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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25
Extrayagant Funerals.


The Pbilsdelphia Times has the fol-
lowing to say Of what has become, II
not national question, at least a very
important one:
''We are undoubtedly arriving at that
point in our national progress when
sweeping reform is necessary in the
matter of burying the dead. The scan
dal that all men are beginning to fear
in connection with the expenses of the
Grant funeral is only a larger illustra-
tion of smaller instances equal In de-
moraliziLg power. 1t is no secret any
where that the pomp and ceremony at
tendant npon the average burial costs
twice or thrice what they are worth,
and it is equally well known that fam
lies who can but i'll afford such display
from false motives vet endeavor to imi.
| tate it. All over the country the same
extravagances are apparent, and it is
probably fortunate thing for all peo-
| pie that the Grant exercises made such
| extravangances particularly conspicu-
| Gus.
There is no sense in covering the
I
1 bier of any man or woman with such
tributes Of flowers as make us after
wards regard flowers with more sorrow
| than pleasure. The season Of death is
not joyous one and the robbing of the
dead as if for feast or bridal festival
is the most sickening evidence of a
thoroughly depraved taste of feeling.
And what could be more inappropriate
from any standpoint than to close life
that has run its simple and unselfish
course entirely away from the strife of
publicity with such a service and pro-
cession as inevitably lead to an entire
forgetfulness of the simple virtues Of
the deadp The lives of men and wo-
men should point stronger morals than
the mere burial of their breathless
bodies, and the morbid taste for dis
play and newspaper notoriety, il to be
suppressed at the brink OF the grave.
The increasing cost of funerals and the
consequent financial worry that comes
at a time when men bear it least con-
stitute another aspect of the case thai
cannot longer be consealed.
"By and by, perhaps, it may occur tc
the leaders who have set these seDseless
styles, that death and burial should bt
above fashion. A simple, impressive
service, without display at the home
church or grave, OF undue lavishness il
any way, can but commend itself to all
Who can doubt that all this world woult
be more in harmony with the dread oc.
casion it would commemorate. 1t tn
Grant funeral shall emphasize thes
facts and bring back the burial custom
to somewhat near what it ought to be
there will be countless persons to pro
! fit, in more ways than one, from Lh
change thus effected"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25
Farm Notes.


S5ro shoulders are often the cause of
Jakiness In horses, and it would be
we'll to always examine for sores and
b-uises before condemuing the animal
ehsn It balks
some of our West Texas stock raisers
have decided to try the Guinea grass
this year, as they think it will yield q
quality Of hay superior to all others, at
least in that section.
Grasshoppers have been so numerous
in California that they have been showed
away in order to clear spaces for open
ing gates. says California paper.
Select your birds not 50 much for
size, color and markings. These fea-
lures NAV sometimes win the prize, but
do not always secure the most useful
quail ties-eggs flesh and easy keeping.
Alfalta is being extensively grown in
all the States west OF the Mississippi
river. TO becomes permanent when
once established, and affords several
cuttings OF hay IA a single season.
A central Kentucky farmer says that
Bermuda grass Grows during the hot sea-
son, when blue grass remains dormant,
and that during its period of growth it
will carry half more stock than blue
grass.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25

FACTS OF INTEREsT.-Thew wheels of
the English handsome cabs are made in
America.
Bed spreads and pillow cases are now
made of white paper.
Only per cent. of the soil of Florida
is cit for orange cultivation.
Great plantations in Guatemala are
devoted to the culture of the cochineal
bug.
Sir Henry Thompson's g striking paper
on "Vegetarianism' in the Nineteenth
Century is republished in the Popular
Science monthly.
Star dust to the weight Of 1850
pounds falls from the atmosphere to the
eaIth's surface every year. The earth is
slowly growing under The circumstances.
The CaTib population are a mixed In.
dian and negro race along the Atlantic
coast of Guatemala. They are vicious
lazy and thievish, and every man ha:
three wives. For clothes they wear al
most as nearly nothing as Adam anG
Eve did before the fall.
The scarf of gold shot etamine is tn,
favOrite seaside hat trimming.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25
ATTEND TO THE FALL FrEp1N

ATTEND TO THE FALL FEEDING
When the pastures begin to fall off
some extra food should be provided for
all the stock, but especially the cows.
Horses are always we'll cared for, but
the cows too often are neglected, both
as to food and supply of pure water.
Those farmers who have provided
some soiliug crops will find the benefit
of the fresh, grown fodder those who
have not will find the disadvantage OF
being short of feed just at this season.
1t is very easy to secure this supply of
food for the short season. Every farmer
has neglected piece of land, which is
bringing in nothing and which could be
made to produce very profitable crop
of green feed. Such an opportunity
should not be neglected. Where The
supply has been provided a liberal feed
should be given daily. 1t is mistake
to suppose that it is waste of food to
feed literally now, that it is better to
save the food for winter and spare it at
this season. When an animal is kept
short of food it goes back rapidly, and
more food will be required to make NJ
this lost ground than would have kept
the animal in it's condition. This il
especially true as regards swine; if they
are permitted to fall of now for lack OF
food, they will consume much more
than the present gain in recovering the
loss. rimals that are intended for
fatteniDg should be kept on full feed
now, and those to be wintered over
should be kept in good condition. The
old and true adsge should not be for
gotten, viz : that IAN animal we'll sum
mered is half wintered.' y
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25

A DREAM OF SCIENCE.-A promi-
nent mechanical engineer declares alum
mum is to be the metal OF the future !;
that i. will displace iron and steel, rev.
olutionize the industrial arts, and, in
short, that 1.-The millennium will be the
age of aluminium" The tensile strength
of this metal is much greater than that
of Bessemer steel. A cannon made of
it would be three times as strong as one
made of steel or gun metal. 1t is three
times as rigid as the best bronze. 1t
will not tarDish, and neither air nor
water, nor salt, nor acids, nor corrosive
gas, has the slightest effect upon it. It
is the best conductor of beat and elec-
tricity known, While it is the lightest
OF metas, it is suitable for anything for
which our common metals are used.
For $40 enough of the raw material can
be obtained to produce ton of alumni
um, which, perfectly manufactured, is
now worth $4,000. Every clay bed is
an aluminium mine. The material is
abundant and hundreds of chemists
all over the world are at work trying to
find a cheap way of producing it. The
han who succeeds in this will ring in
the industrial millennium, according tC
the views of the enthusiastic engineer
-LeIDiStol0n, Me-, Journal.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25
CORN NOT GOOD FOR HORSES.


Corn is the baDe Of the fam horse, as
It Is also of the horse doing any other
sort of work, not because of not
being sufficiently nutritious, but be-
canse It makes too much fat and not
enough muscle. The horses muscle
wears away by work as metal wears
away by friction. Fat wears away
under exercise, but its disappearance in
nowise lessons the power for either draft
or speed. On the other hand, well
,n,,-,.hos 49,, ,,.---1-nusly-exercil led mus
cles, without deposit of fat To Ho@p
them company, Rfe much more efficient
for any purpose for which the horse is
kept than when there is load Of fat to
be carried. The trainer acts upon this
proposition and works the fat of, ex-
perlence having shown that the mus
cles, trained down by exercise until fat
accumulations are removed, fattening
foods being mainly absts ned from,
gives the best results in the case of a
speedy horse. The same rule VIII hold
good with the work hcTse,t' =. IA uodi-
fed by the degree in which the move
ments Of the latter are slower than
those OF the former. If the farmer has
only corn for feed then he will be wise
II he makes sale o: his corn, or the
greater part Of it, buying oats instead.
Live Stock Journal.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25

COOLING THE CELLARs'-A great
mistake is sometimes made in venti!a-
ting cellars and milk houses. The OBJ
ject of ventilation is to keep the cellars
cool and dry, but this object often fails
of being accomplished by common
mistake, and instead, the cellar is made
both warm and damp. A cool place
should never be ventilated unless the
air admitted is cooler than the air with
in, or is at least as cool as that, or a
very little warmer. The warmer air, the
more moisture it holds in suspension.
Necessarily, the cooler the air the more
this moisture is condensed and precipi-
tated. When a cool cellar is aired on a
warm day, the air entering being in
motion appears cool but as it fills the
cellar, the cooler air With which it be-
comes mixed chills it, the moisture is
condensed, and dew is deposited on the
cold walls, and may often be seen run.
ming down them in streams. Then the
! cellar is damp and soon becomes moldy.
! To avoid this the windows should only
! D6 OpCucu lhbc d1 nikuS-LlC ihob biiihB
before retiring. There Is no need to
! fear that the night air is unhealthful
| it IS as pure as the air OF midday, and
really drier. The cool air enters the
apartment during the night and circu.
lates through is. The windows should be
closed before sunrise in the morning and
kept closed and shaded during the day
If the air of cellar is damp it may bt
thoroughly dried by placing in it a peel
of lime in an open box. A peck o
lime absorbs about seven pounds or thret
quarts of water, and in this way q celia
or milk room may soon be dried even il
in the hottest weather. A bushel o
lime absorbs twenty-seyen pounds o
water and still appears as dry as pow
der. In this condition it will be YER
useful 20 spread over the garden or lawl
and around fruit trees, or 1t may b
used for whitewash. This precautio
is often necessary in the dairy, becaus
of the prevalence, where air is damp, O
mildews and the various forms Of mold
The orange and red kinds of mold
especially, which sometimes form upo
the cream, have most injurious effeC
upon the butter.-American Aqric,tlt,.
; TiSt,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25

PRESERVING THE EYEsIaHT.- Avoid
all sudden changes between light and
darkness.
Never read by twilight or moonlight,
or on dark, cloudy days.
When reading it is best to let the light
from above, obliqely over the left shoul-
der.
Do not use the eyesight by light so
scant that it requires an effort to dis
criminate.
Never begin to read, write, or sew for
several minutes after coming from
darkness to a bright light.
The moment you are instictintlvely
prompted to rub your eyes, that mo.
ment stop using them.
IF the eyelids are glued together on
waking up do not forcibIy open them,
but apply saliva with the finger. It is
the best dilutant in the world ther
wash your eyes and face in water.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25

SICK HEADACHE.-This complaint
is the result of eating too much and ex-
eising too little. Nine times out of ten
the cause is IN the fact that the stom-
is not able 70 digest the food last intro
dured into it, either from its having
been unsuitable or excessive in quanti-
ty. A diet of bread and butter, with
ripe fruit or berries, with moderate and
continuous exercise in the open air suf-
hcient to keep up a gentle Oerspiration.
would cure almost every case in a very
short time. Two teaspoonfuls of pow
dered charcoal in half-glass of water,
and drank often, gives instant relief.
Sick headache with some persons comes
on at regular intervals, and is the signal
Of distress which the stomach puts out
to inform us that there is an over-alka-
line condition of its fluids that it needs
a natural acid 10 restore the battery to
It's normal working condition. When
the first symptoms Of headache appear,
take tablespoonful vi lemon Juice
clear, fifteen minutes Sefore esch meal,
aud the same dose at bsGtime Follow
this up until all syllr.1ns are pa5 Jed
taking no other Tem.ay, aud ggI viii
soon be able to - ireo from this N vel
come nuisance. Many will objeo Il
this because the remedy lie too sin pie
but many cures have been effected il
this way.-PhIIadelpbia Call.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25


THE CROPs.-Corn promises first
class, except along the upper Mississip-
pi. Cut worms have been on the ram
page rather more than usual, and there
was much Inconvenience from defec-
tive seed. The natural average increase
of acreage of corn sown from year tc
year is from two to three per cent.
This year, owing to the failure of wheat
it is fully six per cent.
The general average of wheat advan-
ced in July from 81 70 65 per cent. of 9
full crop. The whole wheat crop, tht
winter and spring seeding together, viii
not fall short of 363, 900, 900 of bushels
Present condition of potato crop 81.
The condition of cotton has advanced
from % in June to 96 in July. A slight
ly diminished acreage of tobacco i
sown, with prospects for a fair crop
On the whole, let the farmer thank tn
Lord and take courage.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25
How TO Tell Good Eggs.
A good egg will sink in water.

A good egg will sink in water.
Stale eggs are CLASSY and smosh OF
shell. = --.l. 1851
A fresh egg has Iime-like surface to
it's shell.
Eggs picked in brine for long time
smell and taste musty.
Thin shells are caused by lack Of
gravel, etc., among the laying hens.
A boiled egg that is done will dry
quickly on the shell after taken from
the kettle.
After an egg has been laid day or
more the shell comes off easily when
boiled.
If an egg is clear and golden in ap-
pearance 1t is good; if dark and spotted
it is bad.
The badness of an egg may sometimes
be sold by shaking it near the holders
ear, but the test is dangerous one.
With the aid of the hands a piece OF
paper rolled in funnel shape ana held
toward the light, the human eye can
look through an egg, she'll and all.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25

A FEW SIMPLE REMEDIEs.-Hi
cough cau be Immediately relieved by
administering a lump of sugar wet with
vinegar.
HoaTseness and tickling in the throat
are best relieved by gargle of the white
of an egg beaten to a froth in half a
glass of warm sweetened water.
1t persons suffering from severe head
aches would tie a handkerchief around
the temples they would often find relief
by SO doing in a very short time.
A simple and harmless remedy and
preventive for persons suffering from
car sickness is a sheet of writing paper
worn next to the person, directly over
his chest. It is highly recommended
aud seldom fails.
A good remedy for warts and corns
Drop 2 little vinegar on the wart OF
curn, cover it Immediately with cook
ing soda OF saleratus, aud let it remain
ten minutes. Repeat several times 3
day for three days and the corns will bs
gone.
Charcoal forms an unrivaled pOultict
for wounds and old sores. 1t is also in
valuable for what is called proud flesh
1t sveelens the air if placed in shallow
dishes around he apartment, and fou
wstRr also purified by its use.
Tcr BRUISES and sprains bathe tn
paI.s affected iu cool water until 20
get ready tgcu-ttJu of wormwood an
vinegar. When the herb is fresh gath
cred, pound the leaves, wet with vine
gar aud bind al, and when the herb
dry. gl. f. ia the vinegar, and let
bOi. q snCr. time then bathe the bruis
WITH ;hs decocJlOn and bihd on th
hero.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25
ARemarkabIe Escape.

Mrs. Mary A. Daley, of Tunkhannock,
Pa, was afflicted for six years with asthma
and bronchitis, during which time tie pest
physicians could give her no relief. Her
life was dispaired of, until in last October
she procured bottle OF DR.. Kings New
Discovery. when immediate relief was felt,
and by continuing Its use for short time
she was completely cured. gaining in flesh
so pounds in few months.
Free trial bottles Of this certain cure of
all throat and lung diseases at E. James
drug store. Large bottles, 81.
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A millionaire

IA TIE health enjoy, aud even my life,
l may say, is in consequence OF Simmons
Liver Regulator. / would not take 81 600, :
600 for my interest in that medicine"
Nv. II. WILSON, Lecturer Florida State
Grange"
Millions of us are bilious. We are a bill
lous race. Half OF us are born bilious, or
with predisposition to dyspepsia. The
best known remedy for biliousness and In
digestion Is simmons Liver Regulator. It
has stood the test Of time.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25

THE INVENTION OF PAPER.-How,
when, OF by whom paper was first inyen.
ted will never be known. According
to Hallam, documents on paper are
found as early as the tenth century, and
it came into use not long after this era,
and completely supplanted all other ma
terials which were formerly employed
Tor the purposes for which it is now
used. It will be observed that the in
vention of paper of some kind was an
absolute necessity before there could be
printing. as parchment was far too ex-
pensiye to use for the purpose, even If
it wsre otherwise perfectly adapted 20
this use. The use of paper in Western
Europe dates from the time mentioned.
but 1t was known to the Chinese long
beiOre the Christian eIa, and it is be-
lieved that they used the bark of vari-
Gus trees, the soft part of the bamboo
stems, cotton and several other kinds
of vegetable fibers.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25


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