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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-11-03
NUMBER 40

TIE CARPENTER = Besides being very
much useful, we might say an indispensi-
BILE man, IN this community we look upon
the carpenter as a soother and pescema~
ker, for after the architect has formed
ofttimes wicked designs npon your house,
and puzzled you with the Corinthian, the
Ionic, the Doric, proto- Doric and hunki-
Dories bewildered you among porticos
and columns, and folisted capitais. and
enfablafures, and architraves, and flutes
and cornices, and palsfers, aud facades,
and exasperated you with his spandrils
and traceries, and cfnQue centOs, and cor
bells, ard trefoils, and pendentives, and
other architt chnicalities you don't know
anything at all about, the carpenter steps
in and puts yolr house in good frame =
max everything plane, as it were, with
the addition, perhaps, of bis square. chalk
line and scratch-awl, adze, saw and a few
other trifling articles from his tool chest.
Without the carpenter To plan and put
together, your house would be in no frame
to receive the jiner and the paper>hanger,
and various other representatives of fhe
mechanic arts, who are dependent upon
his movements. So yoO.see the important
position he fills. s.r
Although nothing but mechanic, yet
the carpenter is admitted into our very
best houses, and is often consulted re-
garding their arrangements. The rich
and proud, who live in ''stBck k-up'' houses,
have TO get the carpenter to stick 'em up.
The carpenter gets up great many stories
on such people, We have known him 20
get up FIVE stories and Mansard roof.
Carpenters have knack of accumuIa-
ting. There is a Carpenters Shavings
Bank back of nearly every carpenter shop,
where they deposit their shavings. The
poor are often allowed to draw on that
bank Gfthey don't draw off wagon loadl
and no interest charged. Little shavers
are not considered of much account among
carpenters, as this is profession in which
a workman is known by his shavings.
The carpenter is cbaritably disposed
toward his felowp. He is not looking
for mote in his brothers optic, because
there is usually beam, or at least
scantling in his own eye, or if by chance
he should discover the mote, he would
simply remark, $50 mote it be-"
Several distinguished men began their
career as carpenters. There was the
't;arpenter of Rouen.T We don't know
how he happened 10 De in ruin. but think
II was through dgiuk, Their there is Mr..
Carpenter, of tue celebrated and well
known firm of Carpenter & Joiner, whose
juint transactions are carried on all over
the world and there is Matt Carpenter,
Senator from Wisconsin. who don't Irame-
l. 4 4 l. 4
Carpenters are ard>working, indus
trious set of mem, and probably do more
thap any other class, unless we except
the bricklayers, to build up a city. Don't
carp at the carpenter. aa l5 5..s.s.5. 10.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-11-03

WONDERS OF THR TELEGRAPH The
press dispatches from Europe TO New
York, during fhe last four weeks, tittu.
bered about one Hundred thousand words.
New York has been better posted dh the
issue of the war each day than London,
Paris or Berlin. These dispatches have
nearly all been sent by single cable. full
One>third of the whole to a single daily
paper, and with marvellous rnpidity and
accuracy. Familiar as We are with the
work of the telegraph; il has been mar
vel to US. To hundreds of thousands Of
minds the whole work is and has been a.
deep enigma. Here is man sitting in a
dark room at Heart 8 Content. The
ocean cable terminates here. A fine wire
attached thereto is made to surround two
small cores of s5ft iron. As the electric
wave, produced by few pieces of copper
and zinc at Va.entia, passes through Z Q
wires, these cores become magnetic enough
TO move the slightest object A Ieoking-
glass half an inch in diameter, is fixed on
bar of iron one tenth of an inch square
and half an inch long. On this tiny glass
lamp is made TO glare so that its light
is reflected on tablet on the wall. The,
language of the cable Is denoted by the
shifting of this reflected light from side to
side. Letter by letter is thus expressed
in this fitting idiom IN utter silence on the
wall. There is no record made by the
machine except as the patient watcher
calls out to a comrade the translated
flashes as they come, and which he re-
cords II seems a miracle of patience.
There is something of awe creeps over ue-
as we see the evidence of human touch
5000 miles away swaying that line Of
light BY such delicate process as this,
and after beng repeated from line TO line,
five times before its ultimate cspy rs IN
New York, have the late great battles
been recorded in our daily papers with
prea. particularly and sent throughout
the Union. Nothing like it has ever Os-
fore been accomplished The enterprise
of the New York press, of single press
in New York, has eclipsed that of the
wealthiest and ablest presses in Europe.
II is characteristic of the nation 10 do its
work grandly and well.-JourHai Of the
Telegraph.
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Gbe 9oet's 9rpartmrnt.
NEVER GIVE UPt

Never give up! though the grape shot may
rattle,
Or the full thunder cloud over You burst;
Stand like rnck, and the storm or the battle
Little shall harm you, though doing their
worst. 49,
Never give upt it is wiser and better
Always to hope than once to despair
Fling of the load of doubts cankering fetter,
And break the dark spell OF tyrannical care
Never giFe up there are chances and changes,
Helping the hopeful hundred to one;
And, through the chaos High wisdom arranges
Ever suceess--if you'll only hope on.
Never give mp for the wisest is boldest,
Knowing that Providence nTineles the cup !;
And, of all maxims, the best as the Oldest,
Is the true watchword of-Never give upl
Never give upf though the grape shot may
rattle.
Or the full thunder cloud over yon burst
Stand like a rock and the storm md the battle
Little shall harm you, though doing their
worst.
Never give up If adversely presses.
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And the best counsel, III all your distresses.
Is the stout watchward of-Eever give up !
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WHAT CAN THE Girls Do ?-Thete=
are many noble examples of what girls
often perform, when poverty holds IFS
meagre mantle over them, of which the
following is an instance:
A Cincinnati press states that three
years ago poor orphan girl applied and
was admitted TO Sc; type for that paper.
She worked two years, during which
time she earned, besides her board, about
5000; and, availing herself Of the privi-
leges which the printing office afforded,
acquiring good education. She is now
associate editress of popular paper, and
is engaged to be married to one of the
smartest lawyers in Ohio Such girl il
bound to shine and eclipse tens of thous-
ands who are educated in the lap of
luxury, and tsught all the accomplish
ments'' of the boarding school. Such a
wife will be jewel to her husband, an
ornament to society. and an honor to her
sex and her country.
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EBENsBURG, Pa, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1870

old mans face was beaming with pleasure
and satisfaction, and the young mans
was flushed and pale by turns from the
peculiar circumstances of the moment
Mr.. Sirard took down his check book
and wrote check. This he cut out, and
then, turning to the yonng man, said
My young friend, listen to me- Your
fidelity, PrOmptness, and energy early at
tracted my attention. Then l had the
dream about you that | mentioned TO yeu
a long time ago. You acted with alacrity
upon the suggestion made IN consequence
of that dream, and to-day you stand be-
fore me skilled in a trade. have dream
ed of you in the meantime. A good
spirit whispered into my ear TO give you
twenty thousand dollars You have
made for me twenty superior barrels, for
which will now pay you one thonsa,,d
dollars each, making twenty thousand in
all ,
Mr.. Girard at this junctnre placed in
the hand of the agitated young man the
check he prepared Haa y1n $50
Now" he continued, ''you have the
capital TO commence business as a rner>
Overtake you go TO your trade again"
The young man broke forth in q tor
rent Of thanks, bot Air. Girard abruptly
stopped him, saying efrl1
"You lose interest on your money
while you talk. have fulfilled my
dreams, and done justice to you. Good
morning
Here this strange interview ended
The young man went away with The
deepest gratitude in his heart, and res
olUtIon TO make a name in business wor-
thy of the respect of his generous bensfae-
tor. He subsequently became one of first
merchants of PhiIadelphia. This incident
is one of the most singular inkthe history
Of Mr.. Girard, and no less in the annals
of dreams.-V !. Weekly.
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A PEOPLE on Stills The pictures of
Rosa Bonheur lave made US well ac1nain
ted with the singular habits which The
shepherds of the lands south of Bordeau
have adopted of passing the greater part
of their lives on siilts. The first time
that group of these people are seen there
is a curious emotion in the mind, as of a
strange prodigy. Dressed in rsheepskins,
worn by time, knitting stockings or spiuS
nlng thread, they gravely pass over the
reeds and fUrz-the spectator buried, as
it were, in the bushes they lifted nearer
the sky. on the verge of the horizon The
long stick, which they handle with so
much address, serving as a balancing pole
or support for the arm. contributes to
the strangeness of their appearance; they
look like gigantic crickets, preparing TO
spring. IN the lands, not only the shep>
herds, but every one, uses this style of
locomotion the children have nu fear.
and the women, who are invariably dressed
in black, resemble large ravens Perched
on dead branches E-f-a--
The origin of stills is unknown, 5u. it
is probable they were not in use before
the middle ages, as authors make no men
tion Of them. In the patois of the country
they are.calIed change, which would seem
to fix their origin in the period Of the rule
of the English, deriving it from our word
shank probably some inventive English
mind gave them this servicable mode of
progression Perched on these borrowed
legs the shepherd watches over his charge,
concealed in the brushwood, crosses un-
injured the marshes and quicksands, fears
MT to be torn by thorns or dry twigs, and
can at any time double the speed at which
he ordiDarily walks. Whether it has any
effect on the character cannot be denied !;
but certain it is that these people are dis
tinguished d by their wild, savage nature.
They have horror for strangers and
when they perceive traveller coming
toward them, they hasten to fee into CON
cealment = Chambers Journal.
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AN editor who WAS evidently insane,
or had strong and vivid imagination, re-
Gently got off the following appropriate
items
] had dream the other night,
When everything was still
I dreamed each dvertiser
Came mp and paid his bill.
Each wore a look of honesty,
And smiles were around each eye,
As they landed out the stamps,
Saving, How is this for high =
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-11-03

A FEW DAYS since school master vas
teaching six-years-nld boy the alphabet.
and found tkat the little fellow staggered
when he came to al" "What is that let
ter, Johnny 2" said the pedagogue. Don't
know" squeaked the urchin- ''Yes you
do" put in the teacher. What have got
on either side of my nose. johnny 2" ''foddy
blossoms so father says. .erei1iued the pupil,
and took his seat instsuter.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-11-03

JOHN PHOENIX once hailed German
who was driving bakers wagon on
Montgomery street, San Francisco, with
'sHallo, I'll take one"
Swat you takei' said Teuton, pulling
up. ga baked eagle" said Phoenix,
pointing to Eagle Bakery painted on
the wagon.
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&EiInal or Business OaruS. NOT
sedipg lines. with paper, g 90
.ulry Notices, over SIX lines. ten cents
Be.
.ja and business Notices eight cents
|, for first insertion, and four cents for
ubsequsnt Insertion.
buttons Of Societies, OF cemmunica-
i 4 personal nature must be paid for
sussments.
JOB PRINTING.
s Are made arrangements by which
DO or have done all kinds Of plain
lnsg job Printing, such as Books,
s,I, Show Cards. Bill and Eettel
RAudbilla. Circulars. &C., in the best
thss;t and at the most moderate
ln. all kinds Of Ruling. Blank
Box Binding, &c executed to order
IS the best and as cheap as the
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-11-03

-"How many are there ov yes down
there ~ shouted an Irish overseer to some
men in a coal pit. Give" was the answer
"Well, then. the half ov yes to come up
here" sai5 be.
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UNCONSCIOUS HERoIsM.-One dark
night. not long ago, burglar entered
a private house on Sixth avenue. On
ascending one flight of stairs he observed
a light in chamber. and while hesitating
what to do, large womau suddenly de-
scended upon him, seized him by the
throat, forced him down through the ball,
and pushed him into the street before he
had time to think. "Heroic repulse OF
a burglar by woman" was the way
the story appeared in the papers next day.
But when friends called and congratulated
her upon her courage. she exclaimed,
''Goodness gracious! didn't know ne
was burglar. IF had, should have
been frightened half to death. thought
it was my husband, came home drunk
again, and | was determined he shouldn't
stay in the house in that condition"
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= II Z W NJ o S e s I.
FHcHANT TAILOR,

'Ss, CLIEros ST., JoHxsrowS,
81. % rgSeelved his fall and winter stock
RS = french, London and American
I'M s.ASslhERES and VESTINGS.
'ment OF Gents FuRNIaHINe
EC,TsT ras been Cor eight wears cutter at
|oi,t.-S a CO. establishment, and new
Iat w h. = his friends and the public gen
.ldns uSs Commenced business in Sun
,d,s, Gh Clinton street, with a stock
s,srsS y'eo to the fall and winter, which
hoJs,.'o 70 make up in the latest STYLES
% Su.i' @ prices for cash hoping by at
r. iess ,ss to merit a share of pnblie
"a. maintain that success which
iag =, S,' attended his efforts in producing
tos6s s"Sments Snts. Give him cali
sept 2. 1868. If
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: I.OYD s CO.. I3ankers,
LLOYD s. co. ,

+" BANKERS, ALTOONA. "a.
Drafts on the principal cities and Silver
and Gold for sale. Collections made
Moneys received on deposit, payable on De
msnd, without interest. or upon time. win
interest At fair rates. an6t.
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We ~ TO LAND OWNERS

f4Vng NO., Nv ~ Lho.
snau.s ureo a perfect list of all
Of tbs Ia "a, ,es OF warrants, aud Of the
etsoSs purchase money and the names
h mad ptsylng the same, Wits a com
luesdop ION os The official records show
70 prOcn,. =, each tract of land, / am
y. owner, patents from the Land Of
Of A.,emss,ot Aos Of unpatented lands. under
,SpplsneOD,,y 20 o. the 10th of May, 1864,
0sr Of tbs ssnereto. as required by the
surveyor General.
'O'sAtsc.h q GEO. n. READE.
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Thy purse had better be empty than
filled with other folks money. Knavery
may serve turn, but honesty is the best
in the end.
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Cambria Freeman
WILL BE PUBLISHED


rpy THURSDAY MORNING,
:, Ebsnsburg, Cambria Co., Pa.
f,iOrinq rates, payable scithin three
!.tb, from date Of subscribing:
ppy, one year. 00 O0
|Opy, py, three months. 90
vbo fail 70 pay their subscriptions
+ssr the expiration OF six months will
.'s.d at the rate of $3.50 per year,
= who fall TO pay until after the ex-
aof twelve months will be charged at
rof tS 90 per year.
:. numbers constitute a quarter !;
~. six months; and fifty numbers.
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Il. R. W'NgkSses.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Minden, La. Will
"a practice in the 10th and Ilth District
Courts. Prompt attention given to all legal
business entrusted to his care. y7n23
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A Glen's Fall merchant re-
Gently hired a new clerk, and of
course initiated him at once in-
to the mystery of the "trade
mark" The same afternoon
the newly inducted knight of
the yard stick was showing
some goods to a lady customer
when she demurred to the price
of the articles. The feelings
of the merchant may be imag-
ined when the young man call
ed at the top of his voice.
"What shall / sell this for7 1t
is marked $3.50 and cost fifty
cents"
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by a judicious distribution of
his riches; no one ever became
the poorer for sharing his mon
} ey with the needy. There is a
recuperatiye power in hearty
charity, which, like the widows
oil cruise and handful of meal,
invisibly multiplies the store
from which gifts are dispensed,
and causes it to grow with its
outgoings. George Peabody
gave away his wealth with a
gigantic liberality, that veal
thy niggards could not under
stand, and that seemed to
threaten him with bankruptcy /;
but the more he gave, the more
he gathered and the more his
business prospered, till he
seemed like a dirtributing res
ervoir of wealth, filed on one
side from the cornucopia of
plenty, as fastas it was emptied
on the other among the objects
of his charity. Foolish extrav-
agance is no virtue, and pro-
miscuous scattering abroad Of
the fruits of ones labor, is not
to be commended; but every
child should be taught, that
giving to the needy is not only
a duty and a pleasure, but a
good investment of money,
while niggardness not only
provokes contempt, but repels
the bounty of fortune.-TSt.
Louis Home-JournGl.
NECESSITY OF SLEEP.-There
are thousands of busy people who
die every year for want of sleep.
Sleeplessness becomes a disease,
and is the precursor of insanity.
We speak of sleep as the image of
death, and our waking hours as
the image of life. Sleep is not
like death; for it is the period in
which the waste of the system
ceases, or is reduced to its mini.
mum. Sleep repairs the waste
which our waking hours have
made. 1t rebuilds the system
The night is the repair shop of
the body. Every part of the sys-
tenn is silently overhauled, and all
the organs, tissues, and substances
are replenished. Waking con.
sumes and exhausts; sleep re-
places and repairs; waking is
death, sleep is life.
The man who sleeps little, re.
pairs little. A man who would be
a worker must be a good sleeper.
A man has as much force in him
as he had provided for in Sleep
The quality OF mental activity de.
pends upon the quality of sleep.
Men need on an average eight
hours Of sleep q day. Alymphat-
ic temperament may require nine;
a nervous temperament six or sev-
en-. A Emphatic man is sluggish,
moves and sleeps slowly. But q
nervous man acts quickly in
everything. He does more in ON
hour than sluggish man in two
hours; and so in his sleep. Every
man must sleep according to his
temperament--but eight hours is
the average. Whoever by work.
pleasure, sorrow or by any other
cause, is regularly diminishing
his sleep is destroying bis life. A
man may hold out for a time, but
the crash will come, and he will
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-07-23

The advance sheets of the
official documents at Washing
ton, compiled by the Commits
sioner of Mining Statistics,
give $63, 100000 of gold ex-
tracted from the following
States and Territories. viz -
California, $2O,0OO,OOO; Neva-
da, $14,O0O,OO0; Oregon and
Washington Territories, $4,-
100000; Idaho, 100000 +;
Montana, $12,OO0,OOO; Colora-
do and Wyoming, $4,000, 900;
New Mexico, $500. 900; Arizo-
ma, $1,000,000; other sources,
81, 10000
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Wisconsin still contains 9,811
Indians,
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The Passionless World.

Our condition in the world
after death will be a passionless
one, and. in this one respect will
differ most materially from ou1
condition here. We will be,
ourselves, but with the worst
part of ourselves, left behind.
It is probable that the evil pas
sions of our nature, such as an
ger, jealously, envy, revenge,
hatred, avarice, and malice, will
die with our bodies, and revive
no more; they will not awaken
from their slumber to accom-
pany us in our future career. If
they did, the future state would
be, in a great degree, a repro
duction of the present, There
are some awful meetings in the
next world. The murderer and
his victim there meet face to
face; the betrayer and the be-
trayed; the defrauder and his
prey; the oppressor and the sub
ject of his cruelty; the tender
father and the wicked son, who
broke his heart. Death, no
doubt, exposes many secrets,
and solves many mysteries; and
if we were to carry into the next
world the passions that sway us
in this, death would be but the
signal for renewing, with a
fiercer fury, the quarrels and
enmities that rage among us,
now. Ofthe next world, and
our condition in it, we know,
scientifically and demenstra-
lively, nothing at all; but our
consciousness tells us that there
is no strife in it-no prolonga-
ton ofthe struggles of the pres
ent, no riyalries for honor, no
contest for wealth, no struggle
forrights and precedence. All
these will end with this life, and
the future state will be a pas
sionless one. All pure affec-
tions will survive death--those
and yearnings that
exhibit themselves in the heart,
lips and words of the dying, |
even after wrath, revenge, ava
rice, and ambition, have van |
ished; SO, perhaps, will remorse,
the bitter, gnawing memory of
done, and duties neg-l
lected; but, while we shall con-
tinue to love others, we will be !
able to hate only ourselves and
our evil deeds.-[St. Louis
Home Journal.
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Even with 'schildren half
price," it costs Brigham Young
$75 to 60 to a circus.