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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
A Story OF Dom Pedro.


a story is told of the ex-Empersr
which well illustrates his character.
When Bitk the Empress be visited the
Centennial. Exhibition in Philadelphia,
and attempted TO examine the exhibits.
he was wedged in immovably by q gap
ing, excited, bu. good natuIed mob.
He bere this patiently tor two days.
On the third DAY he resolvedSon bold
change.
Il shall see nothisg," be said 10 his
Secretary 81 must be incognito.
Procure me some disguise" !"
The next day a stout farmer. with a
coat, not Of the newest, his wife on his
aim in rather shabby merino gown.
shouldered his way through the gates,
and spent the day in a close study of
the educational systems of different
countries. They thus quietly and un-
noticed continued their observations for
a week.
OBe day they met group Of twenty
Brazilian civil engineers, students from
a great polytechnic school. The young
| men stopped, hesitated in AmsZement,
and then, with loud cheers and great
excitement. saluted the farmer and his
wife, bowling TO the ground and kissing
their hands.
"It is the Emperor - one OF them ex-
planned, with tears in bis eyes, to by
staDder. HE is more than eur king
he is the father of the people Out OF
1 his own scanty purse he supports me
and nine other orphans at our school.
/ In every country he has his orphan
boys in colleges and universities that
they may bring knowledge OF all arts
and sciences to Brazil. He has iEst
made tour 81 Eurspe, and he comes
/ here to find new inventions and ideas
! that may be useful TO his people -
The boys gathered closely around
Dom Pedro, while he asked each as to
his health and success. He knew each
ot ''his boys" personally, and was loved
( by them with deep, grateful affection.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
Death TO Bed-Bugs.

Close the doors and windows OF the
room as tightly as conveniently possible
and burn about half pound of sulphur
In the room. To guard against any
possibility OF ere. put the sulphur in a
shallow vessel and set It on a brick
placed inside pan partly filled with
water. The sulphur may be more con-
veneEtly lighted with hot iron than
with matches. Open bureau drawers
and other closed receptacIes and let the
bedding lie loosely around the room.
AT the end OF the time open the doors
and windows and let the fresh air cir
eulate through. Do this from the ont
side OF the room. as the sulphurous
oxide is very suffocating. The room
may be entered in a very short time.
Ihere may be a slight odor OF the
suiphurous oxide in the room for a few
days but this wil'harn no one. have
never known this method to fail.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
A Woman Marries a Woman.

An extraordinary story, hcst publish
Cd by Vienna newspaper and then
generally dIsbelieved, has since bsen
confirmed N every particular, says
from Vienna "A young
man calling himself Count Sander Way,
who pretended to have fallen out with
his family in Hungary, married last
August a teacher at klagenfurt, sged
27, a daughter of an inspector OF woods
and forests there. The marriage took
place on lonely farm in Hungary,
certain Father Imre officiating at the
wedding ceremony.
"The newly married couple lived to-
gether some time. and afterwards visit
ed the girls parents in hlagenfurt'
where The fatheI-in-aw was constantly
fieeced by the alleged Count. Quarreis
arose, and ultimately it turned out that
the young Counts tales OF himself we're
all inventions. The persons he referred
TO were imaginary, and theisspector was
convinced he was a swindler. Some
thing still stranger. and. indeed, IN
paralleled, soon came to light. Ere
long 1t was found that the so-cslled
Count was in reality a woman Of SO, tie
Countess Sarolta Way, daughter OF the
Colonel of Henveds, Count Landislsus
Way, one OF whose daughters, named
sorolta, had been educated as boy.
"All her life abe had worn male at
tire, and recently had appeared IN the
uniform of the Honysds. She published
a collection eff poems under the name of
Sander, and associated with young men,
who were not in the secret. In many
amusenents. Frem Pesth, where &C.
centricities of that sort are hardly a
rarity. she disappeared about q year
ago, after which she was not again
heard OF till her arrest. OBJ demand Of
her nominal father-in-law 81 Hlagenfut.
1t is probable that Father Imre was not
a priest, and that the girl, in going
through the form OF marriage. only ex-
ecuted another ecceBtrieity ~ order to
procure money, OF which she was in
great need. -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
What he Discovered.

4 hsndsOmely-dressed Young Hs-
eu5ered a crowded street car, A g
whiskeTed OLD fellow, wearing 5r
slouch hat and a suit of homes
clothes, got up and said
Miss, take my seat. tor'. .
as well as these here gentlemen
nodding at several men-"hur
diskiyered shat I'ys got more POI
ness. -
The young woman sat down Wit
thanking the old fellow and G.
winking at q woman whom she E-
whispered
How do you like my gallant c2-
hoosier Dsn't you think ,AE
would cut quite a figure in az
museum ?
Miss. said the old fellow, F-
smile which clearly bespoke his u1.
ssiousness OF the unladylike rid1
II b'leve I left my pocket. book llg
that seat. VIII you please Sc. ,
mint 2"
The young woman got up. Tx
fellow sat down, and str0kiIg
whiskers, remarked
"B'leve I'll just keep on q S.
here Miss. I stood up so much
dime museum just now that Fms
tired. I've got a leetle more polls
than these here gentIemsn, but j.
diskivered that l amt got LII
much sense"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
The Compass.

The compass needle points TO the
north because practically the earth is a
magnet, not differing essentially in Its
magnetic properties from bar of mag
netized steel. 1t has two poles Of great,
est intensity, and like most large steel
magnets there are several supplemental
oles of lesser intensity. Just as the
pole of one bar magnet attracts the end
of another, so the magnetic poles of
the earth behave toward poles of the
compass needle, unlike poles repelling
each other.
1t is well TO modify the statement
that the needle points north and south.
as a matter OF fact. There are but few
localities on the earth where it does
point due north and south. and these
are constantly changing. An irregular
line drawn from the mouth of the OIin.
oco River, through the east coast Of
Hayti, Charleston, S. c., and Detroit,
Mich, represents very nearly the line
present time. In all the places east of
this line the north end OF the needle
swings slightly to the westward; in al
places west Of it, to the eastward. at
the mouth of the Columbia River the
variation of the compass is abou: twenty
two degrees east; in Alaska it is from
forty to sixty degrees east; midway
between New York and Liverpool it is
about thirty fiye degrees west.
The reason is that the compass needle
points, not to tae!geogrsphicsl,: but to
the magnetic poles, and these do not
coicnide in position. The magnetic
north pole, is.at present, on or near the
southwestern shorej of BoothR PENN
sula, In the northern part OF North
America.
Its position is constantly chang ing.
and Ia the last five hundred years Ii has
moved about half the distance round the
geographical pole. During the. three
hundred years in which observations
have been carefully made at the Mag
netic Observatory IN Parts, the yaria-
items have changed from eleven degrees
twenty minutes east of north, TO twenty
two degrees ten minutes west.
IN the United States the rate of the
change In variations diff.rs much in.dif-
ferent parts OF the country. In Wash
ingtoa Safe il changes at the rate of
about seven minutes year; il Arizona
and New Mexico it Is stationary; in the
New England Stases it is from one 70
three minutes per year.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
An Immense Estate.

In Dakota aEd Manitoba the employ
ment OF single wheat estates OF a hun
ared respers and an aggregate o: three
hundred laboIers for se2son has been
regarded as 90 nsthing unprecedented
ia agricultural history; but on one sugar
estate II Cuba-El Bal5os-from if
teen hun dred to two thousand hands
invariably negroes, are employed, who
work under severe disci 9line, In watches
or relays, during the grinding season,
by day and by night, the same as in the
large iron mills and furnaces Of the
United States and Europe. Al tho
same time there are few village CONS
munities where a like number Of peo-
pie experience the same care and sur,
yeillance. The male workers occupy
quarters walled snd barricaded from
the women, and the women from the
men. There are in every village an IN
Urinary, lyiug-in hospital, phycicisn,
an apothecGry, chapel and a priest.
At night aDd morning mass is said in
the chapel and the crowds sre always
large. There IS of Q Sunday less re-
stTaint, though ceaseless espionage is
never RENTED. On these days and on
parts of holidays there is rude mirth,
ruder music, and much dancing. This
picture is given somewhat in detail, be-
cause it illustrates how all-pervGdlng
and tremendous are the forces that are
modifying soeisty everywhere in civil
lied, partially oivilizsd, and even bar.
barous countries, coniOiztly with the
new conditions Of production and con.
sumption.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
The YOuBg Lawyers Mistake.

Being told that In one of the Russ.
law courts there is a case which b
been en- the docket for more than &
years, we are reminded OF the humil,
ing fact that our own beloved couu-
is very young. Ssill we are proud
say that in the brief time of our nsti~
al existence we have succeeded IN
cumulatirg q large and choice assy
ment of cases which not only show q
excelent Intentions. but give evids,
that in time we will have the n
elaborate and costly collection OF q.
tieue law Cases in the civilized Wo,
We believe we have no such chumE
lawyers as the one OF whom the
is ted in London. When he wa
young man his father retired n
practice, leaving the business TO ht
Within a week the young lawyer ca.
home, and proudly proclaimed
We'll, father, 1 have done IN IN
days what you couldn't do in ell
years of your practice" p"
What is that nv son -
81 have settled that Noe estate cas-
Settled it, my son = Settled Is.
you say?''
Yes, father. have settled g
three days, ard could have done
one If the Judge had been at LCr
Young man" said the astou-
parent, you a-e an ass, a consuu-
ass. Why, sir, four generations
your ancestors have lived on lis.
and grown rich, and yOu ard
children-s children might have g.
tie same il you had not been an a..
I gious ass.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
The CrOOkedest Road in an c,.1e


The most wonderful piece OF r,R.
engineering l hsye seen, writes =.
spondent, is on the line of the Pi.a.
Air Line in Western North Car,~
The railway leaves Ashville, tba. -.
sanitarium, ard proceeds as bsst :.
TO ge. over the Blue Ridge MoBrs.'
First there is the swannanos ,n.
which is abont a third Of mill =.
After that there are six other -
meWhat shorter. Then from q.
of the Mountain the railway unss-..,
10 wind its way down into'tbs vail.
the Catawoa River, or Mil r.
The road here is probably the sr,,l
est in all creation. L wind, ana
winds. and twists and goes ov,r
under Itself in such way tha.nb,
fectly bewildering TO the travels, :,
wishes to know in what particuls, n.
OF the mountain he is. From Linz.
Bernard, q peak that Is aboy. d
Round Knob Valley, the railysv -
be seen II seventeen different p,..
working up and down the uoBr,.,.
and no two sections Of the track a..
the same elevation, The train ~
down this crooked iron patbwsy g.
all steam shut OF and the mai,
turned on. It is scary experience .
a traveller, bnt the road bed is ns,i..
and has all been rock balIasted AVID h
with heaviest steel rails, and no A..
dent has ever yet taken place on n,
portion of the line, so the chances :.
thai. startling as the ride is to a tn,
eler accustomed to level railways. II.
haye less grades and crooks upon then
But anyhow it is worth risking. som.
thing, if it is any risk, to eDjoy II
wonderful ride winding round Is
mountains and descending into o
valley of the Catswbs.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
seed from Large Crops.

Whsnever an extra large crop OF good
quality has been greWn it il is worth
while 10 pay more than its market price
for seed from it for future sowing and
planting. The old rule. Like pro-
ducss like" has not been abolished,
and, other things being equal, seed
from good crop is likely 10 produce
more and ket:sr than seed from a poor
one. We always se!sct the best ears
from corn for planting. With other
grains Il Is net so easy or large scale
to select individual plants In q crop to
furnish seed. Is is done partially by
choosing the largest, plumpest grains
and winnowing out the poorest ones,
but many OF the heavy grains have been
borns by weaker plants. On 2 field
where the whole crop produces heavily,
the bulk OF the seed Is presumably good;
but 1t may for that reason require richer
ground and mere careful cultivation 10
maiRtain It's superiority. In talking
with farmer recently, he suggested
tia. the gradual falling-of In produc-
tiOn OF the bean crop was owing 10
planting beans that were apparently slI
right, but which had been grown from
plants producing few pods and not many
beans in pod. He believed the pro-
liacacy OF the bean crop could be enor-
mously increased by bresdIng up, select
Ing seed for series OF years from plants
that produced most. The experiment
is well worth trying, but it nust be re-
msmbeTed that If this increased pro>
ductiyeness is to be maintained, the
plants having this proliis habit must
be daly fed and cared for.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
Indian Ghost Feast.

Not long ago several hundred Sioux
Indians held a grand ghost feast'' ia
the vicinity OF Fort Lincoln, Dakota,
and the few whites who witnessed the
ceremonies were highly interested.
This curious feast Is held in great
reverence among the Sioux. but It will
soon be abolished by order of the Indian
Bureau, and like the great ''sun dance" :"
be buried with the traditions OF the
past.
The feast is given by the relatives OF
those who have died or been killed in
battle. At she Fort Lincoln feast there
were six ghosts" represented by ak
stakes about four feet In length, set up
In the ground Within the medicine
lodge.
A piece OF buekskin was sewed over
the top Of the stakes, upon which were
marked eyes, nose, and mouth, to rep-
resent the head. Fifteen Indians, with
the big medicine man OF the village,
were seated in a tepee, smoking, but
rarely speaking to each other. Some
live Goals were brought and placed be-
fore the medicine man, who threw upon
them sage brush, and holding some
pemmican In the smoke ehanted weird
song.
Little children were brought in and
given the meat to eat, and SONS had
their ears pierced. The pemmican was
also given to the others In the lodge.
and some placed az the feet OF the
ghosts.
Around the outside of the medicine
lodge horizontal poles were placed. and
to these the presents which the
ghosts were to distribute were suspend
ed, consisting of blankets, leggins,
beaded moccasIns,, tobacco bags, and
eagle feathers. After remaining for
some time In view, they were removed
and placed about the ghosts in the
lodge.
The relatives now entered the lodge
to commune with the departed spirits.
and the presents were distributed to the
favored ones.
The squaws sung and and cried, and
made great exhibition OF their grief.
They cut their flash with knives, suffer-
Ing excruciatinG pains without a mur-
mur to sppease the wrath OF the evil
spirits, so that their loved ones may be
joyful In the happy hunting grounds.
Upon the conclusion or the feast the
lodge was taken down and the naked
ghosts left standing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
Give Stock Clean Food.

This is true economy. II has been
well said that flthiness and uneleani.
ness in food tend toward disease. The
dissolution and decay OF an animal fed
on impure feed is much more hasty af-
ter death than that Of one fed pure
food. To some extent it rs advisable tC
make scavengeT Of the hog tut lei
him gather up things that decay and hs
can sssimilate with profit to the owner
before that decay and send off un
healthy and offensive fumes, and mol
after they have decayed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
shIIoh's consumption cure.

This Is beyond question the most success
ful Cough Medicine We have ever sold. a few
doses Invariably cure the worse cases OF
Cough, Group. and Bronchitis. while its
wonderful success In the cure Of Consump-
ION Is without parallel in the history of
medicine. Since its first discovery It has
been sold on guarantee, a test which no
other medicine can stand. II you have a
Cough we earnestly ask you to try it.
Price 10 cents, 80 cents. and s1.Oo. IL your
Lungs are sore, Chest orSack lame, us
shiioh's Porous PIasters. Soldby DR.. T
Dawson
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21

PETROLEUM. says prominent writer,
was known, and even refined, long be-
gore it was used in lamps. A French
man is said to have spent years in
vain endeavors to construct a lamp in
which the new oil would burn without
smoking. Accident helped him at last.
Ve1ed by failure, he had drained his
wine fiask-a long-necked, thin bottle,
like oil flasks-and set it down on the
table SO hard as to break the glass
bottom. He then chanced to catch it
up and hold it over the fame of the
smoking lamp. The smoke ceased, and
be saw that what he sought was found.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
Answer This Quesfion

Why do so many people We 5s
us seem to prefer 10 suheF 4,1,-.,s-,
miserable by Indigestion CC.,ipc
Dizziness, Loss Of Appetite, CoU.s,l sar ,
the Food, Yellow Skin, Whe.n ~ VI
we will sell them Shiloh's system d
guaranteed TO cure them. Sou -
DeYiSon.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
shiloh. Cntarrn pon,.,x

Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy, a marvellous
cure Ior Catarrh Diphtheria, Canksr Mouth
ana Headache. With each bottle there is
an lneenious Nasal Injector for the more
s1eSessiuI treatment Of these Complaints
without extra charge. PrIce ia csnts SniS
by DIT j. Dawson. Soiu
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21

SALESMES 70 cell choice Nursery Stock
Liberal Pay Weekly. VIII pay salary but ear
give somsthing better to workers. No Experience
needed. Write EEED. r. oUsG. Nursery n an
Rochester, y. Y. = PRESENT. II you be.
come my agent aud 7seil 500, will give ~ Tor
copy OF this al. Cut this out
Dec. Q. so
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21

Don't hit a man when he is down he
may get up.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-31
The West Virginia Governor
ship.

The contest over the Governorship Of
West Virginia is nearing final decision
before the Legislature of that State. The
election took place in 1855, and if General
Nathan Gofr succeeds in establishing his
ight to the office the Democratic oJstruc-
tionists Will have succeeded in keeping
him out of it for the greater portion of the
term TO which he was elected. They are
just now engaged in asserting that he
should not be seated beaase railroad Ia
borers we're colonized in the State on
line in which Stephen 3. Elkins is a stock
holdor. Mr. Elkins being a Republican.
The President of this road IS ex-senator
Henry c. Davis Of West Virginia, a Demo
crat. The majority Of the members OF the
Board of Directors are Democrats. The
accusation is therefore Of much the same
type as the mud-linging of Democrats
against Democrats little further west, IN
| Ohio
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-31
Port erSVille.
The latest catch. "la grippe .

The latest catch, 'la grippe.
Common question, "John, have you got
the grippe7 Think so, l sneezed yester.
day"
Galley Glenn, Jr spent few days last
week at Beaver Falls.
There was preaching at the house of Mr.,
| Isaac Moore on Tuesday evening of this
week.
Miss Annie Scheidemantle, of Sharps-
burg, visited her uncles in town last week.
Miss Emma Miller is surviving an at
tack Of the pneumonia
Miss Kate Musser, whose parents live a
mile east of town, died at Beaver Falls
last week, we extend our heartfelt sympG
thy to the family in their sore afiiietion.
Mr.. John Winner has been notified by
his present housekeeper that he will have
to secure another one, as she eontemplates
(O getting married.
Charley Kennedy and family, of Sharon,
Pa, are the guests of Mr.. Kennedy's par
ents this week
Ed Kennedys have taken up their
abode in the house lately vacated by the
Tebay family.
James Powell, our present coiieing
mail carrier talks of resigning his position,
Why not apply for a continuous route
from this place to Harmony and then es-
tablish a hack line; Is thge not many in
itl
Mr.. Galley, our photographer, has re-
turned after few weeks absence,
W H. Heberling, Sr., and W. II. Heb
erling, Jr, spent last week with friends in
Economy.
W. u. Dunn and wife spent Sabbath
wi tn Mrs. Dunn's parents at Lancaster
Hal Hebering talks OF Withdrawing bis
name from the membership roll of the
lodge at this place; buying the property at
present occupied by Mr.. Yanorsdale, and
boarding the school teacher next winter.
How high is ambition!
a general surprise was manifest in town
on Monday morning when it was announc-
ed that Lily Lehman had left for Missouri.
There makes her second trip Wost having
come home from there in the early sum
mer. Her quiet and lady-lke disposition
have gained for her the esteem and res
pect of many here who regret to see her
leave and who join with her family in
wishing her safe journey and happy
life.
Mr. Duncan, of Camp-run, visited DR..
Wilson's on Sabbath evening.
The ndest-hearted man Gn record is
supposed to live in the neighborhood Of
Portersvillc He will come TO town, tie
his beast, take of his overcoat which he
substitutes Tor robe or horse blanket as
a covering for the animal, and then do his
shopping After which he dons the coat
again and returns to his domOcile.
A union of of the Presbyterian congrega-
tion here and the Princeton congregation
is about to be perfected. The move is
good one aud together they can support
pastor nicely, while if they remained sepa-
rate it would be done with difficulty.
VITA