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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-14

RENo's EXCURSION citizens of Reno
have held public meeting and authorized
their representatives in the Legislature to
invite that body to visit Reno tomorrow
to inspect the State property there and take
a general look at the proposed Insane
Asylum site. Arrangements have been
made for an excursion train to leave Carson
at 10 O'Clock, and returning leave Reno at
4P. NJ. The Legislature will be rendered
grand banquet at Chamberlain's Hotel. AS
the Legislature will probably adjourn over
until Monday, the members could not i'm
prove their time more probably than by
examining the State grounds at Reno and
partaking of the hospitality of the riverside
town.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-14

LosT-A SIX SHooTER.-The finder will
will be literally rewarded by leaving it at
this Office. Janll
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-14

LosT-REwARD OFFERED-A cluster dia-
lnond stud, center stone emerald Liberal
reward for return to this office. ja6-tf
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-14

SMALLPox.-Dr. l.. A. Herrick, of this
city. has constantly on hand fresh supply
of Bovine Virus, right from the heifer pro-
pagated at Sacramento, Cal. The Doctor
viii, from now On, keep this virus in suf-
fcient quantity to supply physicians and
families. One dollar for ten points-prico
charged in San Francisco. Warranted '
be pure. dit
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-14

CYr7O A WEEK. s12 a day at home easily made. COST
ID Outfit free Address True & Co.. Augusta Maine
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

Good canned fruit is q stranger to
tables of thousands of farmers when Il
might as ea'ily be used. Fruit is often
left to waste and spoil, though a slight
expenditure would preserve it for winter.
If they can be had, berries are among
the incest canned fruits. Peaches,
apples, plums, apricots, and, indeed, all
eatable fruits, are worth canning. Dried
fruits can never wholly take the place
of canned fruits for family use. Glass
jars are preferred by most persons, and
are cheapest in the end With care
they can be used many years, though
new rubber bands must be procured
when needed. In canning, sugar should
certainly be used, and it should be of
the granulated white grades, as poor
sugar hurts the flavor of the fruit. The
rule is to put one-quarter of a pound of
! sugar with one pound of fruit, but this
quantity may be doubled if the fruit be
unusually acid. Some persons think
that fruit is good when canned without
sugar, but in that case it loses color and
iirmness. The fruit used for canning
is to be of the best quality, and as
freshly picked as possible. Well-ripened
fruit, not, however, dead-ripe and soft,
is in every way preferable. In fact, q
cannery should really be located near
the orchards, for there is a manifest de-
terioration in the quality of the fruit be-
tween the time it is picked and the time
1t is ready for the cans. Coarse grained
market varieties seldom can so we'll as
the more highly favored kinds. When
the fruit has been peeled and pitted place
1t IN the preserving kettle and properly
cook: but if it is still boiling hot the
cans are to be filed full, to the very
brim, the elastic put on, the jar
wiped, and the top screwed down at
once, and frightened several times after
ward. As writer on the subject said
recently: "Good fruit, put boiling hot
into the perfect cans, filed full and
sealed up at once, will be fresh and pure
when opened, though years later" Sim
ply pouring boiling water over fruit
does not expel the air. Partly filed
fruit jars will spoil. Canned berries are
to be put in preserving kettle, with
layers of sugar, and boiled from five to
fifteen minutes. The syrup can be bot
tied up, some of it, for other uses.
Some persons prefer to cook berries in
the jars in which they are to be canned.
In this case the jars filled up with fruit
are set in wash-boiler, on wooden Stats,
so as not to touch the bottom. Cold water
is poured in till it comes close to the rims
of the jars, and heated until the fruit is
well cooked, when the fruit in one jar is
used to fill up the others, and they are
sealed and put away. We may add that
glass jars of fruit should be put in
dry, dark and cool place where the tenn
perature is equable throughout the sea-
son.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Religious News and Notes.

Of the $50 missionaries in India III
are from the United States.
Five graduates of Fisk university
have gone to Africa as missionaries,
Paris at the present time contains
forty regularly ordained Protestant
churches.
There are said to be thirty-sjx Meth.
odist churches in Baltimore, with a
membership of 1880.
There are said 10 be 1874 Baptist
churches in the Indian Nation in a pop
ulation Of about 10000.
The two Church of England foreign
missionary societies report this year a
total income of 81, ,6S9, $40.
Of the graduates of Madison univer-
s1ty eighty-six, it is said, have become
missionaries among the heathen.
All OF the Congregational churches in
Chicago, except one-the Union Park
church-are reported to be free of debt.
The additions to the PRESBYTERIAN
churches in indianapolis, resulting from
recent revivals, will number 500 OF
more.
According to the Baptist Yearbook
there are 1926, 327 Baptists in America,
the net increase for 1880 having been
163,293.
A bureau has been established in
Chicago for the purpose of supplying
cIergymen with sermons. 1t is said to
be OF foreign origin.
There are twenty seven Protestant
Episcopal clergymen, including the
bishop, in the State of Delaware. The
communicates number 1880.
The largest Sunday-school in Canada
is that of s.. James cathedral, Toronto.
Although there are on its roll the names
of 1925 children and sixty teachers, the
average attendance is about 900. Six
hundred of these regular attendants are
in the main school and 800 in the in
FAINT department.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
HEALTH HINTS.

All experience goes to show that peo-
pie are far more liable to contract dis
ease or contagious fevers on an empty
than with full stomach.
The only safe and immediate remedy
within the reach of a professional
in case of poisoning with prussic acid,
is to pour stream of cold water from
an elevation upon the head and spine
of the patient.
The majority of people are apt to neg
lect the feet. Frequent bathing of the
feet in water in which a small quantity
OF borax has been placed is conducive
to health and comfort, Ammonia and
bay rum, though cleansing, have ten
dency to dry the skin and close the
pores. Hosiery should be frequently
changed, and the feet, ankles and calves
of the legs annointed with healing oil or
salve. Never use cheap or highly per-
fumed soap, as 1t has tendency to dry
and parch the skin, and so close the
pores as to prove very injurious to
health CASTLE, olive oil and other vege-
table oil soaps are the best for the flesh.
The PhrenOlogicdl Journal, speaking
of the healthfulness of fruit, says that
when DIR. B. F. Dunkley went to Dunks-
burg, Mo-, thirty years ago there We're
no orchards, and very few vegetables
were raised. The diet of the people
consisted chiefly of corn bread, bacon
and black coffee, Infammatory dis
eases of the brain, bowels and heart,
and malignant dysentery afflicted the
community and were often attended
with fatal results. DIR. Dunkley told his
patients their blood needed no medi.
cine other than vegetable acids, and
ordered them to eat oranges, lemons
and sheep sorrels. Now fruit and gar
den vegetables are abundant, and dis
eases are not of so malignant type,
and they yield readily to medical treat
ment. Children who eat plentifully of
apples are in excellent health, while
those who eat no fruit are sickly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
How to Detect Adnlterated Cofae.

Ground coffee affords a field for adul-
teration, and for this purpose chicory,
carrots, caramel, date seeds, etc, are
the substances most commonly used.
Take little of the coffee and press it
between the fingers, or give it q squeeze
in the paper in which it is bought; if
genuine it will not form coherent mass,
as coffee grains are hard and do not
readily adhere to each other; but if the
grains stick to each other and form a
sort of "cake," We may be pretty sure
adulteration in the shape Of chicory,
for the grains of chicory are softer and
more open, and adhere without difficult
ty when squeezed.
Again, if we place few grains in q
saucer and moisten them with little
Geld water, ohicory will very quickly be-
come soft like bread-crumbs, while
coffee will take long time to soften.
A third test take wine glass or
tumbler full of water and gently drop a
pinch of ground coffee on the surface
OF the water without stirring or agitat-
ing; genuine coffee will float for some
time, while chicory or any other soft
root will soon sink, and chicory or cara
mel will cause yellowish or brownish
color to diffuse rapidly through the
water, while pure coffee will give no
sensible tint under such circumstances
for considerable length of time.
" Coffee mixtures" or "coffee improv-
ers" should be avoided. They seldom
consist of anything but chicory and
caramel, l,-S0nitd7'iar
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Farmers Gardens.

We have had occasion to observe the
great increase in the cultivation of flow
ers throughout the country within o few
years, and on riding through some of
our larger villages the absence of bloom
ing plants in pots in the windows has
been the exception and not the rule.
But there has not been an equal i'm
provement in farmers kitchen gardens.
1t is very rare to find one entirely free
from weeds, and some have positively
as many weeds as vegetables. The
trouble is these gardens are too large.
More land has been allotted to them
than the owner has found time to take
proper care Of. One square rod, made
rich with manure, and kept clean and
mellow by cultivation, will furnish bet
ter and more delicious vegetables than
an acre overgrown with weeds. Now,
let every farmer who has weedy gar
den reduce its size to one-half and see
if he can do any better. If not, reduce
it again to half, and try once more !;
and if still unsuccessful he can gradu-
ally bring it down to nothing, which
would be better than slipshod and profit
less culture. We recommend such a
course only as choice of evils for a
good-sized, well-ma well-kept,
well-cultivated kitchen garden is one of
the most profitable Investments a man
can Country Gentleman.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
SUNDAY READING.
Look Out for Brenlscrs.

A writer in the Presbyteriau savs
There are so many of them on the sea Of
life. They come to us when out on the
waters or tn the shore. They come In
the morning of life, or noontide, or al
midnight all the same. Sometimes, like
the billows which break against rock '
shore, they come with force which will
be heard and noticed. Again, they
come softly, quietly, peacefully, like
waves which wash the shore in the sun.
SHINE or play around vessel on calm
sea, and Just as much we need to look
out Tor the gentle waves as for the angry
blllew. Justas often as the one harms
us as the other. An old seaman. a wise
bather, is always on the outlook. He
knows that forewarned is forearmed. If
is only children and fools who do not
trim their sails before the wind, who do
not look out for breakers on a rocky
shore, or who go out to bathe in a storm,
or who sit quietly on smooth beach at
incoming tide. But there are q good
many people who have passed their
childhood, and who are not counted as
fools, who on the voyage of life never
trim their sails before the wind, be IL
ever so boisterous and threatening; who
never think of looking for breakers, be
the coast everso rocky; and who, though
never having learned to swim, 20 out
on a stormy, unknown coast, beyond
their depth, or sit on the smooth beach
idly, and let the tide of prosperity & ow
around and over them till its sunshiny
waves become great breakers between
them and the green land and loved ones
beyond.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
GrasshOppers iu Turkey.

Turkey, it appears, is overrun with
grasshoppers, and the government has
been compelled to employ extraordina-
ry measures to overcome the plague. A
particularly voracious species has ap-
peared in the Bodirum district (Smyr-
na), and the whole population is en-
ployed to combat the insects. AtAngora
all business was suspended for three
days by order of the governor-general,
and all the inhabitants were ordered to
march out into the fields to destroy the
grasshoppers. Every inhabitant was
compelled to deliver twenty Okla (about
tifty-six pounds) of dead grasshoppers
to the officials. The swarms are said to
emanate principally from Persia,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Breaking Colt. 10 the Halter.

"A stitch in time saves nine" in
handling colts, as we'll as in handling
clothes. Commence handling the young
foals from their very birth. They are
much more easily gentled and halter
broken during the first few months than
at any subsequent period, and, as a rule,
the longer it is deferred the more diff
cult the work becomes. The easiest way
in the world to break colt to
the halter is to tie him in the stall by
the side of his dam, and to lead him by
her side occasionally when she is taken
out for work or exercise. The time thus
employed is never missed, and many a
young thing that might otherwise grow
up wild, vicious and unruly, is made
gentle, kind and ractable.-Lice Stock
Journal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Farmers Mnxinls.

Thinking about piece of corn adds
| five bushels to the acre, sometimes ten.
The fifth rail of fence is generally
worth more than the other four.
Weeds in corn and potato field are
like notes on interest at twenty per cent.
If a particular production is all the
rage sell out while prices are high and
buyers are plenty.
Fall and winter evenings are the most
profitable times for mental culture, So
cial happiness and rest.
1t is never best to overdue economy
by letting hogs or geese habitually eat
the grass in the front yard.
Encouraging words will sometimes
make scythe cut we'll an hour longer
than it otherwise would.
Gives the boys work, and take pains
to teach them. 1t is to this source that
we must look for our best farm men.
Cigar smoke in cornfield may pre-
vent the depredations of crows. but it
never fails to make the net yield less.
When a mortgage on farm is so
heavy that the owner never tries to
lessen or lift it, the sooner he finds a
small place the better.
1t is important to get at the bottom
of things, and equally so, whether done
by tough thinking or subsoil plow.
Some kinds of wood season better out
of doors than under cover, but it is not
SO with the beam and handles of q plow.
Vegetable decay prepares for subse-
quent life. An exception to the rule is
rotten potatoes and turnips in a cellar
in May.
1t is better for farmer to eat salt on
his potatoes instead. of butter, if the lat
ter is needed to pay an old debt at the
village store.
Every farmer should compete for all the
premiums at the annual fairs in his line
except "the fastest trotter owned and
raised in the county"
Men may deceive each other, but they
can never deceive Mother Earth. Deal
ers may sell sawdust guano at fifty dol.
lars ton, but they cannot count on the
soil as helper in their imposition.
A very successful farmer once re-
marked that che fed his land before it
was hungry, rested it before it was
weary and weeded it before it was foul"
There are two things that every far
mer must have-things that subserve
like purpose and are of about equal i'm
portance-a Rrindstone and newspaper.
The owners eye will detect ten needs
on the farm where hired servants will
one.
The leaves of a maple or elm stand
ing near the farmhouse door are often
more valuable than the fruit of whole
orchard planted elsewhere.
A farmer need never to say, "If I
could only get work I should be happy"
His store never lacks customers. His
factory need never be run on half time.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Words of Courage,

a great deal of talent is lost to the
world for the want of little courage.
Every day sends to the grave a number
of obscure men who have only remained
in obscurity because their timidity has
prevented their making the first effort,
and who, if they could have been in
duced to begin, would in all probabil-
ity have gone great lengths in the career
of fame. The fact is, in order to do
anything in this world that is worth
doing, we must not stand shivering on
the brink, and think of the cold and
danger, but jump in and scramble as we
can. 1t will not do to be perpetually
calculating risks and adjusting nice
chances. 1t did very well before the
flood, when man could consult his
friends upon a publication of one hun
dred and fifty years, and then live to see
its successes six or seven centuries af-
terward; but at present man waits and
doubts, and hesitates, and consults his
brother, and his uncle, and his particu-
lar friends, till one day he finds that he
is sixty years of age; that he has lost
so much time in consulting first cousins
and particular friends that he has no
time left to follow their advice. There
is such little time for over-squeamish-
ness at present, the opportunity so easily
slips away, the very period of his life at
which man chooses to venture, if ever,
is so confined, that it is no bad rule to
preach up the necessity, such instances,
of little violence done to feelings, and
of efforts made in defiance of strict and
sober calculation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Strange Professions.

Among the curiosities of the Indian
census are the extraordinary professions
which some of her majesty's subjects
declare they pursue. In Allahabad no
fewer than 974 at former census de
scribed themselvesa as Glow blackguards. T"
a calling which, however, is only too
common elsewhere than in Allahabad
but the professional "painters of horses
with spots" and the "hereditary clerks
who pray to their inkhorns" are surely
peculiar to India. In Russia, however,
the progress of civilization has devel.
oped a new profession which it would
be difficult to match even in India. It's
specially is the burning of insured
premises. The st. Petersburg insurance
companies have just captured one of
three members of this profession who
have carried on this lucrative vocation
for several years. They were in the
habit ofarranging for conhagrations with
the owners of insured premises. On
being guaranteed twenty per cent. of
the insurance money they set fire to the
houses, which, being mostly built of
wood, burned easily enough. They
might have been earning their twenty
per cent. to-day but for the astuteness
of the Libau police, who set a trap for
them into which they fell, much to the
delight of the insurance companies. 1t
is possible enough that members of this
scandalous profession are not unknown
in other countries besides Russia.
Frauds against insurance companies are
difficult to detect even when the in
sured fires his own property; but when
the work is undertaken by professional
e-raiser detection becomes almost i'm
possible.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

To take grease from floors, rub soft
soap on the spots, then press with hot
iron.
To take grease from silk, moisten the
spot with chloroform, then rub with a
cloth until perfectly dry. It will not
injure the most delicate color.
If rats or mice infest any part of your
house find their holes and stuff them
with rags dipped in strong solution of
cayenne pepper. No rodent will ever
take a second nibble at that rag.
An economical housewife will always
buy her soap in large quantities, cut
each bar in square pieces and store in
dry place. I5 lasts better after shrink
ing.
The yellow stain made by the oil
used on sewing machines can be removed
if, before washing in soapsuds, the spot
be rubbed carefully with bit of cloth
wet with ammonia.
Always stand wet umbrella with the
handle down. One trial will convince
you of the rapidity with which it will
drain, and your umbrella will last Ion =
ger if dried quickly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Best Mulching Material,

Mulch is placed about plants to pre-
vent the sun from evaporating the mois-
ture. In many cases it takes the place
of cultivation. No doubt, if it were
not for the expense and trouble, it
would be more extensively used about
herbaceous plants. We have found in
our trying climate that a fine mulch
of manure, completely covering the
ground, is an excellent thing for bed
ding plants. With trees and shrubs a
serious objection to the use of mulch is
its liability to harbor mice, which may
injure or destroy the plants. For straw
berries mulch is used to keep the fruit
clean as it ripens, and to protect the
plants in winter and spring. For straw
berries we have had the best success in
applying the mulch quite late in au-
tumn, and in leaving the materials thin
enough over the plants to barely
expose few of the leaves. The more
changeable and severe the season the
greater the need of mulch, and
mulch in generous quantity. There
is great variety of materials employed
for mulching. 1 have heard of the use of
beach sand or fine gravel with excellent
results. The inexperienced gardener can
try old clover hay, as I have done, and
get good crop of thrifty young clover
to kill out the next spring or he can
employ rich timothy or June grass, and
soon find the ground seeded with crop
he was not prepared for. Or. again, if
he like better, in the spring he can
mulch with oat straw not half threshed,
or full of chaff containing oats still
plenty. Then he can dig young oat
plants all summer among the strawber-
ries. Digging out the young plants of
clover, grasses, oats, etc., is healthful ex-
ercise, and stirring the soil will not
hurt the strawberry plants. I once tried
all the above methods. / also tried
crest leaves, for autumn mulch, adding
corn stalks to hold them down, and
thought I had good thing. In spring,
after an open, windy winter, the leaves
were not to be found. A few at time
they had blown away. Having tried all
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
extraordinary ResuscitatiOn from An.
parent Death


A Paris paper tells this strange story:
A religious custom has just prevented a
person from being buried alive, and.
singular to relate, this is the second
time the same thing has happened to
the same person. About ten years ago
Eulalie B, then aged three years,
daughter of respectable tradespeople in
the Rue Montmorency, was attacked
with typhus fever. After fortnights
sickness she appeared to expire, and her
parents, as relief to their sorrow, left
the house, leaving two of the girls
aunts to superintend the funeral. AS
the family belonged to the reformed re.
liglon, it was resolved, in compliance
with the usual custom, to wash the body
before placing it in the shroud. While
the water was warming one of the aunts
proposed that it should be made quite
hot and that part of the foot of the de.
ceased should be placed in it. This was
done; and the two females, to their sur
prise, fancied that they heard a slight
sign: They thereupon began to employ
friction on different parts of the body,
and succeeded in restoring the child to
HE. The girl continued to enjoy good
health until recently, when she was at
tackled with brain fever, and after suf.
fering some time appeared to die. A
physician declared her dead, and signed
a certificate for the interment. One of
the aunts, in company with a nurse,
watched the body. The aunt having
stated In the course of conversation the
singular circumstance that had pre-
viously occurred, the nurse recommend.
ed that the proof of hot water shoul
again be tried. The leg of the girl was
accordingly plunged into hot water.
This produced similar result, and the
girl recovered.