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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-21
MYLORD'S MINK FARM.
How Young Irish Lawyer VfctImized a
British NobIeman.

british NobIemRn-
Lord Wynford, an English nobleman,
stopped at North Platte, Neb., during
his tour of the prairies, says the Chicago
Tribune. He seemed greatly pleased
with the wild West, and intimated tina,
he would like to invest some money in
something good. There was a smart
young Irish lawyer in the town, whose
parents had had some unpleasant deal
inGs with Lord Wynford in the old coun-
try This young lawyer had lived in
North Platte about two years. He came
there to examine claim he had pur-
chased on paper. To his disappointment,
his farm was nothing but prairie-dog
town.
You could not raise even sage brush
on the claim so close together were the
burrows of the little animals. He had
about given up all hopes of disposing OF
his land when he LEARNED that Lord
Wynford was looking for a good
investment. Then he called upon
the wealthy foreigner and offered
for sale what he called the most
profitable industry in America" He
told the British lord that he had been
ten years establishing a mink farm, and
just as the enterprise, was beginning to
coin money he vas obliged 10 go South
on account of his poor health. He ex-
planned how the minks were raised,
how their skins were disposed of, and
tho great demand for mink fur in this
country. The young Irishman pledged
Lord Vynford 10 say nothing of the
deal, as his mink farm was only known
Ia few who we're in similar enterprises.
Then he drove his guest out TO the prai-
ric-doC farm.
Here an extensive tract of land desti-
cute of trees and alive with little ami
mails that burrowed in the ground and
barked like small dogs was thoroughly
inspected. The possibilities Of furnish
ing tho West with mink fur in the au-
tumu delighted Lord Wynford, and re-
turning co the eify he gave $500 for the
dog town. He owns it now, and the
good-for-nothing place is called "the
Lords mink farm"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-21
NUMBER 40.
/" KINDLY OMIT FLOWERS.

Bring me no flowers when I'm dead,
No lilies fair, or paIIid roses,
No floral crown 20 weigh me down
When over me the earth reposes.
7 should not feel how near they were,
Nor vet iuhale their fragrant graces;
SO would they DE less dear 70 me
Than tears upon your living faces.
But II your kindly thoughts design
such Offering OF friendship tender
Why wait till death has stopped my breath
TO send me wreaIhs OF floral splencorf
Your posics now ia much prefer.
Sweet buds of May, bright bloom OF autumn
Then take the hint, which here printt
And send my flowers autc-no-tgu--
Mrs NJ. /. Rgyne. in Detroit Free Press
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-21

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subsequent II sertiCn Sc. per lice.
Administrators ard ExecutOr's Nc iccf.... ~
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Stray and similar Notices.. -
CE- Resolutions pToceoffno OF aIy COZ crsfso'
or sociefU 81 cztlS e.fgge. % ar~'
fi0a zTs matter Of ftnsifec ,sietf sac -af1s
must be paia yO1 GdcegffscneTfs.
jon PnIrTIFs Of al kinds Doutly Arc e1- -
ously esecEted at lowest prices. DSn'ty"s -
it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-21
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FIFTH AVENUE, PITTSBURG,!PA.
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-21
THE LIONS OF INDIA.
They Are Gradually disappearing. from.
ths sight OF Man.

They Are Gradually I!suppearin.. from
the sight OF Man.
The lions OF India appear ~ be going
the way Of the great bustard and the
dodo, and the reason is found in tao ex-
tension OF railways, for tho nouarc, G..
the forest shares with Mr. I'uskin q
mortal antipathy 70 tho smoke an
screams OF locomotives. Wiihin the
memory OF many persons lions were com
mon enough in Rajputana, and even now
the roar OF one may DC heard occasionally
IN the widest parts Of Central India;
but the now railway from Narpur Il
now being constructed through this
country, and this IS practically a notice
10 quit served upon the few remaining
lions in the central provinces.
Practically the only lions nov rg-
naming that are worth mentioning
seem 70 be the race existing in Ka--y-
war, which was visited by Prince Albert
Victor the other day. Their Numbers
remain, 1t is believed, pretty stationary
1t Is strictly forbidden 10 shoot them
save by way Of the grand sport: but
many conditions are unfavorablo 20
their multiplication, and even the Kat
tywar lions are clearly doomed ere long
TO disappear. London News.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-21

-Scribbler-..I see your novels are
marked registered at the posV-oIhce as
second-class matter" Scrawiey- es'
What of ito -Scribbler-'Ohi norfilnS'
It's uuite right"-America.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-21

"A commission of French experts
has decided that the best means of nan
IDLY refrigerating yiaRds and preserv-
ing them at low temperature consists
IN spreading a igerating liquid over
mass OF coke. The air, striking the
mass. is chilled by contact and is then
conveyed 20 the storage compartment.
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where Viola Is Popular.

Tic favorito baptismal name for
young women III New Orleans is Viola.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14
MUSICAL.

There seems to be little going on
in musical circles of late, but there
is much talk, among musical people,
of the marvellous cure of Miss B,
the high contralto singer, who has
long suffered from a severe throat
or bronchial affection, superinduced
by Catarrh in the Head, and who
has been perfectly cured by the
use of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy,
coupled with the use of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. For
all bronchial, throat and lung affec-
tons, and lingering coughs, it is an
unequaled remedy. When compli-
Gated with Chronic Nasal Catarrh,
its use should be coupled with the
use of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Of all druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14

"Knock yourself; I'll have nothing to
do with it. don't rob dead peopie!"
A low-muttered imprecation sue
ceeded.
Dead or alive" growled old Michael
Dindeau, "l've commenced this thing,
and mean to go through with it."
Selenda lay quite still, but even
through her closed eyelids she was con-
scious~of the stealthy flash of dark
lantern. The cabin door had been
opened-the little band was crowding
noiselessly in. Suddenly Pierre Subj
toms voice sounded through the room
in terrific yell as he beheld the oblong
object in its center. He turned and
fled. Dindeau and Dollard, shrinking
back, exchanged hurried whispers, DUR
ing which Selenda's heart seemed to
stand still with horror.
"He never left it here" said Dollard.
''Mike Vokes' last drinking bout UNI
settled his brain. The girl has gone
with her father. There's nobody but a
corpse in the house. just let me get a
grip on Mike and I'll teach him to put
such pack of lies down our throats!"
But there's room upstairs. Let's
search that"
Search where you please; it won't
do no good. don't b'lieve there was
no money to begin with; and any way,
it amt here"
Dindeau, not so easily discouraged,
opened the bureau drawer, rummaged
through the little chimney cupboard,
even assembled the ladder to the lat
overhead; but, it is scarcely necessary
to say, without success, and the two
miners went muttering away, casting
scared glances over their shoulders at
the coffin as they did So Selenda Griffin
must have swooned away, for the pink
| light of dawn was irradiating all the
room when more voices reused her from
utter Inconsistencies. But it was her
fathers deep, CHEEKY tone this time
and. could it be possible?-Abram Ayres
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14
DIMINUTiVE PONIES.
Curious Fad That Has Evidently Had It's
Day.

a Curious Fad That Has Evidently Had It's
Day
The craze for understood ponies, in
our opinion, has had its day. Except as
curiosities or for the purpose Of the
menage, these pigmy animals are prac-
tically lseless. Perhaps the fashion of
purchasing them at extraordinarily
high prices would not have lasted SO
long had it been fully understood that
their production was mainly a question
of scanty feeding, either in the case OF
the animals themselves or of their
more or1less immediate progenitors.
And the same may be said of super
abundant hair. The experiment can
easily be made by any one curious in
these matters. Subject a pony to ex-
IRENE hardship, leaving it out of doors
in all weathers, and it will develop
hair-and, we may add, hoots-accord-
ingly. A veritable Shetlander, picked
at random from the various breeds, is
just as likely to be smooth-haired and
clean-limbed as shaggy. 1t all depends
upon the treatment, or at least mainly
so. The conventional Shetland pony
the animal represented in picture books
namely, about forty to forty-four
inches high, very tight jointed, and with
an impossible growth of hair all over
over him, is just about as bad type of
| this famous race as can we'll be i'm
agined. From his build he is generally
short-winded and thoroughly impractic-
able in his PAGES A South Mainland
! specimen, on the other hand, long and
rakish in build-hard-grown, as the say
. ing is-and clean-limbed, will far sur
pass his companion in staying power.
One of this hardy breed-in our opinion
. the ideal Shetland pony - has been
/ known to travel from Sumburg to Ler-
wick and back the same day, with
tolerably heavy riding weight, say
ffty-six miles altogether of extremely
billy road.
| But, minor, differences apart, there
are certain characteristics - unfailing
tests in their way with the experienced
judge-which go to the make up of a
Shetland as distinguished from an Ice
land or Farce pony-e. e., certain I'M
mistakable breadth of build, set of pas
terms, and more particularly, an apa-
thetic air which no other breed pos
sesses. Your "Shettle'' is not quick
animal, is inclined to be sleepy rather
than otherwise in his PAGES, and is, as a
rule, disposed to do no more than he can
help in the way of exertion, though, if
put to it, he evinces great power of en-
1urance and will go through an immense
amount of work for his size. The Iceland
variety is altogether inferior, shorter
lived. narrower in build, and generally
fallacious, but, with all this, he is
quicker, Hvelier and lacks that air of
pensive melancholy which Eaunts every
Shetland pony. Our advice is to avoid
the inferior animal, however highly rec
commended. His price is, roughly speak
ing, about half that of the Shetlander,
but the money is ill-saved. The aver
age life of an Icelander is about twelve
Or thirteen years, while the other will
live to twenty-five or even more.-Corn-
hill Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14
A PARABLE OF THE GATES.

"How shall man surely save his soul:'
Twas sunset by the Jordan. Gates
OF light were closing and the whole
Vast heaven hung darkened as the fateS.
'How shall man surely save his soul?'' he said.
AS fell the kingly day, discrowned and dead.
Then Christ said: Hear this Parable:
Two men set forth to journey fast
And reached place ere darkness fell
And closed the gates ere they had passed.
Two worthy men, each free alike Of sin,
But one did seek most sure to enter in.
And so when in their path did lay
A cripple with broken staff
This one did pass straight on his way,
While one did stoop and give the half
His strength. and ali his bread did nobly share
Till they at sunset saw their city fair.
Then he who would make sure ran fast
To reach the golden sunset gate,
Where captains and proud chariots passed,
But 10! this proud man came too late!
The gate was closed, and all night long he cried;
He cried and cried, but never watch replied.
Meanwhile the man who cared to save
Another, as he would be saved,
Came slowly on; gave bread, and gave
Cool waters; and he stopped and laved
The wounds. At last, bent double with his
weight
He passed, unchid, the Porter's private gate.
Hear then this lesson; hear and learn:
He who would save his soul, say,
Must lose his soul; must dare to turn
And lift the fallen by the way;
Must make his soul worth saving by some deed
That grows and grows, as grows fruitful seed.
Joaquin Miller, in N. Y. Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14
SEARCH WHERE YOU PLEASE. IT WON'T
DO NO GOOD"

as we'll! She sprang from her dismal
open the door.
Are you alive and WE'LL Selenda?"
cried Abram. THANK Heaven! And
the money? Those brutes have got il,
suppose?"
mo, they have not got it," said Sc
sit is here"
Explanations ensued, and each drew
q deep breath of relief.
my girl is a heroine!" said old
Griffin.
"She is an angel" cried Aaron.
And then Griffin told Selenda how, re-
turning through the heavy SHOWS, lest
he saw the camp-fres lighting up a Sc
cluded spot, and, led by its lurid CLEAN,
found the young ticket agent alone and
securely bound lying beside it, and how,
startled by what Ayres told him, they
had both made all haste to the little
cabin where Selenda kept her solitary
vigil.
"And thank Providence" said the
old man, "she is safe and sound. And
after this nights work l shall set moro
store by my cherry-wood coffin than
ever"
Selenda was quite composed and
quiet, but she never forgot the horrors
of that night And it was not until
Abram Ayres had married her and
taken her to pretty home in the
suburbs of San Francisco. where he had
charge of a picturesque gothic railway
station and old Griffin officiated as
fagman, that her eyes lost their fright
ened look and became sweet and serene
again.
For there are moments in every ones
life that cast their lurid shadows over a
whole lifetime. -Fireside Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14
THE TALKING FLY.
An Insect That Makes Game of Ever!
One 1t Meets

An Insect That Makes Game of Every
One 1t Meets.
Not once, but half-dozen times has
this comical-looking fly made game of
me in my walks. 1t needs only a single
glance at the specimen to see that some
thing out of the ordinary run of things
might be expected from him. The first
time he experimental on me l we'll re-
member. / was sitting beneath hazel
bush in the shadow of stone wall, ex-
amining some flowers which l had just
gathered. For a matter of five minutes
while thus employed l was carelessly
conscious Of voices somewhere in the
remote neighborhood at the other side
of the wall. The tone suggested mas
culine source, and at one momentseemed
to take the form of soliloquy, and
then of an interrupted dialogue, now
suggesting a long drawn nasal exclama-
ton which pictured to my mind Corio-
Janus in the far distance driving his
oxen by sheer force OF his lungs, "Ha-
a-aw-w-w!" with falling infection,
and again yell across the meadow,
"Sa-ay! Fra-a-nk! Waou" or perhaps a
UIlCl HdSdl VI oCdoOAoOAO
comment upon crops or weather. All
these pretty pastoral visions lowered in
my fancy between my botany glass and
my flowers, as l have said, and would
have vanished like dream had not
little incident served to revive them,
and forever frame them in my memory.
My flower identified, prepared to re-
sumo my walk, when my attention was
claimed by curious visitor, which had
suddenly perched upon head of tear
thumb blossoms close at my elbow,
ogling me most michievously.
l had seen portraits of this black
sheep in the rogues' gallery of insects,
but was never brought into such close
quarters with the original before. l
soon identified him, and knowing that
in my superior fighting weight would
be perfectly safe in tackling him, pre-
pared to catch him with sweep of my
hand, when away he went with a, "Ba-
a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aw which seemed drawn
out in long nasal perspective to the
| limit of my hearing, and the inspiration
of my pastoral visions was suddenly re-
vealed.
On several occasions since have been
momentarily deceived by the twanging
buzz of the big fly. 1t is impossible to
suggest in type the peculiar quality of
the sound, but he may be heard tuning
up any autumn day in our meadows He
is closely related to the murderous mock
bumblebee which recently described.
William Hamilton Gibson, in Harper's
| Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14
TIME FOR REFORM.
Ono of the Most Imperative Duties of the
American Press.


American Press.
There was time, few generations
ago, when both the formative and the
conservative influence of the English
tongue were exerted almost exclusively
By the few literary leaders of the time.
If Addison admitted to his exquisite
manuscript any word, that word was at
once ennobled; and so in the coffee
houses of old London, the process of
language making went on, both through
the medium of conversation and that of
formal literary work. The reading
class was at that time limited one. 1t
was so rare as to be almost sensational
to find homely worker in his shop fol-
lowing the thoughts and expressions of
the intellectual leaders of the day; and
the little guild of literary workers who
were so sadly patronized by the rich and
noble, really determined the English
which their patrons spoke. 1t was
possible for Pope to legitimatize a
bastard word or for johnson to render
current an outer expression; but it was
scarcely possible for the slang of the
many to percolate through the social
strata far enough to corrupt the Ian
guage of the few.
Nowadays this is all changed. The
functions once held by these great lit
erary leaders has passed to the news
papers. 1t has the greatest power for
evil and the greatest power for good in
this as in other respects Let some man
use striking word of his own coinage,
it needs only the influence of the press
to add that word to the popular currency
of the tongue, and ten years hence we
shall find it in the dictionaries. OF
course, a language must be enriched or
it will die, and, OF course, new con-
ditions demand new words, but it is
none the less true that this process Of
accretion goes on too fast and that
there is too little regard for the tradi-
tons and the dignity of the grand old
tongue which we all speak and which is
now becoming dominant.
Is it not time that the press of the
United States set it's face in favor of
the reform of newspaper English? This
should not be done with any pedantry or
with any assumption of infallibility,
but rather with desire to weed out the
fimsy pretensions of flimsy writers, who
are themselves inspired by the argot of
the lower populace. Why, for example,
may we not call barber barber rather
than a tonsorial artist? Why is not a corn
doctor corn doctor or horse doctor a
horse doctor, just as much when one is
called chiropodist and the other a
veterinary surgeon? Why, too, is it
permitted to every mountebank who
rides bicycle, ascends in a balloon or
gives sparring lessons to call himself a
professor? The bad application Of a
good word destroys its original useful
ness and gives it brand of meretric-
iousness which can never be effaced.-
| Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14

There is a sunken forest of white
cedar in New Jersey which has been
continuously mined" or its valuable
timber for over eighty years. The Curl
Gus industry of digging for the sunken
logs is carried on by the people of Dem
nisville, Cape May County, a village
which was brought into existence solely
through the wealth of the buried timber
in its vicinity. Over the sunken forest
trees of large. size are growing, and in
many instances these are cut away in
order to get at the more valuable tim
Der, which lies only three or four feet
below the surface. All the sunken trees
are of enormous Size, two to five times
larger than those now growing on the
surface. The exact age in which they
lived is matter of curious conjecture.
1t is probable that they were buried
many centuries ago by the action of an
earthquake.-St Louis Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14

mind my leaving this tin box here until
tomorrow afternoon? The road is
dead blocked with yesterdays snow
drift-an awful time for your poor
motherI to be buried in, Selenda,
wasn't it?-and I've been tele-
graphed to 20 down to Quarter Mile
junction to take old Jones' place. He's
frozen his fingers and can't handle the
ticker. OF course, I've got to go on
r'uleback, and this hanged box is too
heavy to carry, besides the probability
of its attracting attention among those
brutes of miners who would cut man s
throat to get his tooth-picl1!''
what is it, Abram?" with curious
glance at the battered tin receptacle.
He glanced cautiously around, and
leaning forward so that his lips nearly
approached her ear, whispered the two
monosyllables:
Gold coin!"
Selendas eyes sparkled. She lifted
the box and set it softly down again.
''All that?' said she.
In the whole course of her life she
had never seen so much.
ITO be forwarded to Ditson's bank by
express" explained Ayres, still in a
whisper. But there can't no express
come through so long as the road is
blocked. And the blamed box has got
to be taken care of somewhere until to-
morrow, when Ditson's people will come
for it. Your house is the only one within
a mile of the station, and reckon it'll
be safe here"
Selenda smiled.
II shouldn't wonder" said she. mo
body will think of looking for box of
gold here"
just then the outer door creaked-the
cat came in, carrying miserable half
frozen squirrel between her teeth.
But, all the same" said Abram,
you'd best keep the doors boltedT'
'Oh! I'll do that" said Selenda.
"I've had no heart to see to any thing.
It's hardly an hour since they carried
poor mothers corpse out"
whats that standing up in the cor
ner of the bedroom?" asked Ayres, with
start "A clock?"
NO." said Selenda; "it's coffin.
Father always keeps it there. It's for
himself. He's carved and polished it at