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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
FROM GOTHAM'S STREETS.

RESTAURANTS in Third avenue and
the Bowcry have a conventional style
of their own that few depart from.
The red cherry table without cloth Is
a feature of most such places
FREE lunch saloons find the demand
for lunch greatly increased by the
hard times. The increase in the case
of the smaller saloons does not come
from a sudden swelling of the classes
that regularly live by following up
lunch routes. but from decent poor me
chanics temporarily idle
..IN speaking of fat that / was
looking at the other day" said tiat
hunter. 1.-The janitor said: There's
never been a death in the house since
it was built This was something that
i had never heard before, but there are
doubtless many persons To whom that
would be a recommendation. either on
sentimental grounds or as indicating
the healthfulness of the location and
of the building"
EGG dealers must soon push the
English language one step further.
The distinctions of eggs, fresh eggs
and strictly fresh eggs, sometimes
called ''stric'lies," have become his
toric. but housewives have discovered
this winter, perhaps as the result of
hard times. that stric'lies are no longer
To be trusted. Some of them, indeed,
are little better than fresh eggs"
and others are neither more nor less
than just eggs"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
THE PAY THEY GET.

GLASGOW shipbuilders receive 10 shil-
ling a week and work fifty-four hours
A sKuLFUL cigarmaller in Germany
can make an average of 81. 81 per week.
MANrUA-MAKERs. with skill and ex-
pericnce, can make 81 per week in Ba-
varia.
\ PLUMBER in st. Petersburg is paid
sla per month with board; baker,
$500.
BooKBINDERs in Edinburgh receive
- shillings week and work tifty-four
hours.
AN Afghan shawlmalxer earns As
cents day, and works from sunrise
to sunset.
\ LABoRER in Syria pays s1s per
year as rent and 80 taxes TO the gov
ernment.
SAXON firemen are paid S23s per an
mum; the chief gets $3.50 and house
to live in.
CASHIERS in the stores of smyrna,
Turkey, receive an average salary of
S14 per week.
FEMALE servants in the Azores ''who
have their own clothes" receive Sl.05
per month.
hE dNcIdSc "CChAS wages Phiu "
female laborers of all classes in Ger
many is S2.17.
THE regular salary of the superin-
tendent of Cuban sugar plantation is
500 month.
NATIVE laborers in Palestine work
for Is cents a day and pay all their
own expenses.
WOMEN coal carriers at the Lisbon
docks receive 80 cents day; male coal
carriers so cents.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
CHURCH AND CLERGY.

THE Society of Friends recently sent
a check for $3.50 to the Salvation
Army for use in its social scheme.
DURING the last four years the Chris
tians of Berlin have given 8, ,50O,O 900
toward the erection of new churches in
the German capital.
THE most numerous body of relie ION
lists is that devoted to buddhism, 420,-
O0o. 900. The number of Christians is
estimated at 40s, 100000.
IL the islands of the sea there are 21l
stations occupied by 100 missionaries
Twelve societies are represented. The
converts number 100, 900.
DURING the last year the Basle so
ciety of Germany distributed more
than 25. 900 copies of the Holy Scrip
tures at an expense of $1,000.
The Church Missionary society of
England last year had an income of
f27. 900 in excess of its expenditures,
which amounted to 81 1,25O. 900.
INDIA has eight Christian colleges
and 20. 900 schools and 5000. 900 pupils.
There are $4,000, 900 iris of school age
and only one in sixty attends school
CONTRIBUTIONS to all benevolent pur
poses by Protestant Christians of the
United States amount to about SS5. .O0O,
900 annually Only one-sevenrh of this
is given to foreign missions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
TESTED RECIPES.

SUET PUDDING.-Oue cup of suet,
chopped fine, one-half cup sugar, one
half cup of molasses, one cup of raj
sins, three cups of flour, one teaspoon
of soda. one-half teaspoon of salt; milk
hour and a half.
SAUCE FOR THE PUDDISG.-One-half
pint of water heated to the boiling
point. Thicken with -four to the con-
sistency of good gravy. Season with
a good teaspoon of butter and any fla
voring preferred, such as lemon, va
nilla, nutmeg, etc.
BUCkWHEAT CAKES The old-fash-
ioned cakes our grandmother made
were the best. Following is the recipe:
To one quart. of WARM water add a
yeast cake and a good heaping tea
spoon of salt. Stir in buckwheat -four
until you have a stiff batter. Set at
night and keep in a warm place.
In the morning add teaspoon of
soda: bake quick andserve hot.
BUTTERMIIK CAKE Two cups of
sugar, two of chopped raisins, two of
buttermill<. one-half cup of shortening.
four cupsof flour, one taaspoonful each
of cloves, cinnamon, allspice and nut
meg: two teaspoonfuls of soda; about
two tablespoonfuls of molasSes, with
little less of sugar, gives the cake
better color and flavor. If frosted with
cream and confectioner's sugar well
beaten, with cocoanut added, you have
a cake good enough for a king. -
Ohio Farmer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
THE CUP OF GOLD.
A Beautiful Flower That Is the Floral
Emblem of California

fmDlsm OF talbTOrnta.
Strangers visiting California are at
tracted by the great splashes of gold
that appear in the pasture lands and
by the waysides, says the London IL
lustrated News. IL is the eschscholtzia
(eSh-sholts-i-a), which il now the
flower emblem of California. The APP
propriateness of this selection is seen
in many ways. 1t is the wild wine
goblet of the state, suggestive, in
color, of the orange and the precious
metal. The SpaniardS, indeed, called
il el ORC de-copo-the cup of gold. I'm
the month of October, 1916, the ship
Rurick entered the bay of San Fran
cisco. The naturalist Adalbert Won
Chamisso was on the Rurick, and
named the poppy for his companion of
the voyage, one Herr ESchscholtz.
The latter may have been a good citi-
zen, and his name may sound euphoni-
Gus To his nation; but to the Anglo
Saxon the word is "A mouthful
Californians should be thankful.
however, that the flower was not
christenes with his full name of
Observation-Disclosures 1t will
never be known how many California
school children have barely escaped
strangulation in attempting To pro-
nounce the botanical name of the
poppy. This flower has wide dis
tribution: il is found from Oregon To
the central highlands of Mexico, from
Nevada and Arizona to the islands of
the coast
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
What Goes To Make Paper.

Paper can be made out of almost
anything that can be pounded to pulp
Over fifty kinds of bark are employed,
while old sacking or bagging makes
good article. Paper is made out of
banana skins, from bean stalks, pea
vines, cocoanut fiber, clover and timo-
thy hay, straw, fresh-water weeds, sea
weeds and more than one hundred diff
ferent kinds of grass. Paper has been
made from hair, fur and wool, from as
bestos, wi ich furnishes an article in
destructible by fire; from hop plants.
from husl<s of any and every kind of
grain Leaves make a good, strong
paper, while the husks and stems of
Indian corn have also been tried, and
almost every kind of moss can be made
INTO paper. There are patents for
making paper from sawdust and shay
ings, from thistles and thistle-down.
from tobacco stalks and tan bark. II
Is said that there are over two thou-
sand patents in this country covering
the manufacture of paper No matter
what the substance, the process is sub
stantially the same; the material is
ground to pulp, then spread thinly
over frame and allowed to dry. the
subsequent treatment depending on
the KIND OF paper to be made
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
WOMAN'S GOSSIP.

OF the one hundred medical mission
aries in China, fifty-siX are women.
CoNNECTICUT, the land of steady
habits" boasts of six cities with po-
lice matrons and has a school suffrage
law.
THE kentucky Equal Rights associa-
tion has petitioned the kentucky legis-
lature to raise the age of protection
for girls from twelve to eighteen years.
THE Fl st woman's gymnasium in cen
trail Eur ppe is the School of Minerva,
in Prague, founded in 1890 by Elisha
krasnohorsla, the editor of the Wom-
ans Journal in that city. 1t has eighty
five students.
CHICAGO has thirty police matrons
with a head matron over all. The W.
c. Il. L. has a committee of women
who strive to keep out political in
fluence in the appointment of women
rs mat irons, and to get women who are
total abstainers.
TIRE association of women for rails
ing the moral tone OF society in the
Netherlands has over four thousand
members in the one hundred and nine
ty-seven places where it is represented
Refugees for young women are main
tanned very gener ally.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
A Canine Crab Catcher.

gentleman who lives on Chesa-
peake bay has an interesting dog who
amnses himself in fishing for crabs.
The Newfoundland is in the habit of
wading about in shallow water, and
when he finds crab he prances around
IL until an opportunity presents itself.
when he seizes his find and carries il to
the beach Then he plays with his
catch, as eat tantalizes a mouse, until
The crab is helplessly exhausted The
crabs often fight back to the best of
their ability, and it is often difficult to
say which has the tightest hold, dog or
crab. for the latter fastens its claws in
the dogs lip and struggles until killed
As the dog never eats his prey, it is
evident he hunts the crabs for the sport
affnrll.ad
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
MiSERIEs OF MoNARCHs.

NERO had bulging eyes and was very
near-sighted.
julius CESAR had weak digestion and
was subject to epileptic fits.
MARY was rendered unhappy by her
marriage with Philip of Spain.
PETER THE GREAT was half crazy
most of his life through drink and rage.
GEORGE " was greatly vexed for
years by carbuncles on his face. caused
by secret drinking.
MARY QUEEN OF SCoTs became bald in
middle life, and was forced to hide the
blemish with "A wig.
EDWARD |. of England was ANNOYED
by his great height. His subjects
dubbed him Long Shanl<s
CHARLES MI. of Sweden was ungov-
ernably rash. lie often regretted his
impetuosity, but never reformed it.
HENRY VIII. was for years troubled
with constantly recurring carbuncles.
Their number and virulence finally
killed him.
LoUIs XVIII. was very fat and much
ashamed Of his infirmity, rs he knew
1t subjected him TO constant ridicule in
Paris.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT had a hered-
ltary tendency to drunkenness that
imbittered his whole life. His father
was very intemperate
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
SLAVES OE HE COOK.
New York Society People Unable TO Din
at Home on sunday

new YORK society People Unable 10 Dine
at Homo sunday
Cooks have their rights as well as
other people, and that is the one reason
why the restaurants of New York are
crowded every Sunday night by people
who have numerous servants, including
capable cooks. II was a custom fm
many years. nobody knows exactly
why, says the New York sun, 10 eat a
heavy dinner in the middle of the day
on Sunday. During the prevalence Of
this custom the cooks made il a point
to take Sunday night OFF, and that
point has now become a prerogative.
Men who dine six days in the week Al
seven are invariably overloaded and
uncomfortable when they dine in the
middle of the day on Sunday. The
effort To have Sunday night dinner az
seven o'clock has resulted in fiat and
indubitable failure wherever ATTEMPTED
by householders. and so the knot has
been cut by allowing the cook 10 have
her regular Sunday night Off, while
the master of the house and his wife
go To a restaurant and the children
Scurry about for themscles. II q
stranger in New York i anxious 10 SEE
the heavy weight financial. CONNER
cial, legal and other professional men ot
New York city at dinner with their
wives he should visit Delmonico's the
Brunswick, the Savoy, Waldorf OF New
Netherlands hotel any sunday night
at about seven o'clock. IL is a curious
phase of New York life Famous men
of every conceivable walk Of life dine
ont at these places. The general public
is familiar with their faces. but not
with those of their wives There Is
often a very strong contrast. as for
instance, a small, famous lawyer and
his ponderous, domineering wife. who
tips the beam at two hundred and fifty
pounds and bullies the waiter; q
famous statesman, whose wife Is
palpably jealous at his slightest
glance at his neighbors; an eminent
judge Of sixty and his fiirtatiou> wife
of twenty. and so on interminably.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
An Early Account.

The following extract from the
World Encompassed more especially
bears upon the points covered in the
inscription, giving an account Of the
service held and making record of the
words of the very early American mis-
sionary prayer: Our general. with hls
companie, in the presence of those
strangers, fell To prayers; and by
signes, in lifting up our eyes and hands
To Heaven. unified unto them thai
that God, \. .iom we did serve. and
whom they ought To worship, was
above; beseeching God. if it were HIS
good pleasure, To open 10y some meanes
their blinded eyes, that they might IN
due time be called To the knowledge oi
Him, the true and everything God, ana
of Jesus Christ. whom He hath sent
the salvation of the Gentiles. In the
time of which prayers, singing oi
Psalmes, and reading of certainc chap
ters of the Bible, they safe very atten-
tiVelV"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
PEOPLE AT HOME AND ABROAD.

o.
SERVIA is a promising country for
young men with political ambition
Mr.. Nesnitch, member of the new
ministry, is hardly thirty years old.
CAPT. AND Mrs. THOMAS CRAPo. now
of the schooner Oriole. from New Bed
ford, crossed the Atlantic together in
1877 in "a little dory only nineteen feet
long.
IT is said that at some day in the
near future Edison proposes 10 visit
North Carolina and begin active opera
tions in developing methods for con
centrating and reducing the sulphuret
gold ores of that region.
PRoF. |. c. RUSSELL, who made, in
1892, the nearly complete ascent of
Mount st. Elias and the Malaspina
glacier, perhaps the highest North
American peak, lectured before the
Appalachian Mountain club, in Bos-
ton, recently.
THERE are women who will read
with breathless interest that NJ. Pade
rewsli, the night before a recent re-
cital in London, practiced all night or
at least until $3.50 a. IN. The morning
after the recital he went to Chelten-
ham, where he played the same after
noon before a densely packed audi
ence. He exhibited no fatigue.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
BITS OF RELIGIOUS HuMoR.

DEACON" said a minister out west,
after a heavy sermon, I'm tired"
Indeed replied the deacon, then
you know how to pity the congrega-
ton"
''AH, parson, i wish | could take my
gold with me-" said a dying deacon,
who was very wealthy but very selfish.
1T might melt" was the minister's
consoling reply
"WHAT do you think of your new
Minister" And Sandy, scratching his
pow answered: Il dinna think muckle
o him Six days he's eenvisible, and
the seventh day eencomprehensible."
a LADY was once narrating to
Bishop Temple how her aunt had es-
capped from a railway accident. Five
people in the same compartment were
killed and my aunt alone escaped;
wasn't il providentiali'' ''Humph!"
said the bishop. don't know your aunt;
can't say!"
COLONEL commanding a British
regiment in India requested drill ser
geant To ascertain the religious views
of some new recruits The latter We're
paraded and the sergeant cried out:
Fall in Church of England men To
the right: Roman Catholic men to the
left; all fancy religions to the rear"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
FARMING IN FOREIGN LANDS.

The cotton crop of India for 1898 was
from Is to Is per cent. higher in the
various provinces than that of the pre-
ceding year.
COTTON culture is rapidly increasing
in Burmah, as is indicated by the
amount of exports, which increased
seven fold in the last fiscal year over
those of the preceding year.
THE large, white Yorkshire pig has
become the favorite breed with Danish
bacon factories, and large numbers of
them are imported yearly from Eng
land for breeding purposes. q
a MESS pork factory has been estab-
lished at Canterbury, New Zealand.
The company buys the green pork from
the farmers and cures it by the dry
sailing process for shipment to Lon
don.
THE Babcock tester for determining
the proportions of butter fats in milk,
is very popular in Victoria. Australia.
and its use seems likely to become gen
eral in the butter factories of that col
ony.
THE pastoral industry of Argentina
shows very slow increase In 1915
the number of cattle killed in the sal
aderos was 1,542, 900. The number last
year was zoos, 900, and the preceding
year ,962, 900.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16

The Natural Curiosity OF IN. LII.
Sumafra


There are many mud volcanoes
tered throughout the world. I,p, q
are few whose action is so reguls..
SO characteristic as that OF n.,,.
the island of Sumatra This vola
about ten Thousand feet in heiyb,
visited by Henry O. Forbes a few, -
ago, and is described in his .Wsrs
ings in the Eastern Archip.ls.
After breathless climb he had "a.
the rim of the crater, from wbicL I
looked down some three hund--d
of PERCEPTIONS rock 10 what SCENE,
white. polished mirror set in a can,.
basin. From this basin was sloyyl,
ing a column of steam.
All was quiet and placid. andI
down a little while TO take In m.
tails of a scene SO novel; vast cirerI'
basin half a mile in diameter. A..
rocky sides of sheer precipices h
playing at various places horizov,.
strata: at the bottom OF this an,r
smaller basin, some two hundred :.
i'm diameter, filled to within about n,
ty or forty feet of its rim with sr,oI
ing substance, whose surface. like h.,
nished silver, reflected the blue !.
and every passing cloud.
We had sat thus for perhaps Ten
twelve minutes, when / noted that ii
center of the white basin had b.e,,
intensely black, and was scored &C.,
dark streal1s. This area graduallr
creased. BY steady scrutiny with n
glass. for it was difficult TO make orl
what was slowly and silently takirJ
place, at last discovered thar M
blackness marked the sides OF a cha.r
that had formed in-what ! now A.,
ceived the white FURNISHED mirror /.
be-a lake of seething mud
The blackness increased The lsl.
was being engulfed, A few minu,s,
later dull, sullen roar was heard AM
] had just time To conjecture within
myself whence il proceeded when u.
whole lake heaved, and rose in the ii,
for some hundreds of feet. not as :
violently elected. but with calm. ma
jestic upheaval, and then fell back O,
itself with an awesome roar, which r-
verberated round and round the vas,
caldron. and echoed from rocky wall .,
rocky wall like the surge of an angr,
sea: and the immense volume OF steam
let loose from its prison house, dissi
pated itself into the air.
The wave circles died away on t5.
margin of the lake, which resumed ia
Furnished face and again reelected III.
blue sky; and silence reigned again uD
til the geyser had gathered force fa
another expiration.
The roar of the coming explo,ar
was 50 awesome that my porters. wb,
had never been to the top before. looked
the picture of terror. and when tb,
lake rose, they took TO their heels an.
fled in a body.
Thus all day long the lake was swal
lowed up and vomited forth once II
every fifteen or twenty minutes. Thatr
was not always SO quiet even a. nov
the stones on the Sawah and the scoris
on the sides of the cone testified. One,
in about every three years. the native
told me. the crops OF coffee. bananas ani
rice were quite destroyed by "sulphu
rain" which covered everything fo
miles round the crater.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
SIDE REMARKS.

UNREsPONsIvE.-Jack - Why don't
you call on Miss Swellery any more?"
Fred-''She won't respond"
AN ENIGMA.-He-''I love yc'." d" She She
We'll, what are you going to do
about it? You've got no money"
THEIR KNowLEDGE.-Mr Keper-'I've
known that fellow time out of mind" ="
Mr.. Lender-''I've known him money
out of pocket"
\ BAD HABIT.-Kittie-'' heard to-
day you married your husband to re-
form him" SARAH did" Kittie-
why, | didn't know he had any bad
habits" Sarah-''He had one; he was
a bachelor"
He HAD HIS REAsoNs.-IIiggins-
My daughter is the best pianist in
town" Wiggins-''Does she practice
much?" Higgins-;'Six or eight hours
a day" Wiggius-''Thank you. was
about To rent that house next to yours"
Detroit Free Press.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
STORY OF MARK TWAIN.
He Was willing L" Play Dog But wante,
the Perquisits-.

A traveller now in town on a visit
heard a new story about Mark Twain
from an old Mississippi river pilot with
whom Mr.. Clemens once worked for
awhile in pilot house on that river.
says the New York sun. II seems that
he came up in the pilot house carrying
an enormous and expensive black Ha-
vana cigar which excited the envy of
the master pilot. Where did You get
that cigar, SAM" the pilot asked. "A
gentleman in the cabin gave it To me, 8"
said the budding humorist. We'll. do
you think you ought to keep that
cigar and | ought to go without it?'
the pilot asked.
Now, look here" said Mark Twain.
II know am only your helper and I'm
willing to play dog TO you. You can
throw sticks in the water and let me
jump in after 'em. I'll do whatever
you say, but"-and here he drawled
in his peculiar way do think
ought To- have some perquisites"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
THE DAYS FUN.

MANAGER-"Ah, madam! you sing
from your heart" Prima Donna-'.Yes;
Eve always been complimented on my
chest tones."-Puck.
JACK-'What did that horse cost
you?" Tom-''It cost me all the re-
spect ever entertained for the man |
bought it from. It'd Bits.
"DABBLEs is passionateIy fond of
art" remarked the young man. Yes. y
She replied. ''and not fond enough to
stop trying TO make pictures. Wash
ington Star.
ToNNIE-''P Papa, when people sell
things by the pound, DO they ever weigh
the scales?" Paps--''Certainlyn not. my
boy" Tommie-'"fhen how do they
weigh fish?''-Harper's Young People.
Wise Man.
I've made money ON Wall street.
"How?"
"on tips from friends"
''Realiy?"
Yep. Always speculated the other
way."-Judge- =.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16
An Awkward situation.

a physician of Ocosta. Wash, while
botanizing in the woods near thal
place recently. stumbled across big
black hear. which got annoyed at ms
presence and chased him. The ran
road was a few yards away, and the
doctor took to the track and sprinteu
along il a few yards ahead of the
beast, until a long trestle was reached,
when the bear halted and squatieu
down To watch the doctor hop along
the ties. When he was a third of ths
way across a freight train appeareo
at the further end. Ont on hlgh
trestle, with bear waiting for HIM al
one end and freight train coming tor
him from the other, the doctor ielI
that the situation was embarrasslns'
He dropped to a supporting beam
hung from the end of il while the
train passed overhead, and then con,
tinued his way across the trestle ana
home by another route.
Two centuries ago there arose q
fashion in Italy of posthumous ms
tories; that is TO say, an author WonlN
devote his life to the preparation OF
historical work. leaving il To be pun
lished after his death by some nopi7
man of his acquaintance Most wer'
never published at all, though one,
-.Nero's History of Florence" first sa"
light one hundred and fifty years aitea
the authors death