The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-05-26
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
HOW TO GET ETsRICH-GENERAL BEAVER
BREWSTER AND HIS DAINTY RUF-
FLES-INDEPBNDENT ENTHUSIASM,

/ PHILADELPHIA, May %, 1882.
! IRs0ular Correspondence Of THE FREEMAN.
DEAR HENRY-There is so much of
/ the human in every man that the life of
/ any one individual, however obscure. if
| really and vividly presented in all its as
/ pirations, struggles. successes and fail
/ ures is sufficient to command the inter-
est of his fellow beings. Every individ-
ual is part and parcel of tie great pic
ture of the society in which he lives and
acts. There is a class of men who 90
through life under 4 cloud, for no other
reason than that being born with the
nature OF a gentleman, they are never
/ theleSs poor. l regret that for sad and
sufficient reasons. apart from want of
/ time, you and your wife'had to forero
I the pleasure of participating in the an
nual excursion of the Cumberland Val
! ley Editorial Association. [ presume
that apart from the want of time''
1 there was want of money. IF YOU
want to get rich, | can tell YOU how to
/ proceed. Nothing is easier than to be-
come rich. You have, hope, twenty
or twenty-five years vet to live. and il is
only necessary for you to trust nobody.
befriend nobody, get all Won can. no
matter how; so that you get it keen
all you get. stint yourself and evervbodv Y
belonging to you; be the friend of no
one; heap interest upon interest. and
cent upon cent (; be mean and miserable
Tor hfteen or twenty years, aud riches
Will come to you just as surely as has
I disease, losses, crosses and disappoint-
ments. There are. however. some
things about this method of acouiring
riches that may be somewhat repurnant
I to you. Sometimes it turns out when
enough of wealth, collected by disre-
gard OF all charities and at an expense
OF every enjoyment, death comes to fin
ish the work, the body Of the pOssessor
OF vast earthly treasures is stuck in a
mole IN the ground and the spirit goes
where ?
Poverty and adversitv are not ur,fre-
quently the most healthfu ingredients
in the cup of human experience. and the
best tOnlcs to brace the mind for those
/ encounters IN which virtue is proved
and renOwn achieved. Death often
comes with such overwhelming anguish
as to teach us, if not the first. certainly
the most painful lesson of life-tbe les
son of the uncertainty of human bapDi-
ness, and the duty of establishing our
hopes upon surer foundations than the
treasures of earth. May God bless you
with grace To bear with patient resigna-
whatever affliction He may be pleased
TO send you. The life of a Christian is
crucified life. We are not Christians
to be rich. It was not necessary to in
stitute Christianity for that purpose.
GENERAL BEAVER,
There was but one contingency against
General Beavers nomination bv the Re-
publican Convention, and that a fear on
the part of the mOiority of the conven-
tlon that it would meet with the deter
mined resistance of the Independents,
and to avoid this danger it was propos-
ed to conciliate the Independents by put
ting Wolfe on the ticket for Lieutenant
Governor. This proposition. however.
IN spite of the most persistent efforts on
the part OF the Regular leaders. resulted
In disaster. The bargain was too Oper,
ana hagrant. Wolfe was cOntemptu-
ously cast aside, and the Independent
movement is now as formidable as ever.
Gen. Beaver is the candidate of a cabal
which has too long ruled the State. and
his election would contribute powerful
ly to prolOng its sway Mr.. Beavers
election will depend entirely upon the
wisdom and courage of the Democrats
and independents.
ten. Beaver was necessary TO the ca
bal. and the cabal's power to manipulate
the state convention was necessary to
YOUNG
for Grant against the protest of his con-
stituents. Bailey's association with the
GRANTEES lost him fifty thousand last
year, and how many votes will be lost
on that account to Beaver this year.
will, as above remarked, depend largely
on the wisdom and courage with which
the Democrats and Independents meet
the situation. The Democrats can make
such nominations as will bring them an
old fashioned defeat, or they can make
such nomination as will win them a
glorious victory. With proper candi-
dates and a proper campaign manage
ment, Democratic triumph will be in
evitable, Let the Democrats make no
blunders. The Independent movement
is assuming such proportions as to alarm
the bosses.
BREWSTER AND HIS DAINTY RUFFLES.
The beautiful sentiment which for
forty years has prompted that dutiful
son, Attorney General Brewster. to
wear ruffies at his wrists, in spite of un-
pleasant remarks. so feelinglv portrayed
by dear, sweet old Mrs. Grundv, which
has gone the rounds of all the respect
able newspapers of the country thrill
every intelligent person in the land who
learns that Mr.. Brewster's ruffied shirts
are the exponent not only of his love
for his mother. but of her love for her
father. Strange as it may appear. while
dear old Mrs. Grundy's veneration for
his mother causes all other hearts to
beat with Joy, it has different effect
on the heart of an old friend of mine
Instead of filling his heart with pleas
ureable emotions, the reading of Mrs.
Grundy's Brewster shirt story makes
him sad and melancholy, He tells me
that when he first assumed the t0dO uii--
Ills, his mother, whose name he never
can mention without emotion. called
him to her and asked him to grant a re-
quest. She told him that her'father was
a distinguished raccoon hunter, that he
always wore buckskin breeches and
coon-skin cap. and that she wished him
to become a still more distinguished
hunter than her father. She said she
would not require him to wear buckskin
breeches. as she presumed they might
go ont of fashion. but she desired him,
in respect to her dear old father, to al
ways wear a coOn-skin cap. He acced-
ed to his mothers wish. but, sad to re-
late. after his mothers death, in disre-
gard of his plighted troth and his moth
er's desire, he threw off the coOn-skjn
cap, first wearing q seal-skin cap. next
beaver-skin, and finally got to wearing
a Stove-pipe hat Since reading Mrs
Grundy's stoIy of Brewster's exalted
position by regarding his mothers re-
quest. my friend is miserable beyond ex-
preston. He says when he thinks of
Brewster's brilliant career in conse-
quence of wearing ruffles in memory of
bis grandsire, and the miserable condi-