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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12
The Mythology of Peas.

There are curious myths regarding
our common, little, everyday green
pea. By some peasants of Europe the
plant is in some way related to
celestial fire. Peas are held sacred to
Thor, and in Berlin are a standing
dish on Thor's day. It is also rec
omended that the children with the
measles should be washed in water in
which peas have been boiled. The
use of peas concerning love matters is
accounted for by the fact that they are
sacred to the patron OF marriage. In
Bohemia girls go into fields of peas.
nnd make II garland of different COL
ored flowers; this tLey lie on and in the.
night hear a voice from underground
which tells them what kind Of a
husband they will have.
In England, when the housemaid
shells peas, if she chances to find a
pod containing nine peas, she
hangs it over the kitchen door.
and the first rustic who comes
in will be her husband, or at
least her sweetheart. A Cumbrian
girl, when her lover proves unfaithful,
is, by way of consolation, rubbed with
pea straw by neighboring lads, and
when q Cumbrian youth loses his
sweetheart, the same comfort is ad-
ministered to him by the lasses of the
village. Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

parentage is reversed the progeny is
useless. Major Leonard, who notes
this belief of the camel breeders,
states that many years ago General
Harlan marched 1000 Bactriap camels
400 miles, crossed the Indian Caucasus
IN ice and snow, and lost only one
animal, and that by an accident.
The strongest proof that this is a
beast made to endure not heat but
cold, not the hot sands but the frozen
SHOWS, is the method of management
adopted by the Mongol owners OF the
herds. Nothing will induce an ex-
perienced Mongol to undertake q
Journey on camels in the hot season, :"
writes Prejvalski. But from the end
OF September throughout the winter
they GROSS deep snow. climb noun
ta;rs and perform services unequaled
by any other animal. They carry tea
chests weighing from four to five hun
dredweight, can scale passes $4,000
feet above the sea level-Prejvalski'
camels crossed eight of these in Jour-
ney of 660 miles-and are driven in
carts and ridden. In summer they
are watered every forty eight hours,
in winter they can do without water
for eight days. They are not only
hardy but long-lived. AMongol cam
ell begins to earn his living at four
years old, and will carry the same
burden until from twenty-five to
thirty. Some live to be useful for
some years beyond this limit. In the
tea caravans from Kalgan the camels
make two journeys each winter and
earn $35 per camel. AS most of their
food is picked up en- route, this leaves
a good profit to the Mongol owners.
Though these camels are owned in
hundreds of thousands by the tribes
of Central Asia, and are constantly in
movement by the caravan routes, the
direction of them is almost always
from east to west or west to east, and
the caravans do not enter China be-
yond the limits of the steppe. This
accounts for their being out of touch
with all English trade and travel, and
renders it difficult to understand
whence Mr.. Hagenbeck can get as
many as he pleases. The answer is
at Tiflis. This is the terminus of the
caravan route and the present western
limit of the wanderings of the Bactri-
an camel. There they come in thou.
sands every year. arriving in the depth
of winter and leaving before the SHOWS
melt on the southern slope of Cauca.
sus. There, after the caravans have
unloaded, the camels can be bought
cheap, and be shipped from the Black
Sea coast, to which they are brought
either by rail or road.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

Behind oil this drama stand the
melancholy, tragic figures of the house
OF Hapsburg. 1t is said that the
Hapsburgs regard the United States
with superstitious feelings. The
revolution that sent the daughter of
Maria Theresa to her death in France
was inspired in part by the earlier up
rising in America. The Monroe doc
trine wns blow at the holy alliance,
in which Austria led.
Maximillian died in Mexico because
Of American intervention, and now the
Queen Regent of Spain, daughter of
the Hapsburgs, finds the possessions
of her son threatened by this same re-
public. The Queen Regent is q
pathetic figure. Not Spanish in race
OF breeding, she finds thrown upon
herself the enormous burden of saving
for her son his crown in days when
Spain is distracted by the gravest
troubles. s.-Springfeld Mass Repub-
licau.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

Sir William Van Horne, President
of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, csti-
mates that from 5000, 900, 900 to $780,
900, 200 will be taken into tho Klon-
dixie country during the present year,
and it is problem how much of it will
be brought out. He bases this esti-
mate upon the expectation that from
2Oo,00 to 800, 900 people will start for
the gold regions, and that each of them
will take an average of $1,000. which
is very moderate and probably less
than the amount. Fortytwo steamers
and twenty four sailing craft are now
engaged between Puget sound and
Alaska, and twelve British steamers
and several schooners sail regularly
from Vancouver. Every ship is loaded
to the limit of safety with freight and
passengers, and the congestion at all
of the ports of embarkation is increas-
ing instead OF being relieved.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

The next war will be war of chem
istry, mathematics and electricity, de-
clares the Chicago Record. The war
between Japan and China is the only
one that was ever fought upon scien-
tific principles, but it was hardly
fair test, because the japanese met
with no resistance. They maneuvered
their armies and their fleets according
to rules laid down by the authorities
on warfare, and it was possible for
them to do so, because the enemy
never interfered with their calcula-
tions. At the naval school at New
port, R. l., the students play games
of war, in which problems are worked
out with toy ships and guns and SOL
diers on the theory that God is on
the side of the heaviest artillery and
that skill is superior to force. Here
after in war there will be no scenes of
gallautry such as have made heroes in
the past. The hero of the future is
man who can direct a torpedo with
the greatest accuracy, or land shell
at certain spot in the enemy's fleet
by tho aid of range-fnder and
mathematical calculation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12
THE FIELDS OF CLOVER,

Oh, for one more happy day,
To run and romp and play,
Out in the fields, where over and over
could roll once more in the fragrant
clover!
For never was Joy
Like being q boy,
Out in the fields of clover.
oh, for one more barefoot run,
After the long hot day is done.
Down In the fields of fragrant clover.
While by my side my old dog Rover
Runs after the cows
Who stop to browse,
Out in the fields of cloverl
Oh, for one more vigorous swim
In the deep old pool where the light Is
dim.
Where down l plunge, over and over,
And when ! come up smell of clover,
As the wind blows fresh,
On my naked flesh,
Out from the fields of cloverl
Oh, for one more rest at night
With my heart as free and light
As in the days now long passed over
When l played in the fields of fragrant
clover;
For never was joy
Like being boy,
Out in the fields of cloverl
Everywhere.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

The Providence Journal observes:
All this war talk in various parts of the
world serves to remind US how import
ant part coal plays in these days in
determining the question of hostilities
or peace. 1t is possible, for example,
that Great Britain may carry her point
in Asia by the simple device of MAX
ing war impossible through the ac-
QUESTION of all the available supplies
of coal. She is now reported to be buy
Ing up all the coal in that region ex-
cept that controlled by Japan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

philus-Mrs. Fred Warrington, fast
and sure"
''I'm astonished and dumbfounded,
andss delighted, my dear. However
did you do it, Fred?"
But before Fred could make the ex-
planation he deemed incumbent a SER
want announced lady, who came
came sweeping il in garments of deep
purple velvet-a girl with starry eyes
and hair as golden as sunshine.
Miss Beatrice Lovett!" said the
servant.
And then-well, the 5scene is indes-
cribable, but with two lovely women
beseeching him to forgive, and the
pansy-purple eyes making him feel
the queerest around his heart he ever
had felt, somehow-he ..never knew
how-Theophilus Templeton simmered
quietly down, and accepted the situa-
tion with the best grace at his COM
mand until six months afterward,
when he triumphantly announced to
his nephew that the luckiest day of
his life had been when he mistook
Rossie for Miss Lovett.
"For since you wouldn't have her
for your wife you shall have her for
your aunt, and help yourself if you
can!"
But as no one was at all anxious to
help it, Mr.. Templeton married his
beautiful young wife, and it is ques-
tion who of the quartet is the happi-
est.-Spare Moments.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12
Children in War Times.

OF the many forms of suffering that
the war in Cuba is responsible for,
none IS so pitiable as that of which
children are victims. In Spanish
households the world over, whether in
the mother country or the new gov
ernments formed from her colonies,
the place for each child in the family
is that of sovereign. Children are
as beloved and as longed for and cher
ished as ever they were in the camps
of Israel. The neglect that the little
Cubans have had to endure is there
fore q sure sign of the awful suffering
which attacks the whole island. That
they have been sacrificed is only too
true. Even children too small to be
objects of suspicion have been wan
tonly ill-used, if not killed outright,
and those old enough to carry mes
sages have been, in some cases, treat
ed like grown men, and dealt with Just
rs severely. Jose Priest, lad of fif-
teen, died from wounds received when
he was carrying bullets and bread to
his father in the insurgent camps, and
Hueda Hernandez, who was only
eleven, was arrested and thrown into
prison because of the package she was.
found to be conveying to the enemy,
although she had carried it only as q,
favor, and upon the battlefield little
ones have loaded muskets, brought
water, helped the wounded aud yield
ed up their own lives for "Cuba libre."
New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12
socratic Methods Made Absurd.

Mr., Bradlaugh, the well-known in
fidel, was once engaged in q discus
sion with a dissenting minister.
Bradlaugh insisted that the minister
should answer question by simple
Eyes" or no." without any circum.
locution, asserting that every question
could be replied TO in that manner.
The reverend gentleman rose, and in
q quiet mannersaid: "Mr. .Bradlaugh,
will you allow me to ask you a ques.
ton on those terms?" "Certainly, t"
said Bradlaugh. ''Then, may 1 ask,
have you given up beating your wife?"
This was q poser, for if answered by
"Yes," it would imply that he had
previously beaten her, and by mo,
that he continued to do so.-Argo.
nsut
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

Mr.. MacAleese's bill, recently in
troduced into the British Parliament,
to enable persons of Irish birth or e1-
traction to use the prefix 80" or
''Mac" before their names, is directed
against the statutes of remote days,
passed with the object of removing
from Ireland everything distinctively
Irish, and forbidding the use of these
Prefxes. The result has been that
many Irish names have been docked
of their prefix, and as the House of
Commons seems disposed to take
good-humored view of the question
these cherished PARTICLES will, no doubt,
be restored to their owners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

1t is interesting to the Chicago
Times Herald to observe that the
United States has fought five wars in
the 122 years since the declaration an
nounced the birth of our nation. In
each one We have triumphed. In that
period England has fought six wars
not including conflicts with savages in
India and in Africa. And she has lost
two-both to America. France has
engaged in six, and has lost two-one
with the allied powers and one with
Germany. Prussia in the same period
has lost two out of five wars. Austria
has lost three ont of five. Russia has
lost two and has gained two. Spain
has lost every war she has undertaken
in that period-unless her ten years
war with Cuba may be called victorious
The United States has declared war
but once-that instance being in 1912,
and after such series of insults and
injuries as no nation would now dream
of inficting. But there has never been
n day when declaration of war from
another nation has found us unpre-
pared. And every enemy which has
first attacked US has been first to sue
for peace.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12
CURIOUS FACTS.


London was the first city to uss
coal.
Soap was first manufactured in
Britain in 1924.
A prince of Wales is of age from
his birth, and q chair is placed for
him on the right OF the throne in tie
] House Of Lords.
At the celebration CT the fiftieth an
niversary OF the marriage of St.
Louis Mo- couple it was noted that
there had not been death in the
family in forty-fve years.
A python that had been in the 70
illogical Gardens of London since
1876 died not long ago. 1t measured
just twenty feet, and used to make its
meals off four or five ducks.
Cats can swim if they only care to
exert themselves sufficiently. The
ancient Egyptians used to fish with
them on the Nile, according to the
representations on walls and so forth
that have cone down to us.
Victor Bailliot, who fought at
Waterloo and was subsequently dis
charged from the French army at the
age OF twenty-five years as q consump-
tive, died recently at La Rochc-sur-
Yon, aged 105 years and ten months.
Three travelled Welshmen gave q,
horsefesh banquet at Rhondda Val
ley hotel recently, to which they in
vited eighty-four persons. Only
seven, however, presented themselves
to feast on ''sirloin Of four -year-old
horse"
The only Englishman who ever
ruled as Pope was Nicholas Break
spear, who was born about the year
HOO at Langley, near st. Albans. He
was unanimously selected for the
papal chair in November, 1154, and
bore the title of Adrian ".
The Egyptian women wore bangle
hoops of gold in their ears, which
were regarded as the wearer's choicest
possessions, and were parted from
only under direst stress. The golden
calf was supposed to have been made
entirely from tho earrings of the peo-
pie.
The names of no fewer than 105
battles ere emblezoned on the banners
Of the various regiments which form
the British army. But many actions
of great Importance, both as regards.
military results and the roll of killed
and wounded, are not so coInmem-
Grated.
A curious industry in some of the
provinces of China is the manufacture
of mock money for Offering to the
dead. The pieces are only half the
size of the real coins, but the.
dead are supposed not to know the
difference. Tho dummy coins are
made out OF tin, hammered to the
thinness of paper, and stamped out to
the size required.
The remains OF Lon j. Williams, O
member OF Jesse James gang, have
jus. been discovered in the Bad
Lands. where he starved to death
many years ago after his escape from
the authorities at Durand, Mich. His
brother Ed, who was under arrest at
the time, was lynched, and the Cor
oner's jury returned the verdict:
eve, the jury, find that Ed Williams
died from fall down the Court House
steps,"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

The organization of a naval reserve
ought to be one of the results of the
present excitement. This would ena-
BILE the Navy in war time to draw upon
the merchant marine for trained sea-
men and even for educated officers. It
might be possible also to incorporate
the well-drilled young men of the naval
militia in such body.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12

Complaint is made that the styles OF
goods offered to the clothiers for their
next falls trade do not show enough
novelty. The Textile Manufacturers
Journal says that the same fault has
been found in dress goods, and de.
clares that "buyers cannot be fooled"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-12
MR.. TEALPLETON'S
CHOICE.
BY PAULINE MONTAGUE.
By PAULINE MONTAGUE.

r. THEOPHIL-
us Tenn pl e ton
leaned b O C K
very comfort
ably in his Grim
son lea tn er,
brass-nail stud
d d library
oh air reetad bis
The record-union., 1898-01-28
WRONG MAN CONVICTED.
Alexandra Cimerel1o Confesses to
Numbering Natalie Brugno.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-AlexaEdo CT
merello, who was brought here from
Baltimore yesterday afternoon, confess
ing that he had murdered Natalie BruS-
no, for which crime Angelo Carboni is
now in Sing Sing under sentence Of
death. to-day made a detailed confess
sion. This is what Cimerello said:
"Brugno and l for some time had an
i'll feeling between us, caused by Brug-
nc paying attention to my wife. In
July | had some trouble with him, and
was asked to get warrant for his ar
rest. l then said: Leave it to me.
and l viii kill him. On Sunday, Sep
tember 11th, saw my cousin Carboni
on Franklin street. He was down in
the street, with Brugno standing over
him in a striking attitude. l then
said: Look at the assassin. After
he has run away with my wife, he How
wants to kill my cousin l ran up,
my cousin had gone to the other side
of the street. | stabbed Brugno twice
in the side. The next day / went 70
Philadelphia, and later to Baltimore.
was in hiding when l was arrested"
The record-union., 1898-01-28
SENATOR LINDSAY
Denounced by Members of the
Kentucky Legislature.

LOUISVILLE (Ky.). Jan. PA spec
ial to the Post from Frankfort, KY
says:
After a heated debate to-day, tbs
Lower House of the Kentucky Lesisla-
ture adopted a substitute resolution Of
fered by Representative Nelson OF
Harding. calling on United States Sen
ator Lindsay to resign, if he cannot
support the Democratic platform.
During the debate such words o.
party traitor" ''recreant to his trust
and gold bug were freely used.
Representative Desha, a silver Dem
ocrat from Harrison County, openly
denounced Senator Lindsay as trait
or to his party, and called upon him Il
return home and face an outraged con-
stituency.
Others who made hot speeches along
this line were Representatives TrimDie
Nelson, Petty Orr and Hickman.
The resolution was adopted by a viva
Voce vote.
On motion of Representative Pulliam
it was declared in order that the orig
iEal resolution introduced by Represen-
tative Saunders of Union, be passed.
The Senate resolution was then
passed by vote of 81 to 50. Messls
Orr, Nelson, Lackey, Pulliam, Clinton
and Mount making hot speeches de-
nouncing the course of Senator Lind
say. Messrs. Bradbury, Cooke, Hobbs
Letterlee and MoqUet, Democrats, vot-
ed against the resolution, saying thai
they did so in the interest of conserva-
tism, and that consideration of the res
olution was mere waste of time
The record-union., 1898-01-28
1T LOOKED LIKE TOM.
And the Cats Close Resemblance
Cost Toms Slayer $50.

The swinging doors of the most prom
inent Herald Square resort were pushed
open. and, with unsteady gait, my
friend, the Prominent Politician, came
in.
He hung in the wind for brief space
of time, as though debating some ques-
ton IN his mind. Then he Strengthened
up. patted his breast. the problem evil
IDENTIFY solved and. muttering, Might
as well go home,' started for the ele-
waited station.
Spying me, he stopped and beckoned
me 10 him. and. leaning over, whisp-
cred confidentially:
Say, do you know what's the mat
ter with me? I'm the biggest fool in
New York. Lemme tell you how 1T IS
My wife had a cat. and / hated him
all knew.
The record-union., 1898-01-28
BURIED IN the POTTER'S FIELD.
EDWARD OHRENSTICH, HEIR
TO A LARGE FORTUNE.
Died a Maniac's Death, Said to be
the Result of His Wife's
Inidelity.

CHICAGO. Jan. 21.-Edward w. OH
renstich, heir to one million norlns
(S400 000) in Buda Pest, Hungary, lies
in a pauper's grave in the potter's Held.
While agents and lawyers were
searching the world over for one of the
heirs to the millions of Buda Pests
greatest banker, the object of their
quest occupied a maniac's cell in the
County Asylum. Ohrenstich died under
his right name, but with pauper's
number opposite it on the books of The
asylum.
A lette, was received yesterday by
Chief of Detectives Colleran requesting
him to look for Ohrenstich. The let
ter came from Buda Pest and said that
a fortune awaited Ohrenstich, as his
father had died recently. To-day A.
torney y J. Waidman called at de-
tective headquarters and told the story
of Ohrenstich's fate. According 20
Waldman who claims to be an old
school mate of Ohrenstich's, the latter
died maniac's death, the result of his
wife's alleged infidelity
Mrs Edward w. Ohrenstich was con-
sdered one of the most beautiful wo-
men in Austro- Hungary, where sne
married the son of the banker. She
reigned belle of society in that city un-
til rumors of her infidelity became cur
rent. She is now, says Waldman, liv-
ing as the wife of French nobleman,
an officer in the French army.
When young Ohrenstich learned the
state of affairs he parted from his wife,
and shortly after came to America, ar
irving in New York in October, 1876.
He secured employment with a. Ii.
Hoerner, a New York broker, and came
to Chicago as his agent He soon after
called on Waldman, who noticed that
Ohrenstich was not in his right mind.
Ohrenstich's peculiar actions attracted
considerable attention at the Great
Northern Hotel, where ne was stopping,
and ne was finally arrested and sent
TO the House of Correction on a charge
of disorderly conduct, where he remain
ed for thirty three days, and Waldman
lost sight of him.
Shortly after Ohrenstich was dis
charged he was again arrested, and this
time sent to the detention hospital. On
May 20, 1897, he was declared insane,
and committed to Dunning. He scarcely
could be prevailed upon to eat, and on
November 18th he died. By a coinci-
dence OhrenStich's father died the day
his son was committed to the asylum.
Up to the time of his commitment,
Ohrenstich is said to have correspond
ed regularly with his relatives, but his
letters suddenly ceased, and all trace
of him was lost until recently.
Ohrenstich, ST., was the owner of the
largest bank in Buda Pest. and was
worth 100000 florins when he died.
In his will he left l 1,000, 600 to his son,
Edward w. Ohrenstich. He left a
widow and three other children.
The record-union., 1898-01-28
AN ACCIDENT AT NEW YORK
Will Probably Result in the Death
of Three Men.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-An accident
occurred to-day on a new twelvestory
building in course of construction on
Broadway, which will probably result
in the death of three men.
The injured are: George Mcnamara
and John Hammond, plasterers, and
Michael Seaman, a laborer
Seaman was on the fifth floor super
intending the building of a scaffold
over an elevator shaft. He lost his bal
ance and fell down the shaft On the
fourth floor Mcnamara and Hammond
were standing on a slim scaffold al
ready erected over the elevator shaft.
Seaman, who weighs about 200 pounds,
carried the scaffold on the fourth floor
with him in his fall, and the three men
crashed down to the subcellar below
They were all internally injured, and
have slight chances of recovery.
The record-union., 1898-01-28

got scared, and, thinking to divert any
possible suspicion from myself, put an
advertisement in the paper Offering $50
reward for Toms return.
This made a big hit with the old
lady.
Next day about 100 cats were
brought to the house. AS l would let
the men III and tell my wife to go take
look at the cats. ! nearly laughed my
fool self TO death, thinking what cinch
/ had about that reward
Here my friend lapsed into melan-
choly thought. / stirred him UP by
asking him how it ended
How did it end? Suffering Moses.
man. My Wife identified one of those
damn cats as her Tom."-New York
Telegram.