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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15
London Live Stock Market.

Miss Mildly Morgan. the live stock 70
porter of the New York Times, writes
to that paper the following interesting
sketch of the live stock market of Lon.
don, England:
On Monday I visited the great live
stock market of London. known rs the
Metropolitan market. 1t is situated in
Islington, and is a we'll planned and
we'll kept business place. The yard
has long rows of open pens in which
the cattle stand, tied by the neck to the
cross-bars. This leaves the beasts
enough liberty to admit Of the buyer
Judging of him. Every pen has room
for one hundred lead. The sheep pens
are also open, and hold in the aggre-
gate so, 900 head.
The pens for calves are raised above
the level of the yards, and are sheltered
with roofs, the sides being open. There
is room, yet again, for 1000 swine.
These animals remain under shelter.
Four thousand head of horned cattle
have room at one time, together with
the other number given. The alley
ways, pens, and causeways are foored
with granite blocks. There are four
hotels, one on every corner of the
space occupied by the market. Isling-
ton market is most easy Of access.
Tramways, omnibusses, and railways
lead to it from all directions. A strong
palisade OF wrought-iron work sur
rounds these yards, the entrances to
which are wide and handsomely orna-
mented with bulls heads In the CEN
tire of this Enclosure is building for
bank and market offices, also q tele-
graph and post Office.
The sanitary laws are rigidly en-
forced. The market is swept out and
flushed every day after business hours.
On Friday there is market for horses,
ponies and donkeys; also for miscel
laneous articles, where those who will
can buy anything, from pin to steam
pillow. Close to the livestock yards is
what Britons call Lariage, where
weary beasts are rested, and where
herds and focks are collected to await
market days. This Lariage is sheltered
and subdivided, and provender can be
had at fair rates. In compliance with
recent acts OF Parliament, spacious
slaughter houses have been erected, al
joining the livestock yards. The ami
mails are slaughtered in a most merci-
full manner; one blow from the pointed
end of II pole-axe stuns the beast, the
butcher then inserts the point of the
lance into the pith (anatomically speak
ing, sewers the spinal cord) then one
cash sewers the great blood-vessels of
the throat. The blood flows freely;
there is no pain, no discoloration, death
having been instantaneous.
The herds from the continent of Eu-
rope are landed at Deptford on the
Thames. Then, after passing through
quarantine, are slaughtered and the
carcasses forwarded to the Metropolitan
meat market.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

MARRIAGE IN TURKEYsTAN.-Amo
the Turkomans in Central Asia. who
may be fifty styled the Comanches of
the east, the ancient and much-dis-
cussed usage OF marriage by capture
takes the form of a very singular game,
which is universally popular with the
tribes of the Lower Oxus. 1t is known
by the curious appellation of ''kok-
burl" (green wolff, name which has
never been satisfactorily accounted for
The mode of playing is as follows:
When Turkoman belle finds herself
embarrassed by crowd of rival suit
ors, her father settles the matter by as
sembling them all in convenient
place on the open steppe. He then
brings out his daughter, arrayed in the
pomp of Turkoman "full Dress" and
setting her upon swift horse, places
in her hands the carcass of lamb or
kid, we'll creased from head to tail, with
which she instantly gallops away. The
young gentlemen follow her at full
speed. and endeavor to snatch the prize
frem her hands, any one who can sue
coed in doing so being thereby entitled
to consider himself the "happy man"
1t sometimes happens, of course, that
when the cavalier who is the object of
the young lady's secret preference
comes within arms length, she will
hold the kid in such q way that he can
easily wrest it from her; but should u
less-favored suitor overtake her, she
grasps it with all her strength, and the
ill-starred lover gets nothing but good
roll in the sand for his pains. When
all is over, the father regales the whole
company with sumptuous feast of rice
and mutton suet, for which he after
wards "sends in O bill' to his future
son-in-law, who is often anything but
fiattered by this expensive compliment.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

EARTHQUAKE N South AMKn1oA.-A
severe earthquake was felt in ManiBtles,
Antioquia, October 9th. Twelve houses
were destroyed, including n church,
hospital, the principal school, city
buildings and many others. No lives
lost The damage done will exceed
800, 900.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

Mr. GRO. u. BrEMAN for many years the leading
man at BRADLEY & Rulofson's is now connected with
l. W. Taber. the leading Photographer. Ne. Mont
gomery street. s. +. and will personally superntend
the business The very latest work done at the .ow
est rates. Copying old pictures a speciality Ascend
In the elevator Montg ,mery St. S. F.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15
DR.. ]. A. Hunter.

No 32l Sutter ST. San Francisco, devotes
special attention to Catarrh, deafness and all
diseases of the head, throat and chest. Al
letters Of inquiry VIII receive attention.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

Why Is It that every person that uses wacotts
Pam Paint recommends T. to their afflicted neigh
bors? Because 1t has done for them all that 1t has
promised to do, Address X. FINLEY, 1923 Market
st. San FrNncsco
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

The Lutheran churches in the United
States have 300 Sunday Schools, with
12O, 900 scholars.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

DIcKxy's CRIME DIR Lis.-for Preserving and
Beautfying the Complexion and Teeth. II possesses
all the advantages OF French Cremes without their
Injurious Qualities. Sold by all drugxists.
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j. W. sHAEFFER n cos GREEN SEAL
CIGARS are guaranteed to be made of the fin
est Havana Tobacco 323 Sacramento ST.. S. f.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

Finest PHOTOGRAPHS Prices greatly reduced
Hou.eworth. Photographer. ~ Montgomery St.. S. +.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

ALL Photographs made AT the New York Caller
No. Is Third ST. S. r., are guaranteed to be first elias
Prices to suit the times. j. H. PKrERs. Proprietor.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

SPKcTAoLKs AND EYE GLAssEs.-Prices greatly re
duced. Houseworth, Optician. u Montgomery ST. s. f.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

FOR ALL LAMENEs, AND PAIN. Gout Rhcu'
matisn. Partial Paralysis, sprans, Bruises. sih and
Swollen joints, Sore Throat, Headache. Toothache,
Neuralgia and Lame Back. use the never falling
remedy. PRATTs ABOLITION OH. Sold by all
druggists
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

VITAL MAGNETISM ny this mysterious gift OF
Nature man, the most shattered constitution can
be built up In three weeks acute cured In few
minutes all pangs and pains instantly disappearing,
and health restored. J. d. MoLENNAN. vital mag
Aetic healer, No. $50 stockton ST.. San Francisco.
You viii always nnd me In my onice. Letters an
swered. No charge for advice.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-09-15

Any parties dcsirous Of having goods purchased for
them In San FrAncsco can do ~ by addressing Mrs.
W. II. Ashley. Who will send samples Of goods for
their inspection. To the iadtes would say that !
have dnt class establishment FOR Dress making, and
am prepared execute country orders with dispatch
Being engaged In business here have the advantage
Of buying goods direct from the importers ut whole.
sale. and would give my patrons the benent OF zane.
Goods purchased and sent CO u. Send for Circular
Address Mas ". II. ASHLEY, lDo Suffer- street
Room ST. San Francinca
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
Antiouity at Table.

They did not dine simply in the
spiritual era. We have had nothing i'll
later times to excel in profusion and
splendor the feast given in the third
year of his reign by Ahasuerus, king of
all the earth from Ethiopia to the Indus,
in his capital of Susa, to the most illus
trious and the meanest of the Medes and
Persians. We read in the book of Esther
how the six months fete wound up
with banquet in the royal gardens, to
which the small and great among the
citizens were invited. The description
preserves the magnifcence of the jubi-
lee. The multitude ate and drank in
the shade of gorgeous curtains, white,
blue and hyacinth, very probably that
tapestry of Babylon for a chamber suit
of which a Roman emperor long after
gave S32, 900 of our money, or may have
been some costly fabric of Tyrian weft.
These curtains were suspended by rings
of ivory attached to marble columns
The guests reclined on couches of ivory
and silver, which stood on pavements
OF jasper, porphyry and alabaster,
adorned with exquisite paintings. They
drank out of golden cups, the meals
were served in dishes continually varied,
the wine, of the rarest quality, flowed
rs from fountains. Ahasuerus enter
tanned in q manner worthy of mighty
prince, but by all accounts the monarch
and his hospitality were completely
eclipsed by Solomon in all his glory.
No nation since or before was more
prosperous than Israel under the wise
king. The precious metals were almost
as common in Jerusalem as Candide
found them to be in Ell DoradJ. The
daily consumption of food at Solomon's s
table included thirty measures of fine
flour, siXtx measures of meal, ten fat
oxen, ten grazing oxen, 100 sheep, be
side harts, roebucks, fallow deer, and
fatred fowl. The royal menage was, of
course, in keeping with the noble COM
missariat, which was superintended by
twelve officers, each Of whom discharg.
ed the duties of lions provider or ca
terer for the kings table during one
month Of the year.-7i@Sle5' Magazine
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
Unknown Alaska.

When the late Mr.. Seward purchased
Alaska from the car of Russia, says an
exchange, he was not aware of the fact
that he was getting with his countless
fur-seals, fisheries, mines and icebergs
one of the greatest rivers in the world,
and now almost demonstrated to be of
greater volume than the Mississippi.
Such is the Yukon This vast region in
waters remains almost as much terra
incognito as the Congo. In fact, while
the latter has once been explored-by
Stanley-from the point where Living
stone turned back down to the Atlantic
ocean, and by Livingstone from its ex
treme sources to where Stanley's eX-
ploration began, no traveller has ever yet
been able to enlighten the world as to
its length or its source, or the region it
drains. Here, then, is an opening for
enterprise and ambition, more fruitful of
promise than anything as yet unrevealed
in Africa OF the Arctic sea, and probably
less dangerous. That the country
contains mines of gold and silver, we
may readily conjecture from the fact
that such mines exist on all sides Of
it. The river is navigable for hundreds
of miles. 1t is free of ice from June to
September. Its banks are fanked be-
low with Indian villages. Its waters
are filled with fish for the support Of
human life and it's woods with game
The mountains in which it rises are un-
known to white men, but, as they are
generally believed to be stored with that
treasure which lead to the rapid settle
ment of California, and to the expansion
of commerce on the south and Central
Pacific, there is the strongest sort OF
temptation on the part of thousands to
fee them, test them and dig them up,
ii the treasure can be found. The
government has many vessels lying idle
and uselessly rotting for the want of
action. Why not fit one of them up for
two or three years cruise on this great
uneXplored river of the north? The
discovery of gold mines there would
lead instantly to large migration from
all parts of the world, and in few years
contribute millions to the commerce of
the Southern Pacific States and Terri
tories.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21

plain full skirts worn here do not APP
pear on French dresses; no materials
not even the bayadere stripes-are made
up entirely plain. The lower skirt re
mains very narrow, and is shorter than
that adopted during the winter, but the
long-talked-of return to simple straight
breadths is confined to the flowing
trains of full-dress toilets, and to bro
cades that are too rich and heavy to be
draped. Very small bullet-shaped but
tons fasten the front of corsages, and
these are mostly crocheted, with per-
haps few beads in them. The large
buttons most used are of steel or other
metal to match trimmings, and these are
not conspicuously placed, as they have
lately been. Six crocheted bullet
shaped buttons and button-holes on the
outer seam of the wrists give a neat
finish to coat sleeves. A shirred satin
cuff is also popular, and there are folded
narrow scarfs tied around the arm, with
a small bow on top, and hanging taseled
ends.-Bdzar
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
WISE WORDS.

That is the best part of beauty which
a picture cannot express.
Surely that preaching which comes
from the soul most works on the soul.
The divinity of charity consists in re-
ieving a man needs before they are
forced upon us.
Good qualities are the substantial
riches of the mind; but it is good breed
ing that sets them off to advantage.
Childhood often holds truth with its
feeble fingers, which the grasp of man
hood cannot retain, which it is the pride
of utmost age to recover.
Be not diverted from your duty by
any idle reflections the silly world may
make upon you, for their censures are
not in your power, and consequently
should not be any part of your concern.
Old age is the night of life, as night
is the old age of the day. Still, night
is full of magnifcence; and, for many,
it is more brilliant than the day.
Give not thy tongue too great a lib
erty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word
unspoken is like a sword in scabbard
-tnlne; II vented, my SWOru Is III an
others hand. If thou desire to be held
wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
The happiest lot for man, as far as
birth is concerned, is that it should give
him but little occasion to think much
about it.
A man who does manly work in the
world is respected, but he who trifes
away his time with toys receives the
worlds contemptuous smile.
The patriot is he who obeys his coun-
trys laws, and if they are oppressive
and unjust strives earnestly and within
the proper limits to rectify them.
You find yourself refreshed by the
presence of cheerful persons. Why not
make earnest effort to confer that pleas
ure on others? You will find half the
battle is gained if you never say any
thing gloomy.
Unselfish and noble acts are the most
radiant epochs in the biography of
souls. When wrought in earliest youth
they lie in the memory of age like coral
islands, green and sunny, amidst the
melancholy waste of ocean.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
FOR THE LADIES.
"Oniy mn Old NIaid.u

Two young girls were coming toward
me on the street, talking earnestly
about some cne. As they passed me
one said, with curl of her cherry lip:
"She's only an old maid, anyway"
My cheeks burned with indignation
as l thought of one dear old maid
knew, and of how many, many people
who should know better than to use
these words as a term of reproach and
scorn. Let me tell you of her.
She is my husbands aunt, and my
aunt, too, because l love her-although
l have often said that when married
my husband l did not marry his rela-
tives also.
The petted only sister of quite
family of boys, when life was just
opening for her full of promise, n dear
cousin of hers was married to a mission
ary who was going to Armenia. She
could not bear to leave all her friends,
and begged our aunt to go with her to
her far-otf home and stay time, until
she became somewhat accustomed to
the strange land. Cheerfuly Aunt f.
gave up her own hopes and plans, and
went with them.
Only short time after their arrival
the young wife was stricken with con-
sumption, and for two years Aunt f.
nursed and cared for her. Then, after
they had made the long journey home
and laid her to sleep in her native land,
Aunt +. went back with the broken
hearted man, to comfort him and care for
his baby. For eight years she staid, un-
til he married again, and then came
little home nest for herself.
Her eldest brother and his wife were
suddenly bereft of their only child. aud
wanted to have Aunt f. como and stny
with them, for time Mt least. "A the
days went by it grew harder for them
to part with her, and she finally decided
to make her home with them, and did
so. The brother died last year, aged
ninety; his wife is fast following him.
and Aunt +. is II snowy-haired woman of
sixty.
And what has she been doing all these
years?
In the city where she resides she is
"aunt to all the settled residents, old
and young; there is no good work in,
which she does not take part; there
is no friend of hers whose troubles are
not hers, and when | tell you that
society of young girls from the ages of
twelve to twenty meet once in two
weeks at her home to spend the day
with her because they love her, you may
know she is companionablea and lovable.
She has cheerfully devoted her life to
others; and she has never limited by
word or look that it was a sacrifice
When my husband was left mother
less at the age of thirteen, she used
often to invite him to her home to es-
cort her to concerts, lectures and
church-telling him kindly how to per
form these duties in q gentlemanly
manner, thus doing more to teach and
put him at his ease than ten books of
etiquette.
There are many like her; but if there
were not, for her sake alone, dear girls
and women-never speak slightingly
IN old maid = Church and Home.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
4 Rat in the telegraph Service.

a telegraph inspector recently pressed
into his service rat under the follow
ing peculiar circumstances 1t was
necessary to overhaul cable of wires
inclosed in iron tubes. A certain length
of the cable had to 6e taken out of the
tube, and the men commenced hauling
at one end without having taken the
precaution to attach to the other Il wire
by which it might be drawn back into
the tube after inspection and repairs.
The question arose how the cable was
to be restored to its proper place, and
here the ingenuity of the inspector was
manifested.
He invoked the aid of rat catcher,
and, provided with large rat, ferret
and ball of string wound round on a
Morse paper drum, he repaired to the
opening in the tube. The "fiush boxes
were opened, and the rat, with one end
of the string attached to his body, was
put into the pipe. He scampered away
at racing pace, dragging the twine
with him until he reached the middle of
the length of pipe, and there stopped.
The ferret was then put in, and off went
the rat again until he sprang out of the
next flush box. One length of the cable
was thus safe, and the same operation
was commenced with the other; but the
rat stopped short a few yards in the
pipe and boldly awaited the approach
OF the ferret. A sharp combat here COM
menced, and it was feared that one OF
both of the animals would die in the
pipe. But, after sundry violent jerks
had been given to the string, the com,
batants separated; the ferret returned to
his master, and the rat, making for the
other extremity of the pipe, carried the
ttring right through, and so relieved
she inspector from his anxiety.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
[Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.] ]

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, Cleve.
land, Ohio; Chas. s. Strickland, Esq,
8 Boylston street, Boston, Mass; Capt,
Paul Boyton, the world-renowned swim
mer; Prof. 9. o. Duplessis, manager
Chicago gymnasium, Chicago, ILL.,
Wm. H. Wareing, Esq, assistant-gen'
geral superintendent, New York post.
office; Hon. Thomas l.. James, post,
master, New York; Stacey Hill, Esq. Mt.
Auburn Inclined Plane railroad, Gin
cinnati, Ohio, are among the myriads
who have experienced the beneficial
effects of that most remarkable remedy,
st. Jacobs Oil, and who have testified
to its efficacy in unqualified terms.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21

When q board of eminent physicians and
chemists announced the discovery that by com
bining some well known valuable remedies, the
most wonderful medicine was produced, which
would cure such n wide range of diseases that
most all other remedies could be dispensed
with, many were skcptical but proof of it7
merits by actual trial has dispelled all doul
and to-day the dscoverers of that great mec :
cine Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by
all ne benefactOrs
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21

A stock broker returning to his office
the other day, after substantial lunch
con with client, said, complacently, to
his head clerk: "Mr. kPutkin, the worl1
looks different to a man when he hl.
had bottle of champagne in him."
eyes, SIR" replied the clerk, signifi
cantly, "and he looks different to the
world. ."-Pnck.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
INom Albnnr Ledger.stnndard.l

Speaking of governors suggests the
mention of an item we received from
Mr.. Henry. A. Knight, foreman at Chas.
Waters & Co.'s Governor and Valve
works, Boston, Mass: have used ST..
Jacobs Oil among our employees, and
find that it never fails to cure. Tho men
are delighted with the wonderful effects
of the Oil, as 1t has cured them OF
bruises. burns, etc.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21

PURE COP LIVER OIL made from selected
Iivors on the seashore, by CAswELL, HAZARD
o., New York 1t is absolutely pure an"
sweet. Patients who have once taken it prelc'
it to all others. Physicians have decided i
superior TO any of the other oils in market.
BALDHEADEp men are informed that there T.
Mt one avenue Of escape from their af1lictioi
nd that is CARBoLINE, a dcodoriZed extract o
mtrolcum, the great hair renewcr. which beinl
,rrcntlv improved, is more cftcacious than cvo'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21

HAVE YoU READ IT? II. II. Stevens Book
on Ensilage, the preserving of green forage
crops in silos, giving lis own experience and
the practical experience Of 2j practical farmers;
120 pages, elegantly bound in cloth; price, 80
cents; sent By mail, 60 cents. Address II. Il.
SIES EMS Boston Mass
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21

A curious fact has been noted by Pro-
fessor Won Tieghem. The cells in the
roots of an apple tree underwent alco-
holic fermentation when the" soil was
very damp. The tree then presented a
very sicklY apnearance.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
For oyer thirty-fSgr yGaIT ,,r,,n ,,sr,r,,c

DIR TOBIAS'S VENETIAN L1NIMENT
has been warranted to cure CrOup, Collie, Snnsms,
Diarrhea and y srntcry taken internally, and Sore
Throat. Pains in the Limbs Chronic Rheumatism,
Old Sores, PimIlCs, BUtrhes and SwClliugs, cXter-
nelly and not bottle has been returned many fam
lies stating they would not he without ii even il il
was 80 a hottie. Sold by druggists at 25 and 30
cents. Depot, ~ Murrav street. New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21

A solemn old scientist printed the
fact that by bathing the feet in tepid
water a man could increase his circula-
ton, and now all the editors are having
tanks fitted to their office stoves.