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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
PRISONS FROM ALL NATIONS.
They VIII he Illustrated In the Bureau
of Charities and Corrections

They VIII he Illustrated I'm the Bureau
of Charities and Corrections
Not the least interesting study at the
worlds fair Will be the exhibit in the
liberal arts department under the di-
rection of Superintendent Rosenau. OF
the bureau of charities and corrections
To the great majority of mankind it
can be happily said that the convict's
cage and the dark prison walls Of So
called houses of correction are like bad
dreams and vague Nightmares. The
life of the French galley slave as seen
through the lines of Victor Hugo's
Les MiSerables' Is picture that can
never be cffaced from the mind of
sympathetic reader. The very name
bridewell, TombS or pcnitcntiary carries
with it a feeling of dread and the
thought of punishment rather than
that of correction or charity. Man Is
advancing. however. and his ideals, if
not his actions. are apprOa hing nearer
TO the time of universal brotherhood.
In developing the exhibit of pepology
il i the aim of Mr.. ROSenau to show
the advancement made with the growth
of civilization from the days of early
history down TO the present time: ad
vancement in the manner of handling
truant members of society. Visitors 70
the fair can take their choice between
burning at the stake, which seems
since the discovery Of fire to have been
the favorite method of capital punish
ment up To the time Chala Ekllc made
the first rope. or being electrocuted
! after the manner of Kemmlcr. It's all
| the same thing in the end. Illustrations
! of prison cells in Siberia VIII be placed
side 10y side with those of Joliet and
| Sing Sing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
CHURCH FOLK OF THIS LAND.
Catholics Most Numerous, Episcopalians
WerIthIest, Blacks Most Enthusiastic.

Catholics Most Numerous, Episcopalians
WeaIthIest, Blacks Most Enthusiastic.
Charles =. Buell.. chief of the sixth
division OF the United States census,
is looking up delinquent churches whose
statistics are either incomplete or un-
satisfactory. He stated that the official
bulletin of the verified count Of church
membership has not yet been published.
Upon these points he made the follow
ing statement:
Twenty millions of leople in this
country are communicates and LOCO. 600
are in religious bodies but not commu-
nicants The Catholic denomination
heads the list. with Il membership OF
500. 900 in the ten bodies Of the church
in the United States. The Mcthodists.
with eight branches or bodies. four Of
which are colorcd, follow with a mem
bership Of 100000 in round numbers.
Then come the Baptist~. with eleven
branches and 100000. inclusive OF the
colorcd people. The remaining Is de
nominations are Of varying strength in
membership and wealth. There are
thirteen Presbyterian bodies with an
aggregate membership Of 1.27s.sl5. The
EDiScOpalianS are in the ncighbOrhoOd
of 600. 600. but a these figures are IN
official. | cannot give them as correct.
The Episcopalians are the wealthiest
10y far. per capita, as they have prop
erty of the value Of ST3, ,OOO.OO the
Catholic denomination, SlsT. 100000; the
MethodistS, 500. .OO0. 900; the PreSby-
terians. s25. 900. 600. Not one Of the
United Presbyterian churches had a
debt upon it. Religion has a strong
hold upon the 5000. 0G0 colorcd people in
this country: over a million are in both
the Methodist and Baptist chuI hes"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

WILLIAM d. HOwELLs, the novelist, is
about 10 take up residence in Italy, it
Is stated.
JOIN GREESLEAF WHITTIER was a
shoemaker in his youth, and one, as re
suits show, who was too smart to fol
low the advice Of an antiquated adage
SINCE Dickens death the firm Of
Chapman Il Hall have sold 643, 600 copies
of ''Pickwiclk." The profits on Dickens
works still amount to about $4,000 a
year.
VI. ZoLA has just received the highest
price ever paid in France for the serial
rights of a novel. The sum is about
thirty-one cents a line. total amount
of $1,000, and is paid for Zola's new
story, "Dr Pascal"
AUNT ANNE" the peculiarly clever
novel by Mrs. W. X. Clifford. about
which all London is talking, is what
may Toe called cmphatically a woman's
book. II is the sort of bright realistic
story which makes people laugh and
cry as they read il, and which sets the
ball Of conversation rolling briskly.
y FREE library Of ten thousand vol
umes has been recently opened at
Baroda, India. by Shrimaut Sampatrao
Gaizwar, the brother of the Mahara jah
Gaikwar. Seven thousand Of the books
are in English, the rest in Sanscrit,
Merathi and Guzerati, and il is the first
free library in any native state in India.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
FROM FATHER TO SON.
A banking Institution Where Position
Are Hereditary.

A Ranking Institution Where Positions
Are Hereditary.
A queer case of family succession in a
welI-<nown financial institution of the
city is told by the New York Daily
Stakeholder.
Josiah Kisterbock, Jr., who is now
the president of the City national bank,
is the son of the former vice president,
who was for many years an active
spirit as director also. The present
president entered the bank as boy and
ne has filed every position. Joel Cook,
the vice president, is a son also of a
former director, says the Philadelphia
Record.
William Potter one of the active
directors. is a son of Thomas Potter,
who was for years, until his death, the
president of the bank. Collins w Wal
ton. another director, is a son of Samuel
: Walton, who was connected with the
institution for many years Henry -
Grove. another director. is - son OF Con-
rad =. Grove, who, until his death. was
also for many years member of the
hoard of directors. John kisterbock,
another director, is the brother of the
present president.
William Henry Lex, another director,
succeeded his father, Charles T.. Lex,
who was for long period solicitor for
the bank, as well as 4 director. r.
Oden Horstmann; another director, Is
the son of William III. Horstmann, who
was also identified with the institution
f,r "A long time.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
LONDON NOTES.

CIGAR stubs bring about shilling
pound in London.
The streets Of London are cleaned
between eight in the evening and nine
in the morning. Many Of the carriage
ways are washed daily by means Of
hose. and the courts and alleys inhab-
tied 10y the poorer classes are cleaned
once a day.
\ LIGHT breakfast in London means,
TO an Englishman, a cup of coffee, a
boiled egg aud three slices Of toast.
The breakfast substantial i a small
chop. one egg, a penny-loaf Of bread,
buttered muffin and cup Of coffee.
THE London Daily Telegraph is the
most valuable newspaper property in
London, and l. said 70 net its proprie-
tors a profit of over half million dol
lars a year. And yet when il was first
started every other paper said it would
be a dismal failure.
Is the British patent Office, where Of
all places in the world one would eN-
pect TO find things ordinarily well up
to date" the steel pen is unknown. and
the antedeluvian goose-quiN absolute
and supreme. Verify. the ways Of gov
ernment officials are not as other mems,
a LONDON woman well known in So
ciety opened 4 curiosity shop. One day
a friend came in and left an umbrella
which had cost fifty shillings. He re-
turned to find the handle of IL in the
window labeled: Antique Venetian
silver umbrella mounting, 10 guincas." "
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
WITH THE SPORTS.

TwO-BALL billiards is a game fast
coming into favor with the experts To
count. player must hit the object ball
twice with the cue ball at each shot.
BAPTIST church in England. in or
order To induce cyclists to visit it, has
provided a safe shelter for bicycles.
Others have set apart a Cyclists pew"
THE French Rowing club, whose
crew lately beat the crew of the Lon
don Rowing club on the Seine, has only
about two hundred members against
the two thousand Londoners.
THE golf championship this year,
conducted by the Honorable Company
of Edinburgh Golfers, was won by an
amateur, Mr. Hilton, another amateur,
Mr.. Ball, being second All prominent
professionals but one played.
GRACE, the great cricllcter, has Joined
the committee for the promotion of the
athletic section of the new scheme for II
periodical Pan-Britannic gathering and
Anglo-Saxon Olympiad, when the ath-
letes of England, America and the
English colonies will compete.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
STILL HUNTING FOR GOLD.
Queer Life of an -ArGonaut Who Continues
tn DO Placer Mining.

to DO Placer Mining.
Along the strip of seabeach south of
the Ocean house, near San Francisco,
there have recently sprung up several
placer mining camps OF primitive pat
tern. One of the most unique charac-
tiers about the place Is Abraham Wei
hngton Birough, an original Argonaut,
who has made and spent several for
tunes in California. through has been
styled the mayor of the beach combers,
and every possible title of authority in
connection with the camp has been at
tributed to him, despite the fact that
he il now said To be ''cradling" sand for
the munifcent stipend of fifty cents
day and found"
BIrough Is a queer sort of a genius.
His hair has never been outraged by
the wanton snip of the scissors during
the past half century. AS conse-
qucnce, the old man appears To be sew
eral inches taller than he really iS. lie
is no dwarf, however. as without his
hIrSute crown hc stands more than six
feet high. somehow or other through
seems Ia have been conceded To- be the
bad man Of the camp. lie II an original
forty and since he first struck
California he has been engaged eXclu-
sIvrly IN gulch and gravel mining.
through has had many ups and downs
in his career. Ills first mining eNpe-
rIence was at Yankee Bar on the middle
fork of the American river lie was eN-
| ceptIonaliy fortunate with his claim
and iS said To have got more than one
] hundred thousand dollars worth of the
| precious metal. This soon slipped
| through his fingers and he once more
| shouldcred his prospecting outfit and
! began To search for another rich mine,
| which he found in due time in Placer
! county \ second fortune came quick
! Is and went the same way. Since then
! through has never been able To ''strille
| il rich" but even now, when hc iS work
| ing for fifty cents Il day and board, his
sporting blood" is as warm a. of yore,
! and whenever pay day comes around lac
| takes a trip To the city and returns to
| the camp dead broke"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
EBENSBURG. Pa. FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 1892
WHAT STUMP SPEECHES COST.
Campaign Orators Paid from One Hun
dred to One Thousand Dollars n Week.

Campaign Orators Paid from One Hun
dred to One Thousand Dollars n Week.
These are the palmy days of the cam
paign orator, and TO the number of
over two thousand he is now being
heard throughout the land. Many of
these speakers, according To the In
dianapohs News, are under the direc-
ton of the several state committees,
but the movements of a large number
are controlled directly by the national
bodies. The members of the latter
class are nearly all men of national re
pute, and their efforts are confined in
the main to the close and doubtful
states. Committeeman William VI.
Hahn, of Ohio, directs the movements
of the speakers who labor under the
auspices of the republican national
committee, and Committeeman Bradley
Il. Smalley, of Vermont, those of the
democratic speakers. Their task Is
neither an easy nor a pleasant one
Some orators decline To speak in small
towns, and others of less extended
fame insist upon being scheduled for
speeches in New York and other large
cities. But both Hahn and Smalley are
very successful in smoothing over these
difficulties, in impressing the different
orators with the fields in which they
can do the most good, and in persuad-
ing them TO accept the assignment for
which they have been scheduled.
Formerly the cost of stump speeches
was the largest item in bill of cam
paign expenses, but il is very different
now. The great majority of campaign
speakers, aside from their necessary eX-
penSes, receive no recompenSe for their
services; those of the first class never
do. Mr.. Blaine has never been paid for
his speeches, and the late senator ConI-
ling not only refused pay for his
services in campaign, but always in
sisted upon paying his own expenses,
and was careful to take receipts there
| for. Still there are quite a number of
! attractive speakers who are not only
| paid, but well paid, for their speeches.
J Some receive one hundred dollars Il
| week and expenses, and a very few as
| high as one thousand dollars week.
| There are not wanting those who make
| business of campaign speaking and
! have no other regular means of sup
port. One speaker, well-l<nown eX-
| congressman, has been employed for
several years by the national commit
tee of his party at Il handsome annual
| salary.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
FREAKS OF INVENTORS.

An ingenious Indianian has invented
plow in which an auger or screw mold
board is operated 10y means of a drive
wheel in the rear.
AN automatic match igniter is re-
cent novelty. You pull lever. match
travels along a roughcned surface and
is then thrust out of an opening already
ignited.
PAssAIC inventor has devised a
novel projectile. which is rifled TO cor
respond TO the bore of the gun. The
grooves are provided with bearing
pieces TO diminish friction.
a BosToN inventor has invented 4
strainer for mixed drinks. consisting Of
a circular plate, around the circum-
ference of which is a spiral spring. The
coil forms the strainer, which is remova-
bile at will.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
A PRISON ROMANCE.
discovery OF Mi>sInE Hrothsr Among
JAN tnnHte--


JAN tnnli.te--
I'm going t. join the army and will
be gone three years" Thus wrote a
roung man L. his dear old mother and
listers at home. The boy, says the
salem Statesman, was under sentence
90 stute. prison when ne wrote the letter
;hat he supp, Scd would quiet all IN
uiry as 10 his whereabouts. lie had
sccu found guilty of forgery, and the
iud.sc in pronouncing sentence upon
i'm gave him three years at hard labor.
This was several months ago, and the
;oung man il 10y this time well ac-
iuaiatcd with the monotonouS routine
# life in the Oregon state penitentiary.
III a recent Sunday afternoon a couple
# young ladies, sisters, new arrivals in
salem, visited the prison.
They arrived too late to he admitted
- the services, but were given seats in
thc waiting room. At the first sound
from the choir they We're Interested,
hut as the music of the song filled the
.h:Iucl and rcsoundcd throughout the
Corridors, they recognized familiar
,ound in the swcct-toned voice that
.arricd the air They advanced nearer
- the chapel, impelled 10y they knew
not " hat and glancing through the
barred dooT3 recognized among the
fingers wearing the stripes the absent
brother whom they supposed To bc
serving his country in the army. The
r.,u.euition WAS mutual and it was pit
iful The shock was more than the
delicate nerves of the young women
could bear But it is only one incident
Of the many. The prison is full of sat
romanccs and expectations that ars
.,..r..,. ,-...,l i<at
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
AN ODD EXHIBIT.
A Vessel Loaded with Curiosities
from the Interior.
Some Rare Old Relics from Historic
BatttefieIds and Vegetable and
Mineral Products of Va
riou- States.

The handsome schooner-rigged YES
sci, City of Clinton, has arrived in Chi
cago, after sailing down the Tennessee
and up the Illinois and Mississippi
rivers. laden with fine exhibit of
curiosities and specimens for the worlds
fair The boat was built at Clinton.
Anderson county, up among the noun
tains, and tioated down the Clinton
river To the Tennessee. The work of
collecting the cargo was difficult one
Many curious and interesting war
relics and mineral and wood products
were To be found, but the people Were
loath to part with them One piece of
an old tree. on which Daniel Boone cut
his name in 1874, was only obtained
after one thousand dollar bond had
been signed for its safe return after the
fair. The products brought include
specimens of granite, polished and
rough. onyx, iron ore, corals. stalactite
and stalagmite formations. and some
choice specimens of southern woods
These include black oak, maple, curly
poplar, sasSafraS. curly chestnut. black
walnut. satinwoOd. mahogany and
gopher wood, such as built Noah's ark
There are also some rare old relies
from the battlefield of Chicl1amauga-
whlffie trees. old bits and exploded Shells
There Is the pistol and hat OF Joe Will
Jams, the notorious moonshiner, with
thirteen holes in it-a hole for every man
he shot. The City of Clinton Is, Il graceful
sailing craft. sixty feet ten inches in
length. by seventeen feet four inches
beam. with masts and sails that can Toe
lowered ON deck when not required.
The interior is elegantly fitted up and
paneled in choice woods. Capt. Bettes
and boy named Joe Coyle sailed the
vessel alone and kept up canvas for
one thousand nine hundred miles Of the
voyage. The other three hundred
miles We're made by towing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
NEGRO WEALTH IN LOUISIANA.
1t Is Least Where the Negroes Outnum-
ber the Whites and Kun Politics

DER the " mites
a recent act of the legislature re
quires that in making the assessment of
the state the property of the whites
and negroes shall be assessed separate
ly. so AS To determine the progress
made by the latter and how much they
contribute towards the negro schools;
and with the design, possibly, that
under certain circumstances the taxes
paid 10y the negroes shall be set aside
for the public schools, and that paid by
the whites for the white schools.
The assessments are not favora Die TO
the negroes. They show a total for the
country parishes of only sG, 10, ,257, TO
be divided among half a million ne
grucs, which gives $3.50 as the per
capita wealth OF each negro. The
school tax on the property is only s5.-
O97, SO that if the taxes should be APP
portioned, as has been proposed IN sew
eral states. there would be barely t90
in each parish for colored schools.
Some of the parishes make an even
worse showing. In Lafourche the av-
erage property per negro is only SS s.:
in Assumption, also rich sugar parish.
the assessment is only t6.s7. the lowest
in the state. In st. John it is IS. 10, and
ST. Charles 1928.
The last three parishes are all rich
sugar parishes and have a large ma
jority of negroes, who control political
affairs and elect all the local officers.
yet it seems that the negroes are poorer
there than anywhere else in the state.
In st. Tammany parish, however, where
they are in minority. they average
S,i2. 40 apiece and own - per cent. of all
the property in the parish. and in Cam
eron, where the whites are in an over
whelming majority, the negroes average
S3l.o per capita.
The assessments clearly prove that
where the negroes are congregated III
large bodies and are in a ma ajorIty. no
matter how rich the soil and whether
| or not they are in political control, they
are comparatively poor, and that they
| are best off where the whites outnum
ber them, although the soil is poorer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
Rnin Gambling.

'sRain gambling" is the latest vice to
develop in India. and the police OF Bonn
bay and Calcutta are just now vigorous
ly at work prosecuting rain gamblers IN
the local courts III an endeavor To show
that the law includes tins form OF
gambling. In Calcutta the "outtt' of
the rain gamblers is in a street in the
Burra bazar. Here into a small tank,
four feet square and six inches deep, an
ordinary spout discharges rain water
from the roof of II three-story building.
In gambling with this apparatus bets
are made ut the beginning of the rainy
season as To whether or not the tank
will overflow at given shower, to the
extent the rain will overflow 1t when
the water sheets come down in proper
tropical style. 1t is alleged that on
busy days in the bazar several lalShs
of rupees change hands. This is surely
vice made easy for the lazy man.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
OF ROYAL BIRTH.

DUCHESS DA MONTPESsIER, sister OF
Queen Isabella, is great grandmother
at 50.
QUEEN VICToRIA's new dining-room at
Osborne cost 100000. She paid for it
herself
ABU BUKAR, the sultan of Johore,
who will visit the worlds fair next sea
son, is about G5 years of age, a man of
progressive views and worth about
go, 900 900.
MARQUIS GUICCIoII, the new Italian
ambassador At Berlin, Is grand
nephew of the beautiful Countess
Guiccioli. the friend of Byron. The
marquis was formerly mayor of Rome.
THE ear is said, on what London
papers quote as the authority of his
English physician at st. Petersburg,
To have lately grown thin and nervous.
There is nothing bracing and fatten-
ing about being the ear Of Russia.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
HARASSED BY a NAME.
McGinty Thinks OF Disposing OF His Pat
ronymic Very CheapIy.

Il am sorely annoyed and harassed by
a name" said a dapper little man with
keen gray eyes and fierce mustache to a
st. Louis Republic reporter. Il bear a
name that for centuries has been borne
with pride and that To my positive
knowledge has never been disgraced. 1t
is an honorable name and is associated
with many of mans greatest achieve
ments. And yet in these degenerate
DAYS of the comic-song writer and his
arch-conspirator, the wandering min
strel, my name is weighing down my
ambitions and my hopes of prosperity
and posterity. My name is Mc,iinty-
Michael J. McGinty-but not one man
in fifty To whom l am introduced be
.icves either my introducer or myself
when with the most dignified solemnity
we assure him that that is my real cog
nOmen.
Il have surrendered all hope of ever
utilizing the telephone, for as soon as
the man at the other end of the line
asks me VINO i; Is that has rung him up
and tell him McGinty he rails at me
for disturbing him with my jokes and
snappishly rings me off. / never at
tempt To introduce myself to anyone as
other men do, for | would only be con-
sidered an impostor who was trying To
disguise his identity for some sinister
motives or a person entirely too fresh.
About the queerest experience that my
name has occasioned me occarred last
summer on one of those magnificent
steamboats, that ply the Hudson. l
joined party of friends for an eXcur-
sion up the river. In the party was one
of the most beautiful young women l
ever saw. / at once sought an introduc-
tion 10 her, and imagine my heartburns
and chagrin when | was introduced to
Miss Rooney. i tried to relieve the en-
barrasSment we both felt by my MAX
ing some jocular remark about the sin
gular coincidence, but Miss Rooney
wouldn't have II. Her great, liquid
eyes filled with tears and she turned her
back on me. All this may seem funny
u you and other people, but | tell you
the thing has gone 50 far that there is
no fun III il 10 me"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-12-16
THE FIRST.

THE Babylonians first divided the
hour and minute into sixty parts.
THE first book imported from Europe
was brought over by John Sabin, Of
Philadelphia.
ALJEZw AIHAMBALI says coffee was
first made known as beverage in $40
of the Hegira.
ABRAHAM presented his sons wife
with a pair of earrings, the first of
which there i historic mention.
THE first railroad To use the steam
locomotive regularly in this country
was the South Carolina railroad in 1891.
The first French newspaper, the
Gazette dc France, was started in 1851
by Theophraste Renaudot. lie also
established the first Mont de Piete.