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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
OLD COLLEGE DAYS.
Why American Boys Have No Reason {,
Desire TheIr Return.

Why American Boys Have No Reason to
Desire Their Return
Z American college boys have no
reason to desire the return of the
good old days" In the early days Of
Yale and Harvard the English system
of tagging" was in active force.
A freshman was not allowed to
wear his hat in the college yard unless
it was raining or showing. Fresh
men were required to do servile work
for any member of the faculty or of
the higher classes at any time of the
day, except study-hours or after nine
p. m They were also required to
shake and dust the college carpets
once a year, and to furnish. at their
own expense, all the bats, balls and
footballs used by the students In
some colleges corporal punishment was
in force, and pecuniary fines were i'm
posed for minor offenses.
A comparison of these fines is in
teresting. The amount exacted for
lying, drunkenness and fighting was
thirty cents, while the fine for card
playing was one dollar. Six cents was
imposed for too late attendance at
church. while twelve cents was the
penalty for too early an attendance,
this discrimination being made be-
cause it was found that the young
men were in the habit of standing at
the church door before service and
annoying those who entered.
We are glad to have seen the last OF
these good old days. Nothing was
aver GAINED bv crual+v and onDras
sion, and we can not help feeling that
many boy had to leave college in
his freshman year to escape from
these impositions who might have
been a great man--Golden Days.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
FOUR WEEKS OE m.
n Young Journalists Ambition Was
Soon SatI-ffed.

81 am lawyer now, but have been
other things as WELL" said a leading
lawyer
.'HOw's that?"
well, a balloonist, you might say.
That sounds strange, doesn't it?''
II was admitted.
"Have a seat, then, and will ex-
plain how rose from a journalist to
a lawyer, and yet in the interim filed
the third calling of aerialist as we'll.
The story runs this way: When
/ was a boy / was ambitious to
be a newspaper man, / left home
young and began to battle with
life By hard licks / soon accumulat-
ed a few dollars. That meant wealth
to me, inasmuch as 1t was the founda-
ton of long-cherished hope-a news
paper. Well, established myself in
the town of Sink, a place of some few
inhabitants, set squarely on the spot
where two public roads crossed. There
We're, consequently, four ways of out
let from the town. On the first Mon
day morning after reaching there the
Spread Eagle came out bright and
new. On the lookout for news had
vious Saturday night. At that festival,
while cycling the shady views, /
caught an item L published it under
the flaming head: John Country's
Town Hog The Tuesday after the
Eagle was issued / received a letter.
1t stated that if / ever came out his
road again he would make me think j
had been hugged by bear before l
got back One road out of four being
thus denied me was not bad, so / con-
tinued to fly the Eagle.
The second week of the papers ex-
istence was marked by an article that
read this way: Good Jack Corn shot
for stealing The next morning l
got letter signed Jack Corn saying:
Its true l am shot, but all care for
is to live to shoot one man. dare
you out this road was troubled,
but braced mp and decided to let the
two roads fly. Killing my compositor.
we decided TO let the Eagle sail as
usual
Il got information that n white man
had married his servant l should
have asked the road it came from, but
/ forgot / unfortunately concluded
il was black instead of a white girl,
and so the Eagle headline said: "A
White Man Marries a Niger / got
my third letter the following morning.
1t said he would not come into town
after me, but would just watch the
road for a chance. With only one road
left things looked blue.
The next week was election week.
and so we decided that the Eagle
must show its wings. The big can
vass was for sheriff. / wrote the arti-
Gle early in the week, but was just
waiting for returns to head it
pol1ed my head out OF the window of
my sanctum and heard from the multi
tude in a loud voice: John Ballots
got itr called back to the press.
Head it that John Ballot got it The
boy got that, but in the confusion from
the outside he also got it in the neck
The sheriff sent me letter. but was
not there to open it l took the Eagles
wings and left Sink behind When
/ landed / had not one bit of newspa-
per in me. and ever since have been
happy man. Memphis Appeal
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
ABOUT ORIENTAL RUGS.
How These Popular Articles OF Utillt
and Elegance Arc Made.

How These Popular Articles OF Utility
and Elegance Are Made.
One sometimes confounds the rugs of
Karabagh with those of Kazak, mas
much as they resemble each other in
appearance and designs, but when one
considers that the former are always
rectangular and the latter square their
distinction can be readily determined,
despite the similarity in general ap-
pearance.
The looms Of the people Of Afghan
istan and Beloochistan vary much in
dimension, but in those from the lat
ter country the length is always pro-
portiOnate to the width. One does
not find rugs here greater than three
or three and one-half meters by two or
two and one-half meters. The rugs
from Afghanistan are made on looms
much of the same character as the
Karabagh loom, and therefore the
width may not surpass a certain limit.
In Oushak, Gordez and the other
countries of Turkey, fabric is made
of almost any dimension, according TO
the means at their disposal and the
progress which this industry has
AAAeA-D III NA-S <19Ae1sAC pION4uCE5 u the
Ottoman Empire. The operation OF
weaving as practised in Asia Minor
does not differ essentially from the
methods in use in the Caucasus, but
the popularity of Smyrnas can best be
attested by the fact that there is ex-
ported annually of these rugs about
three hundred thousand square meters.
This process is carried on, of course,
without the aid of the shuttle, the only
utensils requisite being an iron comb,
large clumsy knife, a stick of wood,
tokmak "a kind of mallet) and a pair
of scissors. The fringe, which one
often sees at the two extremities of
rug, are the two particles of thread
which are bound around the bars of
the loom, and which are cut on COM
pletion of the rug.
One can hardly form an idea of the
enormous work and monotony in the
weaving of a rug, which, as is ex-
p.Aned above, is made by the union
OF millions OF knots by the hand So
familiar do these women become with
the operations of weaving, that it is
with difficulty one can see their hands,
so quickly do they manipulate the
threads. Y. Mail and Express.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
Two Wonderful Watches.

John Huntington and his son, w.
I. r Huntington, of Cleveland, own
two of the best watches in the world.
They are duplicates, and were ordered
by the senior Huntington in 1881 in
Geneva, Switzerland He agreed to
pay So. 600 in gold for two watches
that should combine every movement
thon known to the art of matchmaking.
a description of one answers for both
The case is of pure gold; the works
number 400 pieces. On the large dial
appear four smaller dials. The one at
the top shows by diagram of the sky
the changes of the moon, the firma-
ment being of lapis lazuli, studded
with golden stars The next dial to
the right shows the leap year, the
tiny hand moving around the circle
once in four years, and an auxiliary
hand shows each month. On the dial
at the bottom is a hand marking the
quarter seconds. and one showing the
day of the month. At the left, on the
fourth miniature dial, is hand point
ing out the day of the week, and
another the tide as it ebbs and flows.
Around the large dial, besides the
usual hour and minute hand, moves a
second hand and an extra horse timer,
SO arranged that the distance between
two horses at the finish is accurately
noted in quarter seconds BY pressing
button the past hour is struck on
deep-toned bell, one OF 4 chime; the
quarters are a more silvery note, and
q rapidly tinkling companion gives
the minutes The watch Is a stem
winder, and one spring furnishes the
motive power Where there is fric-
tion the pivots are set in rubies--N.
Y. Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
HUMOROUS.

Duplex (whose wife Is dressing
for balD-"Great grief Are you
going TO wear that extremely low
corsage?" Mrs. Duplex Certainly,
dear 1t will not appear too decollete
when have on my pearl necklace" -"
Jewellers Weekly.
-Mendicant (appearing at the back
door of the White House)- Gimme a
piece Of cross-barred, open-topped or
hvered pie" Servant-''You'u get
no pie of any kind" Mendicant-
Then I'll go round to the front door
and git a post-office. Ben and me used
to hook apples together when we wuz
boys"
We want it TO be distinctly under
stood that we are not one of those real
mean old things that believe that
woman is at the bottom of every
earthly trouble, but we must admit
that the demand for sealskin sacques
has had more or less to do with the dis
turbances about Behring sea--Wash-
ingtOn Post.
-Moldy-Looking Individual Ito
London police oficer) sir, I've
decided to give myself up. I'm Jack
the Ripper, and - Police Officer
Sorry, but we can't accommodate
you, as there are seven more Jack
the Rippers' downstairs, and you'll
have TO roost somewhere else. to-
night Life
He wasn't a bunco man. Did
you see any bunco men while you
were in New York, Uncle Abner?'
''No, sir, not one. - Il understand that
you met slick stranger who beat you
out of $3.50" 'Um-ah-well-yes, /
got playing cards one night and luck
was against me TO about that amount,
but that fellow want a buncc man.
If he was he'd have said so. Your
Uncle Abner knows enough to steer
clear of those bunco fellows. Epoch
Small boy-.'Pa, what is the diff
ference between a pessiInist and an
optimi5t?' Pa-'.Well, let me see il
l can illustrate. You know I'm often
discouraged, and things don't look to
me as if they'd ever go right Well, at
such times I can be said 10 be a pessi-
mist. But years ago when 1 was a
young man every thing looked bright
and rosy, and I was always hopeful
1AlSi4 " 90 al y pLALlASI. Now my son.
can you understand the difference be-
tween 4 pessimist and an OPTIMISM
Small boy-''Oh, yes; one is married
and the other isn't. t."-N. Y Weekly
Inventor - Eureka! Eure-''
Kansas Rustler - What mir you
Eurekerin' about?" Inventor - Il
have just completed my duplex indi-
Gator, little instrument that viii in
form its possessor OF the approach of
a cyclone before" Rustler-' Wal,
you've wasted your time. Nobody'u
buy. What we want yere is an indi-
Gator thafn inform is possessOr of
the approach OF a Eastern capitalist
soon's he gifts across the county line,
and give the feller with the Indicator
time TO grab up ms corner lot deeds
and git to the capitalist fore anybody
else knows he's comm. Puck
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
BOOmS NEEDN'T APPLY.
A Dakota City That Is Content TO Rel,
ON It's Merits

n Dakota City That Is Content 10 Rely
It's Merits
''Can you direct me to Pacific CityP"
asked the Buffalo man of a station
agent in Dakota as he left the train at
a ''huddle' of four or five houses
Right across the street for in
formation, sir" was the reply, and
the stranger walked across to a shanty
bearing the sign of Real Estate" and
put the same question TO a red-headed
man who was busy folding and sealing
a prospectus.
This is it sir." was the calm
reply.
''Why-why-"
'You are disappointed. of course. "
''Weu, rather"
''You expected to see city of at
least five thousand inhabitants. with
parks, schools. factories, churches
and all that?n
Yes, did"
That's the way with many others,
but it is not our fault. Our object IS
to go slow and sure, and not create
any thing like a boom to give ficti-
tious values. We have done remark
ably well thus far One year ago this
was the only structure in the city
Now look around"
''NOw L can count seven
Exactly. That's what our latest
prospectus says-improved seven hun
dred per cent in one year. Can you
ask town to go ahead faster than
that? Don't confound this wonderful
progress with a boom, however
BOoms have killed half this Western
country. We don't want any.
"How's real estate?" queried the
Buffalo man after awhile
advancing, of course. Six months
ago L offered lots on Washington av-
enue for SO foot. To-day l am ask
ing $50. That's 100 per cent, isn't it,
and nothing like a boom We are
simply growing on our merits alone.
That's the proper way for town to
grow"
ANY factories here?'
There are A year ago we had
none Now we have blacksmith and
a shoemaker That's an increase of
200 per cent, and want you to find a
town to match it There has been no
boom, however-remember that It's
just natural growth"
What's the population
That's one of the strong points in
nay new prospectus A year ago l
was here alone To-day we number
twenty-five souls Think of the tre-
mendous per cent of increase, All
legitimate and on its merits, and no
boom TO cause a rush
Are the future prospects fatter-
ing?''
Exceedingly so. This climate is
good for catarrh and a check on bill
lousness- Our seasons are very mild.
and farmer can get sixteen hours q
day out OF the hired man This is a
great distributing point for trade, and
the center of manufactures, and we
shall seek to have the National oapi-
tai removed here We expect six rail-
roads and two canals to cross here,
large universities have asked for sites,
and before the end OF the year Con-
gress will be asked for a public build
ing, to cost not less than a million
dollars FlatteringP l should re-
mark But we amt doing any crow
ing about it 1t might start boom,
and booms are the bitter foes of new
towns We want to grow on our
merits as the coming city of the
glorious West II you write any thing
for your home paper just put that in
all legitimate and solely on its mer-
its, and no booms need apply."-N. Y.
Sr,n
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
PATENTS AND PROGRESS.
marvellous Changes Wrought by Invent
ors I'm Half Century.

ors IN half a Century. ~
One need not be very old to have a
distinct recollection OF his daily life,
its conditions and environments. fiftv
years ago, when the patent system of
the United States was in its early in
fancy. Then the country was almost
entirely agricultural, for our grand
career In manufactures and the indus
trial arts was just beginning 1t Writ
ually began with the patent system
the creation of the patent office--and
1t has actually kept pace with the de-
Velopment OF the system, so that this
magnificent progress stands as the in
disputable results of the system. In
other words, we owe our splendid
achievements in manufactures and the
arts to the stimulus that the patent
laws have given to invention.
Fifty years ago most of the people
OF the United States were clothed from
the products of the domestic spinning
wheel and hand loom. The itinerant
shoemaker went from house to house,
setting up his bench and plying his
vocation in the farmers kitchens.
There We're no planing-mills; no shops
-CL SAAS man lldCLuTS OF doors, SaSleS
or blinds. All the work of the builder.
including carpenters and ioiners'
work, was done by hand. The car
penter, if good one, got one dollar a
day Coal was consumed but by few
families even in the large cities, and
by nobody in the smaller towns. The
tallors, like the shoemakers, came to
the house and made into clothing the
cloth woven by the mother and daugh-
ters, with a little help from the fulline-
mill that was generally near the grist-
mill of the neighborhood- The railroad
and telegraph had not yet added their
powers to the forces of civilization.
This year, 1889, is no more like 1889
than the hand-loom is like the cotton
factory. Better fifty years of Europe
than q cycle of Cathay." Better one
year of the life that is lived under the
new conditions than any number of
years of the hard existence that was
drudged out under the old conditions.
1t Is only the hopeless pessimistic
soul, the constitutional and incurable
grumbler, that does not recognize the
blessings that have come with the
march of invention. For all those, let
it be borne in mind, we are indebted to
the system that has fostered invention
and secured to inventors the right to
enjoy the products of their own brains
and hands ds-Inyentiye Ace.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
Some Scientific Computations.

According to the recent computa-
tion of a German scientist a snail in
one second moves .0015 meter; a man
walking. / 25 meters; a man on snow
shoes. 2 95 meters; the swiftest river,
4; a balloon in a calm, g. 4; sprinter,
IL; fly, z.6; fast steam boat. SIS; fresh
breeze, 10; torpedo boat Ills; very
fast skater. IL 6; running race horse,
l2-6; mountain torrent. 14.3; express
train, l6.7; ocean wave, p s; carrier
pigeon, q; swallow. 90; heavy cy-
clone, lie; sound, SS7; an equatorial
point. 463; cannon ball, 500 In a
second the moon moves l kilometer;
explosion OF gun cotton, So kilome-
ters; sun, 7.6; Sirius, 10 4; the earth,
29.5; shooting star on the average,
10; Halley's comet near the sun, 393;
storm on the sun, 4o2; cable current,
1900; telegraphic current II $50; in
duction current, Is. 400; light, 800, 600;
discharge of Leyden jar on copper
wire, IL Eillimeters through, 463, 500.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
GOLD WATER CURE
The Efficacy Of Baths In All Varieties o


The Efficacy Of Baths In All Varieties of
Fever.
The most rapid and certain way or
abstracting heat from the body Is by
.he cold bath. Within few years.
this has been extensively used in the
treatment OF typhoid fever. tits. how
ever, by no means new. In Ivy Dr.
William Wright, who afterward be-
came president Of the college OF ply
sicians, Edinburgh, was attacked with
fever on shipboard. On the fifth day
he caused himself to be douched with
cold salt water, and continued this re-
peatedly for several days with the hap
piest results. A few years later (11S7-
92) the celebrated DIR. Currie en-
ployed the cold bath in 153 recorded
cases of fever. Recent statistics COM
piled by DR.. Simon Baruch are simply
astounding in their results. In 2.15O
cases of typhoid fever, collected from
various sources by Brand, which were
treated with "strict cold baths" before
the fifth day, there did not occur a sin
gle death. In IS. .612 cases under diff
ferent methods OF treatment, collected
by Murchison, the rate Of mortality
was IS 62 per cent The revival OF the
treatment of typhoid fever by the cold
bath dates from a publication by DIR.
Brand in 1861 The routine OF this
treatment Is to immerse the patient in
bath. at temperature OF GO degrees,
for fifteen minutes every three hours.
so long as his temperature Is as high
as los degrees. 1t is, Of course, es-
sential that patients oe placed in the
bath and removed from the bath to the
bed with the least possible fatigue
Forum
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
HARRY GOT 1T.
An Episode That Brought Tears OF Joy to
Many Eyes


An Episode That Brought Tear. OF Joy to
Many Eyes
Among the passengers on a Western
train the other day was a woman very
much overdressed accompanied by q
bright-looking nurse-girl and a self
willed, tyrannical boy Of about three
years
The boy aroused the indignation Of
the passengers by his continual shrieks
and kicks and screams and his vicious
ness toward his patient nurse. He tore
her bonnet, scratched her hands, and
finally spat in her face without a word
of remonstrance from the mother.
Whenever the nurse manifested any
frmness the mother chided her sharp
ly. Finally the mother composed hen
self for nap, and about the time the
boy had slapped the nurse for the fifth
time wasp came sailing in and flew
on the window of the nurses seat
The boy at once tried TO catch it
The nurse caught his hand and said,
coaxingly:
Harry mustn't touch. Bug will
bite Harry"
Harry screamed savagely and began
TO kick and pound the nurse
The mother without opening her
eyes or lifting her head cried out
sharply:
why do yoI tease that child so.
MaryP Let him have what he wants
at once"
"But, ma'am, it's a"
Let him have il, / say"
Thus encouraged Harry clutched at
the wasp and caught it The scream
that followed brought tears Of joy to
the passengerss' eyes.
The mother awoke again
MARY" she cried, ''let him have
itr'
Mary turned in her seat and said.
confusedly:
Hes got II. ma'amr'-B Boston Jour
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
LULU AND LITTLE BEE.

Lulu played two summers,
Little Bee, one
Such the tender legend
That was traced upon n stone
In a BRAN braided corner
or n graveyard, gray and lone,
Near the old home OF my childhood
In the darling days a-gone-
Lulu played two summers,
Little Bee one"
Twas but a boyish stroller
OF the telds when first read
The quaint and fearful record
On that tablet 10 the dead;
Ihave passed the chiseled marbles
Stretching skywArd TO the sun,
To muse upon the meaning
OF the mystic lines that run:
"Lulu played two summers.
Little Bee, one.
did not understand IL then,
But Eow It's all so clear.
God knows my foolish fancy needs
No cold interpreter;
o, poet-mother! never bard
That ever brcathed has spun
A strain OF sweeter pathos
Than your poor heart has done
Lulu played two summers,
Little Bee, one"
James Newton Matthews, in Chicago News
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06

-Maude-"Algernon, you know a
year ago 1 told you 4 would not marry
you until you had saved $4,000" Al
gernOn-''Yes, but" Maude-"And
six months ago 1 told you thought
We could get along on $1,000" Al
gernon But still" Maude-.'WeIl.
how much have you by this time?"
Algernon-.. Exactly $50. o. " Maude
Don't you think that-that-thati is
near enough ?''-Time
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
Ancient Iron and Steel

The Oldest pieces OF wrought iron
now known are probably the sickle
blade found by Belzoni under the base
OF sphinx in Karnac, near Thebes;
the blade found by Colonel Vyse i'm
bedded in the masonry of the great
pyramid, and the portion of a cross
cut saw exhumed at Nimrod by Mr.
Layard-al of which are now in the
British Museum A wrought bar OF
Damascus steel was presented by King
Porus 10 Alexander the Great, and the
razor steel of China for many cent
uries surpassed all European steel in
temper and durability of edge. The
Hindoos appear to have made wrought
iron directly from the ore, without
passing it through the furnace, from
time immemorial, and elaborately-
wrought masses are still found in
India which date from the early cent
uries Of the Christian era.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06

F-Will you marry me, Bridget?n a
widower of a year asked his cook.
'.How many afternoons a week out
have. sorr?" she asked in reply.
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