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The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

ELEGANT TOILET PREPARArloNs.-
Hair dressing, and restorative is found in
London Hair Color Restorer." 1t seldom
fails to restore gray or faded hair to its
original youthful color and beauty. Fall
ing hair is checked by its use, and it pro-
duces growth Of beautiful young hair,
soft, glossy, and luxuriant It certainly
is the most clearly and effective hair re-
storer now before the American people.
A. A. Gibson, Barrytown, Duchess
county, N. Y, writes: DR.. Svayne & Son
Philadelphia: GENTs-I enclose post
Office order for eight dollars: please
send me one dozen bottles Of the LON
don Hair Color Restorer." 1t has
stopped my hair from falling, and restored
it to its natural color. 1t has proven
satisfactory in every respect. The "Lon-
don Hair Color Restorer" can be obtain
at all the leading druggists at rs cents a
bottle.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

TROUBLESOME CHILDREN they are
always wetting their bed ought not to be
scolded and punished for what they cam
not help. They need medicine having
tonic effect on the kidneys and the uri-
nary organs. Such medicine is Kidney
Wort. 1t has specific action. Do not
fail to get it for them.-Ezekange.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

A brother arose in weekly prayer
meeting in New Jersey, and said:
Brethren, when l consider the short
ness of life, 1 feel as if I might be
taken away suddenly, like a thief 10
the night"
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01
SKIN Diseases.
L Deem 1t Mn Duty TO Tell

what DR.. Swayne's Compound Syrup
Of Wild Cherry has done for me. /
had violent cough, night sweats,
sore throat, great weakness, with Sc
we're attacks Of hemorrage, gave up
all hope ofrecovery. / am cured, "a
sound and hearty man.
EDWARD H. HANSON.
Engineer Of Sweeney's Pottery,
1884 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia.
Over twenty-five years have elapsed
and I still remain a hearty man.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

JUST OUT.-Some of our stores
are constantly besieged by children
coming to the door and asking for
cards, empty boxes and that sort Of
things. The clerks are, Of course,
down on the youngsters, and the war
fare never ends. The other day a
little girl opened a store door and
sticking her head in called out
Say, mister, have you got any box.
esq"
"No," said the clerk, not very po-
litely.
"Got any cards ?"
"No."
"Got any almanacs ?"
ono"
"Got any empty bottles ?"
nNOip
"Got any sense ?"
"No-yes-come ERE you little
wretch" and the clerk few out of the
door, but she was up the next alley
making faces at him, and he came
back madden than he had been since
his salary was reduced.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

DIR. Holman's Ague and Liver Pad
always cures because it acts upon DR..
Holman's absorption theory, now uniyer.
sally ACKNOWLEDGED to be scientifically cor.
rect. Its limitations fail because they are
limitations, and are Of no value whatso-
ever.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

Remember the James Boss is the only
patent case made of two plates of solid
gold Zone outside and one inside) covering
every part exposed to wear or sight, the
great advantage of these plates over
electro-gilding is apparent to every one.
Boss is the only patent case with which
there is given written warrant, of which
the following is fac-simile:
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

About the most guilty looking
people in the world is man accused
Of crime Of which he is innocent.
and newly married couple trying to
pass for veterans
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

Instead Of placing Guiteau in soli-
tary confinement he should have
plenty of rope
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

"Will the coming man stealY" asks
The New Haven Register Patience
dear sir WIN the going man, who
has stolen, be arrestedY
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01
Many are ss.Fsrs,.g from Colds

Dry, parched, sore throat, losing flesh
bronchial and asthmatic attacks. All
these dangerous symptoms are entirely
cured by "Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup
of Wild Cherry" The first dose gives
relief and the worst cough and sore
lungs yield to its healing properties.
Sold by all druggists at Is cents and ST.
The large size is the most economical.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

The meanest woman 90 record Is
the one who ran up to lady friend
on the street and said, Of course you
have heard of the scandal 10 the
church !! Awful, isn't itH Oh, here
is my cal" and then jumped into 4
horse car and was gone without ex-
planning the scandal to the friend
who didn't know about it.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

The true way for a woman to drive
a nail is to aim the blow square at her
thumb. Then she'll at least avoid
hitting her thumb, anyway
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

mo man, who calls hesef q german
can vote for prohibition said q col.
orsd stump speaker, during the late
canvass on the temperance question
In North Carolina. sWhar am our
boosted freedom If we amt lowed to
take leetle sum6n for de tumuca
sake? Nowar, gemman. Widout
whiskey and wine dar am no secb
ting as libertyP His auditors cheered
him, and went to the polls and voted
to q man for whiskey and libertyl
And yet no more Of the spizen critter'
will be sold in Carolina than there ia
in Main!
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

The Chinese giant has to have his
liver pad made in sail loft.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

"Ma, what is revenge?' ut is when
your father scolds me, and | hit him with
broom stick."
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

A young man getting up late says
he hasn't as much spirits as he had
before be went to bed.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

In some hats the cabbage leaf must
feel perfectly at home.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

Why should spider make good
actor7 Because he is always on his
lines.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01
Worm KEEPING IN SUMMER.

Worm KEEPING IN SUMMER
Keep cool.
Keep quiet.
Keep ont of debt.
Keep your temper.
Keep the flies out.
Keep your head level.
Keep good appetite.
Keep the commandmer i.
Keep your premises clean.
Keep muzzle on your dog.
Keep your rooms dark and cool.
Keep the children out Of the sun.
Keep out Of neighbors' quarrels
Keep fly screens on your windows.
Keep on good terms with your
wife.
Keep your ice cream bill squared
up.
Keep the small boy away from the
river
Keep away from trees during a
lightning storm.
Keep paste diamonds to wear when
travelling. =
Keep true to your city girl when
you meet country beauties.
Keep plenty Of ripe fruit on your
tables at all meals.
Keep valuables in safe place when
you leave town.
Keep red pepper and brandy where
they'll come handy.
Keep bricks to FIRE at cats and
save your bedroom furniture.
Keep look out for snakes when
you camp out, or 60 to picnics.
Keep an eye on kitchen affairs;
] see that al food is we'll cooked and
properly prepared.
Keep the peace il you keep an ac-
cordeon; give It rest IN the middle
ofthe night, and II you belong to !
brass band do the same with your B
Eat BASES.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

The man who buys farm is sait
to be gaining ground.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

Detroit editors get up in the mid
die Of the night to hate each other.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

The apple and small boy demon
strate cores and effect.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

It is we'll enough 10 marry for love
providing that potatoes, meat. jewelry,
cake, ice cream and dresses are thrown in.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

Moderation is the silken string run.
uing through oil virtues.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01
MANSFIELD. pa

MANSFIELD, Pa, May %, 1878.
have customer who has carried one
of Boss Patent Cases fifteen years and /
knew it two years before he got it. and it
appears good for ten years longer.
r, E. OLNEY.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01

Twenty minutes suffice for courtship
and marriage out West.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-01
A NEW KIND OF WATCH CASE

New because it is only within the last
few years that it has been improved and
brought within the reach of every one /;
old in principal because the first inven-
ton was made and the first patent taken
out nearly twenty years ago. and cases
made at that time and worn ever since.
are nearly as good as new. Read the fol-
lowing which is only one of many hun
dreds, your jewellers can tell Of similar
ones.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
How Farmers are swindIed.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has an article
describing how many Western farmers
have been swindled by an organized
gang of sharpers. The Enquirer says:
The farmers have often been warned
against these gentry by the press, but
they readily change their tactics and
assume all sorts of protean forms tor
entrapping the unwary, and scarcely
day passes that some countryman is not
made victim of the wicked wiles Of the
ubiquitous scaups. The latest heard
of is a gang who go about selling an
alleged seeding machine, and these
hare victimized number of people.
The Enquirer reporter has been shown
copy of an exceedingly ingenious docu-
ment which these fellows use in their
operations, and by means of which they
have caught more than one who thought
himself entirely too smart to be duped
by any city sharp. The reader is here
by presented with a fac-simile of the
"contract" drawn by these patent seed
in machine fellows, which they in
duce farmers to sign, and which shortly
afterward turns up as plain note of
hand in the possession of some
paper-shaver in his neighborhood who
has purchased the same of the swim
dlers. It is as follows:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Home Life for the Blind,

In an address before the college for
the blind at Upper Norwood, Henry
Fawcett, the blind postmaster general
of Eng land, said that, speaking from
his own experience, the greatest service
that could be rendered to the blind was
to enable them to live as far as possible
the same life as if they had not lost
their sight. They should not be impris-
oned in institutions or separated from
their friends. Few who had not ex-
perienced it could imagine the inde-
scribable JOY to them of home life Some
persons hesitated to speak to the blind
about outward objects. The pleasantest
and happiest hours of his life were those
when he was with his friends who
talked about everything they saw just
as if he was not present, who in room
talked about the pictures, when walk
ing spoke of the scenery they were
passing through, and who described the
people they met. When with the blind
people should talk to them about and
describe everything they saw. The
sp eaker concluded by remarking that
there was plenty of goodwill to assist
the blind, but what was required was
better organization.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
COd-Fishing.

We have been out on the briny deep
after fish, and the Hd1Okeve distinguished
itself as usually. The Jester caught the
first fish. And it was the only fish OF
that kind taken all day.
We went out after Goldfish. It is q
pleasant fish to catch. Catching cod is
like drawing water with rope and
bucket. 1t is very gamey fish; after
it is cured for the Western market.
Limburger cheese isn't much gamier.
1t keeps up perennial smell that grows
stronger and more decided as the years
creep by, Lorena. When the spring
time comes, gentle Annie, the old cod
fish that hangs on a nail away back in
the darkest corner of the cellar discounts
the noisy onions piled up on the middle
of the floor, and then it doesn't half try.
The dryer it gets the louder it grows.
You must be blind if you couldn't hear
the flavor of two-year-old Goldfish.
But when he is new he is quiet, and
you miss the old familiar bouquet.
When you go for Goldfish you must first
get your herring, for bait. We ap-
preached lone fisherman for this pur-
pose, and besought him that he would
lend US few herring. But he wasn't
doing discount business then, and said
he had only few-oh, such very,
very few.
"Well, couldn't you let US have
three or four? 2"
But he shook his head sadly, as one
who should say he only had four or five.
Then we shouted and cried aloud and
said unto the lone fisherman:
"Lo. here is twenty-five cents, but
what is that to you? Will you see us
die for three small herring"
And the lone fisherman dropped his
line and made reach for that quarter
even as a drowning man reaches for
crowbar, and spoke with great
alacrity:
"Oh, yes, I have Just about quar-
ters worth" And he gave us peck.
The sinker on the cod-line is piece
of lead about the size and shape of a
corn-cob, and it weighs as much as an
old-fashioned family Bible. You fish
very close to the bottom-five feet or SO
from it; and the only labor involved is
hauling up that deep sea-sounding ap-
paratus at the end of your line. When
you catch Goldfish, it doesn't add to
the weight at all. Oh, no; the cod
helps you to pull the sinker up to the
surface, and that makes. your load
lighter. That's the way you know when
you have a fish on. That's Just how
gamey the cod is.-Burdette.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
WISE WORDS.

Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing
quality. 1t has been called the bright
weather of the heart.
Impoliteness is derived from two
sources-indifference. to the divine and
contempt tor the human.
Faith has q vision of its own, but no
light in which it can distinguish objects
except the light of prayer.
Each man sees over his own expert
ence certain stain of error, whilst that
of other men looks fair and ideal.
They that will not be counseled can
not be helped. If you do not hear
reason, she will rap your knuckles.
They say fortune is q woman, and
capricious. But sometimes she is good
woman, and gives to those who merit.
Count up mans calamities and who
would seem happy? But in truth ca
lamity leaves fully half of your life un-
touched. ..
"To acquire few tongues" says a
French writer, sis the task of few
years; but to be eloquent in one is the
labor of life"
The dishonest man gives no more
light in the world than o tallow candle,
and when he dies he leaves as bad an
odor behind him.
Considering the unforeseen events OF
this world, we should be taught that no
human condition should inspire men
with absolute despair.
Be willing to do good in your own
way. We need none of us be disturbed
if we cannot WELD another's weapons.
But our own must not rust.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1881.
go away, and Amy can come now to. a
home far surprising her fathers"

go away, and Amy can come now to. a
home far SURPRISING her fathers"
/" Amy will never come into this
homo, Pauline" he said, tossing the
new-found wealth on the table; and he
gave me the letter in his hand.
Truly, she never would. She had
been married to young Peixotto the day
before. l. b. i 1919"
"Hush p he said; "don't pity me. I
should have married her all the same,
but from the time of her visit here it
has hung over me like cloud, for all
my love of her burned out in the fire of
the pain she gave me here" .....
"Haroldl"
"That is so. Great heaven it is the
lifting of load from my heart. Can
you imagine what it is to marry one way
and love another? For, Polly, Polly,
do you suppose 1 am a bat and mole
thus to live with your goodness, your
angelic goodness, and not to see it? Do
you suppose that after my eyes were
open I could do anything but love you,
Polly" And he stretched out his arms
to me, and held me in them as if he
never meant to let me go again. And I
So we live in Mrs. Manchester's house.
I think she hid the money with some
idea OF the want of it and the trouble
for it bringing us together. But she
has never walked up the gray parlo1
waving her fan of black feathers again,
and Harold says she never did, but that
excited and unconscious cerebratior
worked on some dimly remembered
hint, with gas lights and wind and star
beams to make ghost for me.
"And a fortune for you," I say.
"The best of all fortunes" he
answers, "would have been mine with
out it. For that letter set me free tc
seek ito marry you, Pauline. ."-Har
per's Bazdr.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
The Morning World.
lie comes down from Youths mountain-top;
Before him Manhood's glittering plain

lie comes down from Youths mountain-top;
Before him Manhood's glittering plain
Lies etrotched,7vales, hamlets, towers and
o. towns, -s'
Huge cities, dim and silent downs, b. q. ... ..
Wide unreaped fields of shining grain.
Il seems landscape fair as near;
SO easy to be crossed and wonl Pr.
No mist the distant ocean hides, -.-.. .
And overhead majestic rides
The wondrous, never-setting sun.
Gaze on, gaze on, thou eager boy,
For earth is lovely, life is grand
Yet from the boundary of the plain
Thy faded eyes may turn again
Wistfully to the morning-land.
How lovely then DER wastes of toll
That long-left mountain-height appears
How soft the lights and shadows glide
How the rough places, glorifed,
Transcend whole leagues of level years.
And standing by the sea of Death,
With anchor weighed and sails unfurled
Blessed the man before whose eyes
Thevery hills of Paradise
GLOW, colored like his morning world.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

The swindlers, says the Enquirer, go
to well-to-do farmer and tell him he
has been recommended as good man
TO sell their machines, and ask him to
become their agent. He is persuaded
that they sell rapidly and that he can
make large per cent. profit. He is
told that he will not be expected to risk
any money or pay anything until he has
sold 1926 worth of the machines. He
is induced to sign the contract above
given, which, it will be seen, sets forth
this agreement when read straight
across. 1t looks fair and innocent
enough, and soon the farmer, typifed
in the foregoing document as John
Smith, puts his name in the blank
space just before the words "Sole agent
for - Company" Afterward the
scamps easily change the document
from contract to sell into promissory
note by tearing off that part to the
right of the line drawn through the
agreement as printed. In the original
presented to the farmers, of course, no
line appears; and it is given here SIM
ply to show where the division takes
place. and the separation at which point
so radi. ally changes the nature of the
document. 1t will be seen at glance
that this is liable to deceive any one
without close inspection, and number
of Indiana farmers have been cheated
with them this summer. After the
| farmers notes get into the hands of
"innocent purchasers" there is no re-
course but to pay them off, as they can
not we'll go back on their signatures.
This description is got up to warn all
readers of the E"qairer to sign no
papers whatever that are presented to
them by strangers, however innocently
worded or plausibly pressed for their
acceptance.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
Spiders Obstruct the Telegraph.

One of the chief hinderances to tele-
graphing in Japan is the grounding of
the current by spider lines. The trees
bordering the highways swarm with
spiders, which spin their webs everywhere
between the earth, wires, posts, insula-
tors and trees. When the spider webs
are covered with heavy dews they be-
come good conductors and run the
messages to earth. The only way to re-
move the difficulty is by employing men
to sweep the wires with brushes of
bamboo; but as the spiders are more
numerous and persistent than the brush
users the difficulty remains always q
serious one
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
How Snakes are Skinned.

Snakes are shipped from Africa and
South America to the United States in
bags. These bags are inclosed in tight
boxes SO that the serpents have neither
food nor sea air during their passage,
Their chief ailment at their arrival is
canker in the mouth. Treatment con-
sists in grasping the snake just back on
the head, forcing its mouth open by
pressing on the nose, and then taking a
sharp stick, removing the canker and
applying British oil to the wound.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

A Detroit young man denounces the
poke bonnets "because they chafe his
ears" Here, now, is question for
scientists. Can they explain how it is
that bonnet worn by one person can
chafe the ears of another person not
wearing it2 Eli? How's that? Oh
we'll, we'll, now, that may be it. How
stupid not to see it before.-Detroil
Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

The Paris Jockey club pays its chief
cook Sc, 900 year, and has done so for
a dozen years. His specially is soup.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

The United States dollar of 1904 sells
for $500. II the government officials
had known how highly these coins were
to be valued they might have made a
grand speculation by turning out few
millions of them. AS it was they
thought eight would "meet the busi-
ness wants of the country" and eight
they made.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

The average age at which students
enter American colleges is seventeen; q
century ago it was fourteen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

A correspondent of London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun dried grass or heat
at this time of the year, as the bottoms
of such bottles frequently act as burn
ing glasses. The Austrai ms know that
extensive and damaging brush fires
have taken place in Australia in conse-
quence of broken bottles having been
carelessly thrown down among the dried
scrub. ..
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-03-18

President Garfield, so reports the
Cincinnati Commercials Washington
special, said to the ladies Of the
Temperance Association, who pre-
scented him Mrs. Hayes picture on
Wednesday last, that
"'The intenpcatc advocates Of tenn
percneo needed q lesson in emphasize
ing what he STYLED the sovereignty of
the family, the absolute right Of each
family to control its affairs in accord
auce with the conscience and couvic-
tons of duty of the head Of the
family In the samc line be said, a
lite further on, Zach household, by
following its own convictions and
holding itself responsible to God,
will, l think, he respected by the
American people Taken in conncc
ton with the further significant cX.
sHossion that he had been au advocate
Of temperance mot in so narrow Il
sense rs some,' his language leaves
no ground for doubt that he will fol-
low the same rule regarding the use
of wine in the White House whIch
has been observed in his private resi-.
denco. That is, that h. will provide
it for his guests; aud will be himself,
as he has always been, IN exponent