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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26

name over her front door. Her trays
are of copper, polished very bright
and she puts in eight hours day wait
ing on the counter herself.
One of the advantages OF the girl
bachelor who comes to New York is
that she can do as she pleases without
being detected, for there is no place
like New York in which to hide your
self She does not lose her social
standing if she tends Shop" and this
she cannot always say of herself in her
own neighborhood.
3. There are few women florists in New
York, because, contrary to supposition,
flower work is very dirty work. 1t is
wet and hard upon the hands, and for
that reason but few girl bachelors
have drifted into it.
A great majority are in what is some
times called the half-professions. These
comprise stenography, very expert
typewriting, bookkeeping and private
secretaryship. These afford a good liv-
ing and give the girl bachelor stand
ing which she cannot always secure in
trade. The post or private secretary is
most coveted
The girl bachelor who comes to New
York must have with her a nice sum
of money. Margaret Sangster is quot
ed as saying that a girl who knows
how to do something" can come to
New York on $500. Marion Harland
once placed the price at SITS, but the
girl bachelor will feel great deal safer
if she has $500 in her pocket, though
she need not spend it she does not
want to.
The cost of living in New York is
DEAR There is no need of saying that
you can board in Harlem cheap, be-
cause you can't. You may get board
for SIS week, but your carfare and
lunches eat into your salary, and you
will find that, in such an out-of-the-
way place, you have to journey an
hour night and morning to get to and
from home.
A more sensible and at the same
time low estimate of the cost of living
in New York is this.
Per
week.
Board and lodging :. :. $500. $500
Lunches and carfare ... 80. 800
Laundry -. ..... ...... LOO
Shoes and other necessities ...... 200
This foots up $13 without any trou-
BILE, and the girl bachelor still has to
dress herself
1t is part of the scheme of the bache-
lor girl of Gotham to provide for her
self entirely, but if she is a sensible
girl, while she is on the lower rounds
of the ladder she will board with
friends adjacent to her business, if pos
sible, and will thus cut down her ex-
penses several dollars per week. 1t is
safesto say that in New York city the
girl who doesn't live at home" must
have SIS week to keep up. an appear
ance, and the girl bachelors who are
going to struggle along on less had bet
ter give up in the first place There is
on lower Fifth avenue a large apart
ment house, in which several girl ba-
chelors have flats. These flats consist
of four rooms and are occupied by a
half dozen girls, who take turns at
cooking and doing their own house
work. Twice a week they get dinner
out so that the burden of cooking and
washing does not become drudgery.
But for this the very incest execu-
tive ability is required and where one
party of girl bachelors succeed five go
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Under. stranded on thA shoals Of dis
content and domestic uhevenness.
A very wise writer redently said that
girl bachelors failed in New York be-
cause they came here strangers and ex-
pected to live like friends, but the SEN
sible girl bachelor must realize that in
coming to a strange city she must pay
for everything she receives. It will be
strictly pay and take with her, and she
will need three times the sum upon
which she has calculated at home. One
friendly stitch means so many cents
she lived at home barely sufices her if
she must pay for everything.
The girl bachelors outfit when she
comes to Gotham should be, if she can
get them, three good tweed or cloth
dress and three pretty silk waists. She
should have an enveloping cape and a
warm coat and two substantial hats.
With these packed in her modest little
trunk and grip" for emergencies,
she can face New York City pretty Sc
cure in livelihood, providing that she
can 90 something"
The girl bachelors who have made
great successes say that they have done
SO by pleading their own merits and
not by asking pity, sympathy or char
ity. They have come to great town.
saying Il can do that work better for
you than you are now getting it done
and cheaper. Try me-" That is the
beginning of success. they say.
Many of Gotham's girl bachelors are
on the path to riches. They have
businesses of their own, which they
can leave in summer. One rather IA
nous one owns hair store, which she
deserts in the summer while she sings
in suburban choir, thus earning her
vacation. She provides herself with
every luxury, and says she will be the
first new woman of 1900 to be a self
made millionaire.
New York holds out it's hand to the
girl bachelor and only begs her to come
and try. Gothamites expect her, and
every place of business from Harlem to
the Battery is on the lookout, for her
at this time Of year.
HELEN WARD.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26
y|EN lORE
BACHELOR GIRLS.
They Come from Everywhere and Are
Getting Rich in Purse
And Independence - Hidden from
Friends--T They Select Business or
the Professions end Put in Ten
Months OF Hard Word Streets
Filled With Newcomers.

New York, September "a. = Other
cities have their boasts, but New York
is celebrated for its bachelor girls.
They come to town the last of Sep
TENDER and for month they are busy
settling down.
The bachelor girl comes from all
over, and after she has spent her sum-
mer at home she gets back to the me-
tropolis, where no one knows her and
where she can work to her hearts con-
tent, ready to put in busy winter. 1t
would almost be safe to say that fifth
OF New York's winter population con-
sists of girl bachelors. Girl bachelors
of Gotham" they are called, and their
work comprises everything from stock
ing darning to intricate designing.
The work which the girl bachelor is
supposed to do is professional work
She comes to New York to paint, to
study music, to write, to design and to
swing into law, medicine and even the
ministry, but as a matter of fact COM
paratively few girl bachelors choose
these beaten tracks but prefer to branch
out for themselves into more open
fields of usefulness.
The typical girl bachelor is extremely
well dressed. She earns her money, Of
course, but she knows how to spend it
to adval tage, which The home girl can
not Always claim, and she lives well.
81 bows how and what to eat, and
TO say and when to say it. She
is always delightfully."- at home. and she
presents various other charming ear
marks, by which you soon learn to
know her.
1t was claimed last year, in the
haunts of girl bachelordom, that the
greatest successes had been made by
young women who had gone into beat
en- tracks and who had worked up old
things, carrying new methods into
them. One girl bachelor made a sue
cess as hotel keeper. She hired lit
tie road house on bicycle path and
there furnished little suppers to Cyl
clists. Her few well furnished rooms
were leased all the season to tenthusi-
asts who could not bear to get too for
away from the bicycle roads. She
made money" and will take the hotel
another year.
A favorite Occur Ation with the girl
bachelor in NJ Iork-with little
capitals ing of candy
store. how ito make her
Wost ionss' and after a
Cheap capdies, her
gets these from
Use, and in return
"a ITO use their
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26
CONSISTENT SUGGESTION,

"They ought to change the name of
that club of yours" said Mr.. BIBLES
wife at the breakfast table.
''In what way"
"They ought to call it the Klon-
dixie"
Il must say that 1 don't see why
"For the reason that when a man
starts out to go there there's no tell
ing when he'll get home again.
Washington Star.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26
NEW VOCATION.

Iir'uie Farmerboy-Dad, I'm going
into the city an git job.
The old man-Waal, what would you
dew in the city?
Jimmie-O, there's lots o. them roof
gardens I've heern tell on Guess I
might git sumthin' tew dew weedin'
out some of them.-Detroit Free Press.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26

The Sunday school class was singing
II want to be an angel"
why don't you sing louder, Bobby -
asked the teacher.
I'm singing as loud as / feel" ex-
planned Bobby.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26

Her father is not what you would
call well-read man." said one long
haired poet to another. NO.. His
library consists Of only two books, but
they SUFFICE
What are they?"
"Bank book and check book
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'BROOMSHCkS
FOR NEST POINT.
Members ". c. T. o. Think They
Would Advance the Spirit Of Peace.
Nobody Wants War-A Peaceful
Spirit Would 9 Fostered, and in
War Guns Gould Be Substituted.
Some Sensible Views Advanced.

Lincoln, Neb., September %. = A
great deal of excitement has been
aroused in military circles by the re-
cent efforts of the Women's Christian
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ONE REMOVE BACK,

Old gent-So your are in love with
that actress, Ell?
Youth-Yes, father; but don't tell
me that you were too, at my age.
Old gent-No, my son, wasn't. I'll
tell you why. Your dear departed
grandfather was, and he warned me in
tinle.-New York World.
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TIE AMERICAN
EAGLE MUST GO.
Benjamin Franklin Was Opposed ID
His Adoption in the First Place
As tho National Emblem-Now =
Public Danger-Within a Month
Children Have Been Attacked.
Dogs Carried OF and Poultry
Stolen-Uncle Sam May Offer a
Bounty.

1t is just one hundred and twenty
years since Benjamin Franklin ex-
pressed his regret that the eagle had
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26

been seen on this subject, and her own
private view OF the matter is awaited
with a great deal of interest.
FRANK HARRIS.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
Russia's Rig Ditch.

Russia proposes ~ connect by canal
the Black aud Baltic seas, the big ditch
which is to carry the largest battleships,
being l 200 miles long, 213 feet wide at
the sureace and 115 at the base. and 2S
feet deep, and connecting Riga on the
Baltic with Cherson on the Dneiper, near
the Black sea. The canal will run from
Riga into the river Dvina which will be
used to Dvinaburg, whence the canal
will be cut to Sepel, and the Beresina
and Dneiper Rivers utilized from thence
to Cherson, and it is proposed also to
cover all the river regions with such a
network of canals as will aid greatly in
developing the surrounding country
The steamship voyage between the two
seas will be reduced from II to 6 DAYS,
as travel will go on night and day at
permitted speed of Z miles an hour
The estimated cost is S95, 900, 600. which
will fall far short of the actuality, and
Germany sees in the work not only
cheaper food but new demand for her
iron and steel products
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
Romance of The kiOndike.

Miami, 1. T., July % When the
steamer P'rilq-d brought the news of
the rich ia di-r Iveries in Alaska, her
mails ~-rtti.:ed e. letter which delighted
Iola Tv wee ~ Italian maiden, living
IN ih. 1, 81 - nation. Some years
agr Wi I'm : vprs was nOn-commis
stoned 'Ih,. -. the regular army. sta
Toned - r II Gibson. Inoia's father
was post suti~r She fell in love with
Sewers, aud 'lev ran away. Soon af-
ter SDwers Il sc.ted his love and fled to
Alaska
The Portland brought letter from
Sewers. in which he SAYS that he has
struck it rich on the kbndike and in
tends to return TO America in the spring
and claim Iuola Twowee as his wife.
Sewers says the banks of the Yukon
River are strewn with the corpses of un-
fortunates who entered the country un
prepared to face the terrible cold which
sets in at the beginning of September.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
Five Persons Drowned.

Boston, Mass, July 2S.-The Allan
line steamer Scandinavian arrived this
afternoon from Glasgow, aud brought
With her the four survivors of the crew
ST the British barkantine Florence, Cap
tain Henry Olson, which sunk in a col
lisiOn with the Scandinavian last Satur-
day while dense fog twenty miles south
Of Cape Race. Four members of the
crew were drowned, together with the
wife of Captain Olson. The Florence
was bound from Sydney to ST. Johns,
\. +, with cargo of coal The men
lost their lives weae: Noah Morris.
cook, aged 81 years; William YsbsIey,
sley, awed % years, a nephew of the
captains wife; James Norman, seaman,
aged y years, and William Frye, sea
man, aged SO years. of Poole, England
The former three were from St. Johns.
y. F.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30

NoRTH CAROLINA sets her convicts at
the work of road building, and the ex-
pertinent is successful from all points of
view, says the New York Tribune. The
prisoners do good work, keep healthy.
show no repugnance to the occupation.
aud do not try to get away. 1t costs six
cents less day to feed them while en-
gagged IN outdoor work than when they
are IN the prison. 1t is announced Off
cIIlly that they are more efficient than
hired workmen. Privileges are accorded
them for good conduct. In some eases
they are allowed to stay at their homes
from Saturday night till Monday. So
far not one OF them has violated his par
ole by trying to get away. The north
Carolina experiment is a valuable
and interesting object lesson, and its
success is likely to lead to its application
elsewhere,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
Coal Nine fight.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 26 "A desperate
fight in coal mine is one of the SEN
sational scenes connected with an arrest
made here last night. Constable George
Schmatzineta returned from Unity with
the notorious Primo Caleffi on charge
of attempting to commit a felony.
The accused is interpreter at the coal
mines and leader of an Italian COLONY.
He was hiding in the mine. The con-
stable saw Mrs. Caleff taking her hus-
bands supper into the nina and follow
ed her. A fierce fight ensued by the
light of pit lamp.
While the men were struggling, Mrs
Gale fiji attacked the constable with a pick
and would have killed him had he not
succeeded in knocking her down. Sch
matz!neta also conquered Caleff and
got him out of the mine The prisoner
would not walk and had to be hauled To
the station.
Italians attempted to release the pris-
oner. The constable and the driver
Knocked them down with clubs as fast
as they came up. The constable saws
sam DE Armitt, superintendent of the
mine and brother of William De Armitt,
now figuring prominently in the big
coal strike, told Caleffi to resist arrest.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
told Nearer Home,

Sacramento, July % 1t will doubt
lie be of interest at the present time,
when people are becoming excited over
the stories of the great gold discoveries
IN Alaska, to know that rich strikes are
still being made IN the mining district
of California, as private advices were re-
celved here to-day by a mine owner that
a marvelously rich strike mad been mede
near Placerville.
Z. Z Cohn, merchant at Folsom.
writes that there were exhibited in his
store yesterday 81 5-S ounces of gold
which were obtained from a claim six
miles from that town in three hours by
one man. Mr.. Cohn says the amount
ot earth received, from which this
amount of gold was obtained, was
brought to the surface in a coal oil can
and one ordinary wooden bucket.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
copper In York County.

York, Pa, July 23.-VaIuable sill
yer and copper discoveries in the
south Mountains, in which York coun-
ty capitalists are interested, were made
public IN York to-day. The discoveries
were made by a Colorado miner of ex-
perlence and the yield of copper is said
to be unusually rich.
congressman Sulzer, of New York.
Edison and other well-known peopIe
have been interested in the find and 9
year leases have been secured on prouer
ties on which rich output is promised
IL Is the intention of those interested to
organize stock companies and work the
mineral lands. A representative of the
projectors who visited Edison saws the
wizard will furnish process which will
MAKE the copper mining, which is nat
urally so, particularly profitable.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30

\ HARRISBURG dispatch of Wednes
day last, says: Representative Campbell
Of Westmoreland county, who served on
the committee which inquired into the
industrial condition of the anthracite
mines of the state, was here TODAY. to
tell the governor what he knew of the
bill Of Sl17 which the state was asked to
pay TO him as a member of the commit
tee. Owing to the illness of the govern
or Mr.. Campbell did not see him. but he
made public the knowledge he had as to
how the amount came to be charged
He said that chairman Meredith and the
sergeant-at-arms OF the senate had orig
naliy placed his claim at S7O9. which he
supposed was made up OF mileage. II
was subsequently reduced to SI77
which Mr.. Campbell says is entirely too
high, as ne expended only about SO
while serving the state on the committee
He further declared that he had no part
in making up the bill. Mr.. Campbell il
'ne OF the members who on the floor of |
he house r5pudiated the bill which had |
been fixed up for him.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
Hanged With a Hawser

James b Campbell, ex City Clerk of
Chester' Pa, was killed Sunday by a
most peculiar accident He was one of
party standing on the government pier
awaiting the Wilmington del. y pas
senger steamboat. A steam tug which
was lying at the pier with hawser at
tached to post began to move and the
na"ser' becoming taunt, slipped over
the top OF the post, and. whirling rapid.
through the air, caught Campbell un-
deI the chin. The rope encircled itself
tightly about his neck, lifted the unfor-
Lunate man ten feet in the air, and then
dropped him to the pier. His neck wos
broken and he was found to be dead
~hen the horror stricken spectators ran
to assist him.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
Women Prisoners Sentenced.

Budapest, July % The trial of 10
women and two men charged with whole
sale poisoning was concluded here to-
day, and sentences were pronounced
upon SIX. -Four were condemned to
death, one to penal servitude for life and
and one to six years Imprisonment. OF
those sentenced to death, one was found
guilty of having caused the death of four
persons by administering poison, an
other was convicted of having poisoned
two persons, the third of having poison
ed one, and the charge of murder was
proven against the fourth. The victims
were 10 most cases married men who
were killed by their wives, the motive
being desire to obtain insurance mon
ey An alleged midwife named Marie
lager supplied the other female prison
ers with the poison used by them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
A GOVERNMENT PLANT
Shipbuilders Expected to De-
cline to Furnish Armor.
LONG MAY SOON TAKE ACTION.
A Board of Omcers Likely to he APP
pointed tn Frame Plan For Gov
ernment Factory-One ShidbuiIdinE
Firm Has Already Refused

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Tne armor
producing companies having declined
to furnish the navy department the
armor needed for the three battleshlpS
now building at the price of $500 per
ton. fixed by congress, Secretary Long
has taken the second step in the hne
marked out by congress and has called
upon the ship building companies them
selves to submit propositions for pro-
curing and fitting the armor. One of
them, the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco, has already responded, de-
clining. like the armOr companies, the
Department. invitation.
There is little doubt that the others
will make like answer, although
there Is small chance that some OF the
shipbuilders may combine to secure the
control of one of the plants which the
armor makers profess their readiness to
sell and turn out the armOr they need
for the ships in their hands. II, how
ever. as is expected all the shipbuilderS'
replies are unfavorable. Secretary Long
will proceed one step further and ap-
point board of officers 10 carry out
the direction of congress and frame a
plan for the establishment of Il gov
ernment armor plant.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30
Indians and whites Fight.

Salt Lake, Utah, July 23.-Tbere &c
trouble again among the Uncompahgre
Indians. They have left the reservat;on
In large numbers and are slaughterinp
deer by the wholesale for the hides Fif9
~ carcasses were found in one place and
numerous others are strewu ali over ,ba
county. Indian Agent Beck sent ont a
force to capture and bring back to the
reservation the offenders. A hand Of
ABOUT twenty was encountered. II offer
eu resistance and In the fight an Indian
anu "hlte man are reported killed and
others wounded. Authentic news is
nard 10 obtain. Serious trouble is looked
for. oAeu
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30

AMONG the decisions handed down by
the superior court at Pittsburg on Satur-
day was that in the suit of Edgar F.
Showalter against the Cumberland and
summit Coal and coke company, appeal
ed from the common pleas court of
Somerset county, IN which the lower
court Is reversed. The defendants in
the lower court lost the suit, which Is
an action to recover $685. for wages.
despite the fact that the plaintiff had
procured goods at the company's store
Ihe plaintiff worked for the coal com
pany for thirteen months, and was paid
partially by money and the rest bv
goods. He sought to recover the
amount that was paid by goods. less
S57-1S, allowed for powder, etc, claim
ing that under the act of May 20, 1881.
be was entitled to recover his earnings
in lawful money.
Judge Wickham, who made the de-
clsIon, says the act of May 20, 1891, so
far as 1t applies to this case, is clearly
unconstitutional, and he cites the case
OF Goodcharles VS.. Wigeman, decided bv
the supreme court in 1896. in which the
court said: 1.-The act is an infrinpe-
ment alike of the right of the empIover
and the emDIoye; more than this. it is
an insulting attempt to put the laborer
under a legislative intelage, which is not
only degrading to his manhood, but
subversive of his rights as citizen of
the United States " In Showalter's
case 1t was sufficiently shown, the court
held, that the understanding between
the plaintiff and the defendant was that
the goods furnished him were on account
of his wages.
BY reason of the present miners strike
the opinion Is made more important.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30

PROSPERITY seems assured to the farm
els OF Southern Pennsylvania at last,
for they are about finishing up one of
the greatest harvests that section has
seen for yeaEs. Never has the Cumber-
land Valley yielded such a large crop
OF hay and grain as this season, all of
which has been harvested in prime con
dIlion- The price of hay Is low com
pared with some years. Notwithstand-
ing the large crop of wheat the price has
steadily advanced.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-07-30

Tie fact cannot be lost sight of that
the Republican party is mainly respon
slble for the plight of LIS, 600, striking
m liners. They, ike thousands of work
Ingmen in other lines of labor, were told
last year by the prosperity promisers that
II they voted for Mckinley their wages
would be raised right away They were
lowered instead. Now they have peace
fully decided that it is better to starve
idle than to starve working. The coun-
try will hold the Republican party re-
sponsible for their deplorable state and
the consequences it may entail.