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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
STORM HYPNOTISM.
A London Writer Tells of His Strange
Experience in Paris

The resent disastrous cyclone in
Paris, which was one of the first of the
kind ever experienced in that city. has
opened up n discussion on the subject
hitherto but little investigated, the
lnesmcTic OF hypnotic influence of
storms
1t is we'll known that BIRDS and other
animals are often restless and disquiet-
cd before an earthquake or a severe
storm, and there Is every reason to sup
pose that they perceive the pTelim-
mary tremors ard air vibrations be
fore they are felt bv man.
correspondent of IA London daily
describes the experience OF himself and
his wife in Paris as illustrative OF the
impressions to which highly strained
and nervous organizations are subject
under certain conditions of atmos-
pheric or electric disturbance. The
night before the storm they went To
the theater. The atmosphere WAS
sitting; it was almost II. possible to
breathe. They both experienced q
dead, dull depression On the brain,
that can ONLY be described :ls the symp-
toms Of semi-ino hricty.
They went diEneIless and supperless
thing. In the morning the woman was
seriously H. Her lips ard skin werc
burning. She could not swallow. and
could scarcely articulate. The pupils
of her eyes were CIIated, the whites
were yeined and almost Jet black. She
had every symptom Of narcotic poison
ing. BY dint of great courage she re
covered somewhat and they sat in the
courtyard of their hotel while the cy-
clone ragged, feeling it, but seeing moth
ing Of its terrors. They started for
their English home on the night boat.
The writer SAYS that he went dazed into
the car and fell asleep instantly. He
has no recollection of the trip across
the channel, being in a stupor all the
way.
He left London soon after to GO
down into the country. He SAYS: Il
slept in the train. and l have gone on
sleeping every few minutes ever since
The cyclone was on Thursday. II is
nw Sunday, and l am as sleepy as an
owl; but gradually the mesmeric iniu-
! ence OF the storm is fading away.
The hypnotism OF the cyclone is
| decreasing. The inJolerable pressure
OF the brain is getting less acute, but
there still remain that awful burning
rain and the ache over the eyeballs
from which we have suffered so long.
What has happened to us2 Will sci
| entists explain ?''-St Louis Republic.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
GATHERING THE RETURNS.
Scenes About New York Police Headquar
tiers Election Night

The election bureau of the police
board is the official recipient of the
returns from the voting precincts. This
bureau furnishes each poll with blanks
for the official record and also with
four sets of small blanks for each Office.
As soon as the count for an Office is
finished the four inspectors sign all
four blanks and policeman takes
them to police headquarters, and
quickly returns for others. Thus the
count goes on until it is completed
sometimes not before midnight
Meantime there have gathered in n
large room at police headquarters al
the commissioners. the uperntCud-
"nt, a great number of newspaper rs.-
porters with pencils sharpened at both
ends. while the walls are lined with
messenger and telephone boys. A. soon
as report is brought it is read out
by the superintendon ut, taken down hv
the newspaper men, and forwarded u
their editors as rapidly os possible. Il.
eight o'clock the returns come thick
and fast, and nothing is heald d but the
scratching of pencils and the footsteps
OF racing messengers. The commits
sioners soon go TO their private Offices.
for they know that anxious candidates
will speedily be ,called to learn
their fate, although very fair idea has
spread abroad by nine or ten o'clock as
to- how the state and city have zone
ON the principal issues. In the ease of
the election of November, 1894, every
body knew that Tammany was beaten
long before that hour.
But the fun of the street is not for
that band of reporters at headquarters,
ror for thCse other bands of writers in
the newspa-er er offices down town. who,
with almost suPerhuman Diligence
and endurance, are tabulatlng and nut
ting into type and commenting upon
these rcrurrs for delectation of the
public ncXt morning.
The ter"ment-house districts have
been alive with people since sun 1evn,
dancing about the fires. They have
learned long ago the outlines of the
result, and those on the successful
side are rejoicing in their tumul nous
way, sure of the support OF all the
boys. As the evening advances the cx-
citement spreads to Broadway ard w,
town. The newspapers will issue cN-
| tras every hour or so from ninc u. II.
\ TO two in the morning, but they do not
| hesitate to give all this news AWAY
| upon their bulletins as fast as they get
it.-Ernest Ingersoll. in Centur.-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
A Tie of Sympathy.

isn't it strange how people thrown
together abroad will become intt-
mate" said a lady who had just re
turned from a European jaunt. I'VE
fell in with some Cleveland people on
shipboard going. with whom we were
acquainted only by name, but in
few hours we shared condolences like
lifelong friends. 1t was the same way
wherever we chanced to find our coun-
trymen. At Rome we ran across
Cleveland clergyman. and you would
have thought we were long lost rela-
tives from the cordial way he greeted
the discovery that we were also Cleve-
landers. In fact, it is quite impossible
to feel lonely if you know that any OF
your home people are about All the
frig;d barriers of social distinctions
are melted down, and everyone is on
one plane of friendly equality. lcs,
and they are not seaside acquaintances
either; when they meet again the old
freemasonry Of common interest draws
them straightway together. and they
live those delightful experiences over
again in sympathetic "reminiscences. >
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
A Granite Hotel for the Yosemite.

All the so-called hotels, cottages.
tents and other makeshifts provided
for the accommodation of visitors TO
the Yosemite valley are to give way in
the near future to a handsome impoS-
ing and fireproof structure, to be built
at a cost of about $4,000. of granits to
be qsarried in the valley. This project
was developed at a recent meeting of
tho Yosemite commissioners during
the discussion of plans to provide for
the accommodation of visitors to the
valley. Il am in favor of q granite
building that can be constructed from
the stone right on the ground raid
Gov. Budd- Il don't believe il would
cost more than to build an equally large
hotel of lumber up there in the noun
tains. where ths hauling of the lumber
costs more than the lumber itself"
Commissioner SPerry said that a srsn-
its structure with 100 rooms could -
put up at a cost of SAC, 900 to $50. .OOe..
He suggested that plans ought to lie &c
cured tn enable a proper presen tRtion
of the scheme to the legislature when
an appropriation was asked for Gov.
Budd said he would, in his message 10
the legislature, call attention to tine
proposition.-San Francisco Call.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
INCIDENT ON THE ALLEY a."
Truculent Negro Passengers Subdued by .
Friend of the Conductor.


Friend of the Conductor
On the alley IL" road one evening "a
trio of negroes boarded southbound
train and proceeded in way to cap
ture the car they were in. They stood
in the aisle and obstructed the prog
ress of people coming and going out
at the different stations and were in
clined to be disputatious and quarrel
some with anybody who ventured to
criticise their conduct One of them in
particular. the largest of the three,
was especially pugnacious, and finally,
when the conductor ordered them Ia
take their seats the big fellow threat
ened all sorts OF destruction TO the
official, and defied him openly to Law
hands on him, says the Chicago Chron-
icle.
The conductor passed to the next car
and enlisted the services of an acquaint-
ance of his, "bouDcer' at one of the
smaller thesters. This worthy weighed
about 24O pounds and was giant in
strength and size. He walked into the
car where the darkies stood. grabbed
the big one, who was at least half a foot
shorter than the bouncer. and dragged
him to the door.
AS the car was just then stacking up
at a station the bouncer threw the col
ored man clear over the gate and on to
the platform without waiting for the
guard TO open the gate The darlly
sprawled all over the platform and his
two companions skunk to seats as the
bouncer looked back into the car. The
train went on, the two remaining "ter-
rors" keeping very still.
After rseveraIStationsh had been passed
one of them spoke in subdued tones to
the other. All he said was: dat sholy
was a strong man."
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
THEY NEVER HEARD OF HIM.


Two Chicago Business Men Who Wondered
who George X Davis Is
Three men were chatting together IN
n Madison street cigar store 1t was
raining outside and neither was in
hurry to leave. One of them was a well
known politician and the other two
were apparently successful business
men a military-looking gentleman
with snowwhite hair. mustache and
chin whiskers entered, says the Chics-
go Chronicle.
Good evening" said the politician
"A nasty night" he added.
WHO is that?" queried one of the
other two men of the politician after
the man he had addressed as colonel
had gone out
why. don't you know him-Royal
George Davis?"
We'll. who is Royal George Davis.
anyway
George r. Devis-don't know George
R?"
What did he do2"
Why, man, he was director general
of the worlds fairi"
Never heard of him."
The politician looked at the man in
undisguised amazement- Come, buy
the cigars" was all he said.
And such is fame.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15

But the most remarkable instance of
scattering the seeds shooting them
from the pod) is afforded by Hura
crepitaps, a handsome tree, native of
the forests of South America Th. Gu
rious fruit of this tree is somewhat
flattened, deeply furrewed or fnted
body, made up of a circle of many cells,
each containing one seed. When the
seeds are ripe the cells open, and eNpel
them with n loud report, like the crack
of pistol. Hence the fruit is some
times called the monkeys dinner
bell
Stories have been told of Hura fruits
being placed in desks and subsequently,
opening. and discharging their seeds
with snch violence as to break ink
wells, and even to crack the wood of the
desk-Thomas III. Kearney, Jr., in st.
Nicholas.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15

..Good morning, Jasper! I am very
sorry to hear OF your domestic trouble
"Wha' sorser tebble dat, sah?
.why. L mean the trouble IN your
home affairs. / am told that your wife
run eway from you; is it faet?
"Deed, it ar, sah-
-Of course you teel very bad about
ito"
"Yas. sab. De way de marter stan at
de presen' time, sab, i feels mighty
bad"
AT the present time; what do you
mean by that?'
II mean, sab. dat she hahn had time
Wit ter go fur 'nough ter make de OF
man feel sho' dat she hahn comm back
Richmond Dispatch
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
A Rsmefg for Thlnnesa.

A French paper tells the story of a
dramatic instructor who had as pu-
pill girl who was very pretty, but
woefully thin. Thinness is SO fatal ar
the stage-except where there is the
highest genius, as in the case of :bat
great actress of whose admirers II is
said that they prefer grace before
meat--that he consulted physician
about it The physician recommended
belladonna. why ?" asked the dramatic
instructor Because" was the reply,
.'belladonna has sthepropertyof dila;ing
the pupil"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
Suicide Is Hereditary.

An extraordinary instance Of heredi
tary tendency to suicide was told by
Prof. Brouardel in Paris lately y
farmer near Etanp pes hanged himsei'
without apparent cause. leaving fam
lily of seven sons and four daughters.
Ten OF the eleven subsequently fol
lowed tie fathers example. but not un
til they had married and begOtten chill
tren, all of whom likewise hangeC
t,.emEelves. The only survivor is a son
who is now 6S years of age, and ha:
passed safely beyond the family hang
ing age
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15
Famine Bread

In times of famine bread has been
baked from wood bran and husks of
corn The yyoodbread is made by select
ing the sswduSt of the least resinous
wood-the breech. for example-aDd
washing it with water TO remove any
soluble matter. 1t is then dried in an
oven and reduced TO fine powder With
the addition of little -four. some yeast
andwater. IL forms a dough which. when
baked. constitutes bread resembling in
appearance and taste our ordinary
brown bTead.-ChicagO Inter Ocean
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15

'I understand young Golfsuit has
fallen from grace"
We'll, he looks rs il he had fallen
from something, but he doesn't admit
it He says it's the n shion to dismount
suddenly row."-Chic,- o Post.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-15

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-03
TREATY READY TO SIGN.

United States, Russia and Japan TO Sus-
pend Pelagic Sealing.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. 1t is expected
that treaty of convention between the
United States, Russia and Jacan will
be formally signed and executed at the
state department during the present
week, carrying out the proposition be-
fore the Eerine sea conference for q
suspension of pelagic sealing. The
present understanding is that the sign
ing of this document will occur within
the next few days. 1t will represent
the completed efforts of the conference,
and, with the signing concluded, the
conference will adjourn. The essential
feature of the treaty Of convention is
for the suspension of pelagic sealing for
such period as will permit the seal
herds to revive. The period of this
suspension is not disclosed. One report
is that it will be for one year, subject
to extension, another is that it will
cover term of years, but the exact
duration Of the suspension cannot be
verified.
The attitude which Great Britain
will assume toward the proposition and
the treaty which is to take its place is
awaited with much interest. Thus far
the British authorities have not been
informed as to what the conference
proposes doing.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-03
KLONDIKER'S TO BE RELIEVED

DR.. Sheldon Jackson's Reindeer to BE
Used to Transport Food.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.-The threatened
famine in the Yukon valley will be re-.
lieved. DR.. Sheldon jackson, en- route
from the Klondike to Washington, said
that the recent order of Secretary Alger
to Lieutenant Colonel Randall, us. A.,
in command of the military reservation
at St. Michaels, Alaska, directing him
to use the reindeer for hauling food to
the miners, will save mach suffering.
] Dr.. jackson has in the herd 200 head
Of reindeer trained to harness. He also
has two Lapps and several Kskimos
experienced in driving deer, which he
can turn over to- Lieutenant Colonel
Randall. He further states that the
present exingency emphasizes the ARP.
ent need of procuring trained reindeer
in large numbers-that the mines Of
Alaska are SO peculiarly situated that
they cannot be supplied with contin.
uous and adequate food supply until
reindeer transportation is systematically
organized on q large scale.
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EXAGGERATED REPORTS.
About the Usual Amount Of Truth In q
1Yfn

About the Usual Amount Of Truth In the
Ute Uprising Story.
Fort DUCHEsNE, Utah, Nov. S.-Re.
ports have been received here, which,
If true, and from their source there can
be little doubt as to their reliability,
confirm the belief expressed here that
there was not much, If any, foundation
for the wild reports in circulation re-
garding killing and burning by the In.
dians. These reports also state that
the only story with any foundation
whatever for truth was that q white
courier had been fired upon. Owing to
the high state Of excitement, this was
probably magnified to an alarming ex.
tent. One of the worst Indians on the
Uintah reservation has arrived home,
and this fact alone would be sufficient
to show that there was no cause for
alarm, as he would be the last to leave
il there was any disturbance. The
only trouble apprehended here was
that the arrival of the wounded squaws
would incite the Indians. but they have
arrived and tho agency is as quiet as
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-03
VERY MYSTERIOUS
An Alaska Expedition Sails OF
Which the Destination Is
Unknown. ...
Two Prospectors Brought Out
$4,000 in Dust and Are
Going Back.
Reindeer Will Relieve Needs of
Klondikers--Minister Sif.
t0r's OpiniOn.

SEATTLE, WASH, Nov. 3.-Mystery
surrounds the sailing Of an Alaska ex-
pedition. The company is headed by
George Rennick, an Idaho mine oper.
ator. He and his partner, George
Finster, are supposed to be the only
persons who have worked in the new
camp. They came out about 60 days
ago and apparently reliable authority
says they brought with them upward of
$50, 900 in gold dust, the proceeds of
about four months work. They discov.
cred the new diggings, the exact loca-
ton of which is zealously withheld
from the public. Rennick had been
prospecting in Alaska with varying
success for three years. After trying
his fortune at Cook Inlet and Forty
Mile he went to Stewart river and
thence to- the district where he met
with such f1attering success The dig
gings, so far as can be learned, are be.
tween Sitka and the mouth of the Cop
per river and about $50 miles from the
coast. The expedition headed by Rem.
nick consists of 20 men, all in the EN-.
ploy OF himself and partner. Finan.
cially they are reported to be backed in
the venture by Connecticut capitalists.
The little vessel in which they sailed
for the north is steam schooner known
as the Augusta. Besides the men she
had 40 dogs, 20 sleds and about 30 tons
of provisions. From the sea the food
supplies will be for the main part trans.
ported to the new camp on the dog
sleds. The greatest secrecy has sur
rounded the movements of those man.
aging the expedition.
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MR.. MERRY REJECTED.

Greater Republic of Central Americs
Again Refuses Our Minister.
MANAGuA, Nicaragua, Nov. 3.-It
IS understood here that the diet of the
Greater Republic of Central America,
now in session here, has refused tc
agree with the arguments put forward
b& Secretary Sherman in support Of the
appointment of Captain William I.
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Merry Of San Francisco as minister
of the United States to Nicar-
aqua, Costa Rica and Salvador, while
partly recognizing the diet. It is
claimed here in certain quarters that
this step was taken in order to force the
United States government, if possible,
to fully recognize the diet, although it
is claimed that body may be over.
turned almost at any day by q success.
full revolution in Nicaragua, Costa Rica
or Salvador, or by the withdrawal from
it Of any one Of the presidents govern.
ing the states it represents.
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BetgstrO1n Must Do Time.

ST. PAUL, Nov. 3.-Peter ]. Berg.
strom, ex.register of deeds of st. Louis
county. convicted of appropriating to
his own use fees that should have been
turned into the county treasury, will
have to serve his sentence of one year
in the penitentiary, and pay fine of
$500. The supreme court, in a decision
by Justice Buck, affirms the sentence
Of the district court at Duluth.
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MINISTER sIFTON's OPINION.
ChiicOot Better Than White Pass-No One
Likely to Starve.

ChilcO0t Better Than White Pass-NO One
Likely to Starve.
VANCOUVER, B.. G., Nov. 3.-Min.
lister of the Interior Sifton, who has
been investigating the different routes
into Yukon. has arrived here from Dyea
on the Dominion steamer Quadra.
Mr.. Sifton is Of the opinion that the
Chilkoot pass is better one than the
White Pass Regarding reports Of
starvation at Dawson City Mr.. Sifton
stated that his latest advices were to
the effect that there would be enough
provisions to last until spring.
The steamer City Of Seattle has Just
sailed from here for Alaska. She took
up 80 head of oxen and a number of
men. who will form part of the expedi.
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Brought SOC, 600 in Gold Dust.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Nov. g.
The schooner Norman Srunde, operated
by the Copper River Trading and
Transportation company of this place,
arrived during the morning from Cooks
inlet. She brought down Is passen.
gers who have total of 500, 900 in gold
dust taken from the placer mines Of
Cooks inlet.
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usual, except for the wailing of the

usual, except for the wailing of the
relatives of the dead and wounded.
DR.. Reamer, the agency physician,
met the wounded near the agency and
reports that upon examination of the
wounds he finds the one with the shat
arm in very critica. condition, owing
to blood poisoning. The other will in
all probability recover. The Indians
are impressed with the belief that the
cowboys were the ones connected with
the killing at the Thompsons, and not
the game wardens.
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-TOOx NIOrphine by Mistake.

Toox Morphine by Mistake.
DENVER, Nov. 3.-James H. Jordan,
postmaster Of Denver, died at midnight
from an overdose of morphine pills
which he had taken supposing them to
be cathartic Mills.
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Would Compete For a Prize.

WO0ld Compete For = Prize.
SEATTLE. Wash, Nov. 3.-At a meet.
ing OF the chamber Of commerce steps
have been taken to enter the City of
Seattle for prize competition at the
Paris exposition OF 1900. Some Eastern
city the same size as Seattle is asked to
enter into the competition with it.
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ton sent out by Boston company to
carry supplies into Dawson over the
Dalton trail.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-01
ESTApbTA Dh PONCE

La sonora de don Luis Munoz Rivera,
recibi6 anteayer %, de la villa de Vega
baja, ell siguiente despacho telegrafico
''Las damas yegabajenas congrega
das en- este momento para ofrecer tes-
timonlo de admiration tn ilustre es-
poso, 10 hacen extensive hasta II por me-
dio de este mensaje de felicitacion ca
rinosfsimo que te envfan en- su repre-
sentacl6n.
Elisa Salgado de Otero-Dolores
Font Camunas=-Pac Santana Mater
Ayelina Santana.0
A tan expontanea y patri6tica mani
festacion, contesto en- ell acto la favore-
cida de este modo:
ELISA Salgado Otero.
Recibe da en- mi nombre las mas
expresivas gracias, a todas las damas
que tan carlnosa acogIda dispensan a
mi esposo.
Para todas nj gratitud y mi saludo
afectuoso. -44nutt0 Marin de Mu91oe
Rtoero.@