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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
CULINARY CULLINGS.

BEEF marrow Is very often used in
puddingS in very much the same way
that suet il used. It i much more deli
cate and more delicious than suet. II
is simply scraped from the bone, and
used raw.
SWEET APPLE PICKLE.-To six pounds
of peeled apples, use three pounds of
sugar. five dozen cloves and "a pint of
vinegar. Into each apple stick two
cloves. Have the syrup hot. and cook
till tcndcr.-iiood Housekeeping.
CoDFIsH BALI.s.-To three cups of
boiled Goldfish minced fine, add four cups
of cold mashed potatoes, two eggs well
beaten and little melted butter; mix
thoroughly; drop from a large spoon
into hot fat and fry you would
doughnuts; garnish and serve.-Boston
Budget.
FUIET OF BEEF.-Cut the beef into
pieces nearly AN inch thick and three
inches in diameter. trim into nice
rounds There should be one for each
person.. spread them with forcemeat,
then with beaten egg. and roast slowly.
Serve with good gravy and red currant
clly.-llouSekecpcr.
CHEESE STRAws.-One cupful of -four,
one cupful of grated cheese. half tea
spoonful of salt, "A pinch of cayenne
pepper, butter the size of an egg, one
egg. and enough cold water to make "A
paste. Cut in strips seven inches long
and half an inch wide. Bake "A golden
brown. Tie up in punches of half "A
dozen each with baby ribbon.-N. y.
Observer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
RAILROAD NOTES.

IT is now claimed that fast trains are
safer than slow ones.
ExPREss trains in Russia do not run
over twenty-five miles an hour.
The first elevated road in Great Brit
ain will bc in Liverpool The rad Il
already in the course of construction
The railway companies of the United
Kingdom pay G3,5 day as compensa-
tion for injuries done To passengers.
LoNDoy's six principal railway lines
carry annually over 2O0,OOO,O0O people
and The tramways about I5O,0O0,OO0.
TWELVE thousand men are at work
on the eastern section of the Trans
Siberian railway; it is To be completed
next autumn.
The famous khaJah tunnel of India
picrces the khwaja Amran mountains
about sixty miles north Of Inetta at an
elevation IF q. 100 feet. 1t is 1880 feet
long and was constructed broad enough
To carry a double line of rails
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
whereby excursion trains To the worlds 5
fair. 10y whatever road they may arrive
in Chicago. will run within the eXposi-
tion grounds and discharge their pas
sengers there. No transfer of Passen-
gers at any point will be necessary
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
FUNNY FANClES.

SHE thought the heading the
best part of your poem" Helm so
sorry you think so. The editor put that
on-"-N. Y. Sun
CoBwIGGEB-''Theys say he is fight
ing parson." Brown wouldn't be
surprised I've known him to put per
sons to sleep."-N. Y. sun.
''OH. sir" cried the beggar, I'm al
most starved to- DEATH We'll, stick ii
out little longer" said Chollie, and
your miscries will soon be er."-Har-
per's Bazar.
GUEST Ito bell boy)-''What in thun-
der have you done To those brand new
russet shoes of mine?" Bell Boy Gust
over)-''Sure, sor, Oi had thin blaclled;
and they naded it, too, begorrar'-
Ilarper's Bazaar.
Nor A LOVER OF His NEIGHBoR's
MUsIc.-Jackson Tin surprise) Why,
what induced you To move to such poor
part of the city as this?" Johnson
Poor people can't afford pianos ;"
Yankee Blade.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
SAVED BY a DEAD DOG.
a Deaf hute's Narr"w Escape from .
Horrible Death.

HorribI. Death.
1t Is not infrcqucnt that a mans life
is saved 10y live dog, but here is an in
stance in which dead dog served the
same good purpose. 1t occurred about
four years ago on the Air Line division
Of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad.
One evening an express train. Of
which Edward Kenny was engineer,
turned a curve between Rockfall and
Middletown. On the track, only a few
hundred feet ahead, he saw u man walk
ing along unconscious of his danger. 1t
WAS impossible To stop the train in
time. 50 the whistle was repeatedly
blown and the bell rung, but the man
paid no attention to this He was APP
parcntly Us deaf as post
When only a few feet away from him
Kenny, who had reversed the lever and
done his best to stop the train, turned
his head SO as not To see the man run
down. Still he was dimly conscious of
"A dark body being struck by the engine
and knocked several feet
The train was finally brought to a
standstill and n search made for the
man. He was found covered with blood
in a gully beside the track. There hap
Pened To be a physician among the
passengers, and after minute cXamin-
alton of the man, who turned out To be
a deaf mute, ne declared that ne could
not have been struck by the train, as
his only I'M juries were few scratches
and bruises on his hands and face
further search was made and re-
suited in the finding of the badly man
gled body of 4 big Newfoundland dog.
1t had evidently attempted tn cross the
track in front of the train, been struck
10y the engine, thrown forward in such
Il way To strike the man and knock
him off the track in time to save his life.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
MARRIAGE IN TURKEY.
How Betrothal~ Are Made. and How
GIrI. Are snppn.ed To Iiehnve.


Girls Are Supposed tn Behave.
"Adalet," in the Nineteenth Century,
describes how marriages are arranged
III Turkey
The girls are not allowed To see their
husbands until they are married To
them. 1Es girl must seem To be en-
tirely ignorant of tht. meaning of a be
trothal, she must cry when the ring is
put ON her finger, but must not admit
that she understands what il means un-
I'll the contract is settled, when for the
:irst time She is allowed to recognize
thr fate that has been prepared for her,
and then il is her duty To fall back in a
dead faint
Even after that she must not ask any
questions about the name, family or
character of her bctrothed, nor must
she ever try tn see him from afar. Not
withstanding this arrangement, which
seems To have been malcvolently con-
trived To make marriage a failure,
''Adalct' does not think that Turkish
marriages turn out SO badly, on the
whole.
Il have seen girls brought up in
every kind of Indulgence, and who have
never been thwarted in their whole
lives, bow down before the authority of
their husbands, and obey without a
murnur the orders Of "A man who a few
months before was entirely unknown To-
them, and ! cannot help admiring a
system which, while asking for SO much
devotion and sacrifice on one side. so
rarely degenrrates into tyranny on the
n i.s.E
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
EnnIi.h rntient..

There seems little IL choose" says q
physician, between the sexes in the
matter Of desire To- take medicine repu-
larly, and il is often impossible 10 per
suade an apparently rational-miBded
patient that cure has been effected.
that no more medicine is needed. and that
d pthing but good diet and careful hab-
its are required u build up the consti-
tutissa- 4 number Of doctors save them
solve, from falling from grace by pre-
S,ribing 4 harmless tonic after cffecting
"A cure. Sni those who pride themselves
in dispensing of cases by aid of Il dozen
doses or less seldom attain any great
popularity The often quoted and much
vauntcd practice in China of paying a
physician whIle his patient is well, and
stopping his pay during sickness, could
never be introduced successfully into
this country because so many people
who are perfectly well are preparing to
file aili,lavits that they are dangerous
BY sick that no doctor under the China
regime would be able To earn his
l.l.1r,l -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
REVERT TO THE CROWN.
How Mi-ers Pile Up Wealth for the Al
ready Rich and Powerful

How Mi-ers Pile Up Wealth for the Al
ready Rich and Powerful.
1t has sometimes happened that per-
sons little deserving, and even rulers,
have reaped the harvests which miScrS
have painfully sown The life of Van
ollie is a proof of this, says the St. Louis
Republic This man lived upon bread
and milk, with the addition of a small
glass of sour wine every Saturday. At
his death he left $500. 900 tn the king of
France. Audley, the Commonwealth
miser, saved e4OO, 900, all of which re-
verted To the government 4 merchant
died at Ispadan in the earlier part Of
this century who had for many years
denied himself and his son every sup
port except a crust of coarse bread.
On certain occasion he was over
tempted to buy a piece of cheese: but,
reproaching himself with extra agance.
he put the cheese into a bottle nd con-
tented himself, and obliged the boy to
do the same, with rubbing the crust
against the bottle, enjoying the cheese
in imagination. One day, returning
home later than usual. the merchant
found his son eating his crust, which
he constantly rubbed against the door.
What are you about, you fool?" was
his exclamation. 1t is dinner time.
father You have the key. SO. as |
could not open the door, | was rubbing
my bread against it, a. | could not get
to the bottle" Cannot you 90 with
out cheese one day, you luxurious little
rascal? You'll never be rich" And the
angry miser kicked the poor boy for not
having been able to deny himself the
ideal qualification.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
LIFE IN a LIGHTHOUSE.
Keepers at Minot's Ledge Have Gone In
sane Several Occasions

Keepers at Minot's Ledge Have Gone In
sane on Several Occasions
One of the most wonderful light
houses in the world is that at Minot's
ledge, near Boston. Its history has
been one of romance. The greater part
of its foundation is under water at low
tide. In 1917 skeleton lighthouse of
iron was erected there on iron piles
placed in holes drilled into the rock. \
furious hurricane burst upon the coast
in April, 1851, and anxious watchers
from the Cohasset shore thought that
the structure had been carried away.
But aS the sun sank out shone the
light across the Storm-toSScd waters.
At ten p. IN. the light was seen for the
last time. At one hour after midnight
the fog bell was heard above the roar
ing of the breakers At day break the
ocean wa, a blank; the lighthouse WAS
gone Knowing that no help could
reach them, the keepers had lighted
their lamps rs a warning To others, and
their lives had gone out with it. Now
a granite tower occupies the spot. So
difficult was it to lay the foundation in
the surf that only thirty hours work
could be done during the first year, but
the tower STANDS to-day as enduring as
Nii' lc'iE' it>'-li an lS'idlSu pli' vi
stone amid the waves, by the force of
which it il swayed like a tree in
wind. During the long winter months
all communication with the land
is shut OF. In summer the occa-
Sional visitor is hoisted into the
lighthouse from his boat 10y means
"l a chair, and from time 10 time a slliff
~ lowered 10y pulleys To convey one or
another of the five keepers to the shore.
According II the Boston Transcript the
life tells on them frightfully. Several
of them have been removed because
they have gone insane, and more than
one of them has attempted suicide
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
TOOK OFF HIS PLASTER.
A French CoIoneI'- Revenge for Being
In.nIfa,l

In,ulted-
A most vindictive duel was fought
during the reign of Louis NNI. by a
colonel of the French guards, says the
Yankee Blade. This gentleman was
boasting of the good fortune of never
having been Obliged to fight duel
Another officer expressed his surprise,
with some indirect illusions To the
coloncrs lack of courage, observing:
''IIow do You avoid fighting when in
sulted?' The colonel answered that he
had never given offcnsc and no one had
ever presumed To insult him. Moreover
that ON such an occasion ne would con
slider the character of the person who
had vantonly insulted him ere ne de
manded satisfaction. Upon this state
ment his intcrlocutor, in the most. in
sulting manner, struck him in the face
with his glove, saying: Perhaps, sir.
you will not consider this an insult?'
The colonel calmly put ON his hat and
walked out of the room. The follow
ing morning he sent a challenge tn his
a%gressor. When they came to the
ground the colonel wore patch of
court plaster of the size of a crown
piece on the check which had received
the blow. At the very first lungc he
wounded his antagonist in the sword
arm, when, taking OFF the plaster, he
cut off an edge of it with pair of scis-
sors and, replacing it on his face, took
leave of his adversary, very politely re-
questing he would do him the honor of
letting him know when he recovered
from his wound. So soon aS he heard
he was able To hold Il sword the colonel
called him out again and wounded him
a second time, cutting off another por-
ton of the patch. In like manner he
called him out, fought and wounded
him until the plaster was reduced to
the size of Il three-penny bit, when the
colonel yet once more challenged him
and ran him through the body. Then,
calmly contemplating the corpse with
an evil smile, he observed: Il now take
OFF my plaster"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
1T WAS GEORGES BICYCLE.
But His Girls Father Thought 1t Was
Hers and Locked IL Up

Hers and Locked Ii Up
Estelle's young man rides bicycle.
and Estelle has long wanted her pa To
buy her "A wheel, too, in order, says the
Somerville (MasS.) Journal, that she
might keep the young man company ON
his lonely rides. Finally pa was wearicd
out by a persistency in arts that all
loving daughters Will understand. and
Estelle was provided with costly
niclkeled wheel, which. after the usual
number of bumps and bruises. she felt
competent 10 ride. One evening not
long afterward pa came home about
midnight and saw the wheel leaning
against the banking near the front
piazza where the deys of evening had
been gathering upon its spollcs-
rs that the way Estelle takes care
Of her expensive presents hc growled
To himself in disgust. I'll teach her Il
lesson" he added. with grim dctermina-
ton. and 50 he trundlcd the wheel of
quietly and locked it up in the carriage
house before he went to bed.
That night when EStelle's young man
emerged upon the piazza and looked for
his wheel, the wheel was gone. Estelle's
young man had u walk hOme-a dis
tance of about four miles.
The next morning at the breakfast
table EStelle remarked: Wasn't IL too
bad, papa? George left his bicycle at
the door last night, and somebody must
have stolen it. for when he came 10 go
home about ten o'clock the wheel was
gone"
And a great light dawned suddenly
upon Estclle's pa as he exclaimed:
Great Scott, was that Georges bicycle?
! thought il was yours, and To teach
you 10 be more careful of il | locked il
up in the carriage house at midnight
before ] went To bed
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
a MUSICAL MELANGE.

THE bagpipe. the favorite Scotch and
Italian instrument, was invented in
Greece 200 years i. c.
a CHOIR of ladies' wearing cosSaclls,
surplices and mortar-board caps, has
been introduced at Marylebone, and is
producing excellent music.
AN Italian paper announces that the
duke Of Edinburgh Il engaged upon a
grand opera, To a libretto by the queen
of Roumania, for production at the
Court opera house. Coburg.
The sultan Of Turkey, Abdul Hamid,
is said To be an excellent pianist, and
part of his daily routine consists in
giving a couple of hours instruction to
his daughters.
MNE. PATTI believes that alcoholic
beverages Of any kind, even in mod
crate use, tend TO make the voice
husky and should be abstaincd from 10y
one who wishes TO get and keep fine
voice.
LORD DYsART, president of the WaC-
ner society of England, is making an
earnest effort to have evening dress
done away with as one of the obliga-
tions attendant upon grand opera in
England.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
ECHOES FROM CHICAGO.

A HEROIC statue of Hendrix Hudson,
the discoverer Of the Hudson river, Viii
be placed in New Horks worlds fair
building.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, will make at the
worlds fair an exhibit illustrating its
postal service from the days of 40 70
the present time.
FAC-sDmLEs Of thirty-seven Of the
most prominent Of the Aztec idols in
the museum in the City Of Mexico have
been prepared for the worlds fair at
Chicago.
A SWEDISH worlds fair club has been
Incorporated with the object Of furnish
ing information. assistance and enter
tainmcnt u Swedish exhibitors and Wis
itors al the exposition.
a COMPANY has been incorporated
with 100000 capital stock for the pur-
pose of erecting near the worlds fair
S7j. 900 club house, which shall bc main
tanned during the far a. headquarters
for wheclmcn from all parts Of the
world.
MOEE than two hundred panels Of na-
tive woods will enter into the interior
decoration Of the Washington worlds
fair building. Some Of them will Toe
carved and others decorated with paint
ings Of Washington scenery and group
ings of flowers, fruits, grains, fish,
game birds etc
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
WHO LIKES FIGUasS9

UNCLE SAM has $3.50. sl2 dwellings.
New YORK makes D., 900 watches n
week.
MAINE has wild land worth 500, OOO,-
600 at a low estimate.
THERE are four hundred head Of bison
at the Yellowstone park in Wyoming.
RAFT containing 81. 900 logs has been
brought TO Saginaw from the Georgian
bay country.
SOME ingenious individual has deter
mined, 10y some calculation best known
10 himself. that every two days fog
puts p, 900 people on bed Of sickness
in London.
ACCORDING TO the last census returns
England possesses no fewer than q, 600
coachmen and grooms, 81. $50 male in
door Servants and l,230,OOO female in
door servants.
The annual report of the state aims
house at Tewllsbury. Mass, for 1901
shows that there were 2.9l5 persons ad-
mittcd. Of whom only 371 were born in
Massachusetts, while l,O2i were born in
ireland
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
RIFLES AND AT FORTY PAGES.
The Duel an which Gen. Denver Dropped
Editor Gilbert.

Editor Gilbert.
The immigrants coming over the
mountains in those days were exposed
To great dangers, both from ignorance
of the route and lack of supplies, and
were also bcSct by rowing bands Of In
dianS. who robbed them at pleasure,
and killed them likewise.
This fact. says the New York Adver-
tiscr, was recognized by the California
Legislature in time, and to provide
against the recurrence of the outraScs
a bin was passed upon the recommcnda-
tion of the governor instructing him 70
organize company and equip relief
train, which should proceed 10 the
mountains, and perform any duties
necessary for the protection Of immi-
grant trains. The govcl IT obcyed
the orders of the bill, and re was
great demonstration as the soldiers
marched ont of Sacrament, with the
governor at their head. The utility
of the expedition was seriously doubt
ed 10y many. and among them the edit
or of the Alta California. who said -
in an editorial. and ridiculcd the whole
affair as a scheme of Biglcr's u gain
political capital at very heavy cN-
pcnsc u the people. He opposed the
bill from the beginning and when Big
Ter personally led the expedition
through the streets of the capital hc
more positively than ever charged that
il was Il job. This aroused the Indlg-
nation of the late Gen. Denver, who was
personal friend Of Biglcr. and he pub
lished bitter card in reply, attacking
Gilbert. The editor replied, claiming
that he was disintcrcstcd in the matter
and that he was no personal enemy II
Biglcr. Denver rctorted again and in
a bitter, personal spirit, and Gilbert
challeI, ged him To fight. Denver ac-
cePted.
The weapons We're rifles and tine dis
tance was forty PAGES, the battle
ground being ten miles from Sacra-
mcnto. The first fire was Intellectual,
and it has often been said that Gilbert
refused To take his antagonists hand
and call the matter quits with no
blood spilled. At the next fire Gilbert
fell and within less than five minutes
he was dead.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25

NEGROES IN BARBADOS.
They Die Rapidly nf ConsumPtion-Euro
peans safe from the Disease.

They DIE Rapidly of tonsumption-Iuro-
peans safe from the Disease.
In Barbadoes the chief enemy of the
black race Is consumption, of which
many of them die, though il is practic-
ally unknown there among Europeans.
The cause is simply that all negroes,
without exception, hermetically seal up
their huts at night, partly from fear OF
mysterious ghosts or ''duppies," and
partly To keep out mosquitoes, and
partly again because they wish To keep
out colo. For, strange as il may appear,
the naturalized West Indian negro shiv-
crs in a temperature of Seventy-four de-
grees, and on rare occasions in winter
when the thermometer falls TO seventy
degrees, ne is blue with cold and almost
incapacitated for work No doubt he is
warm enough in his hut at night, with
every shutter closed and every chink
and Granny stuffed with rags. but ma
ture avenges herself for this exclusion
of her purifying oxygen by colds and
coughs. The negro has quack remedies
and balsams by the dozens for these,
but All the Year Round says they do
not save him from the tubercle that
soon forms in his lungs and eats his lie
away
After all. he is little missed; he has
had "a short life and "A pleasant one. His
relatives will feel a pride in covering
themselves with Grape, of color almost
aS black as their own compleNions, for
Grape il de rigueur' among the ne
crosses of BarbadOes- He Will probably
leave after him six or seven children,
mostly illeg gitimatc, since the black la
dies have strong objections To the bond
of matrimony. But here the question
of pounds, shillings and pence does not
intrudc itself a. il does at home. II
costs 50 little To bring up black baby
that there Is really no reason whatever
for its parents To consider its future.
When il grows up an hours work or so
a day will keep it in food and clothes.
SO, in the streets of Bridgctown. the
happy little black imps swarm like flies
and the island has the densest p0pula-
tion per square mile of any place in the
known world-that Is. If what they say
about Chinese statistics i true.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
The I-npnrdnnnhIe Sin.

Thirty Catholic students at one Of the
seminaries in 81. Petersburg We're cross
ing Il bridge when the cars carriage
was driven by rapidly, and some of
them being in conversation did not see
his majesty and therefore did not bow
to him, says Free Russia The matter
was reported to the authorities. and the
Able Pizchmyclli. though he saluted.
was condemned To six months seclu-
sion, while the rector of the seminary,
who did not happen To be present 1T the
time, was fined fifty roublcs, prcsuma-
bly, in order To teach him Ia instill bet
ter manners into his charges.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-25
UNDER MELTING BUTTER.
Where the Abyssinian "Swen" Gets III.
Pomade.

where the Abyssinian 80 swell y Gets His
Pomade.
An AbysSinian viii tell you without
a blush that he i necessarily washed At
birth, cleans himself on his marriage
morn and hopes To be washed after
death: that once every year he
dips himself in the river on the festival
of st. John the Baptist, and regularly
every morning he vets the end of his
toga with the moisture from his mouth
and freshens up his eyes.
Whenever he feels his hide hard and
uncomfortable he anoints himself with
mutton fat, says the Century.
OF morning one may see the jeunes-
see dorce of thet town stalking with body
erect, and with ahout a pound Gf butter
stuck ON their heads. gradually melting
under the increasing power of the sun
The women look a shade cleaner oc-
casionally, caused not by any act Of
their own, but through the accident of
being for hours in a rainStorm. which
at this season occurs daily. but even
then the odor OF rancid mutton fat i'm
pregnates the atmosphere wherever
they NAV be