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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
Making an E0lian Harp.

Have any Of our friends ever haard0,
an 9Jlias harp? Il is musical .Ls.r..
ment made by the Gr eks mar7
centuries ago and hung auoER
the trees OF where the wind e0a3
blow upon it, making low soft.
musical sound.
They are very easily. made and fDeY.
pensiYe, for most OF the material can
te found about the house. Wax 8
piece of button-hOls twist about tgo
and a half feet long tie eacl end
strongly to a small peg and thrust the
pegs down the creElce between the tRO
sashes of your Southern Viudog
stretching the silk g tightly as posi-
BILE. 1t will surprise you. the sweet
ness and variety of the tones the wind
VIII bring from it. Having done Jhs
you may be moved 70 20 further and
prepare q more elaborate aolisu harp
Take some quarter~iuch wood and
make box the Length Of your wfui1v
frame, four or five inches deep and II
or seven inches wide. Bore lev
small holes in a circle near What will be
the upper side OF the back II the bnZ.
When placed ia the wicdoW with the
open side Of he hox. fas,eu TWO rTldg-s
like violin bridges, one at each tud,
aud stretch on them several strings Of
dne estgut, contriving a series o.
screw pins 10 aid in the JIgh sire ching
necessary, and allow of Their b-ll
tuned TO one note. Then raise !1E
sash on the windy side of The bg1ss
and the wind passing through ths hlIs
and over the strings will 10 i's rslg
and falling make sweet music
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
The New Method OF Farming.

There is so much interest in irriga.
tion, now that the surveys Of Maj.
Powell and the department reports
prove that il is necessary in a third of
our territory, that Colorado items are
timely. Field and Farm OF that State.
is enthusiastic over the increased pro-
duct OF corn and alfalfa. These two
leading products must necessarily be
utiliZed--reduced to money--aud the
farmer can hnd no better way than by
feeding them to steers. Those who
have not the cattle can buy them chesp-
ly Of those who have, and hazard but
little risk of making it pay. At the
present outlook there will be no for>
tunes in feeding, but il the farmer gets
o fair price for his hay and grain pro
duct, with trils added for his time
in feeding, he should be content. This
can be done cheaply by good selection
and judicious management.
Let us see for moment 4 we'll
bred twelve hundred pound steer can
be bought these times for for two and a
half cents per pound, which will be $50.
Now II this steer is put to feeding by
the middle OF the present month and
ton OF and half or two tons of alfal-
IA and Thirty bushels of corn, he will
have Increased his weight 200 POUNDS,
when he should bring in the market at
home OF abroad from S45 to S55. This
would give the farmer thirty>fivs cents
bushel for his corn and s5 ton for
his hay. To obtain this increased
weight in the steer he must be shelter
ed though, and fed with an abundance
--must never be allowed 70 go hungry
or shiver with cold.
a few years ago we were jeered At
for saying that Colorado would yet be.
come grand feeding and bser pTodus
ing state. Those who doubted then do
not doubt now. They have become the
advocates Of it. It is patent that we
have the ability 20 feed aud fatten large
numbers of csttle--can do as cheaply as
any and at as good a profit as any OF
the western states. II is being done.
In fact our farmers will soon be forced
TO feed or have no market for tbeil
leading products. They have the best
feed IN the world and the best climate
IN which TO feed. It only needs the
knowledge how 10 feed, when to feed
and the determination to do. when sue
cess will reward the undertaking.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
''Rats."

No. not the slang phrase y, "a
bolhersoms little rodent. -....
natives of Asia, and their T'''' s.rp
ward belong to comparatively -,,qu
times. TIE little animal was ~.
IN ancient Europe. The blseA ,' ,,r.
came % Europe from Asia 10 '-I ,.,s.
teenth century, and about in5 ,3.rf
ming Of the seventeenth or W u.,s5 10
of the sixteenth century, De o. ,an.
America. The black rat "'' =, ,rsy
mon house rat until the brow This
raj made his appearance 10 1,ss By
gray rat came 70 Europe ron -r A. 'bs
wav Of Russia. and is DOW Sn'. ..,,3i'ioD
Norway rat from 'nis5aA5D vrrrand
that it came from Norway 10 ,o,srics.
and from tho latter c'un'N
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
This is WOman's Way.

Watch a woman or girl read q
novel And IL you have watched one
OF course you have watched more. 1t
is curious and interesting work. and
gives one quite an insight into a wo-
mans character, for they do not all
read novels in the same way. or course,
the majority read for the simple object
OF passing the time away. without car
ing for plot or style; they devour
everything that comes in their way,
hardly knowing what it Ia, and forget
the whole story as soon as they have
turned the last leaf and closed the
covers. These are Old hands at novel
reading, and so long as they fnd tenn
porary amusement and time flies by
onnOticed, they care not for lovers
is happy or unhappy.
But the sentimental school girl and
the romantic young woman go to work
in very different way. They will
pick up book and read the title ats
tentively, and then the title page,
gloating over it If by chance it hap.
pens to contain line of poetry. They
will then open the book at the first
chapter and read its title and the few
head lines of poetry, if there happens
to be any, and so OH through the whole
volume TO the very last page. In this
way they get vague idea OF the story
and gauge the interest of it by the
quantity and quality of the verse con-
tanned there in. After the skimming
process they begin to read at the be-
ginning of the first chapter and read
steadily through to the very end, thor
oughly enjoying it all, and remember
Ing fairly wei. the plot, names of the
characters and the principal incidents.
These readers have good memories.
They read more for the story than for
style, and reading slowly and carefully,
they do not go through many books
during the year, but re member those
they do read. Opposite to this class of
readers ls the unsentimentai and un
romatic class of women, both married
and single. They skip all the poetry
and most OF the love- making, and care
only for the development of the plot.
They galiop through book after book of
intricate plots, caring little how the
story ends, so far as a hero and heroine
are cOocerned-they are simply curious
TO know how much ingenuity the au-
thor can show in the weaving of a plot.
The impatient woman reads the last
chapter of the novel frst. She mzst
know the fate of the lovers before she
car consent to harrow her mipd by
reading of their quarrels, disappoint>
ments and separations. Whsn she
lears in the last chapter that every
thing comes out all right and every
body is happy, then, and then only.
will she turn to ths first page and pa
tisntly wsde through 300 pages Of
DOUBTS and trials, confident OF the ulti-
mate joys of the despairing lovers.
And then there is the woman who
reads only for style. caring nothing for
plot, and taking little interest in The
characters, Another type is the won
an who reads for information, devour-
ing everything that comes ID her way,
reading rapidly and carelessly, it ap-
pears to observers, but she gets what
che reads for and remembers it. Ask
her sny question about the books she
reads or has read within the past four
or i've years. and she Will give you an
accurate answer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10

AN Irishmen who had been brought
up in the country where stones lay loose
about the fields, and the dogs, on ac-
count of the sheep, were kept in ken
nels, visited 8 city for the first time,
when a dog rushed out and barked at
him. He stopped and tried to pull a
stone out of the pavement to fling at
the c ur, but found it fast. Faith, ~
said he, ''th!s is qusre coantree where
all the dogs are loose and all the stones
are tied ~
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
shnoh'. Uonsumption cure.

This Is beyond question the most success
full Cough Medicine we have ever sold. few
doses Invariably cure the worse cases OF
Cough, Group. and Bronchitis. while its
wonderful success In the cure OF Consump-
Ton is without parallel IN the history OF
medicine. Since It's drst discovery it has
been sold on guarantee, a test which no
other medicine can stand. IL you have a
Cough we earnestly ask you 20 try il
Price 10 cents, 80 cents. and sl.oo. IL your
Lungs are sore, Chest or Sack lame, US
Snlloh's Porous PlasterS. Soldby Dr. T. J
Dawson.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
Answer This Question.

Why do 70 many people we see around
US seem 70 prefer TO suffer and be made
miserable by Indigestion. Constipation,
Dizziness, Loss Of Appetite. Coming Up of
the FOcd, Yellow Skin, when for as cents
We will sell them Shiloh's System VitaIizeI
guaranteed to cure them. Sold by DR.. 7 }
D5ylson.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
Have You Read
The Philadelphia Times
This Morning?

THE TIMES Is the most extensively circulated
and widely read newspape published IN Penn
sylvania. It's discussion OF public msn
and public measures Il Ia the interest
OF public integrity, honest government and pros
porous industry and 10 knows party or person.
al allegiance IN treating pubIlc Issues Ia the
broadest and best sense n family and general
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10

THE SUNDAY EDITION is no, only a com
plete newspaper, but a Magazine OF Popular Lit
erature. It's sixteen large pages clearly printed
and attractiyely illustrated. contain as much good
literature, by the foremost writer's Of the world,
as any Of the popular ulonthlies. some OF the
Newspapers IN New ork, Boston and Chicago
print a greater number OF pages upon Sunday,
but these are for the most part occupied with Rd-
vertisemsnts. The merchants In those cities con-
centrate nearly all their advertising in the sun
day papers, while In Philadelphia they have
iouud Il more advantageous 10 advertise on week
days we'll.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
sntIoh's CatnrrH Re'"' =,

sh,Ioh's Catarrh Remed" Noui,
cure for Catarrh D.Ph,n..Ib'1nr .b 1nro-.ls ZEN nor
and Headache. WIN - for Wr ,sla'
an ingenious Nasal lnl,' ,basp CONF soI
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UItbout extra charge.
by DIT. j, Dawson
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10
THENFWS % NJ WnRLn-

THE TIMEs has all the facilities OF advanced
journalism tor gathering news from all the quar-
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ISOLATED Press. now covering the whole world In
its scope making ~ the perfection Of SEws-
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10

CONTRIBUTORS 10 the Sunday edition Of
TIE TINES ILclude many OF the foremost names
In contemporary literature. both ARericau and
European. It's contents cover the whole neld Of
human interest with all that is freshest and best
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10

OUR BOYS AND jiIRLS-No other news
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10

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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10

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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-10

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IRE PIrTsBURGH WEEKLY PosT contains
twelve pages each weeks coIums or readlnx
matter
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13

We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we have been selling Dr. Kings New
Discovery for consumption, DIR. Kings
New Life Pills, Buclllen's Arnica Salye and
Electric Bitters, and have never handled
remedies that sell as well, or that have
given such universal satisfaction We do
not hesitate to guarantee them every time,
and we stand ready to refund the pnrcbas1
price, If satisfactory results do not follow
their use. These remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their merits.
G. Smith & Co., druggists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13

Look out for Watkins addition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13

The capitol building is the resort of all
the female cranks Of the country, and you
may md one or more here any day of all
classes, from Charlotte Smith who repre
sents the Working Women's League. down
TO the crazy woman who is known as the
Witch Of Endor. Charlotte Smith is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
DON'T FORGET.

Newcomb is on fourth floor, Scott Auer-
bach building. Finest photographs in the
west guaranteed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
Merit Wins.

Light underwear for spring weather.
BAsT-MARsHALL MER. Co.
l42 Main street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
HAVE YOU SEEN

Dinwoodey's immense line of wall papers
Be sure and examine his stock before MIR.
chasing elsewhere, he can suit you. Call
at Dinwoodey's.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
FOR S22.50.

You can get a gents suit made to order
from our celebrated homemade Cashmere
at JOHN c. CUTLER & Bro, No. rs w.
First South street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
CHENILLE CURTAJNs

The finest chenille curtains ever brought
to this city, are now at Dinwoodey's.
Ogden creamery butter.
Better than Elgin.
Received fresh every day.
ROGERS 81 COMPANY,
The leading grocers,
DO East, First South street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13

Go to Barratt's for furniture.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

An English fish cultusist has found
that a six-pouud col contains about
5000, 900 eggs.
Gen. Rosancrans, Register of tht
Treasury, has docidol to Introduce the
uso Of electricity in his office as mo.
two power to Ill, tho punching ma.
chimes for cAucolliug tho redeemed
treasury notes.
Measurements of u quarter of mil.
lion Ct soldiers havo shown that males
do not reach adult ago until about Is,
and Professor ShaIcrs obscrvati ohs at
Harvard prove that full mental power
is not reached before %. 81.
Tho simple method of treating drunk
enncss practiccd in Norway and Sweden
is reported to DO very effective. Tho
inobriato IL placed in confinement and
fed only with bread soaked in wine,
which in eight or ten days creates
positive loaihing for strong drink.
a German authority atlirms that oaks
are moro frequently struck by lightning
Than bccchcs, bccauic tho leaves of tho
beech aro covered with fno down,
which is n better conductor than the
smooth leaves Of tho oak. Experiments
with electrical machines confirm the
theory.
DR.. Dornil OF Paris ha, discovered
That ice is often II medium for transmit.
ting infectious diseases, and part ocular.
~ typhoid fever. lie cautions pcoplc
to use artificial ice, madc from boiled
or spring. water, md condemns ice OBJ.
tnincd from ponds or rivers liabln tt
contamination.
Tho magnetic needle points in tho
Same direction rs TO tho magnetic poles
in NIL parts Of tho earth. Tho magnetic
poles ao not correspond with the axis
of tho earth, which makes variation
of tho needle ut places not on II mort.
dim which coin cidcs with both poles.
The needle is never invcr.ol, but dip,
rs it approaches the magnetic poles.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
FASHION NOTES.
'.tin is again in high favor.

49," - "s''h I'LL h'Sn favor.
-, ,''''''''''' "o" use Strings Oh
''0 "''>' '"'' o''' y" urge i"'s'
nicuici collar OF iur IS feature of
many Oh INC newest 'fonr-in- hand
iho P'Pu'"r''y oil ora'u'ng MS gnrni-
'"'o now extends 10 checked cheviots
a''e 'a' '"A'' -..- ,H
n now fcaturo i'll mulf, are fat ones,
"o'uoroo Ut ei'her cni with different
u.
oliver flScyeksss.5ecently designed show
i'cnhissa ns ssst,7 3D. aadsseFs likely to
prove afssElls1ssHSa Jan artistic novelty.
slecvsas stasf8 clthcr snug fitting
or pam 7ofSsSf l' ~ In tho various
ways. acco'dins tosFhs ia'ie md style
Oh inc wearcr,
Stopping bags nro being made of
'''"oA ''','' iie'iViiy ooiuou WITH Jot or
"Pp',l''' VIII" nc"'S'"c- u cut oil Dlack
'''u "''"NO ''"'''''-
Plain sleeves IRE suitable AMI bccom.
ing to those who have we'll formed
arms, and the pulf,d sleeves look we'll
Vi '"''' "'o nave S''h'''r 'sure'.
Laced cloths and scrsc' in black, the
now shades Of green, red, blue aud
brown, and in the purple tints, ringing
from heliotropi to IL royal purple, arc
chosen Tor tailor costumes.
Belts of all sorts are worn either en-
circling the waist or extending across
the front to the side seam, only. and
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
4 Frontier Fort.

A fort on The frontier is no fort ae
all, simply q collection of houses and
barracks thr own down on the prairie
anywhere, and here soon begin to
gather all tho elements of humanity
which sooner or later go to make up the
typical Western town. A fort is usu-
ally laid out in diamond shape, with
tie officer' quarters occupying two
sides of tho angle, and the mems bar
racks the remaining half. The center
S the parade grouad. wherson ere per-
formed al military ceremonies, such as
drills, paradcs. musters, inspections,
&C. In one corner is flag staff, and
from this floats 365 days in the year,
tho Stars and Stripes of our country.
Back of the officers and mons quarters
re the stables, warehouses, shops and
stores.
The commanding officer, of course,
occupies the choicest set of quarters in
the garrison, and the other officers Sc
lect their domioiles according to their
rank. Suppose every set of quarters
happens to BIO occupied and nav Off
Ger should come along to take station
at tho post. He cannot select to tho
prejudice of Those above him, but he
can step in exactly whcrc he ranks,
choose house. and that officer must
give way to him. 1t is not uncommon
for tho next one, who has sheen
bounced" so to speak, to take the best
he is entitled to, and the result is all
the junior officers go down like a row
OF bricks. The last in rank have to
double up and share one house or set of
rooms between them. In my own ex-
perience, says correspondent, I have
seen seven families move in one day,
and all caused by an officer coming
along who had morc rank than they
had.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
UhU Corfu I'ODS

In whnt condition is tho stnrchy in
terror of tho grain just before 1t OK
plodes? Tho common experience of
the kitchen and laundry will help us
here. In making up tho mixture for
stiiTcning clothes, tho laundress puts
starch into water and boils it,, md wo
all know that in this process tho slurch
loses its powdcry character aud becomes
blended with the water into q pasty,
translucent mass. Tho eff :ct upon tho
individual slnrch gtanulo is softoning
md considerable increase of lis bulk,
an finally its rupture and dilru,ion
through the water.
Whilo VIC cannot sec tho inside of
the grain ut the critical moment when
ii has NIL but burst, wo may, in view of
what wo now know, probably surmiso
tho truth. 1t is not very likely that,
ms tho grain g,ts hotter and hotter, tho
moisture present in the cells, or in tho
starch granulcs themselves, softcns
them first, and then, when tho heat be.
comes too great to permit its remaining
in the fluid state, it suddenly turns to
steam, and tho now plastic starch OK
pands in every direction, losing at tho
same time. of course, tho moisture, and
thus becoming firm and brittle again.
This is the conclusion to which I have
been brought, and think of tho won.
derful physic, of popped corn with
great satisfaction Whenever shake my
pepper over the G owing coals.-St.
Nicholas.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
DAINTY HUTTON nAns.

It hrs been di. covcrcd that tho pretty
girl IS busying herself just now with all
manner of dainty inutilitios in the way
of bags. For her dearest girl friend she
makes button bags, six tiny onos all on
string. Each is made out of scrap
Of bright -hucd silk and every scrap is
of different color. A rainbow tinted
collection is produced, very kalcido-
scopic and cheerful.
Tho object of tho button bag multi
p!ication is to separate moro eircctunlly
buttons of different ranks aud degrees.
For her best young man-alas, in his
Utmost soul ho may call it '.jink4" and
smile upon it der. sivcly-shc makcs II
card bag. This is of silk, sntin or
plush, an just large enough for pack
Of cards. On tho outside is appl ioucd
in co.ors an exact similitudc of the
queen Of hearts. This is couchcd down
with embroidery threads and clabo,a.c
ly wrought with silkcn stitches. -Mail
and Erpress.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
n Uorsc,s 3Icu,or,,.

"Say, friend, you're on my horse"
said ono gentleman to another rs he
reinod his horse before the door. Your
horscl Oh, no; why bought this
horse two years ngo!' "You did2"
answered the other; "wcll, | lost my
horsc-it was sto,cn-just two years
ago."
This conversation took place under
the far-sprcading oaks of an old-timc
plantation home. A planter was sur
priscd to sec his horse return homo
after two years, and ridden by agentlc-
man who evidently had hought tho
horse in god faith. After some con-
ycrsation tho old owner Of tho horse.
with much carncstness, said: "Woll,
sir, If you will dismount, unsadd tho
horse, and he don't go to tho fcnco,
take the bars down, walk to tho we'll,
and il he don't fin water in tho bucket
let it down tho we'll, and then walk of
to his old stable, I will give up and that
horse isn't mincl" ''At your word +;
the horse is ours if ho does I'LL that"
cried the visitor, and lcaping from tho
horse, unsaddlcd it. What was hi,
establishment when tho horse went
straightto tho fence, lot down the bars,
crossed ovor, went to tho we'll, and find
ing no water let the bucket down and
then, a. though he had left homo but
yesterday, walked to tho old stable |!
Tho animal cmembcrcd tho trick and
the owner recovered his horse. There
arc those living now who can attest to
tho truth Of this story, though it hap
pcncd years ago.