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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
Seven Points in Mills-Scttinr.

Among the many excellent modes for
raising cream would not like to say
which is best, if indeed any one is best
under all circumstances. 1t will suffice
to state few general principles and let
each one decide for himself. l. To
make the finest favored and longest
keeping butter the cream must undergo
a ripening process by exposure to the
oxygen of the air while it is sweet. This
is best done while it is rising. The
ripening is very tardy when the temper
atlre is low. 2. After cream becomes
sour, the more ripening the more it de-
preciates. The sooner it is then skim
med and chuIned the better, but it
should not be churned while too new.
The best time for skimming and churn-
ing is Just before acidity becomes ap-
parent. 3. Cream makes better butter
to rise in cold air than to rise in cold
water, but it will rise sooner in cold
water, and the milk will keep sweet
longer. 4. The deeper milk is set the
less airing the cream gets while rising.
5. The depth of setting should vary with
the temperature; the lower it is the
deeper milk may be set; the higher, the
shallower it should be. Milk should
never be set shallow in a low tempera-
ture nor deep in a high one. Setting
deep in cold water economies time,
labor and space. 6. While milk is
standing for cream to rise, the purity of
the cream, and consequently the fine
flavor and keeping of the butter will be
injured if the surface of the cream is
exposed freely to air much warmer than
the cream. 7 When cream is colder
than the surrounding air it takes up
moisture and impurities from the air.
When the air is colder than the cream
it takes up moisture and whatever es-
capes from the cream. In the former
case the cream purities the surrounding
air; in the latter the air helps to purify
the cream. The selection of creamer
should hinge on what is most desired
highest quality, or greatest convenience
and economy in time, space and labor.
-ProfeSSOr L. B. A1wod.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

How quick horse becomes dilapida-
ted and demoralized after it comes into
the possession of some people. 1t
makes no difference how young or how
nice they are when they get them, they
all look alike in less than two years,
aud always have that d scouraged, de-
otroyed appearance. L have seen men
WHO claim to have great judgment
whom We look to as wise, prudent and
shrewd in business that did not seem
to have any idea of what treatment a
horse requires. If / had boy ten
years old that was no more capable and
reasonable about such things than many
people, should think he was helpless
idiot. Manv seem to think that horse
can endure everything, go without feed
all day and halt the night, and be OIL
on a journey on bad travelling time
after time. When they get home they
put them in an old dark pit.pen, throw
IN forkful of hay, the first they come
to and "let them rip" They never rub
OF clean them, and never take any pains
70 protect them from cold or dampness
They overlook difficulties when in no
condition to labor. How many young
,tylish horses have We seen all drawn
out of shape aud sagged down, their
back six inches too low in front of the
hips and foot and a half too long. 4
horse needs feed regularly and often, as
often as five hours at least, at regular
hours in the day. They cannot bear
fasting as we'll as Illuminating animals :;
but they should never be crammed full
of hay, especially after long drive,
when they have been without it all day,
nor Just before q hard days work or
long journey. ] have seen a good many
horses spoiled by examining and fast ing
1t will soon spoil their digestive organs
and if long continued it will weaken
them and destroy their vitality so that
they will never take on flesh at all,
even under good treatment. And SO
they always remain a crooked, shape
less mass of unsightly, useless "horse-
flesh" But strange as it may appear,
people never know the difference as
long as the animal has a paunch, hair
and hoofs 1t is not all work that has
brought him to this. There are thou
sands of horses thatlook as well as they
ever did. 1t is the general manage
ment. 1t is not the team horse nor the
livery horse so much as the farm horse
that shows bad treatment. Some pre-
tend that the horse has bad constitu-
ton or is sick. Others call it a lack
of vitality. 1 should call it lack
of common sense in the Uranium of his
owner.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
Household Hints.

To peel any kind of fruit easily pour
boiling water over it, and this loosens
the skin.
A piece of muslin put next to every
layer of leather in sole will prevent
the shoe from squeaking.
TO stone raisins easily, pour boiling
water over them and drain it off. This
loosens them and they come out clean
and with ease.
Dishes should always be rinsed in
clear, hot water, after having been
washed in soapsuds. Nothing is more
unpleasant at the table than to notice a
certain sickness that the soap is likely
to leave. 1t is necessary also from a
sanitary point of view; the caustic alkali
is corrosive and unwholesome, and the
grease is often impure.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
Worcester (AIass.) Spy.l
Nothing on Earth so Good.

Certainly q strong opinion, said one
of our reporters to whom the following
was detailed by Mr.. Henry Kaschop,
with Mr.. George Z. Miller, AIS Main
street, this city: L suffered SO badly
with rheumatism in my leg last winter
that was unable to attend to my work,
being completely helpless. I heard of
st. Jacobs Oil and bought bottle, after
using which 1 felt greatly relieved.
With the use of the second bottle I
was completely cured. In my estima-
ton there is nothing on earth so good
for rheumatism as St. Jacobs Oil, 1t
acts liks charm.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
Bible Terms.

Readers of the Bible will be inter
ested in the following explanation of
IMPRESSIONS frequently met with in the
Holy Scriptures:
A days journey was 80 1-5 miles.
A Sabbath days journey was about
23 English mile.
Ezekiefs reed is said to have been
nearly II feet long.
A cubit is % inches nearly.
A fingers breadth is equal to inch.
A shellel was about 80 cents.
A shekel of gold was $9.07.
A talent of silver was 81, 1,650S6.
A talent of gold was S26, AS.
A piece of silver, or a penny, was 13
cents.
A farthing was 13 cents.
A gerah was cents.
A mite was l-2 cent
A homer contained 70 gallons and 5
pints.
An ephah, or bath, 7 gallons and
pints.
A hin was l gallon and pints.
A firkin was pints.
An omer was pints.
A cab was pints.
A log was IL pint.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
Carriar.Pipnnns-

The Berlin society for training carrier
pigeons recently published some inter-
esting details concerning the rapid
flight of these birds. At the last meet
ing in 1880 the pigeon which won the
prize flew in five hours and twenty-seven
minutes the distance between Cologne
and Berlin, which, as the crow flies,
measures 295 miles. This is the most
rapid fight which has ever been known.
The Berlin society owns 1900 old car
rier-pigeons, and during last year bought
$50 young pigeons for Paris, Aix-la-
Chapelle and Belgium, with q view to
ameliorate the breed by a mixture of
new blood.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Don't Keen Too Much stee..

There is such thing as keeping
more than profitable number of sheep
OF cows upon a farm. A h9lf.dozen
half-starved cows will not yield as much
milk as three that have all the food
they want. If there is no more stock than
can be well kept the returns will be the
greatest in money, and also in the sat
isfaction of seeing the animals in n good
healty condition-no small part of the
income to one who loves to have good
stock well kept upon his farm.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

AN INVALUABLE ART1CLE-The readers of the
Argus have no doubt seen the advertisement OF
Ely's Cream Balm in another column. An art-
Gle 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.
e. Buchanan, W. Il. Hamman, druggist and
other Eastonians have given it trial, and all
recommend it in the highest terms.-EdSton
(Pd.) Daily argus.
have been a sufferer for years with cataTh,
and under a physicians treatment for over a
year; have tried number of sure cure remedies
and obtained no relief. 1 was advised to try
Ely's Cream Balm. 1t gave me immediate relief.
1 believe am now entirely cured.-G S Davis,
First National Bank, Elizabeth, n. J.
Price 30 cents. lily Cream Balm Co.,
Owego, N. Y. VIII mail it for 90 cents.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

A large mass of dung, unless frozen
or kept near the freezing point, will uu-
dergo decomposition, and gives of, bc-
sides steam, ammonia and other gases.
These tend to soften and iniurc the
hoofs of animals, and especially horses.
that may lie forced to stand coutin-
uously upon the accumulation of dung.
These gases cause Inflammation of the
eyes and injure tho general health in
terfere with the digestion and reduce
the vigor of the animal. There should
be no mass of manure in any stable
where horses are kepO. A clean floor
and pure air are requisites for the best
health of the animals.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

De Lesseps says the Panama canal
will certainly be finished by 1888, at an
estimated cost of S102, 400, 900. The
work will not require more than from
5000 to 10000 workmen, in the most
busy period of the work, who will be
recruited from the colored population of
Columbia and the West Indies.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

The Philadelphia Times tells the fol-
lowing story about Joshua Joynes, "the
Eastern shore glutton:" He recently
ate fifteen pounds of pork, twelve links
of bologna sausage, souse from one large
hog, one large goose, which the grena-
dier had been fattening for month, one
full-grown chicken, one dozen large bis
cults, one peck of sweet potatoes, one
large mince pie, and drank six cups of
strong coffee.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

William F. Cody was a poor and un-
known scout on the plains few years
ago. A ten-cent novel glorifed him as
Buffalo Bill, he went on the stage as a
personator of himself in border plays,
and part of the financial result is visible
in new block of fine buildings, includ-
ing public hall, at North Platte, Ne
braska
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

"What," asksa correspondent, "causes
the hair to fall out?" Before we answer
we must know whether you are married
or single. This is important to true
understanding of the case.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

What is tha best family medicine in the worl,
to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove
costiveness ana biliousncss, aid digestion and
the whole system? Truth and sober
ness compcls us 70 answer, Hop Bitters, being
another column
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Pleasant to the taste and surprisingly quick
In relieving coughs andAcoaS tis not at all
strange that Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup has dis
placed 80 many other cough remedies.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

All the fairs give the first premiums and
special awards Of great merit to Hop Bitters as
the purest and best family medicine, and we
most heartily approve of the awards for we know
they deserve il. They are now on exhibition at
the State fairs, and we advise all to test them.
Sec another column
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Having been cured by st. Jacobs Oil,
[ recommend the same to all sufferers
with rheumatism, says Mr.. L. Shiffman,
1904 Calumet avenue, Chicago, Ill.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

The point has again been reached in
Iowa whether il ia cheaper to burn corn
than coal. An Iowa farmer who has
given both n fair trial found that 81
worth OF coal lasted him two weeks,
while the Same amount of money spent
ON corn nt twenty cents a bushel kept
him in fuel for three weeks. If we
only know what price was paid for coal
we could easily find the figure to which
corn would have to rise to make it the
dearer fuel of the two. With corn worth
only eighteen cents bushel in the ear,
as it is now in that section, it is easy to
see that great deal of it will be burned
this year.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

The total value of England's imports
for 1880 was e4O9, 900, 900, an increase
of about e40, 900, 900 over 1879 Living
animals were imported to the value of
e., 245, aO3. The number of eggs i'm,
ported was TAI, 7,412, 44O, worth e2, 24l,,
300.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

PURE COP LIVER On made from selected
livers, on the scashore, by Caswell Hazard &
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer
it 10 all others. Physicians have decided it
superior to any Of the other oils in market.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

You can buy Buggios and Harness at whole
sale prices of the ELKHARr CARRIAGE AND HAIR
privilege of examining before paying. Hand
sewed Oak Leather Team IdrnGss, s25. Single
Harness, IS TO $50. Platform Spring Buggics,
s75, etc Price-lst sent lrec. ". B. PRATT, Sec.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

In 194S there were 1000 miles of
telegraph lines in this country; in 1880
this had increased to 142, 1854 miles.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

A MILLION bottles of CAROLINE. a dcodorizei
extract Of petroleum, will produce new hair on
million bald heads, which is something thai
no other preparation ever discovered will do.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

You Can't Afford
To be without Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cura
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
TIMELY TOPICS.

Senator Miller, of California, says hi.
fur seal company has paid the govern
'ment S3,000,0 out of the $7000,O0U
we paid for Alaska, and before his grant
expires will have paid the whole sum
we paid Bussin, while the seals, honestly
protected, are moro plentiful than ever
Twenty-Five years ago the people Of
Bmttlehuro, w., were surprised one
day nj finding the figure of an angel
nodded in snow standing on sne of
their streets II was soon discovered
that Larlin G.. Mead, Bpttlcboro
boy, had done the work, and funds
were readily forthcoming to assist him
TO pursue his artistic studies. Mr.. Mead
Ia now engaged at his studio in Rome in
making Ion Brattlchoru u marble copy
of the SNOW angel which first brought
him into notice.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

The son of a wealthy New York mer-
chant recently lost $4,000 at the gam
inu-tab1a
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

The imperial family of Germany is
quite able to support itself. If the
crown prince were deprived of his in
heritance he could easily win bread and
butter by his skill as turner; while his
eldest son, Prince Wilhelm, is an excel
lent amateur artisan. On the emperor's
cabinet are several samples Of his dead
grandson Waldemar's proficiency as
bookbinder. This acquisition oi a trade
is in accordance with the traditionary
custom of the royal family, which pre-
scribes that every prince of the blood
shall learn some useful handicraft, so
as to strengthen his spirit of independ-
ence and make him wise through actual
contact with the material world.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

On the cedar bluffs of the Cumber-
land river, five miles south of Somerset,
KY, the birds have been holding con
vention. If the accounts are correct
all the feathered tribes known to that
region and many seldom or never seen
in this country have been represented.
Their sessions began every day at SUD
down, and their number was so great
that when disturbed by a curious visi-
tor the noise of their wings was like
distant thunder. The most singular
feature of the gathering was the perfect
harmony and goodwill that prevailed.
The hawk and the dove, the sparrow
and the owl perched on the same branch
and conferred with apparent pleasure
and profit. In the morning when the
session ended, the air was thick with
darting forms of every size and color.
This description sounds apocryphal, and
is probably somewhat exaggerated, but
naturalists have long admitted the oc-
casional congregation of birds of differ
ent species drawn together by some
means and for some purpose which
baffied all rational attempts at explana-
tion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Whisky in Maine," says Neal Dow,
sis carried in small bottles in the
pockets of the liquor sellers, and dealt
out upon the sly it is put into teapots,
placed upon the kitchen shelf it is
built into the walls of houses, in tin
cans, with a small rubber pipe, by
which to draw it off it is concealed il
small bottles in the bed it is concealed
in bottles under the floor, put there
through trap that can be only reached
by removing the bed it is concealed in
small flat bottles in the ash pit under
the ovens of the cooking stoves it is
hidden in wells attached to strings
fastened some inches below the surface
of the water; it is buried in manure
heaps it is concealed under the floor
of the pigsty; it is hidden away upon
the fiat roof of the house, access to it
being had only by a ladder through
scuttle; it is hidden in attics, under the
floor and in cellars buried in the
earth"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

A bushman named Shulthorpe has
telegraphed from BIackall, Australia,
asserting that he has found the explorer
Leichardt's grave, and has recovered the
diary of the whole of the last expedi-
ton, together with other relics LEIGH
ardt was an able young German bota-
mist, who set out to explore the then
least known part of Australia some
twenty years ago. He disappeared, and
though expedition after expedition was
sent in search of him and his compan-
ions, no traces whatever were found of
the party. Rumors came in from time
to time that he was detained among the
blacks, OF that he had been cut off by
them, but nothing was ever definitely
known as to his fate.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

Bees have stolen largely from the
beet-root sugar-refners of Paris. One
manufacturer alone estimates his loss at
81 600
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

The city of Chicago proposes to ven
ture upon new field of achievement
and conquest. 1t is now maturing the
details of a musical festival similar to
those which have been held in Cincin-
natl for several years past, and has
already settled the following points {:
1.-The festival will occur in May of next
year; its conductor will be Theodore
Thomas, who will have entire and sole
control of the music; a chorus of Il
thousand voices will be gotten together
as speedily as possible and put into
traiuing an orchestra of two hundred
of the best instrumentalists will BE-
drilled by Thomas, and the solists will
be the greatest living artists" The
same orchestra will be used in May fes-
tivals in New York city and Cincinnati,
and the soloists will be the same in all.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31

1000 year 10 Agents, and expenses, SO Outft
'0VO free. Address +. Swain 4 Co., Augusta, Me,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-01-29

expressed by Mr., Cowper that steel sleepers
ore about to come into use in this country, and
that an enormous new demand for steel will
consequently arise Every ton of steel rails
LAID down in this country but hastens the day
day when the use of the steel sleeper will be
begun here. AS tishpate of steel has be.
come necessary adjunct to the steel rail, so
too will the sleeper of steel, We possess no
more conclusive testimony of the progress
which Is going on in the consumption OF steel
rails than the returns of the German steel rail
trade taken IN connection with what we all
know Of the practical annihila,ion of the iron
rail industry in England. In 1874 about fifty
per cent, OF the total quantity Of rails made in
Germany were of iron; four years later the
proportion had dropped to six per cent; and
last year all the rails made in Germany were
OF steel Steel makers have our warmest wish
es fer their success in so cheapenng the cost
of steel suitable for sleepers that upon the score
of cost the railway engineer may at first sight
he impressed with the wisdom OF abandoning
slecpers of wood. Meanwhile, iron smelters
should not relax their efforts to provide suita.
die blocks with which to pave the thorough.
fares Of busy towns, Upon the occasion which
we have already cited, the president of the Me.
chanlca Engineers encouraged further efforts,
by stating that certain attempts in this dlrec-
ton in some parts of London had been very
nearly successful Colliery Guardian, Dec
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-01-29
Zegal
II. N. RYnN.

Attorney az Lar, Shedtor NJ
STATE OF ILLINOIS, La SALE Co. -ss. -
- IN hs Circuit Court Of La Sale County M-Adrch
Term, 1881.
George " Clifford rs. Albert l.. Cavln.-In Attachment
Demand $500t0,
Notice hereby given you. the said Albert L. Calvin.
that writ OF attachment has been sued Of the office OF
the Clerk Of the Circuit Con! OF said county OF La Sae at
the suit OF the said George W Clifford and against the estate
of You, the said Albert L. Calvin for hundred eighty
Two and 2 dollars besides interest," directed TO the sher
IN or said county To execute which said writ has been
turned by said Sheriff executed with his endorsement
thereon that he had December 30 h. 1880 levied upon the
personal property OF said defendant described In the writ
or In the inventory schedule attached thereto and made
part thereof Said return endorsement rectes that said
defendant could not be found In this county and IL also
pears ron an affidavit e that said defendant is non
resident Of this state.
Now. unless you the said Albert L. Calvin shall person.
ally he and appear before the Circuit Court OF said county
on the si day OF the next term thereof be holden al OF
tawa In said county the second Monday the month OF
March next give special bail aud plead such action udg
nent viii be entered against you in favor Of the said plain
til and the property attached sold TO satisfy the same with
costs. $500 WILLIAM W. TAYLOR Clerk.
OTTAWA, Illinois. January 18th, 1881
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