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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
The Hard Condition Of the Men Now on
a Strike-9O Cents a Day.

The condition of things is of course
largely due to the present strike, bus
even when the men are at work they
live miserable haDd-to-mouth lives.
Something like one third of the strikers
are outside men-that is, they do not
work inside of the mines-and help to
load coal at the breakers. These men
have been getting for years only 80 cents
a day, and not even steady work at
that. Most of them have supported
wives and children upon 90 cents day.
Now, if a political orator should de-
clare IN Cooper Institute or the Acad-
emy of Music that the pauper iaoorers
of Europe were paid but 90 cents for
working in midwinter ten houIs at the
hardest and most d:sagresable kind OF
work. there would be terriic roar OF
applause at the excellent poiLt which
the speaker had made in favor of high
tariff. But this is not in Europe. L
have gone from shanty to shsnty all the
afternoon and have seen with my own
eyes magnificent specimens OF manhood
who for years and years have been get
ting 90 cents a day at the minss. This
is not a local affair it is the same all
through the vast Lehigh coal region,
where the soil is supposed to be peculiar
ly blessed by custom house protec-
tion.
Within a stones throw of the Halle
ton mines l entered a shanty and found
an outside man sitting in a bare little
room with his wife. his gray haired
mother and his children. For two
years L have received only 80 cents
day from a. Pardee & Co.," he said.
"How have l lived ? God only knows.
What have l had to eat ? Flour and
coffee. Just what the Knights of La
Dor are giving me. l get more to eat
now than l did when L was at work.
That's Gods truth. Meat ? Why, Sir,
there has been no meat ia this house for
many long month. The men at the
mines cannot afford meat only once in
while. When L used to have meat
oace a week / was a proud man. Out
OF my 90 cents day l had to pay almost
every cent back to the company for
rent and coal and four and so on.
These operators own everything you
can see about the country. They own
our homes, they own the land we walk
on, the tools we buy. the cloth and
everything out one. They don't own
our souls. No, Sy God, they don't.
They may staTve us and cheat US, bnt
We are still men. ''-HdzletOn PA. letter
in Ne,c York Herald, Jan. %.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

HENRY c. BOWEN, editor OF the
Independent, published IN BROOKLYN, y.
\. the organ of the Congregational
Church in this country, gives notice to
the Republican managers that i. Blaine
IS again nominated that paper will on
pose him as it did in the last Presiden-
tial contest. Mr.. Bowen intim Ites that
although he and those who acted with
him voted for Cleveland in 1854, they
do not feel like doing so again il some
acceptable Republican is nominated.
but that they prefer Cleveland to Blaine
all The time. The only conclusion 10
be drawn from this manifesto in
Bowen's paper, and it is only one OF
scores OF similar instances all over the
North, is that Blaine will encounter the
same elements OF opposition in his own
party Ia lSSS that he did in 1884. II is
Tor this reason that the Democrats
want 10 see him nominated so that they
may be given another oppcrtu nifty 10
consign him so deep TO his political
grave that there can be 10 resurrec-
tion.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
In Love With Her Hump.

LITTLE FALLS, \. ", January 31.-On
December Is last grand hsilelujah wed
ding took place in this village, the couple
married being Captain Polly Bryan. of the
Salvation Army. Since then the fair and
buxom Polly has offended the army and has
been expelled. The trouble arose from the
fact that she persisted In wearing hustle.
Captain L. E. Moore recently wrote the
following letter to Captain Won Alexson
DEAR CAPTAIS-YOur letter he's reached
me. l have been compelled to change my
mind as to your going to Kansas in the
Army OF America. l do not think your
wife is at all IN condition to lead others
away from the world and sin, and must say
l am astonisned to think you could uphold
an officer. though she be your wife, in dress
ing in the manner Mrs. Alexson does. She
was kindly reproved and shown tie wrong,
but persisted in wearing a hustle on her
back that disgusted every decent person.
Until | see her sincere Goodness 1 cannot
send her 10 another station.
Hoping you both may see tie wrong of
this. Am. with sorrow yours, as ever, for
Jesus sake, T. L. MOORE.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

CONGRESSMAN HAYES, of Iowa.
some time ago refused To present a petit
tion asking that a prohibItory law be
passed in the DsstTic: OF Columbia and
was subsequently confronted with the
nOnsensical charge of having "denit d
the right OF petition" Now NOE Con-
esessman Hayes straightforward an
swer 10 this charge. II repeat" he
writes with remarkable vigOr, that
for the people of Iowa TO petition Con-
gress as TO local concerns IN the District
of Columbia is Ufficious meddling of the
most offensive character, whether IL
applies TO the conduct of particular
classes OF business or other local mat
ters. and that no person combining in
telligence with discrimination, delicacy
and a fair amount IF that finer feeling
that prompts true men and women to
attend to theiT own Affairs. Will ever
ind dulge in it, As for the right OF
petition which NJ. Hayes is charged
with having denied, he goes on TO show
that It Is right guaranteed ''fCr a re-
dress OF grievances" ;" which cannot ssby
any just process Of reasoning be made
u cove: busy bodyIsm or meddIing. -
Congressman Hayes. OF Iowa, has a
level head.-PhiId. Times.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

DR.. JOHN MURRAY OF the Challenger.
contributes to the Scottish Geogrdphical
Magazine for January an instructive
paper "On the Height OF the land and
Depth Of the Ocean" After a careful
comparison of the most recent surveys.
he concludes that the mean height of
the land IS $3.50 feet, or more than
twice the height given by Humboldt in
the beginning Of the century. The lat
ter's error probably consisted mainly IN
under estimating the height and extent
OF the great Central-Asiau plateau, of
which nearly a million square miles are
at an elevation of over y 600 feet, :, 500
miles being above "a 900 feet. The
mean depth Of the sea, on the other
hand, is Il $50 feet, the deepest seas as
we'll as the highest land being
is the northern hemisphere. It's a
curious fact that while 90 per cent. of
the land is lower than 6 600 feet, only
Il per cent. OF the sea is shalIower than
this, so that II the surface of the whole
solid lard should be reduced to one
level under the ocean, then the surface
or the earth would be covered by an
ocean With uniform depth of about
two miles"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

In a country court the other day the
ownership Of a dog was the question al
issue. The Judge couldn't make out from
the evidence which claimant was the real
owner. so he made ono stand on each side
while an officer held the dog in the middle
of the room. Then lie told them both to
whistle and the officer TO release the dog at
the same moment. When this was done
the dog bolted through the open door.
"Call the next case" was the only comment
of the judge.
Six months ago William Kelly. OF New
Haven, Conn, advertised in one of the New
York papers for wife. A young lady. liv-
ing in Pennsylvania ans wered, and a CORE
spondence was the result. Kelly went to
Pennsylvania about three weeks go and
found her to be a very pretty girl of seven
enteen years. Notwithstanding that Kelly
is deaf and dumb. lie succeeded In making
love to the girl with such good effect that
when he proposed an eIopement she con-
sented, and the couple were married and
came to live with Kelly's parents in Big
mingham, ten miles from New Haven.
One day in 1862 Sidney Shivers. of Web
fathers house, and divesting himself of his
hat and clothes. dressed himself In the uni
form of Confederate soldier in order to
enter the Southern army, In the meantime
hanging the hat and chothes that be once
wore upon peg in his room. From that
day TO this the hat and clothes have hung
in that same place. not a hand having been
allowed 10 touch them in all that time. for
they have been held sacred to the memory
or the young Confederate soldier who
placed them there. The life OF Sydney
Shivers went ont soon after he entered the
army. but these mute memorials OF the boy
who once wore the gray still hang where
they were placed by him 26 years ago-un-
touched in all that time.
Mike DENIM. lad of Il, killed a mink
near Wheelertown, y. Y, under unusual
circumstances. He was hunting for rabbits
near Little Black creek. The dog chased q
rabbit 10 the ice OH the creek near where a
springfield brook ran Into the creek, keep
ing the water open. AS the rabbit passed
the accumulation of old rubbish near the
mouth of the brook a mink sprang out after
il. AS it was about to catch the rabbit the
dog came out of the brush on to the ice. Al
this the mink fed, with the dog in pursuit
Inetead OF trying to return to the rubbish
the mink ran across the creek, and, finding
the dog almost on it, it rapidly climbed q
spruce tree about six inches in diameter
When DENIM came along he recognized the
! tracks. but could scarcely believe that The
mink had climbed the tree. He eventually
I saw it on a limb nearly 40 feet from th'
! ground, and shot it. Old hunters say they
! never before heard of a mink climbing {
tree.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
Somebody i'm the WOOdplIe.

The talk about the negro exodus to
South America Is increasing. 1t is TO
be noted that, while all the misery and
oppression which, it Is said, give rise to
the movement prevail at the South. the
planning is done in the North. An al
legged wealthy colored phIlanthropist"
residing in Topeka, Kan. has been to
the Argentine Republic, and reports it
ready To receive with open arms the COL
ored population OF the United States
generally.
Thousands upon thousands Of
negroes AZ the South are flJcking to the
standard of emigration, he says, aud
arrangements have been about com
pleted" with n Boston line OF steamships
10 transport the m from that cityto their
destination at Sl4 per passenger. The
sagacity which collects muliltudes OF
colO;ed people in the South and takes
them to Boston % go to Brazil and the
Argentine Republic speaks for itself.
There will De about three hundred
thousand ready 10 Start in the spring
adds the Kansas Moses. As IL will
take somewhere between five hundred
aud one Thousand steamship loads 10 ac
cOmmodate this number. we are sufi-
clently interested in 4 America shipping
10 be curious as TO the name OF The BOs
ton line that can undertake this con-
tract.
There is a possibility that there is 6
swindiing scheme on foot which will, il
unchecked, result in the sffliction oi
many ignorant people. not to mention
the humbugging OF wealthy donors de
string to do good in the world. There
would be real philanthropy in investi
eating the matter.
a scheme OF colonization on a larg,
] scale is utterly impractics BILE, and theT,
: must be either folly or kOavery at tht
| bottom of it.-N. y. World.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
Entombed I'm an OK.

MISsEAPoLIs, February 1.-When the
recent great storm swept over Aurora
county, OAK, Erie johnson. a farmer near
Plankinto, was watering his cattle some
distance from his buildings. He became
exhausted in his attempt to drive his cattle
home. Among the cattle was a very large
OK, which lay down to die near where John
son was making bis last struggle for life in
the snow. johnson, In a moment OF inspi-
Iation. killed the OK, dIsembowelled 1t, and
crawled inside. He was completely sheltered
from the storm. and passed the night In
safety. When morning dawned. however,
and he endenvored to crawl out, he was
Mortified to find that he was completely
frozen in. He had left his knife sticking in
the carcass outside. He cried for assistance,
and it was not until 2:3o p. NJ, that his cries
were answered by party who were search
ing for him. He was none the worse for
his experience, except that be was cramped
and sore.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

THE romantic friendship, something
akin TO that of Damon and Pythias.
which existed between Henry George
and DR.. McGlyun ever since they pooled
their issues and inaugurated the Anti
Poverty crusade, has been suddenly
brought TO an end. The cause OF the
rupture seems to be in the first place,
that McGlynr is convinced that George
is nota statesman but mere politician
and mighty poor one at that. II is
not stated what opinion George enter
tains of McGlynn, but il may be assum-
ed that it is ditto to that Of McGIynn
about George. IC is definitely stated
IN the second place, and this we think
Is the true cause of the dissolution of
the firm, that George is opposed to an
Anti-PoveIty candidate being nomin-
ated for the Presidency, while Nc.
Glyun is resolutely in favor OF II.
This question OF candidate will be
settled at a Convention OF the United
Labor party 10 be held in New York
sometime in April.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

NEAL Dow, the apostle of Prohibi-
tion In Maine, supported Blaine when
he was a candidate in 1854, bu. he says
he won't do so this year il Blaine is
nominated. In an interview with him
last week he said Mr.. Blaine is Der.
sonslly temperance man and P.ohi-
oitionist. | voted for him in 81, think.
ing that II he were elected :hs Republi-
can party would recover the confidence
and respect OF the country. / shall not
vote :or him in the coming election.
IL Is 70 longer question of Candidates.
Tor the reason that Prohibition cannot
win IN the lie time of the Republican
party"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

"THE War OF the Rebellion, =" said
General Daniel +. S,ckles the other
evening in New York, "was really a
whisky war. Yes, whisky caused the
rebellion. was in the congress preceding
the war. IL was whisky in the morning
the morning cocktail-a congress OF
whisky drinkers. Then whisky all day :.
whisky and gambling all night. Drinks
before congress opened its morning ses-
sion, drinks before it adjourned.
Scarcely committee room without its
demiIohn OF whisky, and the ciink OF
The glasses could be heard in the capitol
corridors. The lghts-the angry
speeehes-were whisky. The atmos.
phere was Iedolent with whisky-nerv-
GUS excitement seeking relief in whisky,
and whisky adding 10 nervous excite
mons. Yes, the rebellion wos launched
IN whisky. IL the French assembly
were TO drink some morning one-halg
the whisky consumed in any one day
oy that congress, France would de-
care war against Germany in 20 min.
u,es.1
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

THE Washington Post charges that
Republican senators are introducing
pension bills that no Republican senator
would vote Cor if he believed his vote
would make them laws. ''It happens, s"
says the Post, that there is a Democratic
majority IN the house OF representatives
and Democratic President in the
White House and there is, also, a
a presidential campaign on the bills for
this year. Under these circumstances
it occurs to some of the Republican lead
ers in and out of the Senate that it will
be good thing to compel Democrats to
defeat pension bills. These leaiers
have gotten the consent of their able
minds to the theory that there IS pOliti.
cal capital for their party in such a
course. Hence we see all kinds of wild
and reckless pension schemes brought
. forward in the senate. Sach measures
ought not to pass the Democratic house,
and c, rtainly cannot pass the White
\ House while a Dem OcIatic President
holds the fort" The sponsors OF The $,
bills forget that, like other citizens, the
ex-soldiers have fair share OF common
sense. They see through this project
and appreciate its :rue inwarduess
They are manly enough 10 have {
wholesome contempt for the arts ot
demagogues, and to respect the faithful
performance of du.y-such duty a,
that of defeating raids on the treasury
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
TuE contested election case of Lowe.

THE contested election case of Lowe
~. Democrat, against White, RepUbli-
can, from the Twelfth Indiana district,
was finally disposed OF by the House at
Washington on Monday last, by adopt
ing resolution in favor of White, the
sitting member, retaining bis seat, by a
vote of 1S1 yeas TO l05 nays, over forty
Democrats voting in the Affirmative.
The only stumbling block in Whites
otherwise clear path was the fact that
being a Scotchman by birth he failed to
produce the record of his naturalization,
which he alleged took place in the ALL
en- county court in Indiana in 1858.
For a similar failure Albert Gallat:n, a
native or Switzerland, in tho early days
of the Republic, and General Shields,
an Irishman, at a much more recent
period were both refused their seats in
Congress. If White was natura!ized in
lar proceeding on his part to go into a
court in Indiana on the day before his
election last November a year and take
out his final papers. This last act is
wholly inconsistent with his claim that
he had been natuIaliZed in 1858. As
White has been awarded his sea: any
further discussion of the matter now is
useless and a mere waste OF time. The
precedent is a dangerous one and may
in some future case lead to serious tIou-
bic. Apart from this consideration
suppose, for a moment that White was
Democrat ald the Republicans had
majority in the House with Thaddeus
who never had a political con-
science. as their leader. What chance
would he have had of retaining his
seat None at all, as score of irstan-
ces during the days that Stevens lorded
il over the House, and many since then
prove. The Democrats in
the House, however, preferred to give
White the benefit of doubt in regard
to mis- citizenship rather than score a
victory by turning him out OF his seat.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

The weight of opinion among the
Democratic members of Congress is that
the National Democratic Convention
will be held two weeks earlier than that
of the Republicans. AS the Republican
Convention will be held at Chicago on
the 19sh of June the Democrats will
therefore meet on June 5th, and Chica-
go will most likely be fixed upon as the
place to hold the Convention. Both
questions will be settled when the Ma
tional Committee meets at Washington
on the 22l of the present month. week
from next Wednesday.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

THE English Parliament re-assembled
on yesterday. Its proceedings will be
watched with more than usual interest
and nowhere will the manifestation Of
that interest be so intense as in uDhap-
py, but always hopeful Ireland. Justice
TO Ireland is the last thing that a Tory
administration, such as the present one
of Lord Salisbury, will ever consent to.
Let us hope, however. that some method
may be discovered by which Salisbury
and his Tory henchmen may be sup
dressed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

RHODE ISLAND has Just issued copies
OF It's decennial census of 1885. which
gives the Safe a population of 3O4 2S4
Rhode Island exceeds every other State
IN Inc Union in the density of its popu-
lation-233 to the square mile-and
there are only five countries in the world
which have greater number of inhabi-
tants 10 the square mile. a like popu-
iAtlon 10 the square mile for the whole
nited States would give it = popuIa-
tlon oil SiO.OOO, GOO. Belgium has 4SI
10 the SQUARE mill, Great Britain and
Ireland ?S9, Italy 246, the Netherlands
3l2, and Japan 234. These ale the only
countries that exceed little RbodI e
density Of population.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

THE Committee OF the knights of
Labor, consisting OF three representa-
tive members OF the organization, again
appeared before Attorney General
Kirkpatrick at Harrisburg on yesterday
week, and presented to him a petition
containing facts TO the effect that the
Reading Railroad Company is violating
the Constitution OF the State by engag-
ing in the business Of mining coal. The
Attorney General read the paper and
then referred to the legal points involv-
ed, strongly limiting that the Railroad
Company had acquired the right to
mite and transport coal by an Act Of
the Legislature passed prior to the
adoption OF the new Constitution. He
promised the Committee to carefully
inquire into the matter and then render
his decision
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

THE employees in the Rochester n. Y,
shoe factories have just concluded q
three months strike at an estimated
loss in wages and savings o: $50, 600.
1t will take two years of saving to re-
pair damages. TIE loss OF the manu-
fscturers in rejected orders and custom
turned away has also been very heavy.
Their trade has been permanently
injured. The strikers will return &c
work at the wages they might have
earned all the time they have been idle
Was there ever conceived a more bung-
ling and costly method of arguing tht
wages question ?
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

In Spursuauce OF a resolution adopted
by the House al Washington, the Speak
er has appointed committee OF five
members to investigate tie Reading
Railroad strike AMI also the strike OF
the miners OF the Reading Iron aud Coal
Company. Governor Curtin at the head
OF Congressional Committee under
took TO Investigate the troubles on Jay
Gould's South Western Railroads a lit
tie less than two years ago, but it didn't
amount to anything We do not think
that this new Committee will accom-
plish anything more satisfactory than
resulted from Curtin's investigation.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
The verdiet Unanfmous

W. d. Sult, druggist. BIDpus. Ind, testi-
hes: Il can recommend Electric Bitters as
the very best remedy. Every bottle sold
has given relief in every case One man
took six bottles, and was cured of Rheuma-
tism OF 10 years Standing" Abraham Hare.
druggist, Bellyiiie. Ohio, afiirms: The
best selling medicine L have ever handled in
my 20 years experience, is Electric Bitters. -
ThOusands of others have added their tes-
timony. so that the verdict is unanimous
that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of
the Liver. Kidneys or Blood. ONLY a half
dollar bottle at f James drug store.
E5ensburg, or w. w. McAteer,s store. Lo-
retto.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

THE Pope has requested Cardinal
Simeoni to advise the Irish Bishops to
preach to the people of Ireland respect
for the law and to maintain a calmn
and prudent line OF conduct. The Pope
has also announced his intention of
sending to Ireland permanent Apos-
tolic Legate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

THE New York Tribune publishes q
carefully prepared estimate Of the pro5a-
bic population OF the United States at
the present time, and puts It at sixty
two and a half millions, an increase o:
over ten millions since the census of
1880.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
e BENsRURc, PA,

THE great coal companies have IN
ported twenty thousand unnecessary
laborers into the anthracite regions
within the last twelve years. They are
now reaping their harvest.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10

ANOTHER bank gone to smash in
Cincinnati. That city is as rotten in
finance as it is in politics.