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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
HORSES FOR UNCLE SAM.
Animals for Cavalry Service Obtained
Very Cheaply.


The government has been picking ND
horses for the cavalry and artillery
service very cheap in Washington and
Oregon this summer. The average
price paid was seventy-five dollars for
each animal, which is unsommonly low
when the style of animal required for
the army is considered. a government
purchasing agent says; "We inspected
recently at The Dalles, Pendleton,
Walla Walla, Ellensburgh and North
Yakima, and at each place found about
one hundred awaiting examination. |
selected such as met the requirements,
which are that they must be bays and
grays, fifteen hands high and upward,
and from four to- eight years old.
These We're passed upon ny the gov
ernment officials, and, II found salts
factory, We're accepted. They were
purchased at very low price, as the
sellers had but little money, and were
anxious to dispose of their stock. The
animals bought are of fine class. and
especially suited for cavalry purposes
The lowness of the cost of horses this
year may be attributed to the small
demand, which is insignificant when
compared with the supply. Never be-
fore during the fifteen years or so that
L have been inspecting horses for the
government have | seen times so dull
in the stock regions, or the stock deal
ers so anxious to sell their animals at a
small price. The small demand Is, of
course, due to the supplanting of horse
ears by electric and cable railways, the
shutting down of logging camps and
lumber industries on Puget sound, and
the general dullness of trade. In Port
land cars which would require thirty
five hundred horses are operated by
cable and electricity. Then the freight
cars operated on these steel railways
have shut out trucks and delivery
wagons on which a large number of
horses were used"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
BURIAL OR CREMATION7
What the Noted Frensh Author. Have @
Say Concerning Them

say Concerning Them
Some of the noted French authors
have been giving a Paris editor their
preferences in regard To burial OF Gre
nation The Boston Herald summar-
izes their expressions: Alphonst. Daudet
says. as to being buried OF cremated.
that either would be exceedingly dis
agreeable to him. and when one re-
members that Daudet Is a great suffer
er from an incurable disease his an
swer Is a triumph of hope. Henri de
Bornier frankly curses the editor for
spelling his dinner by such query.
and Armand Sylvester Is very French
and poetic, for his says: To become a
puff of smoke in the sky or a blade of
grass over a grave. that Is the choice
given to us Well. prefer the ground.
from which flowers spring for lovers"
Sarcey. the grea critic. replies: ..Theo-
retically, cremation appears to me the
favorable method of disposincr of the
rubbish. the body. but / am not in
tolerant or exclusive in ANYTHING"
Burned. burned writes Sardou. 1T
will afford me great pleasure to be
burned Warmly yours Another au-
thor says: You ask me which | pre-
fer, to be burned OF buried? After ma
ture reflection. / regret to say that l
desire neither the one nor the other"
Emile ZOla signs his name to the most
sensible preference" of the lot He
writes: My personal choice in the
matter / have not yet considered. and
believe ii is best to leave the thing to
the decision of the loving ones we leave
behind US. They alone can have pain
or pleasure in il"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
ENGLISH LIFE.
As 1t Is Viewed by Educated Native
of the Orient

Behvamji Malabari. of India. who
visited England in Is9O. considered the
English climate as the most remark
able of all the things that came under
his notice He thinks race that could
conquer such climate and carve the
comforts of life out of il, deserves do
minion over all the elements of nature.
He says, in The Indian Eye On Eng
lish Life" that it makes one laugh to
hear the English talk of their fine
day"
One may speak of a fine FIVE minutes.
fine half hour or hour-nothing be-
yond that, so far as l could see.
The climate of country reflects it
self pretty clearly in the temper, habits
and general surroundings of the peo-
pie. 1t is mainly the climate. and the
peculiar mode of life which the people
have to live in obedience to climatic in
huences, that make them so keen about
everything.
The quantity and the manner of
their eating puzzled and sometimes
frightened me. Men and women eat
freely at shops, in the streets, train.
bus, or railway carriage. There is an
absence of dslicacy and deliberation
about the matter, at which the grave
oriental may well lift his eyebrows
In no respect, perhaps, does the av-
erage Englishman show himself so
slow of imagination and wanting in
taste as with respect to his daily food.
He eats what his fathers ate before
him The cook knows nothing of
proportion in seasoning his food: knows
little of variety, and has a rough. SLOW
enly touch The English are heavy
eaters, as a rule. l have never had a
regular dinner with friends while in
England, being unaccustomed both TO
their hours and their dishes But |
have had to put in an appearance at
lunch or breakfast, to catch a friend
about to leave town.
On one such occasion / saw a com
pany of poets philosophers and fanat-
les at table. presided over 10y a young
lady, the daughter of the house. | sat
there, wiping my forehead-they did
the eating. | the perspiring-as / saw
slices of beef disappearing, with vege-
tables, mustard, etc l was pressed TO
join, but pretended TO make a Mortified
protest.
The host then asked me slylv what I
thought of the food and their mode of
eating. l replied, instinctively: 1t is
horrible
The reply set the gentlemen roaring.
and my hostess blushing. But l could
not help saying what | felt How can
a little stomach hold such an enor-
nous lunch? The waste of vitality in
their climate, and under their condi-
tions of life, must be enormous; and IL
has, of course, to be replaced
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
OUR LEGS TO VANISH,
In the Course OF Another One Thousand
Years Men May Cease Walking.

Dr.. Emil Young, professor of physi-
olOgy at the University of Geneva, is
in great distress concerning the future
of our legs. He suggests, in an essay
in the Semaine Litteraire, says the
Westminster Gazette, that in the course
of one thousand years the human race
may have lost the necessity of the use
of legs, and retain those members of
the body solely as ornamental survivalS,
Men refuse more and more to walk,
though walking Is the wholesomest of
physical exercises. Steam, electricity,
the rope railways, tricycles, and
bicycles have changed the whole
aspect of Swiss touring, as he says, in
his own generation. "Everybod
seems anxious to get everywhere any
way except by the use of his legs" In
another generation, he supposes, our
travelling balloons will bang outside
our windows, or our electrical coaches
stand outside our doors, They will be
produced cheaply that every man
will have his own chariot. Hence our
legs will become supertiuouS, then
they will be crippled, and shrunk to
hidcously small dimensions, until at
last they will finally disappear. Our
arms, on the contrary, will correspond
ingly strengthen and lengthen.
while our legs remain" says DIR.
Young, ''let us march all we can"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
ETIQUETTE FOR GIRLS.

ALWAYS rise for an older person.
In entering room the gentleman al
ways follows the young lady.
THE young lady always seats herself
first before any gentleman Will do 50.
IN making introductions the Young
man Is always presented to the girl.
never the other way round.
IT is a lady's place to recognize a
gentleman first. as it depends on her
whether the acquaintance continues or
not.
NEVER introduce any young man to
your girl friends without first asking
their permission, and then say: Miss
ID, L want to present Tor INTRODUCED
Mr.. 4. to you"
IT is sufficient TO acknowledge an in
PRODUCTION by simple bow. unless
there is some special reason for more
cordial forms. Handshaking is not
good form in an introduction in a ball
room.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Sixteen Hungry Boys Filled with Veal
Pie I'm Dickens Pieshop-

Sixteen Hungry Boys Filled with Veal
Pie I'm Dickens Pieshop.
An exchange tells the following story
of the pieshop in London before which
Charles Dickens used to stand when.
a child, he drudged in a blacking
factory. Every day, on the way to
and from his work, he paused to de-
vour the viands with his eyes, and
sometimes he pressed his tongue To
the window-pane. as if by SO doing he
got taste of the good things which
were 80 near and yet so far
An American railroad man who ad-
mires Dickens hunted up his pieshop
when in London in order to CRAFTY his
curiosity and his sentiment. 1t proved
to be mere box of a place in a Door
quarter of the city, but the original
business was still carried on there. As
the traveller peered into the shadowy
interior, voice was heard at his ell
bow:
please, sir, will you buy me a veal
pie?"
The ow ner of the voice was a small,
disheveled person, with whom a pie
of veal, or anything else of hearty"
nature, would have agreed right well.
''How many boys do you think this
Il dunno About fifteen or sixteen,
/ should think"
We'll, go and get fifteen boys, and
bring them back here"
The boy studied the mans face for a
moment, as if to make sure that he was
in the enjoyment of his senses, and
then with yell hurried into a side
street. Hardly a minute elapsed be-
fore he returned at the head of a pro-
cession of sixteen gamins, of assorted
sizes, unanimous in appetite and hope.
This ragged battalion assembled
close behind its benefactor and fol-
lowed him into the shop, where he an
nounced that he was going to give all
the boys all the pie they wanted.
They wanted a great deal, as it
proved; their capacity for veal pie
was something marvellous But their
benefactor was as good as his word,
and sixteen happy and satisfied boys
left the shop singing his praise
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
THE ORIGIN OF THINGS.

THE design of the American flag was
probably borrowed from the family
arms of Gen. Washington, which CON
sisted of three stars in the upper por-
tion and three bars across the es-
cutcheOn.
WATCHES originated at Nuremberg
as early as l477. They were at first
called Nuremberg eggs. which they re
sembled both in shape and size. They
were often fitted into the tops of walk
ing-Sticlls.
The first English book on stenogra-
ply. SO far As known. was written by
DIR. Timothy Bright in 1883. Its earlier
invention is attributed to the Latin
poet Ennius, to Seneca, Cicero and sew
eral others
Guns are said to have been used by
the Chinese before the beginning of
the Christian era. The oldest dated
inscription declaring that the gun was
east in 1903.
MARINE insurance was practiced in
Rome Il. c. I5. 1t was very general in
Europe before the discovery of Amer
lea, and it is altogether probable that
the ships of Columbus We're insured for
their full value.
COATS of arms We're first employed in
England during the reign of Richard
l.. and became hereditary in families
in the following century. They orig
mated from the painted banners car
ried by knights and mobiles.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
SCIENCE IN COREA.
1t Explains Phenomena in a Way Peculiar
ly Its Own

ly Its Own
Education in Corea Is of the Chinese
order-the committal of whole books
to memory. On all other subjects than
knowledge of Chinese. says the Boston
Transcript. ignorance l. the fashion
when IL is not a reality Philosophical
speculation Is stated TO be common, but
Corean notions of natural science are
indeed very chaotic, If the following
story may be accepted: a well-known
merchant of Chemulpo was asked 10y
one of his native employees man OF
some Observation-Disclosures OF not he
had ever seen a sparrow which had
died a natural death. The person
questioned did not remember that he
had. He was then asked how the for
eign servants accounted for such a
phenomenon, for such IL was. consid-
ering the vast number OF sparrows IN
the world and the huge families they
raise every year. The answer to
this query being unsatisfactory, the
Corean gave his explanation, which
was popular one lie said that dying
sparrows be.ook themselves 10 the sea
shore. dived into the mud and became
CLAIMS How else, he triumphantly
added, could you account for the mum
Der of CLANS along the coast?
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
SONGS OF THE BATTLEFIELD.
What Peculiar Associations Produce
These Powerful AuxiIiaries.


These Powerful AuxiIisries.
Association, which has so large a
share in the operations of the human
mind, often contributes much to the
effect of music, says Laura A Smith in
Lippincott's- Some airs possessing no
intrinsic merit owe their influence on
the destinies of nations almost entirely
to this principle. The making of a
national song is one of the things to
be attributed to happy accident; it can
not be accomplished by taking thought
or by any amount of burning of the
midnight oil. Monarchs have no power
to command it, and often the greatest
poets and musicians are most in
capable of producing a truly national
hymn. No, the great popular lyrics of
the world have been the result of acci-
dent and the vent-hole of fiery feeling
long confined. What but accident
caused the song of My Maryland to
prove the chant to which thousands of
the soldiers of the confederacy kept
time during ls6l-65? And could any
thing be more titly credited to chance
than the extraordinary popularity of
the ''Malbrough's Sen va-t-en guerre."
which was due to the fact of provin-
cial nurse having lulled to rest the lit
tie dauphin, the son of Louis XVI,
with this air? Had he not written his
one undying lyric. the "Marseillaise,"
probably Rouget de Lisle had never
been heard of. And who speak of Max
Schneckenburger when they talk of
Die Wacht am Rhein?" Verify, the
making of a war song is a deed of
arms, not a mere effort of the pen.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
STAIRS IN SAMOA.
How a Little Islander Carried W Ater to n
Seco nd-Story Room.

AhoN iNianuer Narr1ed W ater n
Seco nd-Story Room.
In Samoa. where he makes his home.
Robert Louis Stevenson has done much
in the way of instructing the natives
IN European methods Of work He
tells an amusing story in this connec-
ton \ new house boy had been en-
gagged. and on his arrival was lost in
awe and admiration of the magniti-
cence Of the mansion.
He was given a large bucket of wa
ter and told To take II TO the bedroom
up above. He looked up and. point
ing. asked If II was there On being
answered in the affirmative. he seized
the bucket in his teeth. and before
anyone could demonstrate he had
rushed up one of the posts of the
veranda- The whole family ran up the
staircase. and when they showed him
that that was the usual method Of get
ting to these rooms. ne was overpow-
cred with delight. and for two or three
days could do absolutely nothing but
race up and downstairs. chucklinC
and Growing in an ecstasy of joy. And
when detach mentS of his friends came
To visit him they were always taken to
see the stairs the first thing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
TIME AT THE NORTH POLE.
The Man Who First Reaches That Point
VIII Meet with SurprI-er.

he -hah w no fftacnes That Point
VIII Meet with Surprises.
If ever the north pole is reached the
adventurous spirits who get there will
find that they have actually out
stripped Father Time altogether: in
fact. he will have given up the rate en-
tirely, for at the northern and south
ern eXtremities of the earth's axis
there is no fixed time at all, says the
London Globe. At any moment IL can
be noon or midnight, breakfast time or
supper time, work time or play time.
whichever one likes Clocks will be a
fraud and delusion. for at the pole all
degrees of longitude converge into
one, and therefore all times. The pos
sibilities of such position are endless
Not only, too, will the clocks be out.
but the calendar as well. 1t can be. at
Will, either yesterday or to-day. or to-
morrow. We have heard lot of fool
ish people ask what the use and pleas
ure can be of getting To the north pole.
but little reflection will show us ad-
vantages can be gained there which
cannot be found in any other part of
the globe There, at any rate. instead
of being like the poor inhabitants of
lower ATTITUDES, the slaves of time, we
can turn the tables and be its masters
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
NAPOLEON FOND OF HOMER.
He Thought the Poet Was the EncycIo-
pedia of His Time.

The emperor, says Figaro, admired
Homer in every way. and thus ex-
pressed himself on the subject
The Iliad. as much as Genesis and
the Bible. Is the sign and token Of its
time. Homer IN his work Is poet. ora
tor, legislator, geographer and theo-
logian; he is the encyclopedias Of his
time Homer is inimitable Father
Hardouin had the temerity To impuCn
this sacred monument of antiquity
and to attribute IL TO a monk Of th,.
tenth century. an impertinent imhe-
cility- Never have ] been struck with
his beauties as now (ls16). and the sen
Sations which he aroused in me confirm
the justice of the appreciation accorded
to him by the whole world What
strikes me especially in reading the
pages Of his work Is the grossness of
the customs as compared with the ele-
vation Of the thought of the epoch We
see heroes killing their own beef. pre-
pairing II with their own hands. and
yet pronouncing diScourseS OF rare elo-
quence and worthy of a high civiliza-
ton In the Odyssey l greatly diSap-
prove of the combat of Isus against
Ulysses on the threshold of his own
palace. both disguised as beggars. I
consider this episode yvre tched. coarse,
unbecoming and unworty of a king.
- And then. after having eliminated
everything that / find objectionable.
feel what still affects me. | put myself
in his place. / am seized with the fear
of being beaten by a common fellow
1t IL not given to every prince. to every
general, to have the shoulders Of his
guards or of his grenadierS. to convert
himself into a street porter at VIII.
The good Homer remedies all this
by making his heroes 50 many collosi:
but this Il not the ease with US What
chance would we have if we still lived
IN the happy days in which physical
strength was the real Scepter? II would
come to this, that Noverras. nv valet.
who waits upon Us would be king over
us all We must agree. then. that civ
ilization does everything for the mind,
and favOrs 1t exclusively at the expense
of the body
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
TOOK HALF IN RATS.
How China's Do~ager Empress Mitigste
the Force of the Pe-tii.ne.


the Force of the Pestiienee.
A recent number of the North China
Herald, JUS. received in this city, tells
this story of the Empress Dowager of
China:
"A rather good story is told among
the Chinese about the empress dowa-
ger and the plague. The empress
keeps constantly burning. day and
night, in her palace. eighteen lamps,
which represent the eighteen prov
inces of China. Not long ago one of the
lamps, although il received precisely
the same attention as all the others,
was burning very badly, and the en-
press sent for the chief imperial as
tronomer to learn the reason. The
chief astronomer having carefully con-
sldered the matter and consulted the
archives. told the empress that the
lamp which was burning so badly rep
resented the province of Canton which
was about to bee afflicted with a serious
epidemic, in which the god of pesti-
lence had determined to take off eight
tenths of the people.
The empress was very much con-
cerned at being told this, and asked the
chief astronomer how such dreadful
doom might be averted from eight
tenths OF her people in the province
Inc chief astronomer said that the god
might perhaps be moved by prayer and
offerings, and everything was done to
placate him by the empress dowager's
orders After this the chief astrono-
mer was asked what success had been
achieved, and, after much considera-
ton and consultation, he replied that
the god of pestilence had consented to
eompromise-hut this was absolutely
the best he could dO-for four-tenths
human beings and four-tenths rats.
Thus the frightful mortality of rats and
human beings at Canton this spring is
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.

To REMOVE odors from a sick room, it
is good plan to sprinkle coarse
ground coffee on a shOvclful of burning
Goals, and thrust it into all the corners
of the room.
HARD putty may be easily softened
by passing a red-hot fiat piece OF iron
over it, SO that it can then be removed
with the fingers or the edge of knife,
without any difficulty.
CAKE needs to rise to its full height
before browning, especially sponge
cake The lightneSs of this cake de
pends, first on thorough beating, sec
ond on baking Just right.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
TRY.

IN the water for purple and blue cal
icoeS, soda added.
PURIFYING jars from grease, by soak
ing in strong soda water.
For washing ceilings blackened by a
kerosene lamp, soda water.
IN the rinsing water for pink or
green calicoes, vinegar added.
WASHING an oilcloth with a flannel
and warm water, wiping dry. and rub
bing a little skim milk over.-Good
housekeeping.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
Whaling on sbippoard.

Whistling and let us honor this
sweet tradition-is very much against
the proprie:ies of sea life, writes Lieut..
j. ID. Jerrold Kelley, in an article on
.SuperstitionS of the Sea-" in Century.
You may. in a calm. if not landsman,
WOO with soothing whistle San Antonio
or St. Nicholas, and a tagging wind may
bc spurred in consequence by these pa
iron saints of the mariner; but once
the ship is going, never, wise and wary
passenger, whistle if you fear keel
hauling, for like the padrone in the
Golden Legend you may find
Only a little while ago.
1 was whistling to ST Antonio
For a cap-fuII of wind to MI our sail,
And instead OF a breeze he has sent gale
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-02
NAMED AFTER THE PRESIDENTS
Pal Lot In IIar SornencIat,lre

Philadelphia Maintains Her Record for
Patriotism In Her Nomenclature.
OF the twenty-three presidents of
the United States John Adams has the
largest number of namesakes, twenty
three, in the Philadelphia directory.
James buchanan ranks next, twenty
one men of nearly as many vocations
bearing the name of the only Penn
sylvania president. There are fifteen
Andrew JackSons and fourteen Andrew
Johnsons. The name of the father of
his country is borne by eight day
laborerS one caterer, two walters, one
janitor, and one real estate dealer, or
thirteen men in all, says the Record.
The grandfather of BEN jamin Har-
rison has three namesalSes, while one
laborer and one upholsterer have the
name of Tippecanoe's grandson. There
are four James Monroes and the same
number called John Quincy Adams.
One hostler, one puddler, and
weaver are known as James Madison,
and a bartender, clerk, and a super
intendent answer to the name OF
Zachary Taylor. There is but one
Thomas jefferson, whose occupation is
not given, and the only John Tyler is
a weaver. brakeman and a minister
of the Gospel are Franklin Pierces, but
there is nobody with the name of Pres
idents Van Buren,, Polk, Fillmore,
Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur, or Cleveland, except as a
handle to the surname.