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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

CHINESE FARMERS.-We doubt if a
happier race exists than the Chinese
farmers and peasantry. The farms are
small. and 30 the farmers are not veal
thy, but are very respectable. Each
farm house is little colony, consisting
of some three generations-nam the
grandfather, his children and his child
ren's children. Then they live in peace
and harmony together. All those that
are able to, work on the farm, and if
more labor is required, the stranger is
hired TO assist them. They live well,
dress plainly, and are industrious, with
out being il any way oppressed.
The female members of a farmers
household have much more liberty than
those of higher rank. They have small
feet, as usual, but they are not confined
to the house, or prevented from looking
on and speaking to strangers, as are the
higher classes. If a stranger enters the
court of the house Unexpectedly, he will
see a number of ladies, both old and
young, sitting in the verandah, all in
duStriOusly employed on some work
spinning. sewing or embTOidering. and
one probably engaged in culinary OpeT-
atiOns and if the stranger be an un-
known foreigner, the whole will rise
suddenly and disappear like a convey of
doves, Overturning wheels, stools, and
any thing that may be in their way.
This" :" says a writer on Chinese GUS
toms, was frequent scene in my earlier
visits, but it gradually wore off when it
was found that [ was a civilized being
like themselves. Those same ladies,
afteTward, would often ask me to sit
down, and even set chair for me and
bring me a cup of tea with their own
hands and while l drank my tea they
would 60 on with their work, laughing
and talking as freely as if 1 had been a
thousand miles away
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

How ICICLES ARE MADE-If a per
son, upon looking out of the window,
should Say-as he might at this hour
wv hat large icicles are forming on the
caves of the barnln one could tell pretty
well what the weather is. and has been.
What are iCicles Perhaps some of YOU
VIII answer: : They are sticks of ice
long--lOng enough for canes sometimes
usually more or less ridged and rough.
taperlng down to pretty sharp point
everybody knows what icicles are -,
How are they formed Some saw they
grow, but do they grow as children do,
cats, or even corn or apples q? Do tbey
grow on the inside or outside? How
does an icicle start? But to answer this
question, Is the weather freezing or
thawIng when these hanging sticks of
ice begin to form Freezing of course
but there must be water running down
the roof and off the caves, to begin with.
IciCles form then after a thaw. when
the weather sets in cold and the temper
ature is below freezing AS the drops
of water arrive at the edge of the caves.
or"the jumping off place, > they became
so cold that they cannot jump, but be-
come solid. Along come some more
drops and spread out over those that
have gone before and have frozen stiff.
and become a thin film Of ice, but the
tendency 20 run down causes the stick
of forming ice TO lengthen out toward
the ground by the water running Gown
and freezing at the end. The water
Keeps coming down, and as il strikes the
ice of the icicle it runs along. n film
freezing all the time Thus it increases
in size and length by the constant freez-
ing of layers Of water on the outside
If the temperature is but Just a little
below the freezing point, the icicle will
be longer and more slender than when
the change of weather is sudden and
cold severe--they will then be quite
short and ''stubbed. Some children
are very fond of eating these cold hard
sticks, but they are not good.--American
Agricult1uist.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

TIE FIRST BANES.-We are gcner-
ally told in histories of banking. as. for
instance in that Of Gilbert. that the
First National Bank was that of Venice,
founded in the year 1851. but l agree
with Sir. Mcleod that this institution
was not at first in any sense a true bank.
The State being deeply involved in debt.
ITS creditors were formed into a corpOr-
Htiuu. and the debts made transferable.
like our c0us0ls. Ii was not until IjST
that the institution began TO take mon
cy on deposit. The dep0sitOrs received
q credit ON the baull-s books equal to
the actual weight Of bullion placed there.
which the bank undertook 20 keep in
tact In its vaults, and to repay the de-
po-lt0rs at any time or 90 transfer to
tlHy one else. The earliest real hank
was iuat ~ Barcelona. founded i'm 14Gl.
In this ease thc city funds Aere made
responsible for any moneys intrustCd to
the bank, which not only received de-
posts. but exchanged money and dis
counted bills. The bank Of Amsterdam
was founded in 1909. The so called
uauE of St George, at Genoa. dates
back TO li)1. bus does not appear to
have done genuine banking business'un-
til lo~I. The bank of Stockholm. which
commenced IN 1908, was the fiISt bank
IN Europe to issue bank notes. which.
until that time, were totally unknown
Iu the West. although, as we have seen,
they had long been in use in China.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

ONIONs.-FrOm our own experience
and the observation of others, says the
Scientific american, we can fully indorSe
the testimony of the st. Louis Miller on
the healthful properties of the above
esculent. Lung and liver complaints
are certainly benefited, often cured, by
a free consumption of onions, either
cooked or raw. Colds yield to them like
magic. Don't be afraid of them. Taken
at night all offense will be wanting by
morning, and the good effect will amply
compensate for the trjfling annoyance.
Taken regularly they greatly promote
the health of the lungs and the digestive
organs. An extract made by boiling
down the juice of onions to a syrup, and
taken as medicine answers the purpose
very well, but fried, roasted or boiled
onions are better. Onions ale very
cheap medicine, within everybody's
reach, and they are not by any means as
bad to take'' as the costly nostrums a
neglect of their use may necessitate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26
Decrease In the Size of Farms.

The attention of the public has been
attracted of late to the large tracts Of
land owned and worked by capitalists
in the Northwestern States. This has
given many the idea that the tendency
of American farming is in this direction.
Fortunately this is rot the fact. The
success of farming or an immense scale
would indeed increase the number OF
such experiments in the newer and un-
occupied States. and this, perhaps, will
be the result. The business stagnation
the last few years which has kept capit-
alists from investing in other enterprises
has naturally turned their attention to
farming. BY securing large tracts of
cheap lands, and keeping them under
the plow for wheat, large apparent
profit is made. The first plowing-
breaking the prairie sod-is expensive
but after that wheat can be grown for
several years with little expense, except
ing seed and harvesting. All the work
is done by machinery, and with as small
a number of men as possible. Self-bind-
ing reapers diminish the labor of harvest
ing. Thrashing is done in the field, and
the straw is burned on the ground to get
it out of the way OF course the soil is
rapidly exhausted, but the owners have
taken the cream of fertility and made it
pay for the land two or three or more
times before they throw it aside as
worthless.
As far as maintaining fertility is con-
ceTned this policy is the one always
adopted in new countries. Heretofore
with occasional exceptions the newer
! States have been occupied by actual set
| tiers who came to build homes and be-
/ come permanent residents of the COM
monwealth. To be sure for time they
/ unduly exhaust the fertility of their
| lands; but when the farm is compare
/ lively small this process IS always stop
/ ped sooner than when the farms are un-
/ duly large. The small farmer is COM
/ PEELED to maintain a higher state of fer
! tility because he has fewer acres from
/ which to defray family and incidental
! expenses. With a large farm a small
/ profit Will maintain itsowner in flluence;
but on a small farm the utmost must be
made from every acre.
1t is therefore for the public interest
in more ways than one that the tenden-
cy to mOnOpollZe large tracts of land in
few hands should be discouraged. The
more small farmers there are in the
country the greater number of indepen-
dent freeholders, who are security for
4 the perpetuity of popular liberties.
/ Large farmers require an increased
number of dependents who cannot have
the same interest in the future of the
I country as the owners of its SOIL COlgl-
/ try Gentleman.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

L NE 1lShED ElslON DOG.-'' L lie Licked
Yellow Dog; or, the Mastiff's Revenge"
might be the title of dime novel written on
the basis of an incident in Dayton, o.. as
instructive and useful as anything mentioned
by Lindsey in his new book on the lower an
imals. The mastiff in question was old and
toothless, but had been good fighting dog
in his day, and still loved fight. He was
doing on his masters front porch one day
when he saw vigorous, saucy-looking vel
low dog prowling about the outside gate
The venerable mastiff made r sortie, as it
were, and after several minutes fighting got
badly licked. He was too old and feeble
and bad evidently lost his grip. Defeated,
he skipped off to the back yard of his mas
ter's next door neighboT, who had large fine
dog in the fighting prime of existence A
brief conversation was held in dog-dog-
what's that word oh, yes--doggerel-and
the neishbOring dog accompanied the aged
mastiff to the street. That big country dog
was looking around for another old dog to
whip, and the mastiff's healthy neighbor lust
went for him. The defeated yellow dog
seemed pretty soon TO have important bust
ness in the rural districts, Judging bv the
wRy he scoOted out Of town
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

STORIES ABOUT ANIMALs.-A Mad
ison county (Ky.) hog that had its nose
smashed by timber goes about with a
cob, stick or stone in its mouth to facil-
itate breathing.
a young woman in Glen Cove, L. l.,
has hen that sings "Hold the Fort'
with all the JUNCTION of Widow Van
COtt. She has only to start the air,
when the pullet joins in and sings along
with her to the end, following the notes
and minding all the rests.
Two pickerel were jumping out of the
water near Babylon, l.. l., trying to
catch swallows, and only one fish was
seen to fall back into the wafer On
rowing out to the spot it was found that
the smaller one had jumped into the
larger ones mouth and killed it. Both
together weighed twenty-five pounds.
Mrs. Augustus w. Brooks, of East
Elliott, Me, has cat thirteen years old
which walks around the room on her
hind legs only, dances, turns SOmer-
saults, goes through the motions of
holding a jewshaTp to her mouth with
one paw and playing on it with the 9TH
er, kisses her paw to visitors. and holds
a saucer of milk on her fore legs while
she drinks it.
Two dogs, a bull and q Newfoundland,
were having Il fierce fight in a field at
Haymaker, y. Y, and a cow was look
ing on. Neither dog getting worsted,
the COW stopped the battle by throwing
both dogs over a bluff They returned
to the fight, and the COW hurled one Of
the dogs to the top Of the bluff. and the
other a dozen feet in another direction
The dogs then sneaked away.
On the edge of slate quarry a thrush
had made her nest. 1t was so close to
danger that when the rock was blasted
piece of the falling slate came almost
into the nest. At the ringing Of bell
the bird saw the men run. She left the
nest too, and after the explosion she re-
turned. This the thrush continued to
! do whenever a blast was fired. The
men rang the bell to hoax the bird. but
she only peeped over the nest, and as
, the men did not run, settled down
again,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

JUICE OF THE TOMATO PLANT AN
INsECTICIDE.-A writer in the De,dsche
Zeitlnlg states that he last year had an
opportunity of trying remedy of des-
troying green flies and other insects
which infest plants. 1t was not his own
discovery, but he found it among other
recipes in some provincial paper. The
stems and leaves of the tomato are well
boiled in water, and when the liquor is
cold it is syringed over plants attacked
by insects. 1t at once destroys black or
green flies, caterpillars, etc. ; and it
leaves behind a peculiar odor which pre-
vents insects coming again in a long
time. The author states that he found
this remedy more effectual than fumi-
eating, washing, etc. Through neglect
a house of camellias had become almost
hopelessly infested with black lice, but
two syringings with tomato plant de
coction thoroughly cleansed them.--Lon-
don Gardeners Chronicle.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

The ASH TREE.-In the HiEh.aLt
OF Scotland, at the birth of q child. --
nurse takes branch of the ash Ll.s
one end of which she puts into the III
and, while it is burning. receives lnlo .
spoon the sap which oOZes from the e.-
er end this she gives 10 the chL-. ).
be mingled with its first food. IL .
supposed to impart wonderful virtue
In klng's county, ireland. near hel--
church. is a famous ash. the tTInA
which Is twenty-one feet ten inches
circumference. When a funeral OF .-
OF the peaSantry passes by this Tree. -
procession pauses. and the body s !.
down for few minutes. while a.- 'l-z-
lew words of prayer. Then each let-s5.
casts a stone TO increase the heap WI.
has been accumulated over lt- Io.
This IS imagined to benefit i-h
dead and the living. There Is aii p
cient saying. that "a serpent No-
rather creep into the fire than over T..
twig of an ash tree. a." CoWley- eAU-
ating various prodigies. says:
"On the Wild ash's tops with bats anu l"-''
With all night, ominous and lalelul love- r.--.
safe hroOdiug. while the screachtuE Q. IL
Profaned and violated all the groves
1t is surprising how mani gi SUR
follieS viii creep into men S minus
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26
POTATOES AND THE MOON.

Having made quite a specially grow
ing potatoes for the last thirty years.
have had ample opportunity to look in
to the peculiarities of their growth, and
they have often been very striking. One
farmer will report that his best yields
are obtained by planting one or two
ewes in hill, while another could only
get his maximum crop by planting large
whole potatoes, and still others, some
years, really do get better results by
planting whole small potatoes than from
large ones cut as they usually are. One
man know planted part of field with
a machine and part by hand, all from
the same pile of seed and all the same
day. Those planted by the machine
did much the best-so much that their
superiority showed very plainly all sum-
mer while growing.
Some wears we will see those planted
extremely late dong the best, while IN
other wears those only do well that are
planted earliest. All of these, and
many more, are the pecullarltles that L
have noticed about the growth OF pota-
toes, and in every case, by investigation,
a good reason could be assigned plainly
in accordance with the principles of
their growth. l might state these rea-
sons here, but that is not what L intend
to write about just now.
In The Farmer of Dec. q, j. +. Mey-
ers saws he always sought to plant pota-
toes in the dark of the moon, IN March
or April.
The question before us then is, rs
the growth of potatoes affected by the
phases of the moon ?'' March and April
are good months i'll which to plant po-
tatoes, but has the phase of the moon
ANYTHING to do with it Thousands of
farmers, utterly disregarding the moon,
have planted, if it so happened in any
other quarter of that luminary, and have
obtained equally good crops when the
natural conditions of growth were equal
lv good. This fact leads us to disre-
gard the restriction to one phase of the
moon. Even if the moon had ever so
much to do with the growth of potatoes,
we could not regulate its influence by
planting in one particular quarter, for
there is no assurance that this IS the
time they will commence to grow. That
might have been in the old of the pre-
viOus moon, or they may not commence
! to grow for two or three weeks after
planting. The mere planting has little
/ to do with it.
| have never seen a failure of this crop
! charged to planting in the wrong phase
of the moon, or Il good crop attributed
! to planting in the right phase, but what
! either result could be traced to natural
/ causes, easily explained, But after all
/ my experience, | would advise planting
( in the dark of the moon if the land was
/ in the best order then if not, work at
! it till it is in the best order, even if you
I have to plant in the new of the moon
! II. Tres II. Practical Farmer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

Tides IN PLACE OF CoAL.-At the
last meeting OF the Liverpool Engineer
ing Society q paper was read touching
the probable exhaustion of coal. lin
which the author advocated the substi
tuition OF the tides rs a producer of mo-
t-oI which would outrival all other
sources Of mechanical power. \ cor
respondent of The BwHsr, too. is of the
same opinion. y compressed air cham
Der filed Iy the tide at Brighton. for in
stance would, he is confident. run an
atmospheric railway, such as Brunei in
vented from that place to London. IL
lie tides could be thus utilized by all
our railways and factOries-alI the work
now done 10y the steam engine could he
performed hy them. There would.
moreover. Ie 10 jerk, no steam. no
smoke, no noise. Apart from the fact
that the present generator Of steam will
iu time cost more 90 produce than il is
worth, coal has 50 many disadvantages
tEal uo one viii regret TO see the time
when it viii be supplauted by another
agent When this is 10 be is the ques.
tiOn Of the future Journal of Coia-
.r.Trrr
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

How TO TREAT A BROKEN i-L-
ANIMAL.--Place A the creature mas
with Its breast against q maU--. -f
per height 10 allow il to feed W-H
Build across the stall. under TIE amin
between its front and hind legs. @
form. Cover this with c1a-se hE--
padded with straw the shape OF lis
This platform should be of a hHigh---
viii enable the creature TO stand el
on its uninjured legs aud barely .
the padded platform. Then build
longitudinal partition the whole -e--
OF the stall, running between tie -
and from the ground up 20 the platte.
built across the stall. While the -
mai IS standing on its sound legs -
out under the injured one q hole ..
deep ; then set the leg in a proper s
Ter pandage. BY SO doing you =.
your animal standing on its uuir5- DIX
legs and unable to put any weight .
the injured one bv reason of the exc
walton under ii. 1t viii soon lean
extend its sound legs and bear It's we.-
or a portion of it, on the padded Z E
form, and will require no further ear
The only injury that could occur tot
AAth-A AC6 hbtlA hE ll0ll NaA .e.-.-
sideways against the partition that
arates the leg, on the right side --
body from that on the left.
Under the old method of sliuEiu- q.
mails to take the weight of their l-.
limbs, many of them died from d.s-a-
ment of their vital organs caused bs 81
pressure. Under this method the
pressure is occasioned 10y the atceuIt
the animal to rest its well limbs: c..
quently, when the pain from press
causes inconvenience. 1t will a- OBJ
stand upon the well legs. This me--
OF building platforms under the b-.
OF animals to enable them to obtain Dr.
without lying down. could be uti.lzet-
shipboard. In this case 1t. of c1l-s
would not require the longituuiua. pa
titiOn.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

"WALDo'' saws in the Ohio ts
that he remembers one year hlihi--
very large profit from an acre v-
managed in this way He nTs. - ~
crop of Tom Thumb peas, Whlc.ll ~.
tured in time for cucumberS foI l'-.o.l.-.
and then he grew 500 hushelsoI iult--5 ~.
sOwed broadcast among the Gus cum H.
He found that these crops VIII lll..-i lN.---i,
without crowding each other, u P-o'''
managed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

THE Poultry BU'Ietiu recommends
l5eeping a lump of alum in the drinking
water supplied to fowls, as preventive
Of ldxdtiveness.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26
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A dressing
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once agree
able, healthy,
and efectual
for preserv-
ing the hair.
Faded or gray
hair is soon
restored to its
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26
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original color, a0ith the gloss and
freshness Of youth. Thin hair is
thickened, falling hair checked, and
badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can re-
store the hair where the follicles are
destroyed, or the glands atrophied
and decayed. But such as remain
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hair with a pasty sediment, it will
keep it clean and vigorous. It's
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off,
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Free from those deleterious sub
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-05-19
The BodIe Extension.
Bod. Chronicle, Nay Is.


The decision Of the directors OF the
Bodie Railroad to make II . narrow
gauge road seems to MS to b rather
s~hort.sighted. That II will save the sum
OF $3.50, 600 In the construction OF the
road may be true. but Il 10 said that time
IL money. which. II true. will prove that
there will b nothing saved whom calcu.
lation is made % to the time lost 10
changing freight and passengers from
the broad gauge ct Carson. The mining
Districts to be supplied BY this road will
require much heavy machinery, which
should b pot on the cars at San Fran
cisco or New York, a. the . may be.
and bs ssnt through with - little delay
- possible to the point Of destination.
The delay incident TO Q change OF such
freight might damage our mining POM.
panies to an extent that would more
than pay the additional cost Of oonstruo-
ton. II Il 10 the intention Of the direc-
tors Of this road 10 extend il to the Col.
orado, We should think IL moro impor.
tant that u should b the regular gauge.
However, IL 10 none OF nj chicken pie,
and II Il suits the owners and projectors
OF Il, outsiders ought to Be satisnsd to
get sven . narrow gauge.