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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

EVERY farmer should have a nice lit
tie patch of strawberries, raspberries, a
few grape vines, ETC., enough for his
own use. These can be attended to
when working in the field is Impossi-
BILE, and the benefits derived will Ear
more than compensate him for all his
trouble and expense. The best varie-
ties should be selected, however, and
much care taken to give them the prop
er cultivation. Too many farmers neg
lecG these little things, ana allow their
patches TO grow up with weeds, ard
then because a luxuriant crop is not the
result they say they are more bother
than they are worth. and that tl.ey do
not amount 70 anything anyhow, while
II the proper care had been taken OF
them the result woald have been en-
tirely different.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
Contents of a woman's Handbag.

"What do you carry in that bag? -
said the big man to the business woman,
pointing To tie little black handbag
that is her inseparable companion.
"I'll show you," said she, and then
she took out two hsndkerchiefs, one for
use and one for show. a lead pencil with
The point broken off, stick ot gum un-
chewed. a lump of gum chewed, George
William Curtis editorial on Matthew
Arnold's death. cut out of Harper's
Weekly; three keys that don't fit any
thing IN particular, one latch key that
does not fit, Bond street Library card
three Daly's theatre seat coupons, a tiny
box of face powder, three capsules OF
quinine, five visiting cards, seven let
ters. five of them from one man, spring
suits cut out of the Sunday paper. a sea-
son ticket 10 the American Art associa-
ticn's prize exhibition, an unposted let
ter to her mother, three rubber bands,
three postal cards, shoe buttoner, den
lists appointment car6s, four hairpins,
an unpublished moss agate, coral brooch
with the pin broken off, half a mustard
leaf, piece of paper with quotations
from Nine. Blavstsky on theosophy
written on it, a sample of yellow ribbon
to be matched. card photograph of an
other girl and purse containing one
three cent piece and a postage stamp.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
Pointers for Parents.

a truthful child is generally strictly
veracious, and does not comprehend any
deviation from the letter of truth so
that is often necessary, 20 save il from
moral confusion, to explain what may
seem to il like untruth. IL it becomes
child. the hindering circumstances
ought TO be mentioned, or at least il
should be explained that there are such.
Again, the Bible command, parent,
provoke not your children to wrath,
is often forgotten, while the correspond
ing one. Children obey your parents, is
quoted and enforced. a great deal of
injustice is often done, moreover. in
settling disputes among children, by
not allowing for provocatien received.
A most obvious practical rule in the
training of children is, always take for
granted that they mean to be good.
If to give dog or a child a bad name
is an excellent receipt for making him
deserve, to let it be a matter Of course
that he is to behave properly is to go
considerable extent toward having him
behave so. 1 have seen mothers actu-
ally put into a child's head to be
naughty when it never occurred to the
little one to be so. In this connection
! wonld offer a protest against akind
of infant literature, usually illustrated,
in which greedy Tom and slovenly Jane,
cruel Peter and vain Polly are viVidly
described in the act Of making them
selves unpleasant.
a boy need not be a baby because he
does not know at 10 what his grand
father did know at 20. The modest
simplicity and the fresh and tender
bloom of girlhood-no it has not all dis
appeared yet 1 believe that a child
who. without being coddled and "babi-
fed yet is kept child so long as, ac-
eording to its years, it is called one, has
q physical advantage over the child too
early initiated into the knowledge of
manhood or womanhood. Parents do
not realize the physical wear and tear
that accompany premature development
| OF the brain ; and the undue tax upon
the nervous and vital forces, when Q
child engages in the occupations and
amusements of a grown person, leaves
it, in maturer years. low in physical re-
sources just when it has most call upon
them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
Odd Accidents and Incidents OF Every
Day Life.


a citizen OF Auburn, Me-, has dog
he sends regularly to a news depot for
the evening paper. The dog knows ex-
actly wha. time the paper,is due. and is
on hand promptly at half-past five each
afternoon without orders from any one.
\ Charlotte Harbor Fla. lady has .
small green frog with its home in the
calyx of lily in her room. The little
fellow is quite pet, and perches high
on the pistil of the flower to receive his
dinner, consisting of flies fed to him
from the point of a pin.
a California tramp has novel way
of getting money. He fixes up his arm
with CASTLE soap and caustic to repre-
sent scald, and begs for aid on the
ground that he Just met with an scci-
dent. He is said to have worked this
game successfully for four years in var
ious parts OF the State.
Farmer Griffith smelled something
burning and heard the crackle of flames
as he drove home from Whitewater,
Wis, the other day, and, turning
around, saw that the straw in the bot
tom of his wagon was all on fire. He
thinks that the rays of the sun were
focused by a bright new tin milk can
that he was taking home and set the
straw a-burnipg.
a little boy, cripple, was being
wheeled past a Center avenue store in
Bay City, Mich, when a gentleman who
noticed the unfortunate child, said
THAT little boys misfortune is the re-
suit of kiss. When he was a baby his
sister, or coming into the house. went
up behind the high chair in which he
was seated, and. catching his head sud-
denly, gave it turn and kissed him.
The shock injured his spine, and he is
going through the world cripple for
life"
An old man who hanged himself some
time ago in the Ternes quarter of Paris.
although very wealthy and in good
health, was a confirmed misanrhrope.
He lived in shabby room at the top of
the house, the concierge of which ad-
mInistered TO his wants. The old man
took pleasure in tormenting the con-
cierge, and when he made away with
himself the latter could not help utter
ing an exclamation of satisfaction
but he soon began to profess compas-
sion for his old enemy when he heard
that he had left him a legacy. He de-
Fsfsa rah vr--f l. =. \,
was a worthy person after all, and v i.h
eager curiosity asked the amount of
property be9ueathed him. The fol.
lowing missive was placed in his hand
81 am disgusted with life, so L sm quit
ting 1t. leave to my concierge my
portrait and the rope with which have
hanged myself"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
Food For Thought.

Time wasted is existence used in life.
1t is the sunshine itself that makes
every shadow.
Better go to bed supperless than to
get up in debt.
The word impossible is the moth
er tongue of little souls.
Man cannot live exclusively by intel
ligence and self-love.
Zeal without judgment is like gun
powder in the hands of a child.
A natural will plowed up is the best
soil for producing Iuxuriant crops.
Happiness is the wayside flower grow
ing by the highway of usefulness,
Conscience is the voice of the soul {:
the passions ale the voice of the body.
We cannot expect perfection in any
one, but we may demand consistency of
every one.
The man who minds his own business
and constantly attends to it, has all his
time employed.
He who steals little steals with the
same wish as he who steals much, but
with less power.
1t is far more easy to acquire a for
tune like a knaye than to expend it like
a gentleman.
Think not thy own shadow longer
than that of others, nor delight to take
this attitude of thyself.
Public reformers had needs practice
on their own hearts that which they
propose to try on others.
Adhere strictly to your business.
There may be difficulties to overcome,
but you will surmount them.
Wichedness may prosper for a while,
but in the long run, he who sets ali
knaves a-woIk will pay them.
Be polite, prompt, decisive, civil and
obliging to all your customers, and see
that your clerks do likewise.
Friendship improves happiness and
abates misery by the doubling of our JOY
and the dividing of our grlefs.
The best way to get along with peo-
pie who are ''set up with pride'' is to
upset their pride, and them, too.
There are treasures laid up in the
heart, treasures OF charity, piety, tenn
perance, and soberness. These treas
ures man takes with him beyond death
when he leaves this world.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
Friendships.

Friendship is a matter OF character,
rather than a matter OF choice. Even
though friendship may be all on one
side. cause for it must always be on
both sides. No true man can be true
friend to another, unless that other has
character enough TO inspire his friend
ship, nor even in such case unless he
himself has character enough 20 per-
ceiye that character in the other.
Friendship does not idealizs friend,
but it does recognize a friends ideal.
4 friend sees the best self of his friend,
whatever may be that friends exterior,
or whatever others may see, or may fail
10 see. in that friend. Thus IL is that a
friend often sees in friend what no one
else can see, yet which is not ali illus
ion. And ia thus seeing the noble, the
friend gives hint of bis nobleness and
is ennobled by his seeing. If others had
his eyes, or as keen eyes as his, they al
so could see and would honor that
which he sees in his friend. "In the
changes which, thank God, must take
place when the mortal puts on immor-
tality," saws George Macdonald, ''shall
we not feel that the nobler our friends
are, the more they are themselves !?
that the more the idea of each is car
ried out in the perfection OF beauty,
the more like they are to what we
thought them in our most exalted
moOds,-to that which we saw in them
in the raIest moments of profoundest
communicable that which we beheld
through the veil of all theiI iInperpec-
tions when we loved them the truest. -
II is good to know character which
can be thus recognized and honored.
II is good TO have the character which
can thus recognize and honor that which
is worthy when it is before oDe. No
mere wish or longing can bring all this
about but when the opportunity is
here, what loss it would be TO loose
iti
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

y REAL ROSE TREE. 3i-.-
roses. grated on dogwOod TOOLS ''
hardy and grow 90 a large SIZE --'
take the form Uf a tree, bearing =
petually during The summer u
plenty of rich compost around 'l'-
and every spring scatter ground ..-
around the trunks. Grass Is laJ-.'-
to IOse bushes if 1t takes possessl'-
the plot. Do not Ue concerned u .-
rose tree looks like a bush for IA7 ''
year.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

a NEW bug has made IFS sppsa'..
in bug-ridden Jersey. II is Two ~
long-about the length Of the "'l. -
Jersey "skeeter''-snd is OF ..-
brown color. It las four Dig '
near its head and its sti1g raises 'l-
the size of hens eggs on lle I-' ..
body. The circulars Of the ho'ss
cottages mako 10 mention ol '-a
dition TO their attractions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
The Human Breath.

Professor BrOwn-Sequard has re-
Gently been making experiments 10 de-
termine whether the human breath
was capable OF producing any poison
ous effect. From the condensed watery
vapor Of the expired air be obtained a
poisonous liquid, which. when injected
under the skin Of rabbits, produced al
most instant death. He ascertained
that this poison was an alkaloid, and
a m.erobe. The rabbits thus injected
died without convulsion. ths heart aud
large blood vessels being engorged With
blood. Brown Sequard considers it
fully proved that the expired air, both
man ana animals, contains "a volatile
poisonous principle which is much moro
deleterious than carbouic acid.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

HALF a bushel Of salt to the 20,
hay Is often sown upon the mo"' h.
clover is bsused in the green sta.s'
proper place in the order OF 's...
farm product is generally though r-,.
between timothy and blue grass ~ r.
er seed when kept uucamagsu W."
tain its vitality fer mauyEeaTs'
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

IL laying out farms and in shaping
fields the common, ruling practice is TO
give them a square form or as nearly so
as practicable, in order TO economic
fencing. a ten acre lot, for example,
II square, will measure forty rods on
each OF the four sides and require for
It's entire inclosuIe 160 rods of fencing.
BY altering its form and making it
twice as long and half as broad it will
require 200 rods OF boundary fence.
But the obloCg form has some special
advantages. as every farmer knows,
saving considerable time in plowing,
narrowing and working with the culti-
vator.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
The Craze Tor Light CoIOred Cigars.

The Craze Tor Light ColOred Cigars.
To supply the demand for light col
ored cigars is one of the greatest diGd-
culties manufacturers have to contend
with. This demand is caused by mis-
taken idea that color is an important
factor in the strength of the weed. As
a matter of fact, the color of a cigar
cuts but little figure in regard 10 the
strength, except so far as disease might
affect it. IL is well known that in all
the vegetable world there is more or
less sickness or disease in plants. y
florist will go around among his shrubs
and plants clipping OFF here and there a
decayed or dying leaf. Frequently
there may be seen leaves dropping from
healthy cabbage, the plant SO often
associated with the manufacturer OF
the cigar, and these leaves are faded TO
a siclliy light color; in the same mar
ner is the tobacco plant affected, and
the grower, like the maker anxious 10
cater 20 the popular demand, secures
from his crop such material as will
make the light colored stock desired.
IL tobacco growing as in any of the
ordinary farm products, crops will vary
in their health and abundance. The
natural color OF the tobacco leaf when
in healthy state is darkish c0ntinu-
ing TO deepen as the weed rInens, but
the grower will not wait until nature
has had her run, and as early as he
Jares, cuts the leaves that the market
may be supplied with the faYor;te shade
OF stock. 1t Will be seen what a lack Of
knowledge OF the facts may cauSe-a
demand for sick!y, half Iipe stuff, ill
favored and most unhealthy. Cigar
dealers, as a general thing, labor assid-
uouslY against this fancy, but :heir
trials have been many during the last
four or dve years, as the tobacco crop
has been dcring that time, exceeding
ly healthy and, in natural consequence,
rather dark in color. One dealer says
the fancy FOR light cigars has become so
persistent that he often wakes up at
nights and hears himself talking to a
customer on this subject, trying to con-
vince him that he is asking TO be served
with an inferior class Of goods.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
Dyspepsia and IiYer Complaint.

Is IL no, worth the snail price OF 20 cents
20 free yourself Of every symptom OF these
distressing complaints. II you think so call
at our store and get bottle of Sholoh's
Vi,aliZer Eyery bottle has a printed
guarantee on DC, use accordingly, and II it
does you 30 good 10 VIII cCsJ you nothing.
Sold by DE-. T ) DAWSON.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
All Sorts Of Pararrn

1t is by hopping It M ts.,.
makes his business supoor,
Learn the art, TO be prsr..
all others, Of being happy NJ.
Why are cashmere shsur
people -? Because you cam
here. "a
1t is natural enough that's.
and their employees shoUrd
heads.
If you want to De well inf.
a paper. Even a paper o.,
give you some good points
The essence Of good tsl-a.
mutual trust, and The oe..
one with your companions n.
Economy is the parent no
and of ease, and the Bssr...
of temperance, Of clssr-r.
health.
Opinion is the main thing d.
good or harm In the world
opinions of things which r,i-
The death.smile is the g-s,t
in the world. II makes fsss-
an arch of triumph into = ,,--
ture.
a million acres OF land b.
added by the Dutch to The srs. 2.
land within two hundred y.--
claiming it from the sea.
"How to Treat Iue5riste,. p
tie ot a book recently pubf....
inebriates are just the kind ..
who ought never to be trssts-
a distinguished negro bsrs
au Prince, Hayti, has married
of William Black, the uovsrfe
haps the name attracted her
Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins. er,
the dead leJteE office az Vas
reads almost every known lsngr
Cept Russian and Chinese.
Webster was in college a.
gave earnest OF mis- great fu.r-
he was twenty-five, and atH
the peer OF the 9blest men in r.
Spencer, Mass, has public
citizens. The other day one
gave Il acres OF land for a ppb
another gave $4,000 for a biz
and another gave S2j,OOO for
library.
There is a concern in n.
which employs girls TO crack q
nuts, the kernels of which ar.
confectioners. The shells are
be ground up and used in the 2
ture OF spices.
Mrs. He,ty Greene, the tic
man in America, was born In
ket, Mass, and her father ".
captain. She IS a queer char
has been more written about
most any other woman in
She is worth $40, 600, 600.
Hamilton was in Kings c
sixteen when seventeen lie
notable address on public affaf
citizens OF New York at 4
was instructed with a most /
mission TO General Gates wa.
gress at twenty-five, and Sec
the Treasury at thlrty-two.
No one who, fatigued by
ertion of body and mind, has
peTieaced the reviViDg illua
tumbler OF milk, heated as hot
be slipped, viii willingly, says
icaL Record, forego a resort 70
promptness with which its col
dueHce is felt is indeed suIprs
The things that are essential
ship, and without which it ca
ist, are-sympathy in al coadl
that is always acceptable and
appreciated f.; patience, wLec
else is required federation
things oHe's friend takes q
view of; tact not to revert %
currences the mention Of wdic
desired ; and besidesand above
a sincere, enduring affection.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
Oh, What a Cough.

Will you heed the warning. The sigma
perhaps of the sure approach of that more
terrible disease, Consumption. Ask your
selves If you can afford for the sake of saw
ing 30 cents. to run the risk and do nothing
for it. We know from experience that
ShIoh's Cure will Cure your Cough. 1t
never fails. This explains why more than
a Million Bottles were sold the past year
1t re lieves Group and Whooping Cough at
once. Mothers do not be without it. For
Lame Back, Side or Chest. use Shilohs'
Porous Plaster. Soldby DR.. T. j. Dawson.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

SELF CONTROL consistsin tl- W.. .,i
and intentional closing ot lns nm
against dubious views, ana '-'
against passions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
ssf..y!I. MS 8 ] 9 - $ {.

For nrrpsy, Gravel. Nervousness Bright's
Heart. Trinarv OF Liver diseases. Cure Guarran-
tCed. once. SGl Arch street Philadelph phia. All
druggists Trv q. ~ bottle, six for S5.
March l6 lsss. II.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-29
Potatoes in Annie Orchards.

Shade is demoralizing to the potato
beetle, and the latter preferably seeks
the sunlight to deposit its eggs on po.
tato leaves. There is a popular belief
among farmers that the potato beetle is
less destructive to potatoes planted in
apple orchards than to those in open
fields. To this extent the belief is proba-
by warranted. Farther than this, where
apple trees abound the lady bug is apt to
be numerous. 1t is attracted to the apple
by the plant lice, which often attack the
foliage of this tree early in the spring.
The lady bug and its larva destroys the
eggs of these plant lice, and after these
are gone they take up their home on the
potato plant, and thrive on the eggs of
the potato beetle. The lady bug makes
its home in winter under the rough bark
of old apple trees, and in sheltered
places under their trunks. Thus they are
good supply to begin with, andin moist.
wet seasons will alone sometimes keep
the potato bug from doing much damage
to the crop on the shade of apple trees.
But as no wages are paid to these indus.
.trious little workers, the potato grower
must not rely upon their aid alone. Ii
he does not himself keep sharp eye on
his crop, his insect friends, however bene.
fetal as auxiliaries, will leave him in the
lurch. 1t is not safe for him to depend
on aught save his own vigilance. If he
uses this he cannot be cheated. -Ameri
can Cuttira'0r.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-29
Rules for Testing Rome.

A German paper, in an article on tho
present methods of rope manufacture
from hemp, and the determination of the
different qualities and probable strength
simply from the appearance, lays down
the following rules; A good hemp rope is
hard, but plant yellowish or greenish
gray in color, with certain silvery or
pearly lustre. A dark or blsckish color
indicates that the hemp has suffered from
fermentation in the process of curing,
and brown spots show that tho rope was
spun while fibres were damp, and is
consequently weak and soft In those
places. Again, sometimes a rope is
made with inferior hemp on the inside,
covered with yarns of good MATERIAL
fraud, however, which may be detected
by dissecting a portion of the rope, or,
in practiscd hands, by its behavior in
use; other inferior ropes are made with
short fibers, or with strands of uno ual
strength or unevenly spuu-the rope in
the first case appearing woody, on account
of the number of ends OF iibers project.
ing, and, in the latter case, the ir-
regularity Of manufacture is evident on
inspection by any good judge.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-29
Copperas rs a Fertilizer.

Favorable reports from France re.
garding copperas as fertilizer have
caused considerable inquiry of late.
Copperas has been recommended from
abroad as a valuable dressing for different
crops. 1t is claimed that copperas pre-.
vents mildew, and a very weak solution
destroys moss, etc, the spores ofmildew.
An explanation of the favorable effect of
copperas, is that it increases the pow er
of the plant for assimilation; there is o
large percentage of fibre and nitrogen,
but the increased crops are not due to a
supply of sulphuric acid by the copperas,
as a superphosphates containing an
abundance of the acid proved to have
less effect.
One of the Connecticut station
bulletins cites an instance where
copperas was used as an experiment in
this country on corn with good results.
The chemist of tho station, while an.
proving of more experiments in this
direction, does not believe that copperas
will be found generally helpful. He
points out that it VIII be injurious to
plants when applied in too large
quantities, but that it may be found of
advantage on rich garden land that has
had an abundance of other fertilizer
material for many years. The general
belief in this country is that copperas as
fertilizer has little if any value. -Ne0
York World.