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Arizona republican., 1895-03-05

HIRED HElNLEIN-Architect and superin. II tendent. Room Il, Fleming Block Eff. teen years ex xperience. Architect and superin- tandent of the Fleming Block.
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05

DO YOU HAVE NIGHT SWEATS? After a U thorough search of two years l found a remedy which cured me in three days VIII send receipt for one dollar c. F. DICKEY PhnniX, Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05

TTNO LET-Fine new dwelling house, rooms. l Rent s25 per month. Clark Churchill, Commercial hotel block.
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05

NTANTBD AT oNCE-A situation to do w general housework. Enquire opposite electric car stables, E. Madison St. Mrs. E. M Lewis.
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05

C1TOP AT THE WILLIAMS HOUSE, MARI .S copa, while waiting for the train. Goot accomm odations and excellent table.
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05
Arch1UecC.

" R. NORTON, ARCHITECT, Porter block.
 w Phoenix, Ariz Careful and experienced supervision given to the construction Of brick and stone buildings.
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05

IILA BEND HOTEL, EATING HOUSE. THl VI best meals on the road. First-class acco modations in every respect. PADDOCK BROS.
 Props
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05

CAN CAN REsTAURANT.-0pen day and
 night. Game in season. Choice poultry Fresh fish every Thursday. Fresh oysters al- ways on hand. Best equipped restaurant in Arizona A. D. Walsh, Proprietor. Tomb stone. Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1895-03-05
Pensions.
Bicycles.

Machine Shop. Y D. COPELAND First avenue. opposite l ls court house. Mining, agricultural and all other kinds of machinery built or repaired Models and patterns made. Soldering, brazing grinding or any other work in the mechanical line. Engines remodeled.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
AN AMERICAN TRAIT.
Whatever Is Done Is with All the Energy
Possessed.

Possessed.
When f. s. Martin. in his comments
on This Busy World" described with
accuracy that intensity of energy and
excess of zeal which overturned the
Cornell crew and led To their inglorious
defeat, he pointed, SAYS Harper's
Weekly to trait of American char
acter which must be estimated and
understood by anyone who undertakes
to set forth the existing conditions of
American life and development As
Mr.. Martin truthfully saws: 1t has
been SAID OF poIItIcs IN tins country that
ii Is war. In the intensity of business
competition there seems to be a grow
ing sentiment that business Is war"
This merely means that the American
pushes every principle to its ultimate
logical conclusion, but this Is one of the
keynotes of American character
1t may be good trait or bad one,
but it is essentially and exclusively an
American trait. 1t is probably the out
come of those conditions of freedom
under which we struggle and conquer
or fall. but 1t exists in no other country.
In this country alone has the principle
of business competition been pushed To
its utmost. Then, when the limit of
competition has been reached, a
struggle equally fierce has developed
the principle of combination, and pools,
and trusts. and syndicates, and traffic
agreements have shifted the scene and
scale and scope of the contest.
The principle extends alike to great
things and to small ones. We play the
game for all there is in it. whether the
game be politics or poker, railroad
management or college athletics. 1t
may wear us out, but it does not let us
rust out 1t may interfere with our
growth in sweetness and light, but it
is not a trait of wealllings and deca-
dents. Above all it is evolution. the
development of natural causes living
down deep at the roots of our national
life. 1t is a movement we have entered
on, to which we are fully committed
and which we could not check if we
would.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
Vanished New Hampshire Forests.

In New Hampshire, originally, two
great belts of white pine occupied the
valleys of the Merrimac and Connecti-
cut which contained some of the finest
timber in New England. This mag
nificent forest has long since disap-
peared, few scattered remnants only
remaining. Specimens have been
known which We're more than two
hundred feet high and six or eight feet
in diameter As the white pine seeds
very freely, the site of the ancient for
est is indicated by many tracts of Wig
orous saplings, which in thirty years
are available to cut for pail and fish
barrel slaves, box boards and e.en for
small building timber. Springing up,
as it does, on SO many worn out and
abandoned farms, ii has made industry
and wealth possible to many parts OF
the state which otherwise would have
been wholly deserted. 1t Is estimated
that southern New Hampshire contrib
utes at least twenty-five million feet
of dimension timber each year for
small frames for houses and barns IN
that section, thus displacing that much
spruce framing timber
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
NUMBER 3S.
MYSTERY OF A MAINE ISLAND.
A Hermit EngIishman Who Ended His
Misery by Cutting His Throat.


ssSome years ago. up at North Haven
island, on the Maine coast, said New
Yorker, according to the sun of that
city, Il came across a mystery that
haunts me still a bare rocky point
juts out into the sea on one side of the
island, and the first year that / visited
the place there was rude cabin on the
rock. Having gone out there from GU
riosity one day, l found man in
shameful rags trying out the oil from
the refuse from fish-canning factory
When L came TO examine the man his
appearance astonished me. He was an
extremely handsome, well-made Eng
lishman of forty or Whereabouts. His
hands, soiled with the material he
worked in, were small and well shaped.
When | tried to draw him into CONVEX
sation he at first answered in monosylla-
bles. and was almost sullKy in his reserve.
He gradually thawed, however, and /
found that he spoke rare and beautiful
English, that of a well-read and we'll
bred man Glancing into the door of
his cabin, could see perhaps a score of
well-thumbed volumes in library bind
ing His reserve was such that l could
not ask him about himself, but left
the island deeply interested in him.
next year, and one of the earliest things
L did was to go out to the point in
search of my acquaintance. The rock
was bare again, and there was no trace
of him and his cottage i asked about
him of some persons met on the island,
and here is what l learned: He had
come to the place mysteriously some
years before, having been dropped by
schooner He found work at the fish
cannery, but later quit the place, built
his cabin on the rock, supplied himself
! with food chiefly by fishing, and OBJ
tanned from the factory the privilege of
trying oil from the refuse. From the
product he obtained little ready money
for tobacco and other luxuries. At
some time between my two visits his
cabin was discovered to be on fire late
one night, and, hurrying down, his
neighbors saw him amid the flames
dead, with his throat cut. The fire had
SO seized upon the hut that his body
could not be removed until il was nearly
consumed He was burieds and no So
luton OF the mystery was discovered.
Life had evidently become insupport-
able to him, and he had taken the way
of suicide as the easiest one out of mis-
ery"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
THE LARGEST LENS.
The Splendid Achievement of an Amer
lean Manufacturer.

lean Manufacturer.
The Clarks have accomplished what
has long been regarded as an impossi-
Bile thing, and one which no European
manufacturer of lenses could be induced
to attempt. This is the making of per
feet lens of more than three feet across
the face. No one but this American
manufacturer ever thought of exceed
ing the twenty y-siX-inch lenses which
are in use at several obServatorieS on
both continents, one at the naval OBJ
servatory at Washington, through
which Mr.. Hall discovered the long
sought satellites of Mars and many
double stars The highest power was
supposed to be reached when the Lick
telescope in California was put up with
a thirty-six-inch lens. The difficulties to
be met in the production of perfectly
clear lens of great size are many that
the European observers who have
wanted anything above the twenty-six-
inch lens have had to take the reflect
ing telescope. which has concave mir
ror. 1t requires, of course, much
larger rejecting telescope to get the
same amount of light and the same
magnitude of object.
The making of this forty-one and
half-inch lens. says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, is regarded as the
crowning work of Mr.. Alvan Clark's
life. 1t is probable no larger lens will
ever be made. Under existing condi-
tions larger telescope than the
Yerkes-the telescope of the Chicago
university observatory for which the
lens is made-would be of no great
value. To increase the magnifying
power is at the same time to increase
the distractions to clear vision. When
the object is nagnified the atmospheric
agitation is increased to such a degree
that distinctness is virtually sacrificed
when the object glass is larger than
forty-one and half-inches. 1t is
doubtful If the Yerkes will be any
more useful than the Lick. Some day
it may be possible to remove the OBJ
stacleS to clearneSS in the ease of "A
powerful lens, though the only reason
for suggesting it is that Prof. Tyndall
was able to construct a glass by which
the blue of the atmosphere was dissi-
pated in looking through deep space.
If the Yer1es glass answers eXpecta-
tions it will enable an experienced OBJ
server to catch occasional glimpses of
the Mars canals, which, though drawn
firmly on the Vatican maps, are vague
and wavering and almost imaginary
through any glass. They can be seen
at all only by the trained observer.
The great telescope will be most useful
in the study of double stars, which is
now matter of special interest to
many observers.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
A TOUCH OF KINDNESS.
The Trsmp's Humane Impulse Brought
Him No Reward.

He sat slouchingly upon the end of
the park bench, his head hanging list
lessly over his breast, says the New
York World. There was complete de-
lection in his attitude. An old hat re-
sembling piece of "culls" in rag
shop lay on the ground, where it had
fallen from his head. On one foot was
old felt slipper and on the other an
old riding boot, with the top cut off
His trousers and coat We're of dull,
mottled gray that comes from hard
wear and dust.
Twice he had been moved on by the
sparrow cop" and he had made his
way to a bench that was secluded and
shaded by a tree. He had gone to
sleep.
In the tree the sparrows hoped and
twittered in the shade of the foliage
Suddenly through the branches came
twisting a tiny featherling, striving
hard to make its tender wings bear up
the weight of its body. 1t failed and
fell on the graveled walk at the old
tramp's feet. stunned and breathing
with difficulty. Something caused the
tramp to open his eyes and they lit ON
the little sparrow. He looked at il
stupidity for minute, then. drawing
Ills ustllh Ills ne leaned
over and picked it u tenderly He
gazed at it in a wonu>r ring way and
then glanced up at the branches of the
tree. where the mother bird fluttered
and chirruped in fright.
He drew the bench little closer to
the tree and climbed upon it. That
put him within reach of lower limb
He laid the little bird carefully on a
-a1
surprising in one SO feeble, he drew
himself mp and sat on the limb. Above
him, within reach. he saw a nest. 1t
was tipped over SO that he could see in
it two downy bits of birds like the one
he had. He gently placed the bird he
carried in the nest, let himself down
to the ground, drew the bench back to
its original place and turned to go just
as gray coat" called ont to him:
Come, now, get on. You've been
around here long enough!"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
FOREIGNERS IN THE CITIES.

IL Cincinnati and Milwaukee about
sixty-nine per cent. of all foreign pop
ulation are of German birth
OVER one-fourth of the entire popula-
tion in New York was born either in
Ireland OF in Germany.
NEW YORK city contains one-ffth of
all the Russians in this country and
one-fourth of all the Italians
IT is said that in the Italian colonies
of New York there are hundreds of
persons who speak no English.
CHICAGO has only twenty per cent. of
its population of native birth. the rest
being foreigners or their children
MILWAUKEE Is really a foreign city,
only thirteen per cent of its popula-
tion being native born American pa
rentage.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
SMoKEJACKS AND GAPS.
An Increasing Number Coming Into View
Upon the City's HOusetoPs-

1T seems to me- said a New York
citizen recently, that there Is very
striking increase in the number OF
chfmneypots and smokejacks and
smolecaps visible in the city The
chimneypots are mostly of the con-
ventional form. like slightly tapering
cone with the top cut OFF; the smoke
Jacks and caps are of various heights
and STYLES. / suppose the object of all
these things is TO improve the draught
of the chimney. i don't know why we
should have more of them now than
we used to. whether IL Is on account OF
some difference in the construction OF
our chimneys, which makes them nee
essary; whether we are not satisfied
with a draught that would have satis-
fed us years ago, and want the chin
ney To draw better as we want and eN-
pect to have everything better nova
DAYS; or whether the construction IN
these days of many higher buildings
has made such changes in the air cur
rents and atmospheric conditions gen
orally as materially to affect the
draught of many ehimneys; but l know
there are more chimney pots
This last idea about the breaking
ND of the air currents and that sort of
measure for the greater number of the
newer chimneyPots; but when come
TO think of IL / remember that in Lon
don riding along viaduct on trains GO
ing in OF out of the city, looked down
on i should say hundreds of thousands
of ehimneypots in districts where hum
dreds of acres were covered with small
houses of unvarying uniformity in
height There wasn't any detection OF
currents here, but | doubt if there was
g chimney without its chimneypot. a
thick -stubble of chimneypots, and a
mast fascinating sight II was, too, and a
fascinating Thought to think of the myri-
ads of people that dwelt beneath them
Our chimneyPots have not yet 10y
any means attained that striking eff
feet. They are still greatly scattered;
but. with the smokeja jacks and the
smokecaps, they are now sufficiently
numerous to add to the city a feature
of picturesaueueSs
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
LAUGHS.

JAsPAR-''Currv Is the architect of
his own fortune, Is he not?' Jumpuppe
Yes; and when he built il he did not
provide ii with any exits Puck.
REQUIFsCAT IN PACE. Over the
grave of the cannibal king they in
scribed with trenchant pen this cpl
taph: Write me as one who loved his
fellow men. Life.
IN THE FoG.-Driver of Bus Ito con-
ductor. whom he has called up)-'.Jim,
the OF gent behind's just fell hoffl7
COnductor-''Allr right, Bill. 'Es paid Is
fare. .'-Tit-Bit
a DIsTINCTIoN.-'Are abbreviations
proper asked the young woman.
1t depends, replied her mother. Ion
which you have reference to-the Eng
lish language or bicycle costume
Washington Star.
SHE-''I'm afraid that II is not me that
you're after, but that it Is my money
You want" He-"Hov foolish in YOU
to say that. You know very well
can't get your money without first get
ting you. boston Transcript
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
CURIOUS TREES.
Several That Are Valuable, Gigantic and
Historic.

The largest orange tree in the south
* a gigantic specimen which grows out
Of the rich soil in Terre Bonne parish,
Louisiana. 1t is fifty feet high aud fif-
teen feet in circumference at the base.
Its weld has often been ten thousand
oranges per season.
The ..tallow tree" of China has
NTH from one inch to two feet in di-
ameter, according to the size of the
tree. which is composed of greasy
wax. which is so highly volatile that
it often catches fire spont aneousiy,
consuming the tree to the very ends of
its roots.
The largest oak tree now left stand
ing in England is ''Cowthorp's oak,
which is seventy-eight feet in circum-
ference at the ground. The oldest tree
in Britain is Parliamentary oak. =
in Clipstone park, London, which Is
known to be fifteen hundred years old.
The largest apple tree in New York
state is said To be one standing near
the town of Wilson. 1t was planted IN
the year 1915, and it is on record that
II once Welded thirty-thr ee barrels OF
apples in single season.
There are four hundred and thirteen
species of trees found growing within
th.. limits of the United States. The
curiosity of the whole lot is the black
ironwood, of Florida, which Is thirty
per cent. heavier than water. Wei
dried black ironwood will sink in water
almost as quickly as viii bar of lead
The life tree" of Jamaica is harder
to kill than any other species OF Woo
growth known to arboriculturists-
continues to grow and thrive 10
months after being uprooted and ex
posed To the sum-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
NEW GAMBLING WRINKLE.
How Some Jolly Fellows Seek to Woo the
Goddess of Fortune.

Goddess of Fortune.
There is new form of gambling much
affected in clubs and barrooms nova
days that even the board of trade viii
find it hard to put stop to, says the
Washington Post. Everyone Is familiar
with the electric fans which in the past
few years have proved such a boon in
torrid weather. They are shaped like
propeller and have four, five or six
blades and are incased in wire cages
with large apertures. BY touching Il
lever at the back the machine can be
started or stopped at will, and while in
motion the velocity is something tre-
mendous. Some wide-awake genius
not long ago conceived the idea that
the electric fan could be utilized as an
excellent means of wooing the goddess
of fortune and put the suggestion into
operation in this wise: A six-bladed
fan was stopped and each of
it's blades marked with num-
ber. Then six slips of paper We're
marked with similar numbers and
six Jolly fellows drew a slip apiece.
The number on the slip corresponded
to the number on one of the blades and
it was decided that the blade that was
nearest the perpendicular wire at the
bottom of the cage covering the fan
when the latter stopped revolving
sh Duld win the pot. The latter con
sisted of six dollars, put up equally by
the half-dozen players Then the fun
began. The lever would be turned on
and as quickly off and the fan would
revolve like lightning, slow down and
stop in half minute. There was no
kitty" to be fed as IN poker, no per
centage of split, as in faro, and no rake
off for the house. as in other games. 1t
was a pure luck affair and the heaviest
loser was not more than five dollars
out at the end of an hours whirling,
while the excitement had been as in
tense as the most devoted gambler
could desire. Next day each one of the
six introduced the electric fan to his
friends in its new guise as a spinning
jenny and now the game has spread
all over town. The interest in il is
heightened good deal by having a
blank blade, which when it stops at
the winning wire constitutes a jack
pot and necessitates the players put
ting up an extra stake, just as in
poker So from a one dollar ante in
brokers offices to whirling for coppers
by district messengers the electric fan
is being brought into requisition with
general hilarity
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
SPORTS AND PASTImEs.

Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY pounds of
flesh is what DR. w q. Grace carries
from one wicket to another every time
he makes a run
THE Maine mackerel feet has had
bad luck this year The Portland
seiners took but 5000 barrels OF fish, as
against 26, 900 last year.
Two big surgeons, one weighing 200
pounds and the other $50 pounds. were
caught at one haul of the net by a
fisherman at Pultneyville. y. Y. lately
BARON HIRsCH. the Jewish million
aire. has just leased the shooting on the
estate of Cardinal Naszary. prince
primate OF Hungary, which extends
over -. 600 acres
a GENUINE mountain trout measur-
ing 265z inches long and weighing
pounds was caught near Durango, Col,
a few days ago. 1t was caught with
seven ounce rod and a No. 6 hook
AN English captain named Burke,
serving in Bengal, who went bear hunt
ing in the mountains lately, was at
tackled by beast he had wounded. His
servant went TO his rescue, when the
bear carried them both over the side of
a precipice a thousand feet deep.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
THE LATEST NOVELTIES.

ALUMINIUM pens possess all the desir-
able qualities of steel pens, with the
additional advantage that they do not
corrode.
THE latest use for tin foil is to pat it
down ON gas fixtures in barrooms. 1t
looks shiny and pretty when it is fresh,
and ii keeps off the flies.
WHITE BLACKBERRIEs We're a curl
osity brought into Americus, Ga, by
farmer. They were identical with the
ordinary black berry in form and flavor.
SIGN put in the Philadelphia troll
ley ears few days ago requests pas
sengers to remain seated until the
car stops, and then got off in the direc-
tion the car is moving"
A NEWSPAPER has just been started
in London, which is printed on a postal
card. The first number has four Illus
trations. a comic tragedy, few jokes
and puzzles and some advertisements.
A TOPEKA newspaper alleges that
preparations are making in that town
for a wedding at which the bride will
wear bloomers. She is said to be an
exceedingly emancipated type of the
new woman.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
AILING JUST A LITTLE.
The Ladies Took No Further Interest in
the Infants HcaI;h.


the Infants Health.
She had seat in a Michigan avenue
car. with a baby in her lap. all bundled
up in an old shawl. says the Detroit
Free Press. \ woman next to her with
two small children seemed to have con-
siderable curiosity about that baby,
and, after trying several times to get a
sight of its face. she said:
Haven't You got your child bundled
up good deal for this weather."
But | have to keep him warm,
ma'am," was the reply.
For what reason?"
The doctor told me to-
Then the poor little thing is ailing?'
Just a little ailing. ma 'am-just a
little. He's got measles with the mumps
atop of it, but the doctor says he's
growing"
No one heard the rest of her words
There were four or five mothers and SIX
or seven children in the car and there
was stampede which took them all ont
and everybody else as we'll When the
car rolled on again the woman with the
baby looked at the conductor inquir-
ingly and asked:
Has anything broke down or blown
up or run off the track to scare 'em all
out9-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
a VALUABLE Pc6SIE.
The Accidental Good Fortune of a Hu
ter I'm India

The Accidental Good Fortune of a Hun
ter in India.
Precious stones are still numerous in
certain districts of India, and occasion
ally fine gem is found by sports
man or traveller. A young English Of
ficer, returning from an unsuccessful
hunt on the estate of petty chief,
picked up a stone which lay in his
path, and idly threw it against a rock.
1t broke in a dozen pieces and out fell
a brilliant pebble. The Englishman
picked it up, looked at it, and was
about to throw it away, but changed
his mind. iii keep it," said he. las
a memento of days hunt when l
didn't shoot so much as a rat" Some
days later, in Bombay, while having his
watch repaired. he showed the stone
to the jeweler, and asked its worth.
In give you twenty pounds for it,
said the jeweler, after careful exami-
nation. Had he offered a shilling he
might have been told To- take the stone
and keep the shilling, but the offer of
twenty pounds aroused the officers
suspicious, So he responded, with
laugh: Il dare say you would give me
that and tritie more, but I'm going
to take it To England" He did so, and
sold his pebble" in London for SIS, 900.