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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
SENTIMENT ON WHEELS.
A Pretty and Peculiar Name for q New
York Truck.


York Truck.
MY Darling"
These endearing words. in bright
golden letters, stood out in bold relief
on the dashboard of a huge four-horse
truck IN "a broadway blockade Of We
hicles. They aroused tender memories.
The driver looked as uusentimental as
possible in his coarse raiment and with
his rough manners, but he was not
profane or brutal toward his horses.
Patiently he awaited the loosening of
the jam, while his neighbors filled the
air with curses Finally, his horses be-
coming restive, he climbed down from
his box and soothed them with gentle
words and caresses. Then "a bystander
asked why he called his truck My
Darling"
why" he said, because it keeps
green the memory of my daughter, lit
tie Nellie. She's dead now, but before
she Joined the angels she clasped her
hands around my neck and said:
Papa, I'm going to die, and / want
You to promise the one thing, because
it will make me SO happy. VIII you
promise?'
Yes" / said, III promise anything;
what is it?'
Then fixing her eyes upon mine she
said: oh, papa, don't be angry, but
promise me you'll never swear any
more nor whip your horses hard, and
be kind to mamma
That's all there is about it, mister,
for / promised my little girl Ia grant
her last request, and, sir, I've kept my
word"
Then the blockade was lifted, the big
truckman resumed his seat, dashed a
tear from his eye and was soon lost
in the muddy tide of traveL-N. Y.
Herald
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
THE HEARTS QUESTION.


"Shall love, or shall notT'
Mused n maid perplexcd with care;
20. TO taste this mystic cup,
Shall venture. or bewaref
''Is there any human love
With unmingled loy repletef
Or is 1t not iutar-mi1ed
With the bitter and the sweetf'
have seen q mothers hair
Wilton rs the early frost,
All for love; yet her child,
Was not 'mong the dead. or lost.
Twas tho care-worm gnawed ber heart,
Lest some danger might befall:
In her cup Of mother-bliss
Was this drop OF frettins gall.
have known a tender wife
Smile and sigh, be calm and start.
AS anxiety's hot hand
Held or loosed her aching heart
For tho warm and loving tie
Seemed not ~ II once had been;
IealOusy-the skeleton,
Slowly mixod the worm wood in.
Then / know two maidens sweet
Ono with heart AL bruised and torn,
While the other wild with love,
Laughs the gaping world TO scorn.
And IL all were pure and good,
Pulses beating calm and slow,
Still there comes u time-llas!
Either one must surely CO.
All. methinks this human love
Slyly dips It's two edged-dsrt
In some subtle drug Of grief
Ere IL plunges in the heart
Question doeply. o my hearti
And the ansver-~eigh il we'll;
What the cup Of love contains
Only itself can tell
Hannah Moro kohaus IN Inter Ocean.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
NOT HIS WILLIAM.
But He Didn't Find 1t Out Until the Lad
Was Spanked.


Was Spanked.
There were eighteen men and one
small boy in the Indiana avenue car as
il swung around Lake street on TO State
Yesterday afternoon. As il turned on
Madison street the ladies, most of them
fatigued by chasing after spring dress
bargains in the stores, began TO file in,
and one by one the men rose and gave
up their seats, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean. At Twelfth street there were
twenty-six ladies, one large old gentle
man and the small boy seated, while a
row of able-bodied citizens developed
their muscles by dangling from the
ends of the straps.
The large old gentleman seemed to
be watching the small boy, but the
small boy was not watching the large
old gentleman. He sat with his hands
in his pockets, fdgeting upon his seat,
and anon whistling in penetrating un-
dertone. As each lady got in he favored
her with penetrating stare, which per-
formance caused the large old gentle
man TO scowl ominously.
At Eighteenth street two more ladies
entered the car, and reached for straps.
The old gentleman instantly rose, and
with a courtly bow surrendered his
seat TO the first of the ladies. Then he
looked around for a seat for the other,
and suddenly his eye fell upon the small
boy still seated and contentedly whist
ling softly to himself. a panied express
sion spread over the old gentleman's
face, and a startled gaze quickened on
the boys features as a hand, large,
firm hand reached his arm and a panied
voice said: William, get up this in
slant and give your seat to the lady
Great goodnessi That / should live to
see boy of mine sitting and whistling
while lady is standing! What will
your poor old mother say when tell
her this? William, 1 am going 10 teach
you here and now never 10 disgrace my
name again"
The small boy listened open mouthed
TO the gentle TRADE and Intellectually
trying to wriggle out Of that firm grasp
now suddenly found himself elevated.
face down, over a large, broad knee.
He had just time to gasp: Il amt no
boy of yours, " when there ensued what
is described as one of the grandest and
most symmetrical whackings ever ad-
ministered in this or any other age.
During the performance the small boy
lad repeated his original statement
hree times, in three different keys,
and then he was set upon the floor.
The conductor. man Of dellbera-
ton, evidently, here thought it his duty
TO interfere.
''Here!" he said, you shouldn't lick
that boy if he's no relation TO YOU
Il never seen him before" whined
the boy.
What? What?H said the old gentle
man; docs the young rascal deny his
own father?''
Then he put on his glasses and his ex-
preston of astonishment was beautiful
TO see.
why, bless me, y he exclaimed. ''why,
thought it was my youngest boy, VIII
liam Dear me! j hope / haven't in
convenienced You, young sir; you'll ex-
cuse me, won't you?''
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
LOQUACITY OF BARRIERS.
The Conversation Dodge Merely One q
the Tricks OF tho Trade.

The Conversation Dodge Merely One OF
the Tricks OF tho Trade.
"a great deal has been said about the
tallxativencss of BARRIERS" said a veteran
wielder of razors to New York Tele-
gram man, but If those who try to be
funny on that subject were better
posted they would find a reason for it
other than the mere loquacity of the
barber. We discovered long ago that il
was infinitely easier to handle a custom
er when we could get him interested in
conversation. This is particularly true
of n nervous. or fiagety man, who, if the
operation goes on in silence, becomes
restless and growls at the razor, or OBJ
jects to the way in which he is being
shaved. The talk takes his mind away
from his face, SO that he is often sur
prised to find the work finished when
he thought it had scarcely begun
You have probably noticed that a
barber never gets into an argument
with his customer, but that his opinions
veer around like a weather vane to suit
those of the particular man upon whom
he may be operating at the time. The
conversation dodge is merely one of the
tricks of the trade Customers who
show by their manner that they prefer
to be alone with their thoughts while
under the razor are never annoyed more
than once by the talkative barber.
''Of course there are few younger
members of the tonsorial fraternity
who use little judgment in talking to
customers, and no one is more amused
than their fellow-barbers when they get
setback from some irascible-tempered
victim of their gable. The facetious
young man who used to put small corks
in his ears or put on pair of ear muffs
when he climbed into the BARRIERS chair
seems to have become extinct
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.
An Old story That Has "A Moral Even In
Thcse

IhcHe days
''It happened At Athens during a
public presentation of a play in honor
OF the commonwealth. that an old man
came too late for 4 place suitable 10 his
age and quality" relates n writer in the
Lutheran. Some of the young men,
who observed the difficulty and con-
fusion he was in, made signs TO him
that they would accommodate him If lac
came where they sat. The old man
bustled through the crowd accordingly
for the seat proffered him. But when
he came to the seats to which he was
invited the Jest was to close and ex-
pose him us he stood out of countenance
before the audience. The frolic went
round all the Athenian benches. But
on these occasions there were also
particular places assigned TO foreigners.
SO, when the old man slull1ed toward
the boxes appointed for the Lacedemon-
ians. that honest people, more virtuous
than polite, rose all TO n man and, with
the greatest respect, received him
amongst them. The Athenians, being
suddenly touched with a sense of
Spartan virtue and their own degen-
eracy, gave a loud applause of admira-
tion. Then the old man, as soon as the
noise subsided. cried out: The Athen-
ihns understand what is good, but the
Lacedemonians practice it,"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21

There is not now living a single de-
scendant in the male line of Chaucer.
Shakespeare, Spencer. Milton, Cowley.
Butler, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Gold
smith, Byron or Moore; not one of Sir
Philip Sidney, nor of Sir Walter
Raleigh; not onelof Drake, Cromwell,
Iampden, Monk, Marlborough, Peters
borough or Nelson; not one of Boiling
broke, Na1pole, Chatham, Pitt, Fox,
Burke, Grattan or Canning; not one Of
Bacon, Locke, Newton or Davy; not
one of Hume, Gibbon or Macaulay: not
one of llogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds
or Sir Thomas Lawrence; not one of
David Garrick, John Kemble or Ed
ward kean.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
Natures work

There is curious freak of nature 20
be seen along the road leading from At
glen 70 Cochranville. Pa. Two good
sized streams of water meet at right
angles on almost level ground. each
having heavy fall in reaching the
point The water of both streams meet.
but neither is impeded in its course.
They cross like two roads and continue
in their respective beds.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
KEHDALL'S SPAWN CURE.

DEIvERSoS, Pa, Nov. q, 90
Dr. r. ]. KENDALL Co:
.3cnts-I would Ike 20 make known to those who
.,rs almost persuaded O. use kcudcl'S SPAWN Cure
khe fact that thiu 10 is most excellent Lin Incnt
have used 10 on Blood SPAWN. The horss went ON
your kendGlIS spawn Cure l tise~t ten bot
ties ON the horse and have worked him Tor thrCc
years since and ha, not been lame
Yours truly, WM ~ CURL
oTEuAxTowN. y. Y, Nov. =, IsSa
Dr. H. J. KENDALL Co.
EnSsbUrgh Falls, Vt
Gents: In praise Of Hendalrs SPAWN C'I-e Gwiu
say that "a wear agu Tild valuable uJiig hr.Ac be-
come very lame, hook enlarged AMI svSoilru- Tao
hOr~emen about lprc 1--WE have 10 Veterinary sur
Eeor hcrel pronounced his l..nef'css E'id St'svln
-. fr h,. bCclul- ulsC T,.cl,ses. ami Cots
sidcret him almost N.oyrlvs- = g. ,ti futt me OF
tEo merits OF your Eer.i.tiis SPAWN cur. 20
bought u bottle GEi ynCli sre very plainly SrvaS
The bottle was used up 'y'G a:,.Nr'i that II YVES
doing him a great uCgl 90. gr,ai- hsugut g second
bottle md Before It. wac used ~ uJy nurse Nv,s
cared and has uggH in lHctyz- Cg.r= heavy r''ifS
all the season sI}'C iE-t ufi'. -fl's ing no rorts
signs of II IcGUs,ds- your huT,iS'is Srs1yin Cure
stable IN the land Ecspecttt.iy vygrss .,
LGGENE DEWITT
Prico 81 per bottle, o. v bottles fa9S 3 All drug
gsra have &c get &c Tor YOU or II Will he sent
- any address on receipt ~ prlc by the proprie-
trs. DIR. Is. .. KEN D. LIZ CO.,
Euash.irEh Falls, Vermont.
~LD BY ALI DRUGGISTS.
octlO gOly.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21

Ask my agents for w. l.. Douglas Shoes.
II not for sale In your pfnce ask yonr
dealer send for catalogue, secure the
agency, and get them for you.
80 TAKE NO 81 BSTITUTE. II,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21

Business items. first insertion. l0c. per lnei
subsequent insertions. Sc. per line
Adm nis trstors and Executors Notices. .s2eo
Au1itOrs NOTICES. %Vo
Hs- Resolutions or proceedings OF any corpora
ton society and communications designed 20
call attention 20 any matter OF limited or indf
viduHl interest must be paid for as advertisement
Book and Job Printing OF AL kinds neatly and
exediousiy executed al the lowest prices. And
don't you forget IL.
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10
Our National Birthday.

There is no country except the United
States, we believe, that celebrates its
national birthday. There are certain
epochs in the life of European nations
that are honored with celebration, as
the 14th of July in France, which com
mcmorates the destruction of the Bastile
and is generally accepted as the birth
Of the French Republic. But the states
of Europe have no national birthdays.
They are the result of long series Of
developments, and it would be difficult
to fix any particular natal day. Not so
in this country. The Fourth of July,
1776, when the Declaration of
Independence was signed in Phila-
delphia, marked the birth of
a nation so unerringly that it was hon
cred as such Immediately. and will be as
long as the spirit of American Indepcnd-
ence survives. Civil war interrupted it's
general observance for some years. but
it was resumed when peace was restored,
and now, with ever Frightening hopes Of
more perfect Union than we have yet
known, independence Day will be greet
ed with salvos of remembrance and Joy
from one end of the country to the
other. Let the band play "Hail Column
I hia
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10
Intelligence OF a Mouse.

4 trap was placed in our kitchen cup
board, where it could be seen when the
door was open, says an exchange. One
day we saw tiny young mouse in the
trap, doing all it could to get away; but
every attempt failed. Twas just about
to take pity on the youngster, and let it
escape, when 10! an older one, evidently
the parent, appeared on the scene. She
appeared to examine the trap all over,
and seemed to try to coax her offspring
after her, but to no purpose. At last
she left. giving up her little one, as
thought, for lost; but no, she soon re-.
turned from among the rubbish in the
cupboard with piece Of string in her
mouth. One end of this she pushed
through the wires into the cage, and
soon made the young one to understand
what it was to do. Whether the young
one really understood itself. or whether
the old one made it understand by a
language of their own, cannot say :
but however, the youngster soon took
hold OF the end Of the string, and the
moment the old one saw she had q good
hold she pulled away with will, and
got her out almost in second. The
wire at this particular place was little
more open than in any other part of the
cage. Whether this was seen bv the
old mouse or whether the spot was
chosen by accident is another question
which we cannot answer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10
Novels That CORRUPT.

We do not think Saxon hand would
ever dabble in the foul corruption which
seems to be the native element of Ger.
tain Parisians, who try to veil their
degradation under ti11-de-siecle euphu-
ism. No Lnglishman will ever herd
with the bestial drove that wallows in
the sloughs and pools that even lola
loathed while be inspected them. Such
creatures reach only their own species.
Their venom cannot t=int the tissues of
beings OF higher type But there
may be found in London society men
who would do the fell worn which such
inimitable masters of seductive speech
as Gautier and Maupassant have done
i'll their most evil hours. We cannot
shut our eyes to the fact that the worst
novel written in English in this cen
tury was published by Mr.. w. H. NAL
lock, an unquestionable adept in the
graces and suggestiveness of style.
The crime which such men commit is
the suppression OF the iron law i'm
bedded in the human heart long before
it took vindictive shape in the codes of
society the law that imposes on wrong
doing woe and punishment, ever in this
life. Such men not only plant tempta-
ton, which is lawful and may be help
full, but they show it succumbed to with
defiance and impunity. They portray
the evil doer, but omit to delineate the
scourge. They make vice doubly in
fictitious, not only by assembling its
deformity, but by hiding its DOOM
n. ". Hdzelti7ae, IN North american
| RerieM
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10
Atchison GlObules.

How innocent a guilty man may
look.
Gentleness carries with it great au-
thority.
We believe q woman likes to look
tough when she is cleaning house.
A man who has associated with
thieves cannot appreciate honest men.
There is nothing man will not
promise to the woman he is not vet
married to.
People in love can always find some
thing to be wretched about
A mans idea of heaven is a place
where every one is as good as he is.
A man can get out of everything else
easier than COMPACT made with the
devil.
There is no temptation greater than
the one which leads us to excuse our
weakness.
A man may not realize it when he is
going to the devil, but he will realize
it when he gets there.
Resignation is finding out that the
rock you are humping your head
against is great deal harder thar
your head
Loafers are as rule so good-na
tured, and busy people SO cross, il
seems to prove that the Lord never in
tended people to work so hard.
1t makes no difference how great {
fool you know man is; you will al
ways have a high opinion of his intelli
gence after you learn that he admire!
you.
Happy is the man who, when he doe.
his worst, has some one in the worli
who will say of him that he did tn,
best he could under the circumstances
If woman can so live that she i
without fault in the eyes of othe
women, she is too good for this world
and is even better than any of thos
who have gone to heaven.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10

Strikes, one OF the warlike Brules, who
led @Land of the hostiles. 1t is need
lesNsto repeat the story how Lieut..
Ct&Uteft Gen. Brooke's camp with the
two ~heyennes, White Moon and Rock
Road, to take look at the hostile In
dams, who were encamped some miles
to the east, and then of the warning
sent by Red Cloud for him to turn
back; how he persisted in his deter
mination to see the hostile tepees. but
was finally persuaded to desist, and
then how he was shot in the back of
the head by Plenty Horses Just as
Casey turned h horse 10 go back.
Soon after peace was declared Plenty
Horses was arrested and confined in
Fort Meade, near Deadwood, and from
there taken to Sioux Falls. S. D..
where he was tried on the charge of
murder. Plenty Horses lawyers as
serted that the treaties with the Sioux
do not take away their right to declare
war, which the United States recog-
nized by sending large force Of men
into their reservation.
At the trial, when ATTORNEYS were
preparing to commence their argu-
ments, Judge shiras said: "There is
no need of going further with this
case. What l shall say is the opinion
OF this court. but not of my colleague.
1t is said on my own responsibility"
The Judge then said in substance that
the guilt or innocence of the accused
turned upon the question as to wheth-
er or not a state Of actual war existed
at the time Of Casey's death. In the
opinion of the Court it had been shown
beyond doubt that such state OF
war did exist. Immediately upon adj.
journment Plenty Horses was sur.
rounded by ladies and other specta.
tors, who shook hands with him TO,
some time, after which Attorney Pow.
ers, with beaming face, led his still
silent and undemonstrative client to
his hotel, where Plenty Houses spent
some time writing autographs for by
ISLANDERS.
Plenry Horses was educated at the
Carlisle Pa.) school for five years
When he returned to his tribe, not
having any opportunity to apply what
he had learned, he soon slipped bach
into savage ways, and was one of the
most redoubtable warriors of the Siou,
4riIo
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10

The northern boundary of the coal
field was fixed short distance aboveI
Carbondale, and the so-called experts
were confident that coal would not be-
found in paying quantities outside OF
this line. :,
When it was rumored that coal had
been found in Susquehanna County,
these old-timers laughed at the re-
ports, and the men who bought up and
held for years land now considered
most valuable were classed among the
visionary spe culatrs of the age. Time
has proven that the men who outlined
the coal measures in the Lackawanna
Valley made great errors in calculat-
ing courses and distances. Instead of
exhausting the supply in thirty years,
the men now in the field have brought
to sight, in the upper end of the val
lev, moro anthracite coal than has been
mined since the first opening was
made.
Recent developments at Forest City
have surprised the coal men of the
region, and now it is known that the
work of mining has only begun in that
region. The immense tracts that the
Elk Hill Coal Company is now making
preparations to develop were passed
by for years as worthless. Close upon
the news that operations were to be
commenced by the Elk Hill Company
comes the announcement that the
Northwest Coal Company, which owns
large tracts in Upper Lackawanna,
has met with unexpected good fortune
in prospecting. Underlying the veins
which the company is now working, o
new vein has been discovered which is
automatically reported as being four
teen feet in thickness.