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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

A handsome mantle for the fall is
made Of 1unar-dotted black sstin. This
wrap is shirred from shoulder to
shoulder and down the middle of the
back. tits trimmed with q narrow
plated drapery, fastened down at regu-
lar intervals with fine shirring. 1t is
fitted Co the waist by an inside belt.
The side-pieces form great sweeping
sleeves. The back.piece and sleeves
are trimmed with three rows of quilted
Spanish lace, and full 1lche of the
same encircles the neck. A border Of
rich jet-beaded passementerie is put
on as heading to the lace quills.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
Fashion Notes..

Red crepe lisse and red Spanish lace
are favorite materials for collars in Paris
at present.
Brooches are now used to fasten not
only skirt draperies and kerchiefs, but
also the plaits with which elbow sleeves
are trimmed.
The fashionable combination of cream
and dark red seems made especially for
bright blondes, to whom it is marvel
ously becoming.
Spiders and their webs form the de-
signs embroidered on the hounces and
waistcoats of some Paris gowns. Gold
ployed for this work, but sometimes
silk is used
Flannel petticoats are made as nearly
pretty as possible in London by the de-
vice of scalloping them around the
lower edge, and basting deep frilling
of imitation Valenciennes lace under
the scallops.
Some English women have reversed
the usual arrangement of material fol-
lowed in making gowns, and wear
cashmere waists, with plush skirts; but
there is nothing which an English
woman will not do.
Black velvet poke-bonnets are pref
tily relieved by bright-colored Innings
(those of crimson or doe-colored satin
being favorites), supplemented by a
pair of narrower ones neatly tied above
and matching the colored lining chosen
for the interior of the bonnet itself, the
bouillonne crown of which has gener-
ally bow of the bright materisl placed
upon one side.
One of the New York brides of the
coming season will wear gown unlike
any in which an American bride has
appeared for fifty years. The material
is white satin, covered with carnations,
roses and forget.me-nots outlined in
gold and worked in color, and this is
shaped into a petticoat and basque,
with which white satin train is worn.
The basque has collar and border of
gold, and the petticoat is slashed about
the hem to show cascades of gold lace.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

The reputation, Originally good, OF many
proprietary articles, Is in some instances dam
aged by that most egregious Of all business
follies, famboyant Advertising The public
soon becomes disguised with an article con-
cerning which statements are made with the
evident design of hoodwinking il, and is
nauseated rather than imposed upon by reck-
less claims to impossible merits. It has ever
been the aim of the proprietors Of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters to make the published allega-
tions relating to it conform with reason and
proven facts That they have succeeded in
this laudable design Is shown by the fact that
respected. Experience without the aid OF
bonbast has demonstrated that it is tonic of
the first order, a safe and thorough remedy for
and preventive of malarial diseases, q salutary
anti-spasmodic and remedy for debility, and a
capital corrective Of disorders of the esomach,
liver and bowels,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
How Much a Cow Eats.

A COW is not inclined to gluttony
Usually when the appetite is satisfied a
COW will stop eating. Any cows appe-
tite may be gauged in this way: Give
her all the feed she will eat and have
left. Weigh what is given to her and
notice what is consumed. Then make
the ration three.fourths of the quantity
eaten. No animal, not even a man,
should have all it can eat, and the sur
plus above what is necessary is injuri-
Gus, and produces disease. Generally
more harm is done by over eating than
by starving. The staple ration for a
COW is fifteen pounds of hay and five
pound of neal, or the equivalent in
other food. AS grass or green fodder
contains seyenty-five per cent. more
water than hay, four times as much
grass or green fodder should be given
in place of hay; that is, sixty pounds
with the meal. Some cows will proba-
bly, require more and very few less than
this quantity. ...-
Tho vaet raoion of Siharia has a \, ,o,Nu
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
Perfumery in Ancient Egypt.

The consumption of essences must
have been enormous at the highest tide of
Egyptian splendor, for the people were
actually enjoined to perfume them
selves on Fridsys corpses were
anointed with aromatic essences sher-
bets and sweetmeats We're favored with
fine vegetable extracts ; perfumes filed
the air in every well-to-do house, and
saturated the letters and presents which
were constantly being exchanged. The
ladies bathed in perfumed water, the
men used scented oils for the hair, and
both made use of red, yellow and green
soap.
During great festivals incense was
burned in all the streets, SO that even
the poorest might be regaled by the
mere act of breathing. Nor was there
any lack of narcotics. The mode of
preparing opium, introduced from
Syoot, in Upper Egypt, was we'll
known, and the Sultan Beybars pro-
mulgated several edicts prohibiting the
use of hasheesh, stupefyiDg and in
toxicating preparation of Indian hemp.
In spite of the prophets prohibition,
the juice of the grape continued to be
indulged in. Alcohol (as its name in
dicates) is an Arab discovery, and beer
the favorite beverage of the ancient
Egyptians also brewed and drank
under the caliphs.
Many iovial song in praise of wine
was sung by Arab poets, and in early
times many Arabs would by no means
admit that the prophet had forbidden
its use. In an old MS. copy of THAI
alibi it is said: "The prophet - may
God bless him and accept him per
mitted wine, aud mercifully allows us
TO strengthen ourselves with it at our
meals, and to lift the veil of our cares
and Sorrows"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
The WORLDS Letters.

Some recently compiled statistics
show that the total number Of letters
sent by mail in all parts of the world in
1865 was 1900, 100000. In 1877 the
number was increased to 1920, 600, 900,
an average of 100000 day, or 1877
each second. OF these Europe con-
tribtted 3,036, 100000, America 760,-
100000. Asia 15O,00O,0O0, Africa 25,-
100000, and Australia $4,000, 900. If
the present estimate of the worlds
population (l,4O0, 0,0O0,0OO), is correct,
the number of letters sent in 1877 by
mail to cash person in the world, was
three. .-....
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

That poverty which produces the greatest
distress is not of tho purse but of the blood.
Deprived of its richness it becomes scant and
watery condition termed anemia in medical
writings Given this condition, and scrotulous
swellings AMI sores, general and nervous de-
blity loss of flesh and appetite, weak lungs,
tion. are among the common results. If you
arc a sufferer from thin, poor blood employ
DR.. Picrce's Golden Medical Discovery" which
cnrichos the blood and cures these grave affec-
tions. Is more nutritivo than cod liver oil,
AMI is harmless in any condition OF the syatem,
vet poworful to cure. BY druggists.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

"Do you think there is any danger
in my going to Blankviller asked
Brown; "they have the smallpox there,
they say" AS I never knew you to
refrain from taking anything within
your reach" replied Fogg, "I think
you had better keep away from Blank
VILE"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

Ask druggists for It, 1t clears out rats, mice,
roachos bed-bugs, flies, vorrnin insects. 15c.
A million bottles of CARBoLrNE, deodorized
extract of petroleum, will produce new hair on
Il million bald heads, which is something that
no other preparation ever discovered will do.
PURE Cop LIVER OIL made from selected
liycrs, on the seashore, by CAswELL, HAZARD Il
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer
It to all others. Physicians have decided it
superior to any of the other oils i'll market
IMPURE BLooD.-In morbid conditions of the
blood are many diseases; such as salt rheum,
rng-worm, boils, carbuncles, sores, ulcers and
plmples. In this condition of the blood Try the
VrdETINE, and cure these affections. As a
blood-puriier it has no equal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

It is said that one out of every four real in
valids who go to Denver, Col, to recover
health, never return TO the East or South except
as corpse The undertakers, next to the
hotel keepers, have the most profitable busi-
ness. This excessive mortality may be pre-
vented and patients served and cured under
the care of friends and loved ones at homo, If
they will but use Hop Bitters in time. This
we know Sec other column.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

By contracting a severe cough and cold,
| was compelled to give up my daily work and
keep to the house. A neighbor recommended
me to try bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
1t was procured and used to my astonishmeni
relief was instantaneous.
Epw. W. CLAYTON, Wayerly, Nd.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

1t would be supposed from its popularity
that only one substance is known 10 the
world for the relief of rheumatism. and
that is St. Jacobs OIL st. Louis (Mo.) }
Disnatch
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

They cured Ne Of sgue biliousness and
kidney complsint ss recommended. had a
girls, whom the doctors and neighbors said
could not be cured. am confident should
have lost both of them one night II had not
had tho Hop Bitters in my house to use.
found they did them so much good continued
with them and they are now we'll That is
why say You do not know half the value OF
Hop Bitters, and do not recommend them
highly enough.--B., Rochester, NJ Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

DIR. Piercc's Pleasant Purgative Pellets ave
sugar-coatcd and iuclosed in glass bottles,
their virtues being thereby preserved uuim-
pal cd for any length ol lime, in any climate,
so that they are always fresh and reliable, NO
cheap wooden or pasteboard boxes. by drug
pists
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

American deer, both male and female,
shed their horns every year from
the latter part of January to about the
18th of February only.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

Mr.. E. Purcell, of No. II Ann street,
New York, used st. Jacobs Oil for rheuma-
tism with entire relief writes New York
Journal Richmond (Va.) Christian Advo.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

and decorations. The saloon proper is
lrescoed and gildcd in Eastlake style, and
the 1ooringis covered with Turkish carpet
The furniture, in raw silk and walnut, OF
the Queen Anne pattern, like that of the.
dining-hall, and rich curtains of damask
complete the impression ofa veritable float
ing palace. The four state-rooms, contain
ing two berths each, are also carpetcd with
Brussels and handsomely furnished. The
boat belongs to and was built under the
directions of Messrs A. Vogeler & Co.
Baltimore, Md, for their own exclusive use
upon the Ohio, Mississippi and other West
ern rivers, and is run by a picked crew OF
officers and men in their employ. The
object of this little steamer is TO carry
neither freight nor passengers. She was
built for the firm above named, to be used
exclusively by them for distributing their
printed matter in the river towns for ST.
JACOBS OIL, the Great German Remedy
for rheumatism and other painful ailments
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
es-Pocket Scale, 25c. Howard Mfg Co., NY

LOVES like the measles, all the worse when
1t comes late in life.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
T,bn ncst pronf nf Merit

EVERY man throws on to his surroundings the
sunshine or the shadow that exists in his own
onu1
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

As tonic and nervine for dobilitatod women
noting surpasses Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scr,ption. nv druggists.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
n TAInT ArLOAT

Do your acts of kindness before you Sleep
because whom YOU awaken it may be to late.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

MAKE yourself an honest man, and then
you may be sure that there is one rascal less in
l,o yvotld
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

WHO would venture on the journey of life, if
to begin it at the end
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
povrrty md Distress.

THINGS don't turn up in this world until
somebody turns them up ... -
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
"Rouuh on Rats.

An how sad and vain thing is regret when
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

ACT well at the moment and you have per-
formed good action to all eternity
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
Free! Cards! Free!

We will send free by mail sample set Of our Ger
man Frouch FnClish aud American fancy cards with
price list o. oycra hundred different designs on re-
cipt n stamp for postage. They axe not Hdvcrtts-
ing cards, but large fine picture chrome cards on
gold silver and tinted grounds forming the finest coll
lection in the world. We will also inClose conhdCn-
tal price list Of large and small chromOS. Address
f. GLEASON n CO., 46 summer St. Boston, Mass.
PLAYS! PLAYS! Plays! PLANS!
For Isoalng Clubs Tor Amateur Thcat'lruls, Tom
pcrancc PLAYS, Drawing Room PLAYS Fairy PaFs Eth
orian PLAYS, Guide Books speakers P!utomilges.
Tahlcau Lights. Magnesium Lights, CuldrCd Fire,
Burnt Cork, Theatrical Face Preparations Jarley's
Wax Works Wigs, Boards, Moustachcs, Costumes,
free containing tull dcscription and pr.ccs = vi
CEL FRENCH ~ -oN. 3SE lith ST, Now York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

The vast region of Siberia has popu,
lation of only 1856, 900 souls.
National Republican., 1881-08-08
WATERING-PLACE NOTES,

Miss Louisa Campbell goes to Rehoboth Beach
to-day.
Miss Emma L. Johns is regaining her strength
at Rehoboth Beach.
-Ex- Congressman Covert will spend short time
in the White Mountains.
Mr., John o'Neill, of the Sixth Auditors onice
and wife have gone to Marshalls for the summer
General Horace X. Porter has purchased new
property at Elberon, Long Branch, of Mrs Laura
d, Winslow, at a cost of $4,000, OH which he will
erect cottages.
Miss Baden, of Georgetown, has left for visit
to her aunt Mrs T.. ID. +. n. Southworth at Yonkers
and the Eastern watering places, and will be alb.
sent about six weeks.
General Grant and other cottagers nj Long
Branch have recentlypurchased at a nominal sum
each from the United States Goverement the
water front OF their property.
Mr.. W, II. Lemon, of the First Auditors ONCE,
Treasury Department, and wife, with their daugh-
ter, Matte, and niece, Miss Belle Twombly, are at
Congress Hall, Ocean City, Md.
Mrs seligson, the accomplished wife of Col
onel H. A. SeligsOn, assistant chief Of the Division
of Accounts in the Census Office, has gone to Faui
quier White sulphur Springs to remain during the
m onth Of August
The hotel proprietors at Long Branch have
much difficulty TO accommodate the immense
numbers OF visitors that swarmed there Saturday.
Cots are put eyerywhere-in the parlors, the din:
ing rooms, the halls, and, in some instances, on
the stairway landings OF the balls at the hotels
Saturday night that OF the United States to its
friends was the grandest affair, II was held in
the large dining ROOM The room was profusely
decorated with flags, and there was q cologne
fountain in the centre
One Of the most charming and healthy sum.
mer resorts in Fairfax County 10 the pleasant in
land town Of llerndon. II lies about halfway be.
tween Washington and the Blue Ridge Mountains,
and Is easily accessible by rail from this city,
Among the many Washingtonlans there are Mrs
Rev, Wilford Down aud family, Miss Emma Yont,
DR., Adams, Mr. Isaac Basselt aud family, Mr.
Roger Williams and family, Mr., and Mrs A. O.
Bromley, Mr., II, d. Clarke and family, aud many
others, who find renewed health by a sojourn in a
cool and salubTious climate.
National Republican., 1881-08-08
I" "SCRATCH MY BACK.U
a Sensation at saratoga-An About n
Young wife.

A youthful wife is one Of the wonders
Of Saratoga at present; not SO much because she is
only seventeen as that her husband is sixty The
difference in their ages is fully apparent for he
looks all of his years, while her face, manners and
dress are extremely srllsh. More than this, she
has n baby--a dot of thing only three months
old II seems like a doll in its grl-mothers arms,
and she is mighty fond of displaying 1t. When
the nurse brings 1t to her in the midst of party
of young fellows, and she demurely walks OIL to
her room to give it nourishment they get mad
with envy at the veteran husband That makes
the young women jealous of her, and alto
gether she is highly aggravating little
creature. The most affecting thing she
has done yet was at big hotel hop. She wore n
dress quite low in the back and was ravshingiy
pretty, While she danced her venerable spouse
sat out on the veranda, smoking and chatting with
circle of men, old and young. Suddenly she
ran out TO him, put her hands on his knees, bent
her head into his lap, and said, in the tone of n
child to parent
please scratch my back"
The old fellow thrust his hand down the back of
her dress little, clawing her soft skin with his
brown wrnkled fingers.
"a little to the other SIDE" she murmured
"there-thats the spot. Thank you"
And she ran back to her waltz partner totally
unconscious (O of the tlngling she had caused
among the male spectators-C2dra Belle IN CincH-
matt Enquirer.
National Republican., 1881-08-08
CAN THIS BE So7
what Is Said OF "a Certain Kind of Work
In the Pension OHicc.

ARGUS" writes to The REPUBLICAN as
follows: Frequent complaints have been made
by applicants for pension because of what seemed
to them unnecessary delay in the adjustment of
their claims. To quiet this unrest carefully pre-
pared circulars have been issued by the Pension
Department and sent out TO claimants advising
them to be patient; that reports from other De-
partments must be received, &C.; hence delay de-
layll delay!! Now the facts are these: The Com
missioner of Pensions and his personal staff for
years have been deceived by their subordinates.
These men, as rule, are selfish; they are envious
creatures and clothed with little brief author
ity play fantastic tricks They do all they can to
keep their associates down, rather than help
to advance them and thus properly
serve the Government. For instance an examiner
is rated at headquarters of the Department by
the number of claims he examines, properly briefs,
and forwards for review and approval; but we
know examiners who have sat Mt their desks for
days consecutively, unemployed, because there
was no work furnished them by the help whose
duty II is to do So while the desks of favorites are
crowded with files selected with view to their
simplicity for brieing, &C., and they receive the
credits denied to others. This is not the fault of
the Commissioner or his immediate assistants, but
of the brainy (?) herd that has been employed so
long In this Department that 1t has learned from
years of observation how TO cheat the Govern
ment the pcnsoner, and the new examiners. VIII
Colonel Dudley allow this system of meanness to
contnuc?'
National Republican., 1881-08-08
Presenting n Fountain.

The Hon. p T., Barnum some few
mouths ago offered to present his native town,
Bethel, Conn, with fountain. At meeting of
the citizens the offer was accepted and the foun-
tain was procured, Arrangements have been
made to have extensive ceremonies at It's dedlca-
tion on Friday, August 10. There will be a pro.
cession composed Of police, fire companies citizens,
and invited guests, The presentation speech will
be delivered by Mr. Barnum, and the speech Of nc
ceptancc on behalf the borough by the Rev. G..
Waters. The fountain, it is said, is only equallcd
in beauty by three others in the country 1t was
imported at cost Of several thousand dollars.
The basin Is sixty feet in diameter, having cut
stone coping on top the other stonework, and is
then finished with cup nearly two feet high.
National Republican., 1881-08-08
CUNDuRANGo,
Mr. Schuyler Coirnx Gives the History OF
Its Failure ns n Cure for Cancer.

hNh NA N Nutt NhnttFs
Schuyler Colfax writes thus TO the Chi
cago Inter Ocean from South Bend, Ind "0n my
return from visit to the far Northwest find your
usually well-informcd Washington correspondent
has given currency to the following charge against
Dr. Bliss,which feel to be duty to explain: He
advertised sure cure for cancer, which he called
| cundurango. In some way he induced Hon.
Schuyler Colfax to certify that his mother in-law
was being cured by this wonderful discovery.
Then the Associated Press was brought into requ-
| sition, and the announcement Of Mr. Colfax was
brought to the eye Of every newspaper reader in
the country. OF course the victim of the cancer
died, and cundunngo was found TO be fraud
The fact about this is that instead Of DR.. Bliss
inducing me- &c, the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Sec.
retary OF State, gave me some cundurango, sent TO
him by our Minister to Ecuador and claimed there
to be cure for cancer, with which he knew my
mother law to be afflicted. The remarkable
effect 1t had upon the disease at the commence
ment OF Its use attracted the attention of DIR. Bliss
then our family physician, aud doubtless led him
to send to Ecuador for more, and to engage
| in its manufacture. The favorable result Of
this first trial of cundurango was not given
to the public through the agency Of the re-
| quisition' OF the Associatiated Press, nor by
DR.. Bliss. 1t was thus / wrote a pri-
vate letter about II in reply to nm inquiry from
valued friend at Baltimore who was very much
htorcs'eu III my Wotner case, anu on MS ichulnB
1t to an editorial friend he asked to allow him
to publish IL in the interest OF humanity. so
many persons nre afflicted with this terrible dis
| case that my letter. as soon as II was thus pub
| lished without my knowledge or that of DIR.
Bliss, at the time was reprinted everywhere and
many hundreds of letters poured in upon me in
that and subsequent years. to which had to reply
that the subsequent shipments of the drug from
Eucador did not have similar effect, and some
years thereafter my mother died. The cause Of
the difference in the results Of these two shipments
l have never learned.
81 would not nsk the publication of this on any
account But, as perversion Of the facts is being
used at Washington by DIR. Bliss rivals, when they
should rather be holding up his hands as he assists
the President in his heroic fight for life, owe II tc
n physician (who saved my life ten years ago
when most Of the other doctors there said 1 mus
| die) TO state the exnct truth about this matter"