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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
A USE FOR CHINAMFy
Work That White Men Cannot p.
Hired TO Do.
Here l. n Proposition which Mlgb,
nish a Partial solution of t,,
PerpieKing Chinese
Problem.

Some days ago the Portland O-...
ian said: IF we had al thi. r,..,..
forty thousand more Chimes. in tb.I.'
cific in the northwest 10 do In. ,....
which white men will not Oh.
which yet is necessary for dcyrIYrrr...
of the country, the result uorI4
good for everybody" A corrr,p.r....
writes that "he would like % h..
formed what the nature Of tha+ ,r.-,
is, and the OregoHian thus rr-r..,...
The occupation IN which Chine.
Dor would mainly be useful fs fE.,
clearing our heavily timbcrcd 1....
This il labor which white men t,.lrr.
or do not 20 any extent perform Tl.
far nearly all the work Of clcarfra,..-
lands has been performed by Chine.
But il has come 10 "A stop. Sine. p.
nese immigration was suspended .fr...
become impossible 10 get labor r,r,I.
purpose. Higher wages are deru.r.r...
10y Chinese, and no owner OF frr,.I.-
land can afford 10 hire il cleared r,.
easy, of course. 10 assert that tH,-...-
plenty Of white men ready 10 u.-t...
labor Of this kind and To- deuounr. ,..
owners of the lard for cmplovIurtr....
may be very simply made. Their. ...
immense areas Of this land Vet .....
for settlement. Government s,TrI .-...
them away 10 all citizens wh, arr..
Bat our workingmcu refuse 90 az.
these lands and subdue them T...
wouldn't clear the lands for The. .r.f, 3
them, doubtless because they tIrr.
they can do better, and many of 'r.r
may be right.
Here then is line Of work I'm which
Chinese would not be in the WAY 80
white labor. and there l. nothing r....-..
necessary for development of pa.
country than the clearing af Tar..
bodies Of these lands. The r.-.
now practically at a stand. Agrr.
Chinese labor would bc useful .n rr.r.
ket gardening and fruit growing Or-
egon and Washington do Mot r-.e
vegetables enough byone-haIf flrtH,..-
own consumption. What l.c have. fr
the way of market gardening uuu. r-
largely the work of Chinese Ta.f-
like these are facts in spite OF aII drc.a.
nation.
As a people the Chinese are uu, "a
desirable class. since they are uns,
of the country, but in every respect
they are far less Objectionable and
dangerous than tens of thousand from
European countries who are admitted
without question every year auarca-
lists; agitators, bcggars, mouutrbauE-
and criminals Of every degree. The
country can do without Chinese. of
course, but much work THAI would
contribute TO its development will Pee
main uDdone. There Is no probability
that Chinese viii ever be freely al-
mitted again. and this. too. IN all tie
circumstances Is well. since the pres
ence Of an inferior race among -upr-
rior beings like ourselves Is always "a
source of discomfort which political
agitators continually inhame. lu all
circumstances, therefore. exclusion oi
the Chinese il advisable, or even Nee
essary. but still word now and then
on certain phases of the subject die
tated 10y candor and common sense. may
not be intolerable.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
The Indian Was "HeeIed."

Quinnemore. formerly chief of the
Ceur d'Alene Indians. has fine farm
of one hundred and siNty-~evcn acres
on the south side of SPOKANE river
about a dozen miles above Spokane.
Wash, and the other day the taN ra'H-
erer thought il would be a very proper
and desirable thing 10 tax II % g'ua
round sum. So he came smiliuglE with
his bill. But Quinnemore was prepared
for him, even on such an unexpected
mission. lie brought forth "a paper
which in part read thus: This patent
Is issued upon the express condition
that the title thereby conveyed -la-
not be subject 10 taxation Of amy char
acter, but shall remain inalicuahlr aud
not subject TO taxation for the period
of twenty years from the date thereof.
as approved January Is. lsSl." The as
SCISSOR apologized and Withdrew. not
smiling.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

\ Chinese funeral never proceeds
straight from the house Of mourning
10 the grave yard. The devil is always
on the lookout for funerals and follows
them To seize the soul of the dead man.
50, IN order To outy,it the evil one. the
bearers take mp the body and start
with II in brisk trot. while packs of
hre-crackerS and pyrotechuicSe emitting
a dense smoke and vile smell are set off
just as the procession starts. Having
thus deceived Old Nick a to the direc-
ton taken by the bearers they run as
fast as they can with the body. then
suddenly turn a corner and stop while
more fireworks are burned. The devil
cannot turn a corner easily, and so. if
really in pursuit, he shoots on by. and
by means OF a good deal of sudden
turning and stopping and lavish ex-
penditure of fireworks, the funeral
procession generally gets to the grave
IN safety, while the old boy. confused
by their movements and half suffo-
Gated by the fireworks. is still wander
ing about in the city. The Chinaman
who dies in the country Is not in such
good luck, for there is less chance To
outwit the enemy, but by many de-
tonrs 1t can very often be doLe.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

In the land of the Moslem. the coun-
try of the followers of Mahomet. the
true prophet, Moslem grave, when
once filled in, is never to be opened on
any account. With view to remove
the faintest chance of any grave being
thus defiled the Moslems plant a cy-
press tree on every grave Immediately
after the interment, which makes the
Moslem cemeteries resemble forests.
Two hundred millions, or fourteen per
cent. of the human race, profess Mo
hammedanism- A year or two ago
some missionaries were sent to this
country in order to seek its conversion
to the true faith" Turkey is the
only portion of Europe occupied in
force by Moslems, but they abound in
many parts of Asia In the island of
Timor burials are much delayed owing
To the necessity of gathering funds for
the burial feast, which in most cases
means ruin to the family. After the
feast comes the burial; as soon as the
grave is filed in a young cocoanut
palm is planted uDOn IL
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

Free shines are to be had In every
large city in the United States to-day.
but to get one you must 60 To- the shop
where you bought your shoes. TINS
idea of blackening the shoes of cu~-
toners for nothing was put in opera
tion five years ago by firm oi New
England manufacturers who had
twenty-five agencies in different paris
of the country. a bootblack vas hired
at each one of these agencies. At first
the customer went in timidly and had
his shoes blacked once after buying
them. When he next bought shoes ne
had them blacked a dozen times. ana
now there are men who never THINK "l
paying for a shine. The scheme was
copied by a number of manufacture
so that il is not unusual 10 find han
dozen places on a single block where
blacking is done for nothing. In some
of the larger shops as many a. h''
men are kept busy at this work, h"' "
is noticed that they do not labor ~
severely as bootblacks do who are D"
business for themselves One c"Hct'"
gives to each customer card WIN
numbers to be punched out. The car"
is good for fifty shines.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
Advantage of Left-Hand writing.

The number of men who can write
legibly with the left hand H. very small
in this country. where the fact pf Ht-
ing ambideXtrous is not appreciated at
its full worth. Sir Edwin Arnold
stated that in Japan every child i-
taught TO write with either and both
hands; and he limited that this was mot
the only evidence of sound common
sense he met with while in the king
dom Of the mikado. There have been
many remedies suggested for what is
known aS the writers cramp. and many
writer's alternate between the pen AND
the typewriter; but the simplc-i plan
Of all is TO acquire the act Of writing
with either hand. and change from one
TO the other on the first suspicion Of
fatigue. 1t il quite easy for child 90
learn To write with the left hand. and.
although after the muscles have got
set with age IL is more ditiicult. almost
any man can learn to write with his
left hand in a week. and 10 write a-
well with one hand as the other In les,
than a wear.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

One of the most singular products of
Hawaii is vitreous lava known as
"Pele's hair" 1t is silky, filamens
tous substance, olive green or yellow
ish brown in color, soft to the touch,
but very brittle. 1t is produced by the
wind catching the fiery spray thrown
up from the great crater Kilauea
(which the Hawaiians long since per
sonitied as the fire goddess Pele), but
the real cause of the lava forming into
such soft. silky fibers is believed to be
the gas and steam escaping through
the lava Nearly all of the native
birds of Hawaii use it as a nest build
ing material
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
IN EAST INDIAN PRISONS.
4 Strange Custom That Fills the Jails
with PalrIarchs.

with PatrIarchs-
4 student of life and manners in the
Punjaub has been struck by the large
proportion of very old men in the In
dian jails. In the prison at Mooltan,
saws the London News, there were last
year seventeen life prisoners whose
total ages were found to amount to
more than eleven hundred years, two
of them being patriarchs of upward OF
eighty This remarkable fact is at
tributed partly to the great improve
ment in the economy of Indian jails,
since the exposure of their mismanage-
ment some years ago, but more direct
ly to the prevalent practice when
crime has been committed of handing
over the least useful member Of the
family as a sort of vicarious offering to
Justice
On this point the inspector general Of
Indian prisons observes that the con-
finement which conviction entails Is,
OF course, less irksome to the aged than
To the young. Moreover" he con
tinues, 1.-The people know that a sPe-
cially comfortable place in the shape
of good food, ample clothing, a special
dietary, the lightest of work, and a
society not entirely upcongenial awaits
the ola man IN our JaIIs." A case has
been cited in which a man had been
strangled. The person to whom the
crime, by his own confession, was
brought home was feeble old fellow
who had been paralyzed in both arms
for twenty years and could not have
committed the crime. But as his far--
lily ali said he did it and as there were
plenty of eye witnesses" the old man
went cheerfully to Jail, and lies there
still
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
A COWBOY ExPtRIENCE.
Rules of the Sleeping Cars bothered The
But the Porter Was Worse.

Rules of the Sleeping Cars bot her.-d Them,
But the Porter Was Worse.
Two Texan cowboys recently had
the novel experience of travelling by
rail over the Missouri. Kansas Il Texas
road, SAYS the Atlanta Constitution.
But they seemed TO feel uncomfortable
from the time that the train pulled out
from the point THAT they got on out in
the brush When they got in the Wag-
ner sleeper one of them said to the
other:
Bill, You'll have to take your spurs
offern your hoofs if you expect to put
your boots on the top of that seat
Bill did SO and then seemed panied
and surprised when the porter told him
that passengers We're not expected to
put their feet on the plush-covered
seats. He toyed with his gun until the
porter retired. When he rolled a Gig
arctic and lighted it and the conductor
showed him where the smoking re
ceptacle of the vestibuled train was he
seemed annoyed. At supper time when
all of the passengers on the buffet gave
their orders and the two COWBOYS gave
theirs. telling the porter to bring them
''all there was on the programme and
be sure to bring them plenty of sar-
Dimes" they handed the porter a five
dollar bill and were surprised when he
asked them for fifteen cents more
Both of them said: That settles it
If we stay in this here concern that
nigger will have our whole roll before
we get to the next station. No won
der the gang hold up the trains, but |
am surprised at 'em goin' after the
mail when they would have such a soft
snap with the coon in the high-toned
corral. If ever i was to go into the
train-robbery business | would go coon
huntin' first an get the black scoun-
drel that wanted four bits for slickin'
mp our boots" They quit the train at
the next wayside station.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
An Old English Custom.

The candidates for bailiff in the town
of Alnwick, North England, just be-
fore the election ride in procession to
n horse pond near the town, dismount
and struggle through the mud and
water as best they can. They are ac-
companied by brass band and all the
population of the town and neighbor-
hood. The custom dates from the time
of King John, who visited the town in
1910, T he roads We're very bad and
some Of his baggage wagons had To be
left in the mire. On his arrival he in
quired who was responsible for the
condition OF the roads, and learning
that the bailiffs were TO blame ordered
them TO be seized and dragged through
the nearest pond.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
BUFFALOES IN ENGLAND.
Specimens Of the Few Survivors
Shipped Across the Atlantic.
The Experiment of Breeding the Animals
In English Parks Considered by
Britons "a Very Likely to
Prove Unsuccessful.

Fifty. or even half that number OF
wears ago. the possibility of the "buf-
fer" of the American plains becoming
extinct was not so much as dreamed
of. saws the St James Budget. For
apes they had wandered in countless
herds on the plains on the eastern side
of the Rocky mountains, providing the
red Indian with an apparently mex
haustible supply of meat. Thousands
were killed for their tongues and the
steal, cut out of the hump-the most
delicate part The bisons, from which
the early ''voyagers" and the fur
traders obtained their ''pemmican."
did not suffer from the demands made
upon their numbers by the Indians;
but the white hunter with his ever
improving firearms. did the work Of
destruction. Where once the herds
were so numerous that it was the prac-
tice to drive them gradually to the
edge of a precipice and there frighten
them over. none can be found. AT last
the United States government awoile
to the fact that America was upon the
point Of losing the bison. The agents
of the Smithsonian institute had diff
fcuItv in procuring some specimens
that small herd of about forty is now
strictly preserved in the Yellowstone
park But one or two wander away
most years and are soon killed when
once outside the protected territory:
the security of the herd is consequent
" bv no means assured. The news,
therefore. that a number of Nebraska
buffaIoes have been imported to this
country having been obtained for the
purpose of being turned down in some
of our parks. will be welcomed by our
naturaliStS.
1t is unfortunately very questionable
if the experiment of keeping and
breeding the grand beasts in our Eng
liSh parks will he attended with any
success The bison on its native plains
is accustomed To great heat in summer
and extreme cold in winter. But, for
all that. the climate is n constant one,
and the change of tho variability, the
fog and the damp of this country viii
be great. Indeed, when we look at the
condition Of the bison's European re-
lation. the aurochS, we may well doubt
if the genus bison viii long remain an
inhabitant of the earth. II may be
many years before we quite lose il. for
representatives viii probably linger
for a comparatively long period pre-
served in parks, just as the ancient
white British cattle lingcr now. But,
aS in the ease of the latter, the want
of fresh blood and the consequent
close interbreeding will tell in time
and result in constantly diminishing
fertility, until in the course of years
the last representative of the race will
die and the world know them no more.
We may safely say the extinction viii
not happen in our own time. or even in
that of the next few generations; but
it is to be feared that come it surely
will
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
Cossack soI,iicrs.

The CossaclC soldier in the winter
time IS obliged TO sacrifice every other
consideration to that OF resisting the
deadly cold of the steppes. There is a
belief among them that their entrance
To heaven Will be easier if they are
personally clean, 50 that a scrupulous
toilet Is made before any chance of an
encounter, but this neatness is not an
parent at first glance, for they are
bundled up in great coats of shecpsllin
or goatskin, with a great pointed hood.
Ilurnsy mittens conceal their hands
ana wisps of straw are bound around
thelr feet. The officer looks exactly
IKE the private. The Cossacks made
their hrst campaign with Russian sol
aiers IN 1888. The Cossacks now in the
RUSSIAN army number 10. AS. exclusive
of those Incorporated with the 6,Id
troops.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
Fire Engines In the FfeId

ohe OF the many expedients resorted
10 by British farmers in the effort 10
save their crops which have suffered 60
padiy from the phenomenal fine wealth
err Is TO water them by the aid of fire
engines. In the fen districts several
powerful engines have been at worl,
pumping water from the fens and dis
charging it in the air through special
nozzies so that it falls on the fields ILL,
me rain The results have been ex-
celleut CA
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

Queen Victoria has now passed ."'
record of Henry Ill, who ruled fifty.
six years and twenty-nine days, "i'.. ',.
has reigned longer than any Eng ..'I
sovereign save George Ill, who run
from October -, 1860. 10 January ~
1sa0, a period Of fifty-nine years an.
ninety-seven days; and may she i've w.
enual that.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
MOST WONDERFUL or PEARLS.

The 'South"rn CruSs,' a Gem Found by
Fisherman IN Western Australia.
Black pearls used 10 be held as of
small value. comparatively speaking.
They were first made fashionable bv
the Empress Eugenie, wife of Napo-
leon Ill, who possessed a famous
necklace Of them which fetched twenty
thousand dollars at auction after the
overthrow of the imperial dynasty.
This did not include the Single great
pearl forming the snap, which was pur-
chased by the marquis of Bath for five
thousand dollars. Mexico. Tahiti and
Fiji supply the markets of the world
with black pearls. The most cNtraor-
binary pearl m the vvOrId. according to
the New York Advertiser. il known n
thc Southern Cross" II il probably
the most remarkable thing Of its kind
that ma atUrc has ever produced. 30 far
a is known it occupies an absolutely
unique position in the history OF pearls.
1t consists of 4 group of nine pearls
naturally grown together in So REGULAR
a manner a u form an almost perfect
Latin cross. Seven of thym compose
the shaft. which measures an inch and
"a half IN length. while the two arms OF
the cross are formed by one pearl ON
each side. All the pearls are of fine
luster.
This astonishing freak was discpv-
cred by Il man named Clark. while
pearl fishiH" In western Australia. lie
regarded il as a miracle and. enter
taiuir.- supvr-titious dread of it, hc
buried it. Ia 1874 il was dug up arain
and since then it has changed hands
many times. Its value Is set at fifty
thousand dollars How IL came about
that these pearls were grouped to
"ether III such manner NO ono b;,~ a.
Yet been able 10 explain satisfactorily
II has been suggested that % fragment
Of scrrated scawcci may have got into
the shell of the oyster anl that the.
succession of teeth along tl, margin of
the front may have caused the. dcpusi-
tion of uacrc at regular interval. SOFAS
To form a string Of pearls I'm a straight
line The cross was found in tle ahclI
of the mollu~k. just as il was taken
from its native element. without any
possibility of its having been subjected
to human manipulation.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
A Watch Made OF Iron.

At a recent mechanical fair he'" o.
Worcester, England, wateh was
hibited in perfect running order
structed wholly Of iron. The object ,, a.,
This curiosity was 10 illustrate me
malleability of iron. aud It's e"ils,' ',,I ..'..I
adaptation to wide variety "l l'. -
uses. Such articles, when Ml"' ~
iron, may be easily electro piai'ul, !, ,I,s
gold or silver. or adorned with al ''
beautv of the enameler's arr
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

A piece of genuine Japanese lacquer
costs the native artist almost a life
time to perfect, and is produced by
hundreds of thin coats of lacquer laid
ON at considerable intervals of time.
the value consisting rather in the labor
bestowed than in the quality of the
material used Firss-class lacquer
work can scarcely be scratched by a
needle
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20
aunNINe - PLANETs.
Asteroids Caught in Numbers By the AID
OF photography.

Asteroids Caught I'm Numbers by the Aid
oS Photography.
One of the most remarkable OF re-
cent astronomical developments Is the
result of the application Of pho
torraphv To the discovery OF asteroids
or minor planets. says Prof. c. \.
Young. astronomer at Princeton col
lcge.
Bv the old methods of search the
annual rate of discovery ranged from
one to twenty. the average for the
twenty years 1921. being 1912.
In 1892 tventy-niue were discovered,
two only by the old method. while be
tween January I and April - of the
present year twenty-five We're picked
up by the two observers. Wolf. of
Heidelberg, and Charlois, Of Nice,
who have pressed the camera into
service.
The negatives are made with an OK
posure of from three TO five hours,
each covering an area tI.o or three de
grees square.
On the plate the images of the stars
are round and clear, while any planets
or planetoids which may be present are
at once recognized 10y the cIonEation
of their images due u their orbital
motion; and three or four of these oh
long lights are sometimes found on a
single plate.
If the number of observers using
this method should be much increased
the number OF annual discoveries may
easily mount into the hundreds.
The total number of these little
bodies which circulate in the space be
tween Mars and Jupiter stands at three
hundred and scventy-five. 50 far as now
known. but it Is almost certain that
those still undiscovered must be count
ed by the thousand, and obviously it
viii soon be hopeless To attempt to
keep the run of them all.
We may reasonably suppose that all
the larger ones have been already dis
covered. and that those still remain
ing unrecoguizcd are all extremely
minute.
1t Is true that from certain defensi-
BILE standpoint the size Of planet has
nothing to do with its astronomical
importance - -mathematically consid-
cred planctoid's orbit is just as
worthy of investigation as that of
Jupiter itself. but practically it is
plain that the compUtcrs viii be
obliged To select Il limited number
which present special points of inter
est and cOntine their attention to them
alone.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

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