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The advocate., 1897-11-10
Burning and Whipping Women.

The horrible punishment Of burning
women alive seems to have existed in
Saxon England, but perhaps only in the
case of slaves. Under the Norman rul-
ers any woman, bond or free, who killed
her husband was burned alive; and the
same punishment for this crime, and
also for high treason and even for coin
ing and other minor Ofrenses, continued
or arose from time to time through the
second and third periods until 1t was
abolished by act of Parliament in 1890,
the last execution of this kind having,
however, taken place six years earlier.
The whipping of women for various Of
fenses continued even later; public whip
ping was not abandoned until 1877, and
cases Of private whipping occur as late
as 1929.
There can be no doubt, we think, that
the savage human instinct of cruelty had
something to do with the barbarous pun
ishments above mentioned. AS the old
Roman public lOnged for the carnage of
the circus, as the Spanish pOpulace
crowded to the aut0-de-fe in the -four
lshing days of the TnQuisition, so the
lower perhaps not only the lower) strata
OF English nationality took delight in
witnessing tOrtures which, In all prob
ability, were devised and kept up partly
FOR their entertainment. Mr.. Cleveland
tells us that Judge Jeffreys, in SEN
fencing q woman to be whipped, is re-
ported to have said:
"Hangman, charge you to pay par
tiCular attention to this lady. Scourge
her till her blood runs down. 1t is
Christmas time, cold time for madame
to strip; see that you burn her shoulders
thoroughly. ."--Athenaeum.
The advocate., 1897-11-10
The Appreciative Thank YOU

"On every hand one hears Of the neg
lect TO say thank yOu,'" writes Edward
W. Box on "The Saying Of Thank
YOU" in the November Ladies Home
Journal 81 wonder sometimes If some
people really know how little of what
comes to them is their due and right,
and how much of what comes to them
Is by favor and courtesy. The vast ma
jOrity Of things which come to us, come
by pure favor, by courtesy. And we
should recognize this. No act of kind
ness, however slight, should go unnO-
ticed. A thank you Is a simple thing
to say; 1t requires but few moments
to write 1t, but 1t often means much; it
means everything sometimes to the per-
son receiving 1t. It means a renewed
faith In human nature in some cases.
A word Of thanks Is never lost, never
wasted. If 1t sometimes seems to be
lost upon the person to whom it Is d.
rected, Its expression has not been lost
upon some one else who has heard It.
1t Is certainly not lost upon ourselves.
The most Of us are quick enough to
thank some one who does us great SER
vice. But the small courtesy, just as
great as the large service in reality, we
overlook. 1t doesn't seem worth while
to give thanks for small things. And
yet what would we be to-day, and where
would some Of us be burt for the small
courtesles Of life? They are what make
life worth living.
1T Is all very well to have the last
Thursday Of each November set apart
as a day Of Thanksgiving. But it would
be far better II a great many Of us car
ried the spirit OF the day into all other
days. Perhaps, II we did so we might
have more mercies to be thankful for
on Thanksgiving day. Do not let the
spirit Of thanks stop with nightfall on
Thanksgiving day. Let us extend it to
all the other days Of the year, to the
people whose lives touch ours. When
we receive favor at the hands OF any
one, no matter how small 1t may be, let
us say the words, Thank you If they
should be written let us write them.
Let us not delay them, but take advan-
tage Of the instant when our heart is
touched. Let there be more thank yous'
said by erybody-thousand of them.
And the world will be better, brighter
and happier place to live in because of
them"
The advocate., 1897-11-10
Some slipahOd English.

CareIessness In grammar and rhetoric
Is not by any means confined to the un-
educated.
II will try and do you no harm" says
one of the leading characters In Mar
celia" And again, "You will try and
make him alter his mind" II will go
and see her soon," is another example
Of making "and" take the place of to"
The use Of the verb in the plural num-
Der after neither" is a frequent error:
Neither Of the girls are going" "Nei-
ther Of the girls were really gay"
The adjective real" is often made to
do duty as an adverb by careless speak
ers: 1--WE had real nice time" "Oh,
that's real good book"
"Such" for 80" Is still more common,
and though we know perfectly well that
it is incorrect, most of us persist dn per-
petuating the error, the adVerb makes
sometimes so roundabout a sentence.
"She Is such q dear good woman" for
instance, seems so much more hearty
and direct than, "She is so dear and good
a woman"
To say the mother insisted on May
going" instead Of Mays going" is as
far from right as to say, "they depend
on him going" Yet some of our best
writer's are guilty Of this omission Of
the pOssessiVe case.
Funny" in the sense of singular or
peculiar, is a word that Is often heard
in connection with very serious mat
ters: 1T is funny that no notice was
given Of the funeral" 1T Is funny that
none of them wore Grape"
A well-knoWn writer tells us that
"the speaker intended to make his voice
sound pleasantly" Now If she had said
that "he intended to speak pleasantly"
no fault could have been found; as it
is, she might with equal propriety have
said that "he meant to have 1t seem
pleasantly" or that he meant to have
it sound strongly OF grandly.-Harper's
Bazaar
The advocate., 1897-11-10
NOVEMBER 10,

Vats Of water, where all the impurities
and foreign substances are precipitated,
the water being atterward drawn OIL
by a series Of altering operations, and
the soft residuum dried by steam heat
and exposure to the air; the substance
Is then reduced to powder OF different
degrees Of fineness by grinding in burr
mills and betting, when it is ready to be
packed in barrels and shipped for use,
among the largest consumers being the
rubber goods manufacturers; rubber. In
its crude state, being sticky, unmanage>
able and available only for very simple
purposes, becomes vulcanized and hard
ened by adding to it chalk while it is
hot, thus rendering it suitable for the
various uses to which it is put. AS is
also we'll known, a large quantity of
chalk is employed in the preparation of
paint and putty, being termed whiting
when in this form.-New York Sun.
The advocate., 1897-11-10

stance, there rs q class of servants who
would not accept anything to eat from
my hands. That is the reason why one
must keep 80 many servants. One must
entertain, and the higher the position
the more entertaining they must do
That lg the reason the English govern
ment gives to certain officials such great
salaries. Each horse has two servants,
a horse keeper and grass cutter. The
man takes care OF the animal and his
wife goes out to cut grass for tt. And
in dry countries, where the grass Is all
dried up, that is not an easy job. Now,
at my fathers house we had so many
servants that we had to speak five diff
ferent dialects to command them. There
was HindOostani, Malabar, Canareese,
Tellgoo and Tamil. These are all sepa-
rate dialects, having only common base
just as all Latin languages have a COM
mon base, but as distinct from one an
other as French and Italian.
'The white society, as almost every
one ought to know, is made up Of the
civilians and army Of England, and those
men are always well educated, refined
and elegant. Tacoma Ledger.
The advocate., 1897-11-10
One Woman's Work.

There's a good deal Of discussion Just
now as to what women can do. The
Grand Forks Plaindealer tells what one
woman has done and we commend her
action to the numerous feminine coteries
that have the momentOus question un-
der discussion. The lady in question Is
Mrs Blackbird, and she is a widow with
six small children, all Of whom, in ad-
dition to her aged parents, she supports
by work in laundry She has saved
the money with which to buy lumber
for house, and with her own hands
has built dwelling. This was done by
labor early In the morning and late at
night during the summer, the regular
work being performed as usual Almost
the entire carpenter work has been done
by the energetic woman, and the family
are now sheltered by the homemade
house, the interior of which is almost
completed. Mrs. Blackbird now amuses
hsFsele evenings by lathing the interior,
The advocate., 1897-11-10
All Our Chalk From England.

One of the few exclusively important
imported British products used in our
country is chalk. It comes from the
banks of the river Thames, being OBJ
tainable nowhere else in large Quanti-
ties. In its crude form, remarkable flint
fossils are sometimes found, usually the
remains OF fish. The process of manu-
facture from the natural state to that
Of form when ii can be utilized is
simple. When received at the mill the
chalk Is put into great machines and
ground In water, then f0ated OH into
The advocate., 1897-11-10
The Story Of the Graves,

Winter, from his icy palaces looked
down and saw a world of graves. In
the splendid sunlight rare roses cleaned
In scarlet and in gold; trees, crowned
with white and purple blossoms, leaned
their tresses to the winds and showered
sweet dews upon the earth below; birds
sang and waves Of melody went wander
ing to the skies; but on the candid plains
the lone graves cleaned and saddened.
all the sunlight; and on the shadOWed
bosoms Of the velvet valleys-voiceles
save for the Wailing of the world above
them-they looked toward heaven; and
the winter saw men kneeling and
women weeping, uncontrolled, by the
side of the graves; and it wept for SYM
pathy and called the clouds together and
said:
Hide with your SHOWS, o clouds, these
graves that make the sunlight sad; that
make the birds chant dirges; that make
men sigh and women weep; that sad
den earth and heaven. Hide them, o
clouds, beneath your icy snows!"
And the clouds rained upon the graves
and hid them away from the world be-
meath canopy of white.
But men sighed still and women Wept;
there were NO violets in the Valleys
no roses in the meadows-nO blossoms
on the trees-nO bird songs in the air
no graves to make the sunlight sad.
And the winter wondered why men
sighed and women still went weeping,
till from its Icy palaces it saw a woman
kneeling in the dark. With trembling
hands she brushed the SHOWS away, and,
leaning her white lips, left on the grave
that lay beneath a mothers kiss, and,
taking from her bosom one dead rose,
kissed it and laid 1t tenderly upon the
grave and, weeping, went away.
And the wondering winter called the
clouds once more, and said:
Vain was your work, sad clouds!
Open your starry windows and let the
stream on the graves once
more! Bloom, roses, in the green heart
Of the meadows, and scent the velvet
valleys with fragrant viOlets! Give to
the world her graves for men go mourn
Ing for them and the holy hearts of
women dwell in the dust that triumphs
over death and links with tenderest
chords the dust of a dying world with
the glory of deathless heaven. At
lsnta Constitution.
The advocate., 1897-11-10
Family Reading.
IN THE LAND OF HARD TIMES.

Prom the Palace of Ease my lady set Out
Her carriage wheels shOne In the light
Ken felds lay fertile and green about,
Ana she wonders how any blind soul coul
doubt
That God rules over in might;
Ana she marvels greatly how sin and shame
Into 6his fair world came.
There gazed from a window across the way
creature pallid and gaunt;
Her cheeks we're hollow, her face was gray,
And bard deep lines by her hard mouth lay,
For she dWelt In the House OF Want;
And q look like curse came into her eye
Aa my lady rode by.
SHE hated the world that had used her Ill
She was bitter with discomfort;
HE was weary Of toll In the dull tread-mill
Where she wasted her life In the effort to Ill
The mouth OF that monster, Rent
She hated the owners OF acres broad,
And she DOUBTED God.
Oh, woman, weary Of toll and pain,
No wonder your heart Is gall.
God gave his people wide domain;
ile gave as the seasons, the sun and rain,
And room and food for us all.
rt ts man, the Auth or of selfish crimes,
Who brings hard times.
Oh, Lady Fair, in your Castle OF Ease,
You are happy and well contents
But WhaB would you do were you one OF these
Who toll and suffer and starve and freeze,
TO fatten the monster, Rent2
Xet God rules over, and right some day
Must have Its way. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The advocate., 1897-11-10

Few women realize the influence ex-
erted on their bodily and mental we'll
being by the special organism of their
sex. II is hard for them to believe that
the little drain which goes on from day
to day is sufficient to sap away the very
life forces. Yet 1t is so. The weakness,
exhaustion, melancholy; the periodical
prostratiOn and sometimes almost tor
ture has no other cause, two-thirds of
the time, than the abnormal, unhealthy
condition Of the generative organs.
Strangely enough even doctors often fail
to recognize the truth. For this condi-
tion there is no other remedy in the
world so helpful and certain as DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It re-
stores health and vigor to the feminine
functions and renewed vitality to the
entire body. It heals Inflammation, stops
discharges, strengthens the ligaments
and builds up the internal tissues which
cannot be reached by local treatment. ;"
1t is of inestimable value to young
women and to prospective mothers,
greatly lessening the pains and perils
Of childbirth If taken during pregnancy.
The advocate., 1897-11-10
FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

A miniature Of the Queen with golden
hair and a quick nervous step. That is
a picture of Mrs. q. L. Wood, for years
a resident of India, but at present a
visitor in Tacoma. Mrs. Wood has been
all over the world, and the description
Of her personal life, and the little de-
tails Of living that ordinary travellers
as rule overlook, In India, is interest
ing. Because Of her cosmopolite edu-
cation Mrs. Woods conversation is plen-
tifully besprinkled with foreign phrases,
for Mrs. Wood speaks Italian, French
and half dozen Indian dialects as she
speaks her native English.
1T Is so funny, you know, but the peo-
pie in this country seem to know moth
ms about India. Why, had man ask
me the other day: why, II you were
born In India why are you not black?
Good gracious, but am not an Indian!
MY father was white and 80 was my
mother. II either one Of them had been
black I should probably be a saffron
yellow. And don't you know things like
that are constantly occurring? India,
you know, Is not all one country. There
f are three presidencies, one at Madras
one at Bombay and one at Calcutta. At
the latter place lives the VlcerOy. Each
\ presidency also has a Governor, Com
inander-in-chief and Supreme Council,
the latter composed of the four senior
members of the civil service. You see,
fRuDpose you are young man and enter
the civil service and work up to the top.
Then the last appointment you receive
before you retire Is to chair Of the
Supreme Council OF presidency. My
father was acting Governor OF Madras.
But the Viceroy is the head OF 1t all, be-
cause, as his name indicates, he stands
~ place Of the king.
"And then In this country every one
~ alike. Not 90 in India. There the
natives have their castles. There are the
Brahmins, the HindOos, the Parsees and
many other sects and castes. Sir Reu-
hem Saason, the English millionaire, Is
/. u Pafsee He is the great friend Of the
prince OF Wales, but he has educated
NimEelf and gone to England, where he
has q residence and is quite a good sort.
MON know the Parsees worship fire and
the others the most unearthly shaped
HlDne gods,
'And all the English colonies are so
Small that everybody there knows every
body else, and II ia very difficult to do
things one shouldn't do without being
found out. Now people with particle
I, ne black blood In them are never ad-
naltted into society That is the reason
\ hak we say In England that when a
young girl goes TO India and marries
S&e has no society when she comes back;
AiaRk is, of course, If she marries an In
&lan. Lately the Queen has brought for
war6 several prlncegses and they are
Bstting eddcated so that the natives are
rapidly getting uppish. But they are
made To keep their place in India. There
TAe lines are drawn close enough.
And this extends to the servants
x nus servant will not do an0theF's work
AtAiG there are many OF them that will
lEtt arcept food from another. For in
The advocate., 1897-11-10

and will soon have 1t ready for plaster
The house is not large, but II ia neat
and well built, and when finished 1t will
be very comfortable. - Minneapolis
(Minn.) Journal.
The advocate., 1897-11-10

Write for samples and clubbing rates,
and get up list In your locality for the
Advocate.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-31

For some time past the Lake RcgiOa hus
been receiving reports from Umatil la, Fla.i
of an almost miraculous cure that had been
effected in the case of Fannie Adams, a
daughter Of A. J. Adams, Of that place, and
last Saturday n representative of this paper
made a trip TO Umatilla for the purpose OF
determining the authenticity of the sume.
The family live a short distance from the
VILLAGE, where it was found that the people
we're cognizant of the cure which had been
effected, and were rejoicing with the family
in their new found happiness. The tather,
A. j. Adams, is a hard-working honest
farmer from east Tennessee, and the flmily
came to Florida four years ago in the hope
that a change Of climate would be Of benefit
to their afflicted child. Much of their earn
ings have gone for doctors bills, whose ser
vices proved unavailing. Tho representative
was greeted by Mrs. Adams from whom he
gained the story of her great trial.
Fannie, the youngest child, was born in
east Tennessee, and was seven years cid on
the third day Of February, 1897. When ten
months oil she was stricken with paralysis,
which affected the entire left side. This
stroke of paralysis was followed by conyui-
sion5, aud from tho time little Fannie wga
ten months old until February, 1897 there
was not single day or a night that she did
not have epnsms of the most DISTRESSING
nature Not a single convulsion, but a.
ways three or four, and sometimes as hi5h
as ten in one day.
The family was all broken down with
care, and Mrs. Adams states that for one
wear she did not 90 into her kitchen TO super
intend her household work. All the ilnrcrs
of the right hand of the little girl arc en-
largcd and misshnpen, caused hy her be-
ing them during the fearful suffering. The
case baiiled the skill of the best physicians.
and they were frank to soy that they could
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-31
DELIGHTFUL SUMMER TOURS.
Two Tours to the North via PonnsyIvani
Railroad

Two Tours TO the North via Pennsylvania
Railroad.
For the convenience of those who seek the
most attractive way of spending a summer
holiday, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has arranged two delightful tours to the
North, under the personally-conducted tourist
system, July p and August II. The points
included in the itinerary and the country
traversed abound in natures beauties. No
matter how much may be expected, one cam
not be disappointed in Watkins Glen
Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, Quebec
Montreal, Au Sable Chasm, Lakes Champlain
and George Saratoga, or the Highlands of
the Hudson.
Each tour will be in charge of one of the
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The rate of $1OO from New York, Brooklyn,
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Baltimore and Washington covers railway
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car seats, meals en- route, hotel entertainment,
transfer charges, carriage hire-in fact, every
item of necessary expense.
For detailed itinerary, tickets, or any ad-
ditional information, address Tourist Agent,
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1896 Broad
way, New York $50 Fulton street, Brook
lyn; Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Broad Street Station Philadelphia.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-31
"A Ch;Id's Recovery
NJ PARALYSIS ARD SIX WEARS OF CONVULSIONS.
Little Fannie Adams Of UmatIa, Cured Of Dreadful Maady
Cure Of Unusual Interest-A lelOrter INVESTIGATES
Fron III 80 ReaLon. El,lls. Ia.

not determine the cause, or prescribe a
remedy to mid the afflicted child.
But what n change now in that household
for little Fannie has recently been released
from her six years of agony which brings the
light OF happiness to the faces of the parents.
In january, this year, Mrs. Adams, who
had purchased some of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People for her fourteen year
old daughter, determined TO try their effect
upon little Fannie. After three or four
doses, she noted an improvement and she
then told the father what she had done.
lie at once went to the village and bought
another box, and up to this time six boxes
have been used. The first pills, Mrs. Adams
siates were given in January the latter part,
and certainly not earlier than the ffteenth
or twentieth, and the child had her last con-
vulsion on February Sd, nearly three months
ago. Her general condition has improved in
every way, and it wns not n month after the
FIRST pills were taken when she began to walk
without assistance.
The pills were bought at the drug store
Of Dr.. Shelton, in Umatilla, In answer to
tho question, did he, to his personal knowl-
edre. know that the remedy had benefited
Fannie Adums MS was stated by her parents,
the doctor snid that he was aregulnr practicing
physician, nnd rs such wcs 10th to recon-
mend any proprietary medicine, but still he
was ready to do Justice to all men. and he did
know that DR.. Williams Pink Pills for, Pale
People had benefited Fannie Adams, and also
volunteered the information that he knew Of
other children in the village who had been
benefited by their use.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are sold by all dealers, will he sent post paid
on recent of price, so cents box, or six boxes
fr 800 tthey are never sold in bulk or by
the 1907 by addressing Dr.. Williams Medicine
Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-31
THE SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
Eugene V. Debs Donnes It's Aims and
nmrnnsca.

Purposes.
Chicago. July s1.-The New Time Of
Monday win contain an article by
Eugene V. Debs in which he says;
"The social democracy is a general
social. economic and political organiza-
tion. It is at once national and inter
national Politically speaking, it Is a
party within and for itself, and within
u months its national representatives
win have formulated a national po-
liticaI platform. Similarly the various
state representatives. win have adopted
state platforms and municipal repre-
scntatives local platforms.
by far the greater part of the crit
lcism has been directed against the
colonization scheme and there are
those who still insist that this is all
there is to the movement, or at least
that this is its chief purpose.
"To all Of these be it said that the
proposed colonization scheme is simply
one Of the features of the movement
and has been assigned a special depart
mont known as the colonization de-
partment
There has never been any intention
to organize isolated colonies, and they
who have worked themselves up in de-
scribing the fate Of other colonies
and predicting calamity have beer
wasting their time"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-31

San Jose, his, July 3L-At o'clock
last evening a cyclone struck the farm
of A. c. Mcdowell, two miles north
and his house and barn were entirely
destroyed. Seven people were killed
and three severely injured The killed
are: A. c. Mcdowell McDowelTa
grandson, wife Of Samuel Brownlee.
three Of Brownlee's children Miss Jes-
sic Groves. Mrs. A. c. Mcdowell, her
son, Charles, and daughter, Mary are
seYereIY injured