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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

The richness of the English LANGUAGE
consists in the number and variety of il
synonyms. These synonyms have .
shade of difference, but their resemblance
of meaning is sufficient to make them
liable to be confounded together. The
habit of discriminating the shades OF
meaning will guard against this liability
The following eight words, which are
frequently misused by interchanging one
for the other, furnish examples of this
ever present liability.
Between for among.-The word "be-
tween" is properly used only when it,
object consists of two items. Among"
should be used if the object includes
more than two items. Between" is a
corruption of "by twain, , or by two. "
A father divides his property between his
two sons. Another divides his estate
among his five children.
Constant means occurring all the time
without intermission. Frequent" means
occurring often. We frequently hear
constant used to denote events which oc-
cur quite often, but at considerable inter
walls of time.
Custom for habit.--A person forms a
habit. A community or people have a
custom. 1t is a habit with most person
to confound these two words Indeed
this habit has almost become the custom
in some communities.
Depot for station.-The place where the
train stops TO take in passengers is .
station, whether there be building ther
Or not The depot depository is strono
building for the temporary storage o.
goods in the care of the railroad company
for delivery or for transportation. Qi
may be at a station or it may not.)
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

Ten friends are dearly purchased if
gained at the expense of a single oneVy,
for the enemy win take 10 times thepains
to injure you that the friends win take
TO do you service.
Waterville, Me-, is TO have factory
for condensing milk.
There are nearly 5000 pieces in a mod
crn locomotive,
There are nearly 1900 licensed saloons
in New York
An increase in the price of rubber
boots and shoes is indicated.
The copper product Of the United
States in 1889 was 113 OPS short tons.
The Cigarmakers' Union paid 800, ,OOOin
sick and death benefits the past year.
Brussels, Belgium, walters kick be-
cause they must divvy their tips with tho
bosses.
ST. Louis exports more bottled beer
than any other city in the United States,
but she keeps plenty at home TO drink.
A large new pulp and paper mill is be-
ing erected at Groveton, N. H., which
will employ about 100 hands.
IL is said that the five leading hotels at
Saratoga take in an aggregate Of $1,000
600 month during the busy season.
Thirty per cent Of the people Of Lon
don do not earn enough either TO prao-
tice thrift or 10 riot in drink. Christian
Union.
The annual product Of salt throughout
the world is estimated at 100000 tons,
Che larger share coming from English
lglrt--
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05


"Please try the left shoe on. said the
lady who sat next me in a shoe store.
"Why was that?" asked the man who
had served her, when she departed.
Hole in her stocking. Oh, yes. You
would hardly believe how many ladies
have holes in their stockings We al
ways know it. It's try the right shoe
on, or the left, never mind the other.
Some of them say, I'm afraid have a
little break in my stocking. didn't ex-
pect TO get my shoes tried to-day. And
often the little break horriiies them, hav-
ing grown to a big break during the day.
Oh, yes, little breaks come sometimes,
and the lady herself docs not know it till
the shoe is removed. In those cases she
umally says nothing, but just bushes.
The hole is always a genuine case of acci-
dent when woman takes it that way.
Sometimes they gasp, so that we shall
see how surprised they are, but then
some women pretend that. We can
usually Tell the real thing. A successful
shoe salesman nee,.s peculiar gifts of tact
and the genius of patience, this one con-
tinued. "When woman has a really
large foot it's best to bring ashoe slightly
too small and then appear surprised that
it does not fit. Some feet look smaller
than a really smaller foot is good ex-
PLANTATION of your error. Bring TO the
woman who has genuinely tiny foot II
shoe too big, and then fit down to her
Nothing pleases her so much. A sales
man influences the buyer tremendously
l believe woman would rather have her
foot praised than be told she is clever
Always humor woman with big foot.
You can wear a much smaller shoe than
this, of course, but you want this for
really comfortable wear That makes
her want to hug you. ~ New York Sun
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

Beware of the bedsl There is sani-
taTy enthusiast at Huddersfield, Eng-
land, who is warning the world of the
flightful consequences OF neglecting this
maxim. 1t has been estimated, he says,
that 20 900, coo beds are in use IN this
country, of which 10000, 900 have not
been opened for 10 years, and have dur.
ing that time remained wholly unpuri-
fled. As this apostle Of bedroom sani-
tationo puts It, 1all sorts and conditions
Of people have used them,
Sometimes they have been beds of sick
ness; deathbeds vast number Of them
have been, some many times. But, as
he mournfully observes, "as soon as
vacated they are again ready to do their
insidious work, Seriously, the common
neglect Of the duty of opening and
cleansing the beds can hardly fail to be
productive of disease. We might do
worse in this regard than follow the
practice on the Continent, where the
bed cleaner, with his two sticks for beat.
ing the contents Of beds and mattresses,
after exposing them TO sun and air, is a
regular spring visitorin an well regulated
households .s
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Arnnrrrc You've WOMEN.


~ - umN OF HANic NOW 20 Ae GANAf VI
Delicate. or Even Fraii'
All the girls are going in for health and
athletics. They must not-they simply
must not appear sick. They must have
fine color, bright eyes, glossy hair, round
elbows, and a long, swinging gait that is
half dog trot, or some one may be led
to think that they are not marvels Of
strength and robustness.
"Does this yellow dress make me look
pale or sick?" asked one girl of another
in the street last week. "When the sun
shines upon me fancy that the yellow
of my dress makes my complexion appear
bad. Now notice particularly when we
come to the next open space between the
houses, and tell me honestly if you think
look the least bit sallow"
"What shall you do with the dress, il
it is unbecoming?"
"Why, throw it away, or put it away,
or give it away, or do something else with
| it, of course. l couldn't afford, for the
sake of my position in society to wear
anything that makes me appear in deli
cate health. shouldn't be invited any
where. 1t wouldn't do at all, you know I;
it really wouldn't do. II is 50 out Of style
to be sick OF delicate or even frail m ap-
pearance.
And SO the girls to insure the health
which is now so necessary to their social
standing have provided themselves with
chatelains upon which hang half dozen
boxes of gold or silver, set with jewels
and in which is a collection of medicine,
tonics, and more OF less stimulating
drugs. A gold chatelaine with six or
seven gold bottles or boxes hanging there
from containing quinine capsules war
ranted to hold the pangs Of la grippe at
bay, digestion tablets, laxative lozenges,
purgative pellets, cough drops, silver
coated peppermint cachous, glycerine
cubes, and a variety of tonic pills TO keep
the system in general good order.
And so, the girls of to-day, besides do
ing everything else for herself, has taken
the reins of her own physical system in
her own hands and bids defiance TO the
clements and the doctors, maintaining
that she knows what is what, and how
to take care of each individual ill.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

A Confederate Survivor who Led a
Federal Charge.

a Confederate Survivor who Led
Federal Charge.
Major ]. w. McClung, Of San Fran
cisco, tells a Globe Democrat CORE
spondent. / think 1 am the only sar-
vivor Of the Confedoracy who led % Fej-
eral charge This singular thing old,
and here's how it was 1t was at Ga" 3ai-
tie of Selma. was carrying orders ond
had to pass straight through the town.
It was terribly hot and had my con, OF.
We had captured a wagon train a f'w
days before, and out of the spoiIs | had
appropriated brand new Federal cav
airy hat, 80 did not look unlike q Yam
kee officer.
In the main street of Selma met an
aid named Brown-a gallant fellow. He
shouted to me that our line hal b'on
broken and that Armstrong WIS o. ug
back, and told me to get out or III lutaE.l.
just then Armstrong and his s-a gill
loped past, and tie general rcco 90 zin'y
us called out: "You must hurry COS of
this, gentlemen. They are close ou our
heels.
Brown had dispatch for Colonel Jam
son, and he said l., would wait a1l .l--
liver it if he died for It. While VI, we're
talking, pistols in Land, column of
Federal cavalry swung into The street
where we stood, coming full tilt. We
were 50 taken by surprise that we could
not get away. Broon had on anew uni
form that had just run the blockade, and
he was $ good target Half n dUzen
troopers dashed out from the line to
catch him.
We we're riding for our lives, Brown a
little in the lead, 80 that it looked as
though l was chasing him. The pursuers
pissed me and overhauled Brown, and /
caught a glimpse Of him as l passed,
down on his back working his revolver,
with group Of the enemy about him, all
shooting down at him and cutting at him
with their ssbers.
BY this time 1 was at the head OF the
column, which had not slackened its
mad pace. For at least a mile rode al
their head, exchanging remarks about the
retreat OF the "rebs and joining in tho
cries Of "Hurry lst's catch Armstrong.
AS we came to a side street that ran right
down to the river l dashed out aud
swerved sharply, and then rode fol
dear life. In second they were after
me, and the bullets sang all around me,
never halted, but plunged off a low
pier into the water and swan straight
across to where our people wore trying tc
form new front. The water was torn by
a perfect rain of bullets, but 1 was moi
scratched, and my horse was only slightly
wounded. would like much to know
the name Of my Federal commander.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05
rhe n,en.,. anron.nn sor,relr,

The czar Of Russia is the richest sover-
eign in Europe and one Of the richestmen
in the world. The income OF the impo-
rial family of Russia Is derived from the
crown lands, which arc regarded as the
cars private estate and treated as such
They comprise over 1,O0O,OOO square
miles, about one-third of the area of Tie
United States, and include farms, pasture
or grazing land, and forests, while hun.
dreds of villages are built on them, the
inhabitants of which pay their rent to the
czar Many gold, silver, and other mines
are included in the crown property, and
the output Of these is believed to be very
large. There are no means of ascertain
ing the exact income of the czar, since
the imperial accounts are not more open
10 the public than the books Of private
individual, but it is estimated by Rus
slams in official position at 60 100000 g
year, about $12 ,250,OO0. OF this enor
nous sum a portion is devoted TO the
maintenance of hospitals, asylums,
churches, and theaters, but the larger
part is swallowed up by the personal and
official expenses of the inn erial family.
--LSt Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05
The slclIlnns Among us.

An Italian ethnoloSist, in speaking of
the peculiarites of the Scilians, says:
"There can be no doubt that there is "a
Punic strain in the blood of the Sicilian
people. In ancient times the island of
Malta, which was long held by the Car
thaginians, was the half way station be-
tween Carthage and Sicily, and Sir George
Bowen has recently shown that the NAL
tese are about the last surviving remnant
of the Carthaginian branch of the old
Phenician people. The base of the NAL
tese language as spoken to-day is Cartha-
ginian, which was spoken by the father
of Hannibal, who was at one time gov
ernor of Malta.
Many of the Maltese of the Phoenican
stock crossed to Sicily in early times and
mingled with the Latins there for gener-
ations; and some of the pecuharities of
the modern Sicilians that do not belong
to other Italians and that have recently
been much spoken of in the United
States, where there are now many Sicil-
ians, are the outgrowth of this Phoeni-
clan strain in their blood.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05
. 1OoREss OF SCIENCE. .

An electric flying machine is an
nounced.
The fireworks of the future will be
electrical.
A bicycle IS promised to do two miles
minute.
Seaweed is now made into tough pa
per, which takes the place Of window
glass. When colorJd the effect is similar
10 stained or painted glass.
A seamless steel boat made from one
piece of metal by hydraulic pressure
promises to be very desirable. It will
last great while and can not leak.
NJ Marcy, by arranging his own ap-
paratus, has succeeded in photographing
the flight Of insects, the exposure Of the
plate being necessarily not over 1-25, ,OOOth
part Of a second.
An electric car in Decatur, H., recent
ly earned $08.45 on the occasion Of pub
tic celebration. At the rate Of five cents
per head this would mean the car carried
l,o03 naesenRefs-
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05
The jews in Russia.

The fact that the Russian Jews are
usually better educated in liberal ideas
than the majority Of the cars SUBJECTS,
and arc to be found among the reformers
and legal reyoluticni3ta of the Ru sian
empire has served to incite tho Mu5coyi,e
press to a renewal Of the charge that
Nihilism has its focus in the Ru5so-Jewish
population. The murder Of General
Seliverskof, a Ru, ian agent in France,
who was shot in his room at the hotel
where he was residing in Paris, presunla-
oily in revenge for the death sentence
passed on certain Nihilists a few days
previous in st. Petersburg, has doubtless
given fresh credsn9a to the idea, especially
as a few Hebrews wore found among
the Nihilist oonspirators. Yet it is not
fair to accuse the Jews, as class, OF
Nihilism, without studying the Russo
Hebrew question, The st. Petersburg
government appointed q commission to
obtain accurate Information about the
Jewish population, and some reports of
that commission have already been
handed to the chancellor. The St. Peters
burg correspondent of the Partisan news
paper Le Temps, having possessed him
self Of some Of the figures and conclu-
sions of this report, has sent them to
that paper. These show that in the 10
governments or provinces Of Russia
where Hebrews are permitted to live
there are 293, ,507 Jews following manual
or industrial occupations, There are,
consequently, in Russia, proportionately
larger number of Jews than of Christians
exercising an Industrial trade, -
"remesslenniks" is the word in the Off
cial reports, signifying those who work
at manual trade. The statistics also
show that the Hebrews in Russia support
willingly the military charges imposed
on every Citizen; for during the period
1e75-1se6, out of 74O, 104 mon drafted for
military service. there vera 81, ,233 Jews;
thus the number of Hebrews who go
through military service is equal proper
tionately to that of the non Jewish popu-
lation, and this in a country which only
grants them very restricted rights. The
report of this commission, whca pub
lished, will, perhaps, do away with the
prejudice against the cars Hebrew
subjects.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05


The hero Of the popular song Of Robin
Adair, which is attributed to Lady Car
oline Keppel, was Robert Adair, a sur"
geon Q7iO(0-170O), well known to the
London fashionable circles Of the
eighteenth century as the Fortunate
Irishman.
His detection in an early amour drove
him from Dublin to London. On his
way he fell in with a lady of fashion who
had been slightly hurt in a runaway acci-
dent. He travelled with her in her car
riage to London as surgical attendant, and
on their arrival was presented with fec
Of 100 guineas and a general invitation to
her house. There he met Lady Caroline
Keppel, daughter Of the second Earl Of
Albemarle, who, forgetting her high line
age, fell desperately in love with the Irish
surgeon at sight.
The Albemarle family, dismayed at the
project of such a mesalliance, took Lady
Caroline from London TO Bath, and tried
every means to make her forget her
lover, but in vain. At last their opposi-
ton was withdrawn, and the couple were
united.
1t was at Bath that Lady Caroline is
said to have composed the words of
"Robin Adair, setting them to the plaint-
i've Irish tune of Eileen Aroon, which
she had heard her lover sing.
The original song of "Eileen Aroon" is
attributed to one Carol O'Daly, an early
Irish bard who flourished apparently be-
fore the tenth century. A Munster poet
of the seventeenth century rewrote the
words, and in this form it was translated
by John Anster and paraphrased by
Gerald Griffin 1t is in Grifiin's para
phrase that the song is known to this
generation. II Lippincotts.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

The deepest silver mine in the Uni
ted States is said to be the Yellow
Jacket i'm the COmstock Lode, near Vir-
ginia City, New. It's lower levels are
200 feet below the hoisting works
POttsville, Penn, has the deepest coal
Ishaft some 1850 feet, producing 1000
tons ofcoal daily.
1t is suggested that d spring circuit
of mile tracks, including Fleetwood,
Poughkeepsie, Rome, Rochester, New
ark and Buffalo, could be made up in
New York,
In the great animal market at Ham
burg, in Germany, giratfes sells at $1,000
pair, chimpanzee go at $500 apiece
and select lots of Sumatra monkeys at
$1,000.
A Michigan man has q mouse that
catches flies. He keeps 1t in his show
window where it does better work than
square yard of ordinary ly-paper.
Jockey Williams has signed to ride
for Scroggan Brothers during the bal
ance of the season.
Jockey Overton's record of six wins
out of seven mounts in one day, recent
ly, was probably never beaten.
1t is rumored that L. j. Rose, the
California turfman and proprietor of
Rosemeade stable, will soon sell his en-
tire stable and retire from the turf.
The laundries in Ruthland, VT, are
now run by electric power.
A Columbus dog shuffled off by sui
eide.
Virtue in poor man is looked upon
as a jewel in a toad's nose.
A commercial traveller who makes
trips to South America says that the
natives are very fond of roasted mon
keys, and that in his opinion it is more
tooth-some than turkey or chicken or
even canvas back
A Fort Worth (Texas) man says that
he has the largest maidstone in the
world. II is nearly as large as a hens
egg, and was taken, he says, by his
father from the stomach of white
deer found dead In the Ozark noun
tains.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

Coal screenings and dust too fine to
burn are largely used for fuel in Europe
and Australia in the form of bricquettes
or small blocks, the coal dust being mixed
with some sticky substance to facilitate
molding. This idea has been expert
mented with in the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania, and a Philadelphia COM
pany has recently completed a plant for
the purpose in Milwaukee. Anthracite
dust is used, and the process consists in
drying the screenings and then mixing
them with a composition which makes a
sticky paste. This pasty mass is run
through slowly revolving presses and
shaped into eggs. AT each revolution 500
of these fuel eggs are rolled out upon the
conveyors and dumped into the storage
sheds.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

Husbands too often permit wives,
and parents their children, to suffer
from headache, dizziness, neuralgia,
sleeplessness, fits, nervousness, when
by the use of DR.. Miles Restorative
Nervine such serious results could
easily be prevented. Druggists every
where say it gives universal satisfac-
ton, and has an emense sale. Wood
worth a Co, of Fort Wayne, Ind; Snow
q Co, of Syracuse, n. w.; j. G. Wolf,
Hillsdale, Mich, ;and hundreds of others
say sit is the greatest seller they ever
knew" 1t contains no opiates, Trial
bottles and fine book on Nervous Dis
eases, free at Thomas, Lehighton and
Biery, Weissport,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

The fact that the present ore'pant Of
the Vice Presidency of the Republic is
the only living man who has ever held
that office is remarkable. The few Amer
lean Presidents that remain (three in
nunber) is in itsslf singular, but that
of the seven Vice Presidents Of the last
2s years that being the period for which
those have been elected who have sue
ceeded Hannibal Hamlin) there is but
one survivor. and lie the man latest
chosen, is almost appalling There is
something like a fatality following the
men who have filled the office.--Boston
Herald.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

The zone system Of passenger fares,
which started in Hungary, and has also
been successfully applied in Austria, has
been adopted by the Cork, Blackrock and
Passage Railway Company, in Ireland,
for service between Cork and Orosshaven
and Afghada, two popular pleasure re-
sorts in the harbor. Instead of 15O kinds
of tickets formerly required there are
now only eight, and the new rates of fare
are about 80 per cent lower than the
former tariff. 80
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

OF the Bank of Waverly, Iowa, says:
Sulphur Bitters saved my life. For ten
years / suffered from eatarrh and
Liver Complaint; l lost forty-fve
pounds and was growing worse rapidly
l had lost all faith in medicine, but
hearing your bitters so well recon-
mended, gave them trial. Six bottles
cured me.-Smith P. Hunt, Waverly,
Iowa.
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What everybody praises wants close
watching.
Eupepsy.

This is what you ought to have, in fact, you
must have II, to fully enjoy life. Thousands are
searching for It daily, and mourning because
they hnd 1t not. Thousands upon Thousands OF
dollars are spent annually by our people in the
IL may be had by ALL We guarantee that Elec-
trio Bltters, II used according to directions and
the use persisted in, will bring you good diges.
instead eupepsy. We recommend Electric Bit
ters for dyspepsia and all diseases OF the liver,
stomach and kidneys. Sold at soc. and SlO0 per
bottle by Reber, Druggist.
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Envy looks through a microscope.

] am an old man have been a constant
sufferer with catarrh for the last ten
years. | am entirely cured by the use
of Ely's Cream Balm. 1t is strange
that so simple remedy will cure such
a stubborn disease. e.-Henry Billings,
u S. Pension Atty, Washington, d. O..
I have been great sufferer from dry
catarrh for many years, and tried
many remedies, but mono did me so
much benefit as Ely's Cream Balm.
1t completely cured MEN,. j. Lally,
80 Woodward Ave, Boston Highlands,
Mass.
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Is one which is guaranteed to bring you salts
factory results, or in case of failure n return of
purchase price. On this safe plan YOU can
buy from our advertised Druggists bottle of DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption. 1t is
guaranteed to bring relief I'm every case, when
used for any affection of Throat, Lungs or
Chest. such as Consumption. Inflammation Of
Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma, WhOOping Cough,
Group, etc. IL is pleasant and agreehlc to taste,
perfectly safe, and can always be depended up;
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-05

The system is rendered maliar-proof when the
blood is kept pure and vigorous by the use Of
Ayers Sarsaparilla. At this season all should
have this admirable preparation at hand. Mala.
vial poison is harmless when Ayers Sarsaparina
is used,