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Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

:. HAT the st. Louis of to-day and the
w. LOUIS OF twenty-five, aye, ten years
ago are two vastly different affairs,
sUes without saying to those who, by
rsSloence nI or proximity, are able to
" @d'ch the rapid transformation; but to
;. ae returning resident of years ago, or
.ne stranger who has only read
~ Guy quated descriptions of the Future
g: Mat visit to the metropolis of the
o,..iSslsslppi !. valley is productive only
= pleasure and wonder. The world
= being enlightened as to the
rap,. ~piu strides st. Louis is making by the
ttuoilcatlon of series of able articles
. ..oin the pen of Mr.. James Cox. secre-
- ;iy OF the st. Louis Autumnal Festivi-
- es ASSOCIATION, an excellent INSTALL
- ,-su' OF which, handsomely illustrated.
ppedrs cat,s IN the May number. of Lippen-
magazine, and which will well re-
pay perusal.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

CHlcAGo, with its population equal to
mat of st. Petersburg and not much
less than that of Vienna, stands on
ground that was the site of mere viii
iaolan trading post within the memory
ci men now in vigorous life. Chicago
Is now near the center of population of
= nation numbering IS, 900, 900, and only
. httle over century old. The united
kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland
contains 37,000,0OO France, 3S, ,OO0, 900;
'ae German empire, 46, 100000 Russia
@'one excels the United States in mere
enumeration of people, having a total
VI u about los, 900, or in European
HusSla S5,OOO,0OO. The White City at
Jackson park, Chicago, called into be-
,ng sng IN two years, at an expenditure of
VoooOOo, is an Arabian dream mate
rallied in American life.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

ACCORDING to the Atlanta Constitu-
ton "a called session, in order to have
the note of Importance about it, ought
to assemble in June and adjourn the
last Of July" and within this time
"the inevitable financial discussion
could take place The newspapers,
however need not worry; the president
is not going to call congress together
until his hands are well clear of an
event due to occur in July. which will
give him something more to think bout
than the dry details of financial dis.
cussion.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

Iy decision rendered recently the
st. Louis court of appeals defines fell
low-servant negligence in way that
relieves it of much of its hardship for
the employe. The court says: 1T is
onIv where the negligence of fellow
servant is the sole cause of the injury
that the master is excused"
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20
COLLIDED IN A FOG.

Twenty-Four Persons Drowned by tho
Sinking of tho Ship Countess Evelyn, in
Collision with the Steamship City of
Hamburg Of the Welsh Coast-Another
Collision with Probably Direfui Results.
LONDON, May 1.-THE captain of the
steamship City of Hamburg, which ar
rived at Swansea to-day from Ham-
burg, reports that at l o'clock yester'
day afternoon his vessel collided in a
fog off Trevoshead, coast of Cornwall
with the ship Countess Evelyn, bound
with passengers and iron orc from Bill
bao, Spain, to Newport, Wales. The
captain of the Countess Evelyn jumped
aboard the City of Hamburg and many
passengers crawled to her through
holes made in the Countess Evelyn's
quarter. Ninety seconds later the
Countess Evelyn went down with her
crew of sixteen and with nine passen-
gers.
Boats were lowered from the City of
Ham burg, but the search in the fog
proved almost useless. Seaman Jasbin
was picked up, but he died in a few
minutes after having been brought
aboard the steamship. The dead body
of little girl was also found.
Otherwise the attempt at rescue was
without result. The lost passengers
were the English wife and the son and
daughter of a Spanish gentleman in
Bilbao; Mrs. Williams, her son and in
FAINT daughter; two men named Barton,
and Londoner whose name has not
been ascertained.
The steamship Ataka, which arrived
at Cardiff yesterday, was damaged by
collision with an unknown ship off
Lundy isle. The Ataka's captain thinks
that the other vessel went down with
all or board
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

Wo .x1seMEN in New York have sent
$4,000 to help the workingmen of Ger
manv defeat the army bill and uphold
tbe principle of constitutional govern
ment. 1t was hard-earned money, and
.be fact that it was contributed by
men who have so little to spare is deep
l.. significant.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

HERE is still a balance against us in
our foreign trade, as the reports Of the
exports and imports at New York show.
The transactions in this line at the
rest OF the ports are not all in yet, but
the indications are that when they do
come IN they will show that in our
dealings with the outside world last
month we bought considerably more
than we sold. This condition of things,
however, is likely to stop when the
new wheat and cotton crops begin to
oe shipped three or four months hence.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

THE young war lord of Prussia:says
he is determined to carry his army bill
into effect despite the unpatriotic op-
position" of the reichstag of the Ger
man empire. This is what he tells the
officers Of his army, but he may find
himself mistaken in the German people
and in the times if he thinks that he
and his Krupp guns and his shoulder
strapped subordinates can govern Ger
many on the Russian plan.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

LIEUT. THoRwALD FRITscHE, OF the
.or,aI Danish navy, who has come to
Il .b;s country for the purpose of begin
a;nc three-years' service in the Amer
;o.n navy, is said to be the first naval
osicer of a foreign power to receive per-
,,ission to enter the navy of the United
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

THERE is gun in the British navy,
twenty-two-ton Armstrong, which
burs solid shot distance of twelve
miles, the highest point in the arc de-
scribed by the shot being seventeen
thousand feet above the earth's sur
face The discharge of the gun can not
be heard at the place where the ball
strikas
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

PADEREwsKI beat the record in the
amount of money he carried off from
America. Rubinstein's material reward
was s44, 1000, while the young Pole re-
ceived, January to May, s1S0,G00, and
but for the injury to one finger his re-
ceipts would have reached s200,000.
Three years ago Paderewski was play
ing in London for $50 performance.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20
STRUCK 1T RICH.
Immense Excitement at Baker City, Ore,
Over a Valuable Gold Find.

Over a Valuable Gold Find.
BAKER CITY, Ore, May 15.-One of the
richest gold strikes ever made in this
section of the country, not excepting
the famous White Swan mine, which is
yielding $4,000 per day with a ten
stamp mill, was uncovered last Thurs
day. The lucky finders are James and
Samuel Bais1ey. The latter was one
Of the discoverers of the White Swan.
The new find is situated about three
miles south of the White Swan and
Virtue mines. Over 81, 900 in gold was
pounded out Thursday in hand-mor-
tar. The ledge that has been found
has been uncovered and proves to be a
pay chute varying in width fsaSp two
u ten feet
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20
VOLUME XIV.

!, uoyEMEST is said to be on foot in
a. snanish court, with strong pros
~ 81 success, to raise the degree of
r..nish representative at Washington
slor sr minister plenipotentiary to am
hassador s plenipotentiary and make the
J',Le J~ of Veragua ambassador to Wash
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20

us,,.I- IAN STANHoPE, an eccentric old
posaa eihan OF Wayne county, Ind, pro-
snS 5VS = 10 paper his parlor with one. two
est;r,atent nte-cent Columbian stamps. He
aho..4 ,,.a ! YES that the freak will cost him
M o~. ~ so'SoO. The government. will be
= Ra'neF 70 that extent.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20
WANT A STAY.
Requests for Suspension of the Chinese
Exclusion Act.


WASHINGTON, May II. - Numerous
kilograms have been received at the
treasury department respecting the de-
cision of the supreme court in the
Chinese exclusion act. Most of these
kilograms ask that the law be .sus-
pended for at least six months, as its
execution at this time will i'm
pose great hardships on Chinese
in the United States. Among the
kilograms received is one from the at
torneys of the Chinese Six companies,
who also ask for a suspension OF the
law. Treasury officials acquainted
with the record of the Six companies
during the past three or four years re-
gard this request coming from them as
rather surprising In its cool assrFanes'
Huntsville gazette., 1893-05-20
The Removal of Mr.. sturtevant.

WASHINGTON, May I6.-The Washing
ton Post ascribes the following Ian
guage to Secretary Carlisle on Satur-
day in an interview as to the removal
of Mr.. Sturtevant, head of the treas
ury stationery division, who had been
in the department thirty-two years,
and whose retention was understood to
have been requested by Hon. Carl
Schurz and other civil service reform
ers:
81 make this change after mature
deliberation, and upon complaints
from responsible sources. l will not
call them charges, but they were suffi-
cient to warrant new appointment.
The statement that my son, Logan,
had anything to do with the matter is
baseless, as he advised against any
change at present. The idea that any
officer under the government is essen
tial to its efficient administration is
absurd. / propose to put in his place
an able and broad-gauge man who
will manage the purchases OF sta
tionery Just as well as the deposed
officer. The criticism indulged in
comes wholly from mugwump papers,
which knew nothing about the details
which brought about the change. Inc
resignation of Mr.. Sturtevant has been
held ND for few days, but to-day de-
terlnined to accept it and have sent
him letter accordingly as g result Of
thess attacks
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
ADRIFT ON The OCEAN,
The Remarkable Voyage OF "A Deserted
SchSD.cr.

The Remarkable Voyage of A Deserted
Schooner
Some of the caprices Of the ocean are
ineXpIcablc. March 81, 1891, an
American three-masted schooner, the
Wyer c. Sargent, of Sedgwi,l x, Ne,
was abandoned by her crew off Cape
Hatteras. a hopeless wreck. But the
deserted vessel did not break up or
founder. On the contrary. she hung
together with amazing tela-itv. and
from that day TO this has been floating
aimieSsly about i'll the path Of ,,oiu-
merce between our ports and Europe.
She has been sighted and reported
during these twenty-Onc months by
twenty-five different vcsSels-to say
nothing of those which passed peril
ously near her in the night or foggv
weather. She was last seen u tow davs
ago by British steamship nine hun
dred miles due east Of Bermuda The
dismastcd hull was still il good eondi-
ton. The name on her stern was dis
tinctly visible and rusty anchor
danglcd from the bow. Daring the
year and nine months that this mast
less and rnddcrlesS hulk has been drift
ing hither and thither, tbs sport of the
clcrlcnts, scores of strong ships, well
manned and well found, have sue
cumbcd 20 the fury Of the winds aud
waves. some of them not leaving a soul
70 tell their story. while a deserted
craft, without a rag ot canvas, has
come safely through hurricane and
cyclone without number 70 lie deadly
menace in the path of navigation
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
SCINDING a SHARK.
The Remarkable Escape or a Pearl Diver
from a FeartuI Death.

The Remarkable Escape or n Pearl Diver
from "A Fearful Death.
4 successful diver must possess great
courage and nerves Of steel Such a
man. connected with large wreclzing
company, was visiting the pearl fish
cries IA the gulf of California On one
of his trips in quest of the pearl oyster
he had = narrow escape from = fearful
death. Frank Lcslie's Magazine tells
the story. He had been instructed
never to STIR from the bottom until he
had looked up and around Fortunate
" he needed the advice. Having filled
his bas nc glanced quickly about, and
caught sight OF a huge shovcl-nosed
shark watching him. In an emergency
men think fast. Near the diver was
large .'o,k- lie moved quickly to the
other side of it, hoping To dodge the fe-
r5cious monster. But the maneuycr
did not wori.; the shark watched every
movement. changing his position by
slight motion of his powerful tail.
Time was precious. and the diver con-
ccived the idea of binding the shark 10y
stirring up tie mud. Under cover of
that H. might escape He worked for
dear lifo, and had the water thick with
mud IL less than half minute. Slip
ping around the rock again he rose To
the surface, having barely strength
enough to reach the side of the boat,
and was hauled on board just as the
yoracious man eater made a rush for
him
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piseusted Baidheads-

Five elderly men, evidently strangers
in the city. walked up To the box Office
OF a downtown thcater the other night
and purchaoed the requisite number of
seats way down front, please" Just as
they entered the theater-thcy were
triilc late and the curtain had been up
fifteen minutes-the comedian was
singing 4 topical song, one verse of
which called the attention TO the fact
that most occupants of front seats are
destitute Of hirsute adornment. Every
man of the five was almost as bald as a
billiard ball, and the words of the song
fitted them SO well that the audience
simply yelled. For a moment the five
stood irresolute and their evident en-
barrassment only served to renew the
shouts Of laughter. The usher turned
down five seats. handed the checks to
one of the party, but without word
the five replaced their hats, wheeled
'.about face" and solemnly tramped
back the aisle and out of the house
while the audience yelled some more
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
WHY JENNY LIND RETIRED.
An Intimate Friend Of the Singer Gives
the True Reason.


the True Reason.
One matter which must be of interest
to every lover of dramatic art. and
which has been an enigma 10 many
people. is now for the first time dealt
with by one with authority TO discuss
the question, says a writer in the Cen
tury. Why did Jenny Lind quit the
stage at the moment of her greatest
glory, and many years before her un-
rivaled powers had begun TO suffer any
decay Some have perhaps reluctantly
accepted the widely prevalent idea that
she had come 20 regard the dramatic
profession as an unholy thing which no
pure-souled woman could remain in
without contamination. Happily this
notion can be entertained no longer.
Her intimate friend, FroRen Won Sted-
ingk, with reference TO il says: MANY
suppose this resolution To be the result
of pictism. Jenny Lind is as God-fear-
ing a. she is pure, but had pietism been
the cause, she would not herself have
gone 10 the play, which she declared
she liked To do, 10 see others act" The
fact is that 20 appreciate her motive for
lea-ing the stage is TO understand the
whole character of the woman. Her
distaste for it seems TO have begun with
steadily grew as her fame spread. In
1870 she had lived for ten years life of
incesSant hard work on the stage; yet
in the following year she wrote from
Paris: Life on the stage has in il
something 50 fascinating that ! think,
having once tasted 1t, one can never
feel truly happy away from it." But
in lS45, just after her tranScendcnt sue
cess in Berlin. the idea of leaving the
stage had not merely occurred TO her
mind, but had already become a fixed
determination. Among the dominant
notes of her character We're love of
home and craving for domestic peace.
This craving was To a great extent sat
isfied while she remained in Stockholm.
and especially during the time she
lived with the Lindblad family. But
when her destiny drew her in relentless
triumph TO Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen,
London, her domestic instincts were
wrenched and tortured, and she found
no compensation in all the glitter of
her success. Il am convinced" said
Herr Brockhaus, in April, 1916, that
she would gladly exchange all her tri-
umphs for simple homcly happiness"
That was the secret of the whole mat
ter: And so she formed the resolution
to quit the stage forever, "A resolution
in which she never wavered from ls45,
when it first took definite shape, till
she carried it out in London in the SUR,
NOR Of
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
ON MANY SUBJECTS.

LA BRUYERE use 10 say If poverty is
the mother of crimes want of sense is
the father.
THE little old republic is going to
make some of its own sweetening.
Switzerland is building its first sugar
refinery.
THERE are looms in the old world.
The linen manufactured yearly in Eng
land could be wrapped round the earth
seven times
THIS is not the only smart and in
quisitive" world. Mars, says r. j.
Crowley, the English scientist. is prob
ably in communication with other
planets.
THE curious statement is made that
Elsie Gray, the Stalacta of BLACK
Crook" is pronounced by artists 10 be
the most perfectly formed woman ON
the stage a---
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24

Remedy only GJod for Patients Who
Are .YhcI,rerers

Are cphcI,terers-
Mf- Osccnyan, in his book. The Sui
tan and tits People" says that Turk
l>h physician was called To visit a man
who was very ill of typhus fever The
doctor considered the case homeless. but
prescribed iOr the patient and took his
leave The next Cay, in passing by. he
inquired of a servant at the door if his
master was dead
Dead was the reply; mo. he is
much better"
The doctor hastened upstairs to OBJ
tain the solution of the miracle.
'Nhy," ,sail the convalescent. Il was
consumed with thirst. and | drank a
pailfui of the juice of picked cabbage"
Wonderful quoth the doctor; and
out came the tablets, on which he made
this inscription: Cured of typhus
fever, Mehcmed Agha, an upholsterer
by drinking a pailful OF pickled cab
bagc Juice"
Soon after the doctor was called to
another patient, yaghlil<gce, or dealer
IN embroidered handllerchiefs, who was
suffering from the same rnalady. He
forthwith prescribed "a pa;lful of
pickled cabbage juice" On calling the
next day to congratulate his patient on
his recovery, he was astonished to be
told that the man was dead In his be
wlldcrment at these phenomena he
came To the safe conclusion, and duly
noted II in his memoranda. that Al
though in cases of typhU5 fever picllled
cabbage juice Is an efficient remedy. it
IS not TO DC used unless the patient be
by profession an upholsterer''
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
HAUNTED STATUES.
Ancient Egyptians Believed That ImageI
Were Animated by spirits.


Were Animated by spirits.
When Darius l., according 10 Hero
dotus wished To erect his statue near
that of Rameses II. (Sesostris), the
priests objected on the ground that
Sesostris was'a greater conqueror than
he. The statue in question was
one of several erected before
the temple of Ptah at Memphis, on
the borders of the sacred lake, where is
now the village of Bedreshein. After
Memphis became Christian the renown
of its monuments died away, and when
il perished the stones were removed TO
serve in building Cairo. One colossus
remained to our day, il having been
preserved under the sand, and on being
unearthed by Caviglia at the beginning
of the century was found TO represent
Sesostris in his youth.
This colossus has been visited by
most tourists in Egypt, says the London
Globe. 1t lay on the sands near the
plain of Bcdreshein, in hollow or
ditch, and was covered with water dur
ing the inundation. The remains of
the temple might be traced along the
lake, which is still represented by de-
preston in the ground covered with
wheat fields. OF late years Gen. Ste
excluded the waters from the colossus,
raised it on timber supports above the
ground and surrounded it by a brick
wall. On payment of two piasters,
however, it can he seen by the curious.
NJ. Maspero, the great Egyptologist, re-
latcs in a French contemporary that the
Arabs had formerly great awe of this,
which they called About HOl, the ia
ther Of fright" as they do the sphinx
The ancient Egyptians, he assures us,
believed that statues, divine or human,
were animated 10y spirit or double
detached from the soul of the person
they represented. This double ate,
drank, and spoke or delivered oracles.
In later times the double was credited
with playing evil tricks on those who
approached the statue. and even with
killing them. His power could Toe de-
stroyed by breaking the statue, or at
least the features; hence it is that So
many statues of the Pharoahs have
been mutilated by the Arabs.
The spirit of Rameses II. was supposed
TO haunt the palms at night, and Vi.
Maspcro relates that every time he
passed by in the evening toward dusk
the driver Of his ass would mutter his
prayers and hurry on his beast. One
evening NJ. Maspero asked him if he was
afraid of some ''afaite' and the driver
begged him not to speak of such things
or some harm would befall him. Pres
emily VI. MaSpero was thrown from the
ass in the middle of the wood and the
incident was regarded by the driver as
"a punishment for his not speaking re-
spectfully Of the spirit in the statue.
Egypt is full of such superstitions,
dating from the far past.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24

A curious collection of books is con-
tanned in the library Of Warstenstein,
near Cassel, in Germany. The books
appear At first sight TO be logs of wood,
but each volume is really n complete
history of the tree il represents. The
back shows the bark, in which a small
piece is cut TO write the scientific and
common name as title. One side
shows the tree trunk in its natural
state and the other its polished and var
nished. Inside are shown the leaves,
fruit. fiber and insect parasites, TO which
is added full description of the tree
and its products
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
HISTORICAL FACTS.

IN China the year 1892 is the year
7,9I0,341-
Iron pavements We're first laid in Lon
don in the year 1877.
THE first French newspapers, the Ga
zettc de France, was started in 1851 by
Theophraste Renaudot. He also estab-
lished the first Mont de Piete.
WHAT is known as short whist was
introduced into England in 1900. In it
the game consisted of five points instead
Of ten and no honors were counted
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
Rather DinnIlnnnn..

In l7s5, while George Washington
was visiting at Turk Hill, Conn, it is
said that he dropped a bright copper
penny near the site of the Mead home
stead. 1t was one of the few coined in
that year, and diligent search was made
for it, but all TO no purpose. The prop
erty changed hands several weeks ago,
and the new proprietor began 10 make
some improvements. In throwing out
the dirt near the old foundation the old
penny is reported To have been IN
earthed
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-02-24
ExoNERArIoNs TO ccoNsTABLEs.

j G.. Mouse, \ egheny twp............. u o.
j j. khOdy Ashyille Dor. r................. Is 81
.jchn ID. l.antzy, Barr twp. ................ 81 ~
Simon Adams, Blackhck twp ss 33
G.. ID Ryan. Clearfield twp-.... AZ II
!. }. Wcakland, Carroll twp........... &c 10
q. +. Little, Chest Springs bor......... s AZ
Jos Long, Croyle twp. ................ 81 10
ID, j. o 'iiara, WilmOre bOr........ II 90
de- 43 So
Jacob 4. Warner. Chest twp............ 40 i3
Dennis Brown, Dean twp.................. 90 "
l. W. Humphreys, Ebensburg W. w II 10
Evan ID, Evans, Ebensburg T.. W.. 8 n
Joseph ltcl. Portage twp................... % 50
AnSelm Weakiand, Elder Twp. 81 ~
T. a. Sweeny, Lilly bOr ...--.............. - 81
a. IL. Mortze, Gallitzin TWP. la 81
i. l.. VI liler, Hastings bOr................ So -
Philip fritch, Washington tw p....-.-- l57 81
Robert l.. % 'Nei II, Munster twp. -
Samuel liuey, Tuhneihiu Dor r... 80 ~
Adam Esch white twp. ................... los 81
Charles T.. TInXeli, Read twp. 80 n
l.. }. Bererr, Susqueh anna twp......... 2.i5 90
W. X. BuTtnett, SummerhIil twp. i49 81
- Harris, Johnstown 4 ward. .........- loo 75