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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

Mr.. Peter Baldy, of Danville, says a COY
respondents, had the curiosity few days ago
to investigate the saying that upon cutting a
banana through the centre our Saviour wOald
be plainly visible with outstretched arms, on
the cross. He bought the fruit at McCOy's
post-of stand and tried the experiment,
and was convinced that there was cOnsidera-
BITE reality in what he had heard. It is said
that those living where the fruit grows call
the red species the sacred fruit, from the fact
lust mentioned.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

"A gentleman living in Oglethorpe, Ga,
having seen rabbit in a certain place several
times and having no other means Of catching
him, took large pet cat he bad under his
arm and went to the hiding place of the Tab-
Bit The rabbit was scared up and 30 sooner
did his catchship see the rabbit than he
bounded from the arms OF his master and in
three leaps cOllared his prey and killed him.
Said gentleman says he saw the same cat
jump three feet off the ground not long since
and catch a partridge.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

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Price 25 cts. per box. For sale by E. James
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22
sswITH GRATFFUL FEELINGS

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Your Golden Medical Discovery and
''Purgative Pellets have cured my dauSh-
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

"A gentleman in VaIdosta, Ca, has made
and gathered two crops of cern on the same
piece of ground this year. The first was of
the early variety, and was gathered in April
and the early part Of May for roasting ears
i ne second crop, gathered last week, was
the usual variety of field corn grown in that
section, and is now hard enough to grind into
pTitS
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

Major Phipps, She defauIting superin-
tandent OF the Philadelphia alu1shoUse. was
arrested at the Dominion hOta'. in Hamilton
Ont. nu Monday night lie is there charged
with t1e forging o. comptr0lltr's warrants
and was al5en before the county Judge on
Tuesday morning. He is accompanied by
his wife They had been two weeks iG the
city and passed rs J. u. Thompson and wife.
PhipDs has engaged counsel and VIII resist
extradition proceedings.
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a VarIed Performance.

Many wonder how Parker's Ginger Tonic
can perform such varied cures, thinking il
essence Of ginger, when in fact It'll made
frOm many valuable medicines which act
benehcially on every diseased organ
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

Beware of the stuff that pretends to cure
these diseases or other serious Kidney, Uri
nary or Liver Diseases, as they only relieve
for time and make you ten times worse af-
terwards, but rely solely on Hop BitteTs, the
only remedy that win surely and permanent
IL cure you It destroys and removes the
cause Of disease so effectually that i: never
returns.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22


Deducting these expenditures from the
income would leave it for educational
purposes alone the sum of S315, 900.
With this fund General Beaver man.
aged to have graduated in ten years for
ty-six students at an average cost for
each graduate of Sc, ,S3S. .26.
SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND
FORTY EIGHT DOLLARS AND TWENTY
SIX CENTS.
These figures, startling as they are,
are taken from the college records and
given to the public, not to disparage the
aims, objects or fntentS for which that
institution was originally organized !;
not to decry the good it may do not to
cripple It's usefulness nor to throw OBJ
sjacIes in the way of its success ; but to
show how faithful its chief executive
has been to the trust repose d in him in
this matter, For ten years he has been
the trusted head of its management and
during all these ten years he has been
willingly receiving the States money
without any effort to return an equiya-
lent for il or any idea of stopping the
leak that has brought disrepute to an
institution that otherwise would com
mand the respect aud good wishes of all.
Neither do we refer to these figures to
reflect upon the personal honesty of Gen
Beaver, who being the principal adviser
and executive head Of the college, must
bear the principal part of the RESPONSE
bility of its frightfu! mismanagement
OF shameless squandering of the public
moneys. but TO show the executive abil-
itv of the man whom Cameron and his
! ring of State bosses would force upon
I the taxpayers as the chief executive of
4 the commonwealth
/ Contrast the executive ability of Jas.
/ A. Beaver, as shown by the foregoing
/ plain statement Of facts, with the exec
utive ability of Robert F. Pattison, as
displayed in the management of the fin
ancial affairs OF the city of Philadelphia
and then say for yourselves which is the
/ proper person to elect as the chief exec
utjve OF the State of Pennsylvania.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

The Postmaster General has decided that
a stamp cut in pieces and thereafter affixed
TO mail matter is not good, though the stamp
has never been Cancelled.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

The above sum total is exclusive of
the income derived from the college
farms, the figures Of which we have not
been able to obtain.
Out Of this amount was paid for
College buildings and equipments .S11O. 900
Experimental farms and 4" 81. 600
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22
REAyER,s TNEFFICIFNCY.

The Farmers High School of Penn
sylvania' afterwards the Agricultural
College Of Pennsylvania, 2" and now the
Pennsylvania State College, y was or
ganized under act of Incorporation, July
13. 1854. The farm upon which the col
lege is built is located in Centre county,
and was a free gift for the purpose by
General James Irwin. One year after
the first meeting of the board of trustees
the State Agricultural Society gave of
its funds to the Reform School SO, 900.
This was followed by a donation of equal
amount from the citizens of Centre
county, and by one from the friends of
the institution throughout the State of
S25, 900.
In 1857 the first application for State
aid to the school was made and an an
preparation Of $50. 900 was secured. In
1861 an additional appropriation was
made by the Legislature of $40. 600, ma
king in all to this date, exclusive of the
farm property, the sum of S144,000.
In 1872 the act of Congress giving GER
tain government lands to agricultural
institutions was passed, and during the
session of 1868 the Legislature accepted
the land granted by Congress in behalf
of the Agricultural College of Pennsvl-
vania. This land. after being sold. net
ted the College S439, ,1S5, so. an ircome
from which it first received in 1863.
From 1868 to 1872 interest received by
the college from its land scrip bonds
annually to S26, ,351. 10. The
number of students in attendance from
the time of the opening of the college in
1859 to the 1st of January, 1872, as
shown by college catalogues, average
yearly 112-the average cost of each
student for college expenses was SI2O
so that the statement of re-
ceipts up to 1872, from various sources.
Ov the COLLEGE would be as follows
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

There is but one Republican in the town
of SeigerSville, Iehigh county.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

lbJdl II 50 600
Leaving for school purposes alone the
. sum of S290,06O,OO. With this sum the
college succeeded in graduating sixty-six
young men, at an average cost for each
graduate, as shown by the figures. of
So. .937.27,
This showing looks bad enough. and
it is not to be wondered at that at the
time those who knew of the facts COM
planned of the mismanagement of the
institution and the frightful amount of
money that was being used to accom-
plish such a small amount of good. but
bad as it was, it was nothing compared
to what was to follow.
In 1872 II. a. McAllister, Esq. the
god father of the college and gentle
man who had spent time, talent and
money to establish it, died. He was
succeeded by his sOn-in-law, Gen. James
a. Beaver, who has been since that date
home trustee, and. as such, the control
ling power in the management of the
college His word has been law and his
influence Omnipotent in its management
A the time he became connected with
the college he knew its weakness, he
understood the prejudices there were
against it. and the cause of those preiu-
dices. and was aware of its financial
failures and mismanagement. As an
honest. faithful officer he should have
set about correcting the abuses and re-
forming the management.
How did he do il
Not by attempting to cut down use
less extravagances at the college not
by trying to build it up and return to
the taxpayers of the State some equiva-
lent for the moneys expended, but by
appealing to the Legislature for further
aid which was granted, in shape of an
addition 10 the land scrip endowment of
S60, 0,Sl3,2O, thus actually making the en-
tire endowment fund of the College So
600 the interest on which is 6 per cent.
or S3O, 600 per annum, the State ObIira-
ted itself and pays regularly TO the Col
lege. 1t is but fair to General Beaver
in this connection to state that at the
time he succeeded to his father-in-law's
place as managing power of the college,
il had an Indebtedness upon it of $50
600.
During the ten years he had control
of its management the average number
of students per year, according to its
annual catalogues, has been IA. The
average income from each student has
been $50, making 4 total income to the
college in the past ten years of So, 900.
To this is to be added the interest aris-
ing from the endowment fund. $4,000
per year. making the total income, ex-
elusive of the profits arising from four
farms and individual donations as fol-
lows
From Students. .......S 70 900
" Endowment fund, 10 years.. 800. 900
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-22

In 1878 the Legislature generously
appropriated $50, 900 to lift the indebted
ness of the college heretofore referred to.
Up to that time the annual interest on
that indebt teduess amounted to S., 900,
which from 1873 to '7S would foot up in
the aggregate to S2S, 600. This sum, to-
getheT with building water works and
house for one Of the professors, would
be as follows
For years interest on debt. t....... .....S % 900
4" Professors 5 house .....-.. .---.---. 600
d" Water works ................. ......... 25 600
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

with them to the regiment when
killed in August, 1861, by the fall Of a
train through the Platte river bridge
seven miles east Of St. Joseph, Mo.
Charles P. Tidd went to Ohio and
Canada, thence to New York. When
the war begun he entered the volun-
teers, and died on a gunboat, of fever,
at Roanoke Island, n. G. Francis j.
Merriam succeeded in reaching Canada,
and afterward went to Hayti the
second time. During the war he was
in the field the most of the time in
Virginia and South Carolina. In the
latter State he was engaged in raising
colored troops. His death is involved
in some doubt, but he went to Mexico
to enter the Republican army, and, so
far as known to the writer, died there.
Osborne P. Anderson escaped to
Canada, and came back after the war
begun. He served as recruiting
agent, and was a non-commissioned
officer. He died in Washington in
1871, and is buried here.
The only survivor Of the Harpers
Ferry party, actually present and in
the fighting, is Owen Brown.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02
A Snake Story.

The following story of a snake that
iound chow to do it, is by a man who
used to live at Ceylon, in house in
Slave Island, raised on a high plat
form The steps up to the door had
become Ioosened, and behind them
colony of frogs had established them
selves. One morning I watched a
snake "a cobra) creep up, insert its
head into crack, and seize a frog,
which it then and there swallowed.
But the crack that admitted the thin,
fat head of the ophidian would
not permit of the same
being withdrawn when the
neck was swollen with the. addi-
lion of the frog inside it. The snake
tugged and struggled, but in vain, and
after series of futile attempts dis
gorged its prey and withdrew its head.
But the sight was too tantalizing.
Again the head was inserted in the
crack, and the coveted morsel swal-
lowed, and again the vain struggles to
withdraw were renewed IsaW this
repeated several times, tn gaining
wisdom by experience, the snake
seized the frog by one. leg, witt hdrew e
from its coign of vantage, and sWal
lowed it outside. IS;
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

| "And so the sapphire was found
after all " said Mrs. Feathertop. "But,
dear me | have you heard about poor
Miss Price. Did she tell you?"
"No," said Judson. What is it ?"
"The shirt factory has failed" said
Mrs. Feathertop. 1.-THE hands are all
left without work !; and what's worse
their back wages never will be paid.
I'm dreadful sorry for poor Miss Price.
It does seem as if she had nothing but
i'll luck in the world. But, there I've
left Patty in the store and she don't
know the price of a thing. I must
hurry back as fast as ever I can"
Miss Price came down in the bakery
that evening.
"Mrs. Feathertop." said she, II am
going to give up my ROOM"
81 supposed so,'' said Mrs. Feather
top, wrapping up loaf of Boston
|
brown bread in paper for Gus
toner. "Wen, Miss Price, I'm sorry"
but"
"But 1 didn't tell you all" said Miss
Price. "I-rm going to be married |
To Mr.. Judson p
Down rolled the 3aaf of Boston
brown bread to the floor.
"Eh2" cried the bakers wife. sGt
amt possible !"
But it was. Plain little Miss Price,
with the white eyelashes, the red hair,
the pock-marked complexion, had wen
a husband after all.
"In my eyes, dearest" John Judson
had said, "yours is the sweetest face
in the world. It bent over my SICK
bed when I should have died, save for
its help and sympathy; it lighted up
the dark hours of my weary GONZALES
cence; it shone like star in my ut
most need. And if you will trust your
self to me, Mary, you shall never, God
helping me, have reason to regret it.
So they were married, much to the
wonder Of the world in general.
"Wen," said Mrs. Feathertop, "if
Miss Price has got a husband, then no
body need despair
But Mrs. Feathertop's vision was
duller than that Of John Judson. She
had not seen the glory of Miss Prices
pure soul shining through her plain
face.-Hezen Forrest Groces.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02
Little by Little.
Ldttle by little De tima : GOES e bY.: ~

LITTLE By little The time goes by
SSoaost # yon sing through il, long ifyo
- sigh 4.
Little by ittle-an hour, day.
Coo With the years that hare yanishe
away;
Little by little the race is run,
Trouble and waiting and toll are done.
Little by little the SKY grows clear;
Little by Little the sun comes near;
Little by little the days smile out
Iladder and brighter on pasn and doabts
Little by little the seed we SOW
INTO beaatni u yield will grow.
Litsle BY little the world grows strong,
Eightng the battle of Right and Wrong;
dirsle by litsle the Wrong gives way,
by little the Right has sway;
iatae by little all longing souls
'sruggie up nearer the shining goals
: Little by little the good in men
Blossoms to beauty for human ken;
Little by little thesanssls.
Prophecies eetterof good to be;
Iattle by little the God Of all
the world nearer his pleading call!
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02
sCur1csftlesor:Evtdence.:

- = . =
The custom Of kissing thetS thumb
instead of the book was considered by
many an evasion Of the moral obliga-
ton attached to an oath, while to
others, holding the Testament upside
down was deemed an equally eff
eacious release. These and other dis
reputable articles are, however, very
little INDUCED in at the present day.
When the celebrated Sergeant Hill
conducted defense at the bar Of the
house of lords, he propounded a
question to a witness which the coun-
sci on the other side objected to
After much had been said On either
side, the law lords themselves dis
agreed, and the bar and all strangers
were ordered to- withdraw. After al
absence Of two hours they were read.
mitted, and the lord chancellor in
formed MIR. Hill that the house de-
cided the question might be put
"Please you, my lords" said the ser
geant, cit is so long since I asked the
question that I forget what it was,
but with your lordships' permission I
will put another
a witless was lately called on a
trial at the old Bailey to prove an aibi.
He solemnly swore that the prisoner
on the night and at the hour in ques-
tion (11:25 P. NJ. was at HON" and in
bed at distant part of the parish.
Nothing could shake his testimony,
| for he said he had looked at the clock
just as the prisoner went upstairs, and
he had set the clock right with the
church clock himself the same day,
and it was certainly 11:25 P. NJ, etc.
"Pray what d, you make the time
now?" blandly asked the counsel who
cross-examined, pointing to a great
white dial over the dock. No answer
was given. "Don't be confused take
your time. I ask you again-what is
the time by that clock now?"
The question was repeated sew
eral times and the witness was
eventually bound to confess that he
could not tell the time by clock at
all. Singularly enough the clock in
the court was standing at 11:25 when
he made this avowal.
We remember a country witness
being called at the assizes to prove
that at a particular hour on a certain
night the moon was shining and at
the full. There happened to be no
almanac in court, but the evidence
seemed to be satisfactory, for he had
obtained his information from ga
regular good London stationer's al
manac" The question was asked in
ross-examination, Glow did you Oh
tain this London stationer's almanac? ?
Did you buy it?s "Buy it! No; my
father pasted it behind my kitchen
i door nine years ago-the day I was
marriedw It1leed hardly be said that
Information to the moons age dur
4 q ing a day in the current year was of
4 little value from an almanac nine years
old.-j1eSsurs Hour.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

Arabella-" Yes, / think this sweet
pug is just perfection Don't your
George with feeling =" No, not ex-
actly; but I do think he IS very near
perfection"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

5opnee.ss s.g oetsesof good to be;
tie go-la +n sne nesser 1a R;s 81 al nla,a;ra call,
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GA dozen tea bisc,,it did Won saw
Mrs Rooney 3, said the. bakers wife:
sand = loaf of breads and a card OF
hsacs einoersreas9 Inst let ma take
1 vo,,r bastset zn,a,am and IN mack ,ern
=, asdaa, ,l,,s better than vo,, conld yes
as was saving there he lies clean
& .,,,t Of bis head and ,ravinc and no
=, o.ouo - ~, h,,t no A,d
~ es.Ae "a. = - A. D.' A-o' -'s'
- 10y asss IL" tnu.n Vino seS'
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...eu o oasne1soo otu -"o'n0t
80 - s.l0 :.
90 Wy - sss.sl sou 'no ~.
so1ue, Wy lse oleo.ee ~ Ses Dassal.' So =,
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sa. Nlo :. easnel'op. Dos
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ya,as =, : - tho e;do of +be hsdnost mn
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=. .sFnrnea , ont Of b.s place p, reneatea
Mrs Rooney, while Miss Price, the
pale little seamstress who rented the
top back room Of Mrs Feathertop and
kept herself on inhnitesimal morsels of
8 bread and meat which she picked up
nobody knew where, paused to listen
On her way through the shop.
ssHe was getting good wages IN a
manufacturing Jewelers." said the
bakers wife, evidently enjoying her
small audience. ssand Mr.. Goldilove
set store by him, for he'd a way OF
working that he'd learned in foreign
parts, and they tell me it's quite an art
TO set them precious stones in the gold
50 as they's stay firm and show off
their colors to good advantage. And
there was a particular choice Jewel
sent thereto be set as a wedding pres
ent for some young lady-a sapphire
they say it's called-and it was gin
into his chacge. And from that day
to this, ma'am and Miss Price, there
hasn't nothin' ever been heard of that
aapphire fit had been any one else
Mr Goldiloye would have had him ar.
rested but this John Judson had al.
ways borne so good a character and
was such an out-and-out respectable
man as he hadn't the hears to do it.
But he discharged him. of course-
/. who wouldn'ts And here the poor
fellow is out of place with no refer
anea and 60 far as T knew without 2
,,ennv IN. n his nocket. And what we're
{. {. - ID .fon,f Lnow for lie DOWNRIGHT
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

aWhy, my dear. said poor littisoi
Mr.. Penhecker, with ghastly smile,
aWhy would the world, without wos
man, be like a blank sheet Of paper 3
Mrs.P., who had just been giving the.
little man g a piece Of her mind &
smiled and g eouldn t think s hs,:
because, dom you: see love- said the.
long-sufering one i would even
be ruled. - - IS
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

The first round dance originated
with Adam, when he sat down On .
hornet. .e5
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

Z In the last.two years the world has
lost 3,5e8 vessels, Of which 300 we're
never seen Of heard OF after they
they sailed out Of sight from port
The lives lost number many
sands
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02

A house was burning at Oshkosh
Wis, and woman was left inside.
Her husband cried, !" Five thousand
dollars to the man who saves her r
A fireman dashed in at great personal
risk! and brought her out alive.
Althopah the husband is very wealthy.
he reid to give dollar OF the
reward; but the supreme court de-
cides that the offer Of $5, 600 was valid
and that the money must be paid: {.