The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-07-26
Letter from California.
TURLocK. stauislaus Co, Cal.

JJIy II, ISIS.
FRIEND MOP have just received the sad
news OF your defeat 10y an unEratcful people.
Tor which ! am profoundly sorry vet I am
Glad that you are not alone, but that several
otter asHtT6ntS were dsCaufrated nj the same
time. II viii soon hc time 10 rebel and get up
a orkngm5n's party. As 10 is, dn not know
pointment. unless IL is 10 teach YOU 10 count in
the Chinese language tt the delegates hnd
have elected you sure.
a Johnstown friend is here. and IS Just now
penning letter for the Tribune in his tcrse
ana comprehensive style; so 1 viii try to Offset
him hy writing one tor your excellent paper.
The Chinese count very much like the Greeks.
latiUS- or Germans The rFSt ten runs thus
eT, gee, som. see um. rouI1 tut hot. COW. sun.
Then eleven Is ten aud one. or sup vet: tive. We
Is sup gee; thirteen sup SON. etc. up To- twenty.
Twenty is Two ten, OF zee sup- tweutv-uue is
gee sup yet twenty-five Is gee sup gee twenty
three Is gee sup som, etc. up To thirty. iHiTty
IS som sup thirty-Our Is som sup yet: thirty
two Is som sun gee; thirtythree IS som sup som,
etc, mp TO forty, Forty Is see SUP; for;y-ore
SUP, ar siN-tens. The count thus goes up 10
one hundred, which is yep bak. Then the count
goes on again Il, ono. thousand. which i ~,
tSln. viii now repeat: Yet tiI- gee 70. som
o.: see ii); um 80: ruak Gl: tut 7J: bar S cow
sup see; sup am sup ruuk; sup tut; sup hat
sup COW. Then twenty. or two tens. gee sfIp :
tWenty-nne Is gee sup set, etc. Hence IL is
Won ,vo1,I5 b.,,I. ba6 20 'o'es
Cur mutual Johnstown friend has pat ua a
mail tHat wuuld break down u common wheel
barrow chiefly specimens of sIieh clI-i,lftis as
make -rgvei profitable in an intellectual sense.
lie has many photos nf rHceS. places ANA phases
and has procured stercosCOpic views OF each
station. He spent the 4ih Of july Rt Yosemite.
lie j. well and bears up under the Fatigue ng
travel much better than thought he wUUil.
When last wrote we hld fairly corumencci
having clT over -" acres. There ar Cos more
10 cut In my last I said had cut - acres
Tor hay, and you made il per day. Well de-
clare, do not wonder at the mistake, because
my for hay and per day look almost alike. II Is
wen, however, you can read the most at my
miserable chlrography. / can't write since got
my hand crushed last September.
To-day the din 90 headers and threshers. and
combined headers aud thrcShers. can hp heard
in all directions. The headers make a noise. a
rattle SqUeek. ora crc0k; the threshcrs uIa Ike
n buzz or a whiZ. and when a whole York FINN
NJ. q whiz-iz i. or chiz-iZ IL or something
like that 4 ,.1r1hircH ba4.5ar arl ff.-.g5,l- p
turns out about 200 sacks day with - horses
and men header viii vut say ESQ sacks. OF
wheat enough - make that much. with a
from $40 TO 500 sacks with a tcn-h horse power
engine. horses and IS men. \ sack is % or
wheat. The wheat this year weighs ~ LIS per
ssck. Sometimes sack averages only i.2 Ips.z
Rust has struck the wheat i'm MANY places,
ard the fire has burned up some stacks and
ranches of standing grain. The spring floods
destroyed large quantity on thc island aud
crop let, which is enough this year.
We have had a cool summer SO far: Indeed
! may sag thut we nave mao but two warm days
i'm this year. The wind IS cool aud tht, nights
cold - much rain Tell last wiuter that he
earth was completely saturated. I think as
many gee S1lp- tat inches Of rain fen from tc-
tnher 10 April, which may account for the csOi
weather nov.
My health is better this summer rhan 81 has
been. although | am now over rrigS- -sfsg g5-rjst {
years OF age. I am running Sunday school,
which may account for my improved health. I
am superintendent OF some see teachers and
SOnl-St1p pupils.
There Is lots of ripe fruit here NOW, and q
peddler comes round once "A week with pears,
peaches apricots, Tomatoes. and gree, corn
Also another pcddler with ripe beef, veal, mL.t-
ton and soup bones.
The WOrkiu0men viii have about one-fh!rd
the delegates in the Constitutional Convention,
which Is about the same having none az ail.
You know how il IS yourself The Convention
meets in August,
There is "a Chinese cook in noarly every house
in this neighbOrhODd. including ours. and vs. ben
they get together they gabhle just ike as many
geese. think tEey are descended froru ge.-e
10y Darwin : law OF natural selection ard evDiu-
tiOn. May be sO-may be no. Ron Roy.