be bought everywhere.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
Remedy for Hard Times.

Stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich
food and style. Buy good, healthy food, cheaper
and better clothing; get more real and sub,
stantial things of life every way, and especially
stop the foolish habit of running after expensive
and quack doctors or using so much of the vile
makes the proprietors rich but put your trust
in the greatest of all simple, pure remedies,
HOP BTTTERs, that cures always at trihing
cost, and you will see better times and good
health. Try it once. Read Of it in another
column
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

Dorset, VT, is conservative. Pastor
Pratt has been minister for twenty-five
years. His chorister has started the
tunes for thirty years or more, his dea-
cons have held office, one for forty years
and the other for twenty years, the Sun.
day-school superintendent has presided
sixteen years and one of the teachers
has taught fifty-two years.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

Chemistry has misled many people in
regard to the feeding value of roots.
We wintered eight old hogs the past
winter on three bushels day of sliced
mangels, and they grew all the time.
AT the end of four months one of them
was taken out of the pen and slaughtered.
and it was fine porker. 1t was fat, and
the flavor of the meat was most ex-
cellent This hog had nothing else to
eat for four months but its part of the
three bushels day of mangels. A
bushel OF mangels weighs sixty pounds.
and three bushels would therefore weigh
$50 pounds. According to the wisdom
of chemistry, eighty-fve per cent of
the $50 pounds would be water, making
l53 pounds of water and twenty-seven
pounds of something else. Chemistry
also informs us that mangels contain but
about five per cent of sugar. which is
the fattening property, therefore the
eight old hogs grew fat on twenty-seven
pounds day of sugar, woody fiber, etc. !;
or, in other words, eight hogs lived all
winter and got fat on nine pounds a day
of fat-forming material. This would
give an average of one pound and one
eighth to each hog to live and grow fat
upon. These hogs would average if
dressed over 200 pounds, so that there
were eight lives sustained during a
very cold winter, with the power of
locomotion, and over 1,600 pounds of
the choicest kind of pork made ready
for market, on nine pounds daily of
saccharine matter Great is sugar, but
greater is chemistry.-F d. Curtis,
KrJy Homestead, ". Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

An inmate of the Union Home for Old
Ladies in Philadelphia has distinguished
herself by making bedquilt of 55,5
pieces. Though blind she threaded
every needle herself. The task took
three years and 100 spools Of thread.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

At the recent session of the Central
Pennsylvania Methodist conference one
presiding elder condemned the holding
of large and expensive camp-meetings,
and of closing the gates on Sunday.
Another said he had refused to attend
camp-meeting whose authorities had re-
fused to close its gates on the Sabbath.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

Over $4,000 buffalo have been killed
in Montana within the past six months,
all but some 10000 being slain for their
hides clone, which bring from 1926 to
S2.75 each. Men in the fur business
say that this wholesale slaughter is rap
dly making the buffalo extinct.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

A little girl had been scolded by her
grandmother. She picked up her little
kitten, and, caressing it, said: CT wish
one of us three was dead. And it ain't
you, kitty, and it amt me-"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
cincinnati Irish Citizen.l

Mr.. John Miller, of 54 West Fifth
street, tells us that he was cured by the
use of st. Jacobs Oil of complicated
case OF rheumatism of ten years stand
ing.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

HAVE You READ IT II. r. Stevens Book
on Ensilage, the preserving of green forage
crops in silos, giving his own experience and
the practical experience of 25 practical farmers:
12O pages, elegantly bound in cloth; price, so
STEVENS, Boston, Mass
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

DIR. TOBIAS'S VENETIAN LINIAIENT
has been warranted to cure Group Collie, Spasms
Darrhca and Dysentery, taken internally, and Sore
Throat, Pains in the Limbs, Chronic Rheumatism
Old Sores. Pimples, Blotchos and Swellings extcr.
nllly and not bottle has been returned, many fam.
lilies stating they would not he without it even If il
$40 bottle. Sold by druggists at 25 and 80
cents Depot. H. Murray Street. New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

"To sum it up, six long years of bed-ridden
total, 81, ,2O0-all Of which was stopped by three
bottles Of Hop Bitters taken by my wife, who
has done her own housework for a wear since
without the loss of q dav, and / want everybody
to know it for their benefit.
"JouN WEEKS Butler " vs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

TIE popular verdict is generally tbs right
one, and concerning Dr.. BULLS CouGH SYRuI
the people have long since decided that it is the
best cough remedy ever introduced.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

During and including the past four
years the United States has pro luced in
the aggregate 20,131, All bales of cot.
ton, 914, 100000 pounds of wool, 1,713,-
1925 bushels of wheat, 5,S16,214, 44O
bushels corn, and has exported $46,-
906, ,331 in live stock and 81, ,427, 81, ,292
in other food.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

One wholesale grocery firm in New
York manufactures 1850 tubs Of oleo-
margarine weekly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

"MER1T MUST REAP IT'S JusT REWARD.
Of the many Catarrh and Hay Fever remedies
we keep in stock there is none of which our
customers speak more highly than of Ely's
Cream Balm. comparatively u new discovery
but one which, from the many reports and evil
dences of cures produced, is destined to be
leading article. We have never handled n
remedy which has increased so rapidly in sales
or that has given such universal satisfaction.
O. n. CRITTENToN, 115 Fulton street, New York.
am fully convinced that Ely's Cream Balm
is cure for Catarrh, Hay Fever etc. Many
cures have been made among my customers.
Every one afflicted should give this, the best Of
all catarrli remedies, q trial. C. +. KIRBY,
Druggist, Towanda, Pa Oct. 4, $780,
Price, 80 cents On receipt Of so cents will
mail package free. Send for circular.
ELY'S CREAM BALM CO., Owcgo, n. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

Mrs Amelia Lewis asserts in Food and
Health that nearly SIS, 100000 is invest
ed in oleomargarine factories, and that
they have added nearly 81 to the
value of every OK killed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

And don't take anything that has alcohol in il
to help inaamed kidneys. WARNEn's SAFE
KIDNEY AND LIVER CURE il purely vegetable,
and acts directly upon the kidneys and liver.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
Why we Use Quick Lime Upou the lan,

Why we Use Quick Lime Upon the Land.
All cultivated plants contain lime in
their ashes, and it is considered neces-
sary to their proper growth But as
soils generally contain enough lime, and
we apply it for its action upon the soil,
lime acts upon and greatly aids the
decomposition of organic matter in the
SOIL 1t is thought to neutralize the
organic acids contained in what are
called "sour soils" In a complicated
manner it aids in the fixing of ammonia.
1t also acts upon the inorganic or min
eral constituents of the soil, and aids in
converting them into forms in which
they can be taken up by the plants,
especially in iberating potash from its
combinations. The effect of lime upon
the mechanical condition of the soil is
an important feature. Upon heavy clay
soils ltG effect is most marked; the
particles lose their adhesiveness, and
allow air and water to enter. These are
the leading effects that follow the use of
lime. In view of the claims made for
ground, unburned limestone, it is an
important question how far it can pro-
duce the above effects. That the un-
burned limestone will supply the
demands of the plant for lime, that it
may slowly neutralize organic acids, and
help the mechanical texture of the soil,
seems very probable. But that it will
perform one of the most important Off
ces, the decomposition of organic matter
in the soil, and convert that into plant
food, seems improbable, because the
ability of lime to do this depends in
great measure upon its avidity for car
bon & acid, while limestone, being already
a carbonate, has no need of more. That
limestone cannot produce all the effects
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsN.iN's PEToNZED BEEF ToNIC, the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t Itcontains blood making,
forceg generating and DEMONSTRATING properties I;
is invaluable in all enfccbled conditions, whether
the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration,
oycrwo1i, or acute disease particularly il
resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell,
Hazard Co., proprietors, New York.
Natural petroleum, deprived of its color and
di-aTccablc odor without dstllation and the
aid of acids or alkalics, is what the CARBoG1NE
is made from. As now improved and perfected
it il a beautiful preparation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

In the cabooses attached to freight
trains on the Erie railroad there is placed
an automatic contrivance called the
"tell-tale," which registers all the stop
pages and the rate of speed over every
foot of the road. Freight trains are not
allowed to run more than fifteen miles
an hour, and if this speed is exceeded
the fact is at once disclosed on inspec-
ton of the apparatus.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
Transplanting.

IL oIueI W Insure planuS against
willing when transplanted, they may be
grown, says the Ne,c England Farmer,
in pots, but this involves a good deal
of expense, and a simpler method is in
use among the gardeners for moving
such tender plauts as cucumbers, mel
ons, summer sqIashes, Lima beans, etc.
The plants are pricked out under glass,
in groups f four plants each, the hills
being nine inches square, or thirty-two
to sash. When grown so as to require
transplanting, which will be in about
two weeks, or by the time they begin to
run, have the ground ready for them,
and wet them down well over night, so
that the earth will cling to the roots.
Have ready q few square rings of sheet
zinc, nine inches square, made by fold
ing strip of zinc three inches wide and
three feet long into nine-inch square
prism, without top or bottom, and sol
dering the edges together Take ring
and press it down into the earth around
one OF the hills; then run a spade under
it and lift the hill, ring and all, on the
spade and carry it to its destination,
where hole is made with hoe to re-
ceive it; place the cluster OF plants on
the spade in the hole, draw the earth
around the ring, and remove first
the spade, then the ring, and the
work is complete. These tender plants
cannot be transplanted safely to the
open field much before June 10. But
cucumbers are transplanted thus under
glass whenever the glass is ready for
them. In transplanting vines choose
hot day, and avoid rainy, cold weather.
II well moistened before transplanting,
and carefully handled, they will not
wilt much, but may need little shade
for few days. The transplanting of
celery, cabbage and caulifower plants is
simple and easy enough in the cool,
moist weather of early spring, but in the
hot weather of midsummer requires
some skill. Much depends in having
| the land in which the plants are to be
set thoroughly fine; if coarse OF lumpy
it is much more likely to dry up and
destroy the plants. Choose, if possible,
a cloudy day after rain, but if this can't
be done, and if the weather is dry and
hot, the plants must be watered. Keep
the roots wet while setting them, and
water every day till they grow or till
rain comes. This is laborious work
where large fields are set, but is often
the only way to be sure Of a crop. To
make the earth fine for setting plants it
may be thrown into drills with a plow
and then raked down; or if it is desir-
able to set the plants low, as in the case
OF celery and caulifowers, the rows are
marked first with the wheel marker, and
the spots where the plants are to be set
made fine by chopping with a hoe
NeD York Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

The wife of a clergyman in Des
Moines, Ia., has Sunday-school which
is not attended by children, as might
have been supposed, but by business
men, professional men and thinkers"
The class has become so large that it has
been found necessary to take it into the
body of the church, where it forms a
small congregation of itself. This looks
very much like the wife's running an
opposition to her husband
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

1t is proposed to hold in London dur.
ing the first week of next August an in
ternational medical congress, and the
arrangements are already sufficiently adj
vanced to warrant the belief that it will
be the largest and most important gath
ering of the kind ever held. -Four thou
sand invitations have been sent out to
medical men in all parts of the world,
and the responses indicate that at least
half this number will attend Some of
the most eminent men in the profession
in England are taking an active interest
IN the proposed congress, which will be