The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-03-20
odds and Ends from Chest springs

We wander out we know not where,
BY either house OF hall?
Yet natures charms the hills and woods,
The sweeping wales, and ioaming Hoods,
Are free alike to all
In days when daisies deck the ground
And blackbirds whistle clear.
With honest JOY our hearts will bound,
To see the coming year.
On 5raes when we please. then,
Wen sit and sowth a tune;
Syne rhyme tiIl't, well time tilt
And sing't when we hae done"
Stern old winter is leading gushing spring
unto the stage of the seasons the patriarch
may shed a few tears at the parting scene.
\ little frost and snow are factors in the
enterprise aud prosperity of the Temperate
ZOue,-mOre frost would freeze up Energy
eternal summer would siacken bis nerves ::
Opulence and poverty present a parallel
condition.
The small boy rejnices on the hillside, and
knocks the legs from under his fellow as he
rushes on his sled INTO the vale beneath.
He whoops on the frosty air, and ducks his
head when his mother calis-yet his pants
will tighten on the place where they ought
to tighten.
The q" blackening train of crows now
take their fl light at evening to the neiehbor,
ing woods the jay has also put in appear
ance.
Chest Springs has lookup, which was
recently animated by a sensible presence.
They fed him on the best,-beef, pork. fish,
pies and cakes, with steaming COTE. a man
was in attendance to see 30 his wants.
What contrast between the old times and
the newt
There are four candidates for the office of
Postmaster here-A sort Of literary scram-
bic. There must be sugar on postage
stamps.
1t Is amusing to sea the jealousy developed
among hens. The other morning a boy
brought us a fresh hen, to which the " cock
O. the walk " paid immediate courtesy. A
lady In black " standing near, ruhed upon
her rival with great fury. giving his feath-
cry lordsaip as much as he could do to part
the cumbatants.
Memory in hens is also remarkable. A
hen had been absent from a certain Toussing
place for four months, but at night she re-
sumed her accustomed place as if she mad
been there the night before.
Col. 4ngersOll says that MShammed was a
greater man than the Founder of Christian
ity. That is because Mohammed was near
est in the angle of moral vision. IngersoH
forgot that one of the twelve apostles fore
told the rise and progress of Mohammedan.
ism. Revelation, Chap. TX.
One OF DIR. Miller's ponies, which he left
in charge OF Mr.. Geo. Reiniuger here. died
the other night of =" heart disease so they
say. At any rate. the animals heart was
larger than that which commonly pertains
to the equine species.
Some OF the small shops in Chest Springs
are dying oet, while others are growing in
importance. The extinct species, following
the law of evolution, develop into a higher
! sphere. If the prices evolve in an inyerst
1 ratio, so much less is the fact to be regretted
/ The Second Adventists are like caravan
/ iOurneying through the Desert of Sahara
{ They see mirage. born of heated vapors
1 green fields and cool rivers right at hand
They come to the place, but 10 disappoint
ment and dispair; when all the while tn,
mirage was but the trse image of a far-dis
I taHt landscape. lifted to their vision by th,
intervening atmosphere. A. ID. II.
Chest Springs, March 10, 1885.