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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Quill Pens.

An advertisement in New York paper
for an experienced quill pen cutter
called out an interview with the only
quill pen importer and manufacturer in
that city. He said that twenty years age
there were several quill pen makers
here and in other cities. Now one in
Philadelphia and himself are all that he
knows. Quill pens are used mainly by
old lawyers and judges, partly from Gus
tom, but chiefly because they are easy
to write with. Most OF the quilts come
from R1ssia. The Russian goose has e
harder quill than our geese. An IN
clarified pen from the wing of Russian
goose is the most durable. The German
quills have the best plumage. A two
dozen box of good quilts will last two or
three months easily for q man who knows
how to mend his own pens.
The instrument used in pen making
is the ordinary blade of the penknife,
inserted firmly into wooden handle OF
peculiar shape, tapering to a point. A
pen is made with two cuts or three. The
blunt end of the quill is first cut off,
because it is not tough. Then the point
of the handle is inserted, and the quill
is carefully split for a certain distance.
Two slashing cuts then form the nib,
and the pen is done. The plumage is
neatly trimmed.
Swan quills are sometimes used fol
pens, but are very much more expensive
than the common goose quill. Quill
pens are sold at retail for about three
shillings dozen. The demand is steady,
such as it is, but it is growing less year
bv wear,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
The Careless Use Of Ice.

~ II is only in this country that ice
enters so largely into the apparent COM
fort Of its inhabitants, and very dan.
eerous comfort it is. Dyspepsia and a
number of evils follow directly in the
train of the consumption of ice. To
the great pitchers of iced water so
temptingly displayed on hot days may
be traced a number of maladies, for it is
evident that no person can, without
danger, suddenly and violently lower
the temperature of his stomach by fill
ing it full of water at thirty-two degrees
Fahrenheit. That valuable organ will
certainly resent the insult, especially il
followed up by repeated injuries of the
same kind. In the tropics, where the
ice has more temptations surrounding
il than in any other part of the world,
the inhabitants most carefully avoid it..
You cannot get Cuban to indulge in
iced water. People who have been
previously addicted to the foolish habit
of using ice-water, after visiting the
West Indies, forever eschew the dan
: gerous practice. A party of men who
recently visited San Domingo on bust
ness (who would go there for any other
reason p on the first arrival mourned
greatly at the absence of ice. "Ah,"
said they, "when the English steamer
runs in here we will go aboard and
have treat in the shape of good iced
brandy and soda"
The steamer arrived in due time. The
ardent foreigners jumped into the boat
OF the captain of the port IA negro gor-
geously arrayed in uniform covered
with gold lace) and, barely saluting the
captain, rushed to the saloon for the
coveted refreshment. 1t was duly alb.
sorbed, and the whole party rendered
i'll in consequence. None of them have
ever touched ice since that time. In
the West Indies it is only the colored
race which patronizes ice-to the white
people it is not only no luxury, but a
dangerous enemy. Ice has its uses in
the hospitals it is invaluable for the
preservation of provisions, especially
fish, it is useful, although detrimental
to flavor if allowed to touch the meats
to be preserved; but as an article of
human consumption it should be avoid.
ed. There is yet an essay to be written
upon the maiadies and woes produced
by the careless consumption of ice. 1t
is only with US that this takes place.
Abroad, ice is simply luxury only re.
sorted to at times; even in California
the residents are wary of it. In short,
ice is E. very good friend iu moderation,
but bitter enemy when the intimacy
is too absorbing. .-Ne,c York Hour.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Breeding SOws.

The Prairie Farmer has an able article
ca this subject. To be practical, it
says, this interesting native, the
breeding SOW, should be, as anything
else upon the farm, first rate-broad,
lengthy, deep, short. shouted, of fine
bone, with tail we'll set on, thin ear
and skin gathering in folds even to the
hook, and of breed that will fatten on
clover and grass in summer and on
mangolds in winter, sliced and sprinkled
with ground corn and oats. Various
are the breeds nowadays possessing
such characteristics. Wherever they
may hail from you will have no great
difficulty in obtaining what you want,
especially if you attend our State and
county fairs, or proceed on tour of in
spection among the more prominent
and successful breeders of the country.
Grudge not q few extra dollars, while
on such a journey, in the purchase of
an exemplary sow-in-pig to begin with.
1t is loss OF time, besides disappoint-
ment, to buy second-rate stock, however
excellent your judgment may be, with
the purpose of improving it. Climb as
far as you can on the shoulders of
others who have pioneered before you,
and then take up the path. You will
be passed in turn, never fear, by some
one now small boy munching a crust.
Start, however, as forward as you can,
and do your best while your hours
lasts. Reserve for breeding the sows
which have about ten or twelve
teats. Retain not, however, more than
nine of litter, if you get SO many. 1t
is curious how iealously nature has
taught the pigling to recognize and ad-
here to his own peculiar one or pair of
teats. The SOW sixteen weeks with young,
should be managed that she be ready
to farrow in March and September, as
cold weather is death to little pigs. A
high bred lot are apt to drop their tails.
This Disagreement, however, for such
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

Fever and ague, skaters the most vigorous
constitution and physique, and the after effects
of the alkaloid often taken to arrestit sulphate
of quinino, are scarcely less pernicious. The
best remedy-proven to be SO, not alone in
malaria-stricken regions on this continent, but
also in those portions of South and Central
America where malarial feyers are most prcva-
lent and malignant-is Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters Its remedial and preventive effects as
an opponent of intermittent and remittent
fevers are owing to its tonic, regulating in
fluence upon the liver, stomach and bowels.
BY it these cooperating organs, upon the joint,
harmonious action of which depends the health
and vigor of the system, are made to act like
olock-work. The consequence is that digestion,
assimilation and secretion are thorough, and
the system sustained and defended against
miasmatic influences.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

RICE FRUIT PUDDING. One large tea
cup rice, @ little water to cook it par
italy; dry; line an earthen basin with
the rice; fill up with quartered apple or
any fruit you choose. Cover with rice.
Tie cloth over the top and steam one
hour. To be eaten with sweet sauce.
Do not butter the dish.
POTATO PUDDING One pound pota-
toes boiled aud we'll mashed, one.quar-
ter pound of butter stirred in while
warm, two ounces of sugar, the rind of
half O lemon chopped fine with the
juice, teacupful of milk; butter the
tin, put in the mixture, and bake in q
moderate oven for half an hour; two
eggs may be added.
COOKIES. - Three and one-half cups
-four, one cup sugar Ia little heaped),
half cup butter, one third cup rich milk
or cream, two eggs, half teaspoonful
soda; work the butter until creamed
and beat the sugar smoothly into it,
then add the soda dissolved in the milk;
let the whites of the eggs be beaten to
a stiff froth and add the last thing be-
fore the -four.
PANCAKES Beat up three eggs and a
quart of milk; make it up into batter
with flour, q little salt, a spoonful OF
ground ginger and little grated
lemon-peel; let it be of fine
thickness and perfectly smooth. Clean
your frying-pan thoroughly, and
put into it good lump of dripping OF
butter; when it is hot pour in cupful
of batter and let it all run over of an
equal thickness; shake the pan fre.
quently that the batter may not stick,
and when you think it is done on one
side toss it over; if you cannot, turn ii
with slice, and when both are of a nice
light brown, lay it on dish before the
fire; strew sugar over it and so do the
rest. They should be eaten directly, ol
they will become heavy.
CHARLOTTE RUssE.-Soak two-thirds
of box of gelatine in cup OF gooo
milk; put three cups of good cream tc
scald in an inner boiler; beat the yolks
of six eggs to thick foam; stir anc
dissolve the gelatine in the cream at the
boiling point; add ound saltspoonfu
of salt; beat heaping cup of sugar tc
the yolks Of eggs, letting the cream and
| gelatine stand meanwhile where the,
will be kept scaling hot; pour the
cream gradually to the yolks and sugar
beating the while; continue 20 beat til
all is quite light and cold; give it into
second hand to keep beating, while yo1
beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth
add the whites of eggs, and beat all to
gether to fine froth; flavor with tw'
teaspoonfulsof any extract, and turn init
molds lined with slices of sponge-cake
Do not use stale cake; that is only tit t
be made into puddings in which it vii
be recooled. Provide cake nice ant
! fresh enough for the tea-table.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Bones Tor poultry,

Some persons are in the habit of burn
ing the bones before feeding them to
poultry. 1t is true that after being
burned they are much easier broken up,
but the raw bones contain large
amount of gelatine, which is most ex-
cellent food for making hens lay, and
gelatine also contains large amount of
nitrogen, which is driven into the
atmosphere by the heat. When the
bones are fed raw this nitrogen is re-
tanned, and having done duty as food
for the poultry and constituting part of
their systems it is still capable of again
doing duty as fertilizer, but once be-
coming free nitrogen in the atmosphere
it is not so easy matter to combine it
in such q manner that it shall be rem
dered available as plant food. In pound
ing raw bone it is not necessary to make
it so fine as people suppose, for hen
will swallow a much larger piece than
many would think possible, and when
once in her crop it will be digested and
properly economical.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
vegetiiI1e.
Female Weaknesses.

No better remedy in tho whole materia medica has
yet been compounded for the relief and cure of
Female Complaints. of the ordinary kind, than
yEGETINE. 1t seems to act in these cases with un-
wonted certainty, and never fails to give and
heathful tone to the female organs, to remove re-
Taxed debility and unhealthy secrctons aud restore
a healthful vigor and elasticity. One of the most
common of these complaints is Leucorhpa or
Whites which are brought either by the presence
of Scrofula in the system, or by some affection of the
womb, or even by general debility. For all these
complaints and when danger begins to threaten
woman at the turn of life VEGETINE can be COM
mended without qualification. The great prevalence
of these disorders, and their cure by VEGETISE has
amply shown that the alleyiating agent remains
not yet to be discovered but is already known and
is a favorlte with American ladies. Too long has II
been the custom TO prescribe nauseating and uncer
tain remedies in place of what is pleasant ecacious
and cheap. Try VEGETISE and do not doubt its power
10 carry you safely through danger and disease.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
prsrrrrp UDn,r nF.rrY

the fall of 1876 taken with bleeding of the lungs
followed by n severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 was adj
mtted to the hospital. The doctors said Ihad holo
in my lung as big n halfdollar At one time re-
port went around that was dead. gave up hope,
but friend told me of DIR. WILLIAM HALLS BALsASI
FOR THE LUNGS. got bottle, when, to my surprise
Icommenced to feel better, and to-day feel better
than for three years past. write this hoping every
one afflicted with diseased lungs will take DIR. Will
LIAM HALLS BALsAM, and be convinced that con-
SUMPTION CAN BE CURED. can positively say it has
done more good than all the other medicines have
taken since my sickness,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Their statements Indorsed.
IpifishnrR Catllolin.l

A strong statement unqualifedly in
dorsed must induce confidence. In this
connection we note the following from
DIR. Louis Book & Son, Sheboygan,
Wis: We have been handling st.
Jacobs Oil and are pleased with the
large demand. Hardly a day goes by
without hearing from some one or
another of our patrons having used it
with entire satisfaction, saying it is the
best thing they ever tried, and we join
them in so saying.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Cured of Drinking,

young friend of mine was cured of an in
satiabe thirst for liquor, that had so prostrated
his system that he was unable to do any bust
ness He was entirely cured by the use of Hop
Bitters. 1t allayed all that burning thirst took
away the appetite for liquor, made his nerves
steady, and he has remained a sober and steady
man for more than two years, and has no de-
sire to return to his cups, and 1 know of a
number of others that have been cured of
drinking by it.-From a Leading r. r. Official,
Chicdgo III.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
THE, FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Lime,

Lime benefits the soil partly by sup
plying plant food, as almost all the USE
ful.plants contain considerable lime, and
partly by decomposing inert substances
in. the soil. Lime liberates fixed am.
monia,, decomposes vegetable matter
and destroys the acidity of sour soil. Its
absence from the soil is generally shown
by the presence of useless or noxious
plants, and its presence is ordinarily in.
dicated by the growth of the more
valuable plants. When refuse lime can
be obtained it is one of the cheapest
fertilizers that can be employed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
A Wrecked Crews Terrible Experience.

The Philadelphia 7iDssS reports the
adventures of James Fisher, chief officer
Of the bark Brunswick, which left Phila-
delphia for New Orleans May 16, and
was wrecked off the coast of Charleston
during her return voyage in the terrible
cyclone of July 27 and 2S. Fisher says:
We were about seventy-fve miles off
Charleston, just little to the north,
perhaps, and apparently in the very
vortex of the cyclone. We decided to
throw the deckload comprising some
thirty-five thousand feet of timber,
overheard. Well, over it went. We
went along better for awhile, but only
for awhile. Our hold was rapidly fill
ing. We felt that the vessel must sink,
and we threw oyer everything that we
could get rid of in the hope OF saving
her. In trying to break the anchor
away Theodore Shadduck, Greek
sailor, was swept overheard. / saw him
on the crest of mighty wave behind us
and thought he would be swept back.
He seemed TO think so, too, for he
called out, "All rightee, sir" But in
a moment after he threw up his arms
and disappeared. 1t was every man for
himself, and SO 1 told the men. They
blubbered for awhile, of course; deaths
terrible thing when it comes and
laughs right in your face. "No use,
men," said I, "every mans got to go
some time. If any Of you can pray, why
pray. Now is the time. But don't let
us be women. Let us die like men,"
Six of us lashed ourselves to the
stump of The mizzenmast and three to
the spanker-b boom. There we covered,
the sea beating over US, until at last the
cabin broke up and the stump of the
mizzenmast shot up into the air. We
disengaged ourselves as rapidly as pos
sible. We crawled for our lives to a
beam that served to fasten the skylight
and lashed ourselves to that. The hull
broke up and the cargo floated up
around us. We were on nothing but a
raft composed of a part of the deck.
When we counted heads there was but
six of us. The rest had hoated off and
were drowned, we scarcely knew how.
1t was pitch dark and we could hear
nothing but the awful rear of the ele-
ments. So we lay there all night, fight,
ing the sea and wreck. Heavy logs forty
feet long were whipped up and twirled
around like shingles. I got just little
tap of one. 1t knocked all my front
teeth down my throat. In the morning
we banded ourselves together so thai
the wind could strike us-made sail Of
ourselves, so to speak--and We slowly
worked ourselves free fir m the debris
So we drifted that day and the next
hungry, thirsty and despairing. Three
of our men who had been drinking salt
water began to lose their minds. One
the negro steward wanted to eat hii
bands. The two others--sailors-
imagined they were still in the fore
castle of the vessel and engaged in {
quarrel over an imaginary theft of to
bacco and wanted to kill each other will
their knives. We could scarcely con
troll them, but we managed it somehow
We had drifted down near Savannah
after vainly striving to signal passing
vessels. We were weak and helpless
and had almost given up hope, whei
pilot-boat No. 5, Captain james Bell
sighted us and took us up.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

There is young lady in Keokuk,
Iowa, who is six feet four inches tall,
aud she is engaged to be married. The
man who won her did it in these
words "Thy beauty sets my soul
aglow-Id wed thee right or wrong ;
man wants but little here below, but
wants that little-long."-Bufalo Er-
31Teec
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Feed Dairy Cows Literally,

We believe, says the National Lire
Stock Journal, the dairyman should
study how he may produce all the food
necessary for his cows upon his own
farm, and that he should make all the
provision that an intelligent foresight
can do; but he should never suffer his
herd to go with deficient food, even for
one week, for this he cannot afford to
do. And that we may encourage him
to be liberal, even when his pasture
is short, and he has no extra green food
for them, let us compare the extra cost
of nutriment in some by-product, such
as bran, cotton-seed meal, linseed meal,
corn meal, etc, some one of which the
dairyman may always find near at hand,
with pasture grass. Pasture grass has
about eightynine per cent. OF water,
and the nutriment in 100 pounds of it
is supposed to be worth twenty-one
cents. The nutriment of nineteen
pounds of fine bran is just equal to 100
pounds of pasture grass; ten pounds of
cotton seed meal, twelve pounds of lin
seed meal, or ten pounds of corn meal,
is equal to 100 pounds of grass. Now
100 pounds of pasture grass is ration
for an ordinary-sized COW per day. If
the pasture, then, is short one.third, or
one.half, or in any other proportion, it
is easy to make up this deficiency by
feeding some one or several of these
foods, which are so easily handled. It
ia seldom that more than one-third
would have to be fed to make full
ration ON short pasture. Let Is sup
pose the dailyman to be feeding seven
pounds of fine bran this, at 81 per
ton, would cost rs cents per day, OF
about nineteen cents per week. Now, the
extra milk per week produced by this
bran would much moro than pay the
cost. If he should feed, instead of
bran, four pounds of linseed meal, it
would cost him twenty-eight cents per
week or if 3 l 2 pounds OF cotton
seed meal, would cost twenty-five cents
per week or 1-3 pounds of corn
meal, twenty to thirty-fiye cents
per COW, per week. II he has the COM
mand of all these, let him make up a
ration nearly as follows: -Four pounds
bran, one.half lnseed meal, and l IL
pounds corn meal TO each COW per dav,
which will probably cost only twenty
cents per week and will keep generous
flow of milk till the fall rains renew
the pasture, and the extra food can be
discontinued. We have known many
who have used an extra ration similar
to this during short pasture, and never
found one who reported it Improbable.
The ration may be varied to suit all
circumstances. Corn meal will be
found cheap in some localities but il
is always best to mix some bran with
it and in most parts of all our broad
dairy belt bran will be found the cheap.
est extra food to make up for short
pasture.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Old pnhinrcs.

A few years since, says writer, I
had an old pasture that had almost run
out, covered with weed and patched
with moss. / mixed few barrels of
salt and wood ashes, and applied about
two barrels of the mixture per acre,
covering about half the lot. The result
surprised me. Before fall the moss had
nearly all disappeared and the weeds
were rapidly following suit, while the
grass came in thick, assuming dark
green color, and made fine pasturage.
The balance of the lot remained unpro-
ductive rs before, but the following year
was salted, with like results.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

The statistics of the ferries which ply
between New York and the towns and
cities adjacent carry, in the course of a
year, upward of 100, 900, 600 passengers
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

tion of heterogeneous matters, which are
gradually changed in the soil to nj
trates.
g. Glover not only provides an abund-
ance of nitrogenous food, but delivers
this food in readily available form
las nitrates) more gradually anil con-
tinuously and with more certainty of a
good result, that such food be applied
to the land in the shape of nitrogenous
spring top-dressings.
PnoF. W. J. BEAI."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
[Rnston lNIass. \ Cnltirator. |

Mr.. NJ. F. Morse, Westboro', Mass,
mentions to us the gratifying informa.
ton that ST. Jacobs Oil relieved him of
q very severe attack of sciatic rheuma-
tism and is an excellent thing.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

The preacher took for his text: "He
giveth His beloved Sleep" And then
he said, as he glanced around, that the
way his congregation had worked itself
into the affection of the Lord was
amazing. Post.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

A water monster is said to inhabit the
Mokelumne river above Jackson, Gal.
The Chinese are in mortal terror over
it, and say that the creature has killed
one uf their number
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

Said Mrs. Younghusband, Charlie,
why is it you never talk with me as you
did before we were married l notice
that you talk fast enough with other
women" Dearest" replied Charlie,
without taking his eyes off his news
paper, "don't you know that people
talk to conceal their thoughts ? l have
nothing to conceal from you, love" In
another moment he was deep in the
stock market reports, while something
that sounded very much like "humbug
trembled on the lips OF Mrs. Younghus'
band as she slowly left the room.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

Since 1870 there has been decrease
of twenty-five per cent. in State
debts, and decrease of eight per cent.
in county debts. But there has been
an increase in municipal debts of 100
per cent
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22

In AprII Inef,
Twenty-four members of Arlington's minstrel
we're taking Warmers Safe Kidney and Live
Cule. 1t made them happy.