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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Dead From Homsslcknsss.

The st. Louis papers tell this pathetic
story of how Swiss emigrant girl liv-
ing in that city died from homesick-
ness: Pauline Fuchs lived with the
family of a distant relative, all crowded
together in two little rooms over shop.
After only two weeks of America she
died. She was born near the town of
Einseideln. Her father was a simple
peasant, whose mind was bound up in
his country and his religion, and the
girl was his only child. She was
spoiled and petted,. having everything
her own way until she was eighteen
years old, when she met a young man
named denry mgartner, who though
only mechanic appeared a prince to
the peasant girl. Of course, she loved
him. and also, as n matter of course, her
father would not let her marry him.
In spite of the prohibition she set her
mind on marriage, and last March had
perfected her plans to elope with her
lover, but on the very day set her father
found her out and thwarted her. She
was closely watched after this, and the
young man was forbidden the house.
Pauline pined and was sullen.
She alarmed her father by threatening
to run away and come to America,
where Mary Fuchs, her cousin and
friend, had come few months before.
The. threat was constantly repeated,
until at last, when two months ago her
fathers cousin, his wife and six children,
made up their minds to come to New
York, he told her to go with them. She
was unwilling to leave home, but too
proud to stay, so, taking her little stock
OF clothing and her dead mothers
crucitix, she started on her long journey
across the seas.
AT Havre they took steerage passage
on the steamer Canada, arriving in Cas-.
tie Garden three weeks ago; remaining
there few days they came to st. Louis,
where Mary Fuchs and her brother L ad
been living since April. Mary is flaxen.
hail ed and rosy-choeked. She was
overjoyed to meet her friend Pauline
who seemed especially pleased to see
her, and who was for the first week
cheerful. Then she began to long fol
Switzerland, and the color left her cheek
Mary was her room mate, both sleeping
together on "pallet" made on the ilooi
IN the room, and to her she confided hel
desire to return. &C. will die here" sh,
said, simply. When anyother mem bel
OF the family asked her the cause of hel
changed demeanor, she replied: "My
heart hurts me-"
This was all that she ever said on the
subject until Friday, when she grew sc
sick that they begged her to go to bed
She would not, persisting still that there
was nothing the matter. In the even
ing she said to Maria Fuchs. her cousin
Il want TO go back to Einseideln;
must go back, for / cannot live here.
She went to sleep on the floor, and a
three o'c'ock yesterday morning he,
cousin heard her moaning. When they
went to her, she persisted that she wa:
not sick, and SO they left her.
This morning when Mary awoke, tn;
girl had been dead for an hour. Th,
policeman told the coroner, who, a.
they were too Door to give the unfortu
ma e girl decent burial, ordered the body
to be carried 10 the morgue.
She died of homesickness, because
she. was out Of sight OF the mountains,
insists her cD lsin.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Wishing and Willing,

Wishing wont do much for any one
in the world. There are great number
OF dreamers and visionaries, people who
put on the ''wishing cap," and desire all
sorts of nice things to come to them.
They expect gold and all nice
things to drop into their lap.
But they are mistaken. Wishes won't
do much for any one. The only way 10
get anything is not to sigh for it with a
wish, but to work for it with will.
That is the way; and the only way.
The working man knows that. He
knows that wishes won't manufacture
daily bread for him. He goes out to
his work with o stout heart. and
earns a days wages with a days
labor. A scholar does not expect
to excel and get the highest prize with
out intense toll. You must work with
awill If you would get anything worth
having. But it is astonishing what an
earnest will can do. Poor boys have
become rich men. Ignorant boys have
become wise men. Obscure boys who
were known only in village have come
out in the eye of the world, and been
known far and wide as distinguished
men. Tney might always have re-
manned in the quiet village but for this
will, which, like the wings of bird,
bore them right out of it all into the
wide world atmosphere.
II tell you story of one who made
a name for himself, and gained great re.
nown and great possessions by the SIM
pie force of his character. He was dill
gent, and the hand of the diligent maketh
rich; he was energetic, and energy is
like an express train, it goes ahead.
This boys ancestors were rich and
honored, but they lost their inheritance
and became poor. When the boy knew
this he was sad, and one day, as he wan
dered alone over the broad lands of his
forefathers, he resolt ed he would work
and struggle with all his might to buy
them back again. He didn't sigh and
shed tears, and say: "Oh, how / wish
that castle were once more minep No,
he didn't do that, because he knew tears
OF regret would not help him in the
least. He had his pleasant dreams,
as l have told you, but he set
himself to work. He brooded over his
vision, and it gave strength to his brain,
his will, mis- hand. He knew that every
thing depended on himse t, and on him.
self he relied. ii went abroad to the
East Indies, and he himself tells US that
during the long voyage this one thought
OF regaining the ancestral lands possess
ed him, and fixed him with purpose
to achieve renown. He landed in q
strange country, without money, and
without friends. And how did he get
one What was the result? He began
life as humble clerk, and rose rapidly
in power, and ceased not in the ascend
ing scale till be became governor-g general
of all India.
Wishing and willing-you understand
the difference now, don't you Wishes
bring nothing but airy dreams that
come and go, but willing and working
bring solid realities.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

An Invaluable Article.-The readers OF the
argus have no doubt seen the advertisement
OF Ely's Cream Balm in another column. An
article like Cream Balm has long been desired,
and now that it is within the reach OF sufferers
from Catarrh, Hay Fever, etc., there is every
reason TO believe they will make the most OF
it. DIR. W. L. Buckman, W. e. Hamman,
druggist, and other Eastonians have given it a
trial, and all recommend it in the highest
terms.-Edston (PG.) Ddt'y Arous.
have been sufferer tor years with Catarrh,
and under physicians treatment for over a
year; have tried number OF sure cure reme-
dies and obtained no relief. / was advised to
try Eiys Cream Balm. 1t gave me immediate
relief. believe am now entirely cured. G..
s. Davis, First National bank, Elizabeth, N. j.
Price, 90 cents Ely's Cream Balm Co.,
Owego, N. Y. Will mail it Tor 60 cents.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
W The Two Rreaths.U y

Some hints are given by Canon Kings
ley which may be useful even to the
poor, or to employers who care for their
men. He describes what he calls 1.-THE
two breaths," and their effects. The two
are, of course, the breath taken in
whis lis, or ought 10 be, pure air, COM
posed, ON the whole, of oxy en- and
nitrogen, with minute portion of
carbonic acid;" and the breath given
out-which is an impure air, to which
has been added, among other matters
that will not support life, an excess of
carbonic acid" He then points out that
this carbonic acid gas, when warm, is
lighter than the air, and ascends, and
when at the sane temperature as the
common air, is heavier th,n that air,
and descends, lying along the toor,
"just as it lies often in the bottom of
old wells or brewers vats, as stratum of
poison, killing occasionally the men
who descend into it," Hence word #
admonition is addressed to those who
think nothing of eeping on the floor I;
and hence, as "the poor are apt, in
times of distress to pawn their bed
steads ana keep their BEDS" the friends
OF the poor are entreated never to let
that happen, and to keep the bedstead.
whatever else may go, to save the
sleeper from oarbonic acid on the floor.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Van Amburg's Eye.

A good story is told of Van Amburg,
the great lion-tam er, now dead. On one
occasion, while in a barroom-for he
drank so much that, to use his own ex-
preston, "If you cut me open the whis-
ky will run out, although he was rare
ly drunk-he was asked how he got his
wonderful power over animals. He
said: "lt is by showing them that I am
not in the least afraid of them,
and by keeping MY eye steadily on
theirs" He had a good deal
aboard, and said: "I'll give you
Al example of the power of my eye."
Pointing to loutish fel ow who was
sitting near by, he said: you see that
fellowp He's a regular clown. I'll
make him come across the room to me,
an won't say word to him" Sit,
ting down, he fixed his k en-, steady
eye on the man. Presently the fellow
straightened hi mself gradually, got up
and came slowly across to the lion
tanner. When he got close enough he
drew back his arm and struck Van Am
burg tremendous blow under the
chin, knocking him clean over the chair,
with the remark, you'll stare at me
like that again, won't you?"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
How Cur Cities are Growing.

We have now the returns of the popu-
lation Of all our cities which contain
ten thousand inhabitants and over.
There are 2i5 such cities, and their
total population in 1880 was IL 100 2Ol.
In 1870 we had 1874 cities with popu-
lation Of ten thousand and over, and
their aggregate population was 7, ,672 ,233
These cities have therefore increased in
number siXty-one within the ten years,
and they contain 8 427, ,96S more inhabit
ants.
Our total gain in population since
1870 has been ii ,594 1888, and nearly a
third of this increase has been in the
cities. If we included all the munici
palities, those of between eight and ten
thousand inha bitants as well as those of
greater size, we should probably find
that our total urban popul lation in 1880
was over eleven and half millions, and
toward three md three-q million,
more than in 1870. This would make
the increase in the cities fully one-third
OF the whole increase OF population in
the Union.
The cities contained about 5000 900
in 1870, TO ii 500, 900 in 1880. They there
fore have been increasing in inhabitants
far more rapidly than the rest of the
country. While the general gain has
been only about tWent1 five per cent
that in the cities has been forty--ve per
cent.
And this growth of the cities at the
expense of the country generally has
been becoming more marked during the
whole of the last fifty years. In 1890
our total urban population was only
about one-sixteenth of the whole. In
1850 it had grown to be one eighth. In
1870 it was one-fifth; and in 1880, out
of about 50,000. 900 of inhabitants, more
than ii, $780, 900 lived in the cities.
If the cities go on increasing during
the next ten years at the same ratio
which the last ten years have shown,
and the country, as a whole, advances
in population at the same rate, we shall
find more than sixteen millions in the
| cities, to about forty eight or forty-nine
millions in the rest of the country.
A like tendency to build up the towns
at the expense of the country appears in
the figures we are obtaining of the Ger.
man census taken late last year. 1t is q
modern tendency, and shall we not cal
it a modern evil likely to have porten-
tous consequences p NeD York Sun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
(Des Moines Iowa State Register.)
Hon. Y. III, Yoder's Position.

A representative mans opinion on
other than political matters is often OF
great use TO his constituency. The
Hon. S. H. Yoder, of Globe Mills, Pa.
has thus recorded his opinion on sub
ject of popular interest. l have been
selling St. Jacobs Oil for the last year.
l have never heard a person speak OF
it, except as q splendid medicine, and as
the great specific for rheumatic atfec-
tions, whether infammatory, acute or
chronic, swellings, sores, sprains, burns,
wounds, etc. l sell more st. Jacobs
Oil than of any other kind OF liniment,
and it gives universal satisfaction.
will always keep it on hand. The
farmers say, that for man and beast
they find nothing to equal sSs
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

Compressed peat in London, and,
indeed, in almost all the towns of con-
siderable size throughout Great Britain,
is rapidly coming into use. On one
of the most important railroad lines,
too, compressed peat has for some time
been used, and with entire satisfaction,
the fact appearing, from the engineers
report, that twenty-one pounds OF peat
will raise steam for mile of transit,
while the number of pounds of coal
required to do the same work is twenty.
six. Its cost is less than ope'half that
OF coal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

Baltimore expects a small windfall.
An old man who was commonly known
as the &C Prince "or the Count" though
he had followed the occupation of a
tailor for number of years, died a few
days ago in the room he occupied in
Albemarle street, leaving about 81, ,O0C
in the savings bank, though always liv
ing in the most frugal way. He had
not worked at his trade for year OF
two, and spent most of his time in the
Office of y lawyer, who allowed thc
harmless old man that privilege during
Office hours. The rest of the day aud
night he spent in his room, where ht
slept and ate. doing himself what little
board.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
(Pittsburg Evening Chronicle.)
DansArs 70 Iron WOrkera.

Messrs. r. Esterbrook & Sons, City
Iron Foundry, Boston, Mass, speak on
this point as follows: Two or three OF
our men were badly burnt in working,
They were, however, Immediately cured
by using that valuable remedy, st. ia.
cobs Oil. All our men are highly
pleased with it, and we shall always
recommend it to those afflicted With
nains or rheumatism.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
Just In from the Flats.

A disgusted-looking man with a
double-barreled shotgun came wearily
up the avenue. "Well, JONES'" said s.
friend, "just in from the FlatsP" "Yes," !"
said Jones, dropping the butt of his gun
heavily on the pavement. I'm in from
the flats. Six of us have been sitting in
the rain in wet boat for two days,
looking for ducks. Not seeing any sport
in this, left. The other five are there
yet, and l am of your opinion that
they're flats. Yes, sir, "shouldering the
shotgun again, "I'm inst in from the
flats"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

A curious and interesting. tablet has
been found in Sheusi Province, China,
whose inscriptions shows that Christi
anity was introduced into China A. ID.
636, and sanctioned by imperial decree
in the wear 639. The tablet was erected
II T31
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
CHEAT HORSE MEDICINE.

pint bottles at no cents 80 years established. III the
best in the world for the Of Collie old Sores SRT9ns
Bruises, Sore Throats, etc. TOBIAS CONDITION
POWDERS are warranted TO cure Dstemper, Fever
Worms Is is; give hne coat increase the appetite ana
Mcdaniel owner OF OF the fastest running horses
in the world and 1000 others. 10 cents Sold by drug
giss. Depot-13 Murray Street, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

Malarial Fevers, constipation, torpidity OF
the liver and kidneys, general debility, ner-
vousuess and neuralgia ailments yield readily
to this great disease conqueror, Hop Bitters
1t repairs the ravages OF disease by convert
ingthe food into rich blood, and it gives new
life and vigor to the aged and i firm always
See " Proverbs" in other column.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

Ten years ago the United States
boosted fourteen cities of over 100000
inhabitants each; now we have twenty
"a greater number than any other
country in the world contains.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

Mtesa, the savage king of Uganda,
has sacrificed 900 human beings on the
graves of his ancestors and given cold
shoulder to the missionaries, who are of
no use, he thinks, unless they will fur
nish him with arms and ammunition.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

The mai, eauss = nervousness IL indigss-
ton. and thas \ caused by weakness OF the
stomach. Ne one can have sound nerves and
good health without using Hop Bitters to
strengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and
keep the liver and kidneys active to carry of
all the poisonous and wasts matter Of the sys
tenn See other column.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20
TIMELY TOPICS,

The Northern Pacific railroad has
now completed, or under construction,
about 1000 miles of its main line.
About 400 miles additional require TO
be constructed to complete the system,
which will require the expenditure OF
about $40, 100000.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

The life of a submarine telegraph cable
is shown by experience to be from ten
to twelve years. II cable breaks in
deep water after it is ten years of age,
it cannt be lifted for repairs. as 1t Will
break of its own weight-a fatal dill
Guilty, and for which there seems to be
no practicable remedy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

A Bay City (Mich } philosopher tried
10 stop a ruae away horse by taking hold
of a wheel of the carriage. When he
stopped revolving he wasn't any better
looking than he was before, but he knew
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

II you are coughing or not, but feel the pre-
ence OF Cold in the system, use DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup and feel immediate relief. Price
OH onnts q hOftla
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

During the recent census taken in
Switzerland the female citizens of all
degrees energetically protested ag Ainst
telling their ages.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

The wheat crop of the present year
taking the aggregate Weld throughout
the United States, promises to be unpre-
cedentedly large. BY some the crop has
been estimated as high as $50, 900, 900,
but according to the New York Tribune
it may be safely set down at not less
than from 460, 0,O00,00O to 400. 000, 600
bushels. or from 80, ,OOO. 900 to DO, 1000, 900
bushels in excess OF the great crop of
1879.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

from diseased Kidneys than OF consumption,
but not one fatal case in a thou'and would
occur if Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
wa taken in time, By all means try it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

A Berlin dispatch states that the
police have discovered the existence Of
a gigantic Socialist organization, with
ramifications extending throughout the
whole of Germany. Although the dis.
covery has created a marked sensation
among certain classes, no one at all con-
versant with what has been going on
beneath the surface Is surprised at these
developments. 1t is said that the gov
ernment will take stringent measures to
suppress the organization.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

st. Peters cathedral. which has been
in process of erection in Dominion
square, Montreal, nearly ten years, and
would have been one of the largest
church edifices, when finished accord
ing to design, on the continent, is
doomed to destruction, when almost
ready for the roof, and after hundreds OF
thousands of dollars had been expended,
as well as many lives of working men
undertaking was of too leviathan a
description to be successfully carried to
Completion within the next half cen
tury. 1t has therefore been determined
by the Catholic church authorities to
have the building razed to the ground,
and church OF moderate dimensions
erected in the east end of the city, where
the Catholic people reside, chiefly Out
of the materials.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-20

Among articles which are now freely
aduterated is that of butter. For a
long time this article was not known
to be adu ulterated, but of late New
York dealers who handle large quanti-
ties of butter have noticed that the
tubs of butter from the West weigh six
or eight pounds heavier than usual in
fifty pound tubs. The increase OF
weight to the same bulk baf1led investi-
cation for some time, but has at last
been found due to an adulteration with
powdered soapstone. A firm in Gin
clnnati, known rs the Cincinnati Facing
Company, manufactures powdered soap
stone, and the article is said to have 8
ready mar ket for legitimate purposes
as well as for the adulteration of butter
Housekeepers have been, for q long time
accust med TO soapstone mantels, but
10 look for soapstone among their food
will be an undesirable search.
1t is only few years since the manu-
| facture of plate glass was started her.
but the business has been brought &c
that state OF perfection where we are
able to produce as good quality OF plate
as either France or England. In 1876
Messrs. Bouvien and Girard, the former
the manager general of all the plate
glass factories of France, and the latter
one of the weep idents of the French
plate glass corporation, visited the Uni
ted States for the purpose of after ding
our Centennial exposition, and visiting
our plate glass establishments, which al
that time were a comparatively new en-
terprise in this country. They visited
the factories at Louisville, New Albany
and Crystal City, rear st. Louis. They
were very much surprised at the pro
gress our works had made, and acknow
| lodged that we had accomplished in 9
few years what it had required Their
manufacturers centuries to learn; that
we had the best sand in tie world and
the best fuel for the manufacture oi
plate glass, and that our glass was fully
equal in quality to that produced by
| thap,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-15
RAILWAYS
SarSaparillian ResOlyent.

Chronic Skin Diseases, Carries OF the Bone, HUI
mors in the Blood, Scrofuous Diseases, Bad or "a
natural Habit of Body, Syphilis aud Nenereal, Fe-
yer Sores, Chronic or Old Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Rockets. White Swelling, Scald Head, Uterine AT
fections, Cankers, Glandnlar Swellings, Nodes,
Wasting and Decay OF the Body, Pimples and
Blotches Tumors, Dyspepsia, Kidney and Bladder
Diseases Chronic rheumatism and Gout Con-
sumption, Gravel and Calcuious Deposits. and va
rietles of the above complaints to which some
times are given specious names.
possesses the curative power over these diseases
that RAILWAYS REsoLvENr furnishes Ii cures
step by step, surely, from the foundation. and re-
stores the injured parts TO their sound condition
TIE WASTES OF THE BODY ABE STOPPED AND HEAL
THY BLOOD Is SUPPLIED TO THE SYSTEM, from which
new material is formed. This 1e the nrsl correc-
tive power OF RAILWAYS REsOLyENT-
In cases where the system has been salivated,
and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosive Suolimate
have accumulated and become deposited In the
bones Joints, etc., causing carries OF the bones,
ricketts, spinal curyaturee contortions, white swell
Iings. yaricose veins, etc.. the SARsAPARILLAH
will resolve away those deposits and exterminats
che virus OF the disease from the system.
cure of Chronic Scrofulous or Syphiltt1c diseases
however slow may be the cure. feel BETTER. and
ind their general health improving, their flesh ano
weight Increasing even keeping its own, -
sure sigh that the cure is progressing. IN THESE
diseases the patient either gets better or worse
the virus OF the disease Is not inactive; II not ar
rested and driven from the blood 1t will spread and
continue to undermine the constitution: AS soon
as the SARsAPARILLIAE makes the psttant feei
better" every hour you will grew oetter and IN
cres In health, strength aud flesh.