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Brooklyn, recently. They were chap-
eroned by their parents, tall, thin,
sad-looking persons. The mother car-
ried an enormous bundle in her arms,
which later proved to be a mite of a
child, six months old and weighing
only 63 pounds.
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thousand years ago. From the Plains
of Apam and other pulque-producing
districts adjacent, over one hundred
Kler Hardie, the Labor Leadr, De-
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carloads of this alleged divine liquor
are rushed each day to the pulquerias
of the City of Mexico to satisfy the
thirst of the natives, who spefid a to-
tal of more than >10,000 a day for the
beverage.
Daily trips are necessary because
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pected that Kler Hardie would keep
silent at this juncture, and in the cur-
rent Issue of the Labor Leader he
joins in the attack on the king, and
says:
"The king casts in his lot with, reac-
tionary peers and rebellious Ulste
men. He joins his influence with the
forces which are working against and
seeking to destroy the commons and
FAMOUS OLD CHAPEL BRIDGE
Antiquity of Which thePeopte of Lu-
Antdern in switzerianid Are Ex-
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PVIOVLNATONALDRINKOfMD
ably the mate of the one I killed this
morning."
Sometimes people die from the bite
of a tarantula. No one ever forms the4
statement. He is not the pleasure-
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babies total time. In 24 hours it loses every trace
combined aze8, of its former divinity and becomes
sd starvine into a nauseating mess that smells to high
lu,
After all, he was just a typical offi-
cer of constabulary, Mrs. Adams adds.
These youngsters—they range in age
from twenty-two to thirty-two—are do- a
ing that sort of thing all the time, so' i
that peace has very largely fallen upon |
the Philippines. She found igorrotes
wearing wildcat skins about their
shoulders working out their road “
taxes. Thniche constables for that
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Hardly any pythons,' they said to
each other, ‘have come out of the jun-
gle this year.’"
tcerne, in switzerland, possesses
what is probably the most unique
taddse in the world, as well as one of
the greatest historic interest This
EAE known as tills Kapellbrucke, or
bridge." crosses the River
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it was constructed so long ago
skin into the cans and when they are
full he takes the mule and its burden
of aguamiel to the fermenting room.
There the honey-water 1s emptied
into vats. A portion of the sap has al-
ready been gathered and allowed to
ferment for about ten days. It is now
called iuadre-pulque.'and is used as a
yeast to hasten the fermentation of the
fresh sap.
.RA little of the mother-pulque is add-
ed to the sweet aguamiel. Fermenta-
tion begine almost Instantly and goes
on rapidly. In 24 hours the honey-wa-
ter le converted Into finished pulque,
ready for the market
The finished pulque is whitish in
color, but otherwise is unlike anything
else under the sun. It has a taste and
odor decidedly its 'own. The taste, to
the Americans, is indescribable, but
reminds one of spoiled buttermilk,
only sweeter. The odor is very much
like thst of ancient eggs.
The Mexicans claim that pulque is
good for the stomach, and they gulp
down great quantities with gusto.
Americans do not readily learn to like
it. By holding one’s nostrils very tight-
ly closed, ft is possible to get some
of the stuff down; but quite often,
when the nostrils are released, the
pulque comes back up.
The finished pulque is quickly run
Into large casks and loaded on to
trains. There are a number of long
trains, carrying nothing but pulque,
that wind their way out of the maguey
plantations ech morning and hasten
into the City of Mexico, where the
liquor is quickly transferred to the pul-
querias.
These pulquerias are not at all diffi-
cult to find. Over the front door there
is usually etrung a lot of varicolored
ttsse paper, reminding one of carni-
val days back in the states. Where the
tissue paper is missing, the odor of
the pulque serves as an unfalling
guide.
■ And, after all, pulque may be said to
be the drink of the masses. Its cheap-
ness makes it so. You can lean out of
the car window in almost any city or
village in central Mexico and buy a
drink of pulque for a penny. From
three to five cents will buy a quart.
The bottled pulque, which is said to be
really excellent and has occasionally
been indorsed by physicians, coats a
trifle more. F ■
At times the Mexican desires a
stronger drink than pulque. Then be
may drink tequila, also made from the
maguey, but of a different variety.
This is a fiery liquor that is distilled
from the roots of the plant. In the
state of Jalisco, on the slopes of the
mountain called El Cerro de Tequila,
half-year-old toddler of 172 pounds,
and a mere babe of two years, weigh-
ing 82 pounds. Sergeant McCormick
nearly fell off his chair.
The tall, tired man announced that
he was Marshall Tanner.
"This is my wife, Mary," he said,
adding with a-sweep of his arm, “and
this is the fat family.”
The woman wearily shifted the
bundle in her arms and sought to
have the sergeant test its welght, but
he dodged skillfully. She uncovered
the baby, saying its name was Doris
and that, although she only weighed
63 pounds now, she had every reason
to believe their daughter would grow
up to be a healthy woman.
"Food! food!" exclaimed the man.
the Adams street
The Lenharts demonstrated in the
court room that the battery was only
strong enough‘to startle the horse and
not injure it Recorder Stackhouse —.
could see no harm in the battery, hav 1 ,1
ing often himself used electricity, but
not for the same purpose, and he din
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nd of stx days, Euge
Adami KorknaMreHarrtet y^era races at Jesselton—the great
survey of the odd corners of the
world. She saw white rajahs, head
hunters, tigers, pythons and all the
picturesque items of life on the other
—a five-year-old child, tipping the
beam at 187 pounds; a three and one-
of the remaining stump is hollowed
out to form a basin as wide as a wash-
bowl and from one to two feet deep.
Into this basin flows the sap that na-
ture intended should give life 'and
beauty to the flowers.
The tlachlquero thrusts one end of
his gourd pipette into the liquid, now
called aguamiel, or honey-water. With
his mouth he draws on the other end
and the honey-water is sucked into the
gourd. Then it is emptied, into the
pigskin, which the harvester carries
slung across his shoulders.
Ths aguamiel is pleasantly sweet,
golden in color, and not disagreeable
to the smell. Two or three times a
day the liquid must be drawn off. The
average maguey will yield from ten to
fifteen pints daily for two or three
months; and then It dies.
From plant to plant the harvester
goes until the pigskin is filled. Then,
with much grunting, he shifts the
bulging pigskin to an easier position,
and, with the four pig-legs stuck out
in ludicrous positions, the Mexican
shuffles away to where his mule waits
with two stone jars or tin cane slung
across his back. He empties the pig-
Work in
as 1833, and for nearly 600 years has
formed the chief avenue of traffic
across the broad but sluggish stream.
In other days the bridge extended its
sigsag shape to nearly twice its pres-
ent length, and reached as far as the
hofkirche,cor cathedral, whence its
name,
in the center of this covered wooden
bridge stands the famous octagonal
"wasserthurm," or water tower, where
■In olden times the municipal treasure
was stored. For ages it was also
used as a prison, and among its dun-
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In Ecuador she learned that head
hunting is at an end, except when rep
resentatives of museums encourage
the savage—or nonsalt eating—natives
to acquire a stranger's head and then
reduce it to the else of an apple by a
secret process of their o.wn. In Para-
guay she found the vanished Arcadia.
"Years ago the Jesuits were expelled
from one district," said she, "but the
natives they taught are still Industri,-- --------------—
ous and well behaved. Their pro- FOUR BABIES WEIGH Y TON
Sclency in some arts is remarkable.
They were Ravages when the Jesuits
tarantula habit. In Harbin, Manchuria.#
It was extremely cold at the time of I
■her visit She remarked upon the i
heavy and valuable fur coats the pub- 1
11c coachmen wear. 1
"Almost every night" a police officer
told her, “some coachman is shot for I
his skins."
Which is a bright light upon condl- i
tione in Harbin. -She admired the I
tigers and elephants of the sultan of
Jahore and the jingling state in which I
be lives': But both I ng else on her tour I
appealed to her as do those beardless 1
college boys who are carrying law to I
the Philippines. ” <
"They are something between mag- I
istrates and crusaders. Their days are I
epics. And we never hear of them." 1
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Know you not that pulque •
Is a liquor divine.
And that angels in heaven ,
Prefer it to wine
O SING the Mexicans of
their national drink, a
beverage whose history
dates from the earliest
times, yet to which the
millions of modern Mier- ,
ico swear as faithful al-
legiance as did the an-
cient Toltec nearly a
came to them."
At Macao she visited the Monte
Carlo ofyhe East—a magnificent town
of gamblers, where no play is too high.
Through an open archway one may en-
ter old China. On the Haiti-Domini-
can border she had the one experience
that occurred to her as an advantage.
They were sleeping in the house of
Captain Beale of the United States
customs force. At midnight they
heard a rustle in the walls. Beale was
called.
"Just a tarantula," said he. "Prob-
heaven.
Pulque is a fermented ’liquor con- I
talning about 6 per cent alcohol. It
is made from the cap of certain kinds 1
of maguey. In the United States we ।
call it the "Century plant," because I
of the saying that it blooms only once i
in a hundred years. In Mexico, how-' I
ever, the pulque-producing maguey 1
comes to full maturity in from seven i
to ten years. The growing of ma-
guey for the manufacture of pulque ।
is one of tbe most important and i
profitable Industries in Mexico. <
The maguey is a variety of cac- i
tus, of which 33 kinds are given 1
the general name of maguey. They ।
thrive on the Mexican plateau, and, if ,
we except cigarettes, represent about i
all that the average Mexican cares ,
for in life. ।
Into a maguey field he'may go bun- (
■Ide of the globe. And—being blessed
with the consistent inconsistency of a
charmine woman—she was most 1m
pressed by an American boy—just a
kid of twenty-two or thereabouts—the
- sort of youngster you can see on ev-
ery corner.
"He was an officer of the Philippine
constabulary,” said Mrs. Adams, “in
charge of a district Ip Jolo occupied
by an unsubdued and piratical tribe of
Moros. We approached Bagsak by
boat”—(Note: That name sounds all
right and looks all right, but it isn’t
guaranteed)—“and as our steamer
drew up to the wharf we could hear
the rifles popping in the town. We
knew that a war had broken out"
Cries for Young Officer.
Anything may. happen, and usually
does. In Moroland. The inhabitants
are very handy with all sorts of weap-
ons. and have no weak antipathy to
blood. But the twenty-two-year-old
officer, in command of his little squad,
six or eight saddle colored constables,
hopped cheerily to the pier, and waved
his handkerchief in farewell, and then
it said:
"H’rup." ' !
So that the forlorn little bundle of
brown men, their narrow shoulders
bracing in imitation of the soldiery
ewing of the white man ahead, trotted
. toward that small bell which was boil-
ing over in Bagsak. The boat squat-
tered and groaned away from the pier
Mrs. Adam went to her tiny cabin to
. have her cry, There didn’t seem a
chance for that cheerful youngster
ever to get out alive, and the sacrifice
seemed such a useless one. She met
him later, though. He had diplomatio-
ally bumped a few Sulu heads together.
So they gave him a feast, and are
Rece
gry and naked. From the edges of
the leaves he can procure a thorn-
like needle, to which is attached a
strong thread; while from the leaf
-itaelt he gets the material to make
the cloth tor a sult of clothes He
builds a house and shingles it with
the dried leaves. . The fiber of the
leaves her twists into ropes and the
ropes into meta for making beds and
chairs. He builds a fire with the
dried stalks and cooks the dried roots
for. food. What he does not need he
bells to the vinegar factory, or the mo-
lasses mill, or the paper works, for
many pesos, which enable him to
marry. Then, having clothed him-
self and built and furnished a house
and satisfied his hunger and filled his
pockets with money and married a
wife, he takes the sap which has-col-
lected in the stump of his old ma-
guey, ferments it into pulque, and pro-
ceeds to celebrate his prosperity by
getting gloriously drunk!
What more could sinful mortal ask?
And the Mexicai may have all that
from the bumble maguey.
I On the Plains of Apam, near the city
of Megico, the maguey is said to attain
its greatest perfection. There, on the
great plantations, the huge, spiky,
greenish-gray plants, looking for all
the world like monster artichokes,
stretch away in symmetrical rows for
miles and miles. There are no fences
of any kind and the scene is unbroken
save for an occasional hacienda, with
its tort-like walls and towers. a
Millions of dollars are invested in
the pulque business. The man who
goes Into It must either buy a ma-
tured plantation, which costs a prince-
ly sum, or purchase many acres of
land, secure young shoots, from some
old field, and then wait from seven to
ten years for the plants to produce.
True, if the soil be fertile, the hardy
maguey needs little or no care mean-
while. When ready to produce, each
plant is valued at from ten to twelve
dollars.
Comes flowering time, and from the
center of the cluster of great fbrorp
leaves, some ten feet long a foot wf /e
and almost as thick at the base, ila-
guey sends up a giant flower-stalk.
This stalk grows rapidly to a height of
from twenty to thirty feet. If allowed
to flower, it bursts into bloom with
magical suddenness, several thousand
greenish-yellow flowers appearing al-
most at once on the stalk, after which
the plant dies. It is during the flow
iHni time that the tlachlquaroe, ar.
pulque harvesters, with their gourd
pipettes and pigskin receptacles, may
be seen scattered throughout the fields
and watching with alert eyes; for it
is their duty to tap the plant just be-
fore the stalk bursts into, bloom.
At the right instant, which only the
experienced harvesters know, the flow-
er stew is cut off short and the heart
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Grasshoppers Invade Movies.
Cincinnati, O.—Several hundred
men, women and children stampeded
from a moving picture airdrome when
a swarm of grasshoppers took pos-
session.
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Sixty., ——art of 2301 Routh
sixty-seventh street Phildeldhia and
Walter Lenhart seventeen yeara old.
ef Merchantville, were arraigned it
the Camden police court on a charge
of cruelty to animals. Ell Vanmeter
of 1613 William street, Philadelphia,
testined that he saw the horse balk 111
the vicinity of Front and Vine streets
A.zentle tap of the whip or urgng
with the lines had no effect on the
beast, he said, but now and then the
horse would suddenly leap almost out
of the harness. He saw something
that looked like wire, and learned that
electricity was being used to start the
balky horse. 7
the tequila industry has reached 1
highest development, and millions ■
'pesos worth of the liquor is ship J
out annually. I
Or the man with a thirst may hJ
mescal, a fiery, colorless liquor, whi
is also distilled from the maguey. Bd
tequila and mescal are harmless-
pearing drinks, but they have a "kic
like an army mule. A Mexican pel
who, when sober, may be frightened!
the sight of a homed toad, usual
feels, when drunk on tequila or ml
cal and armed with a machete or knil
equal to slaughtering all the rest I
Mexico and occasionally starts out!
do so. I
Notwithstanding the popularity I
mescal, tequila, aguardiente, yum, w4
and beer, and in spite of the fact t
Mexico imports each year, over $6,00
000 worth of liquors, much of which!
champagne for the gilded youth of tl
cities, the consumption of the "dvin
pulque goes on unabated. As tar ba
as 1626 efforts were made to stop I
manufacture and sale.. Edict att
edit was issued against pulque, ■
each one seemed only to irritate tl
masses and literally "drive themi
drink”—more pulque. _____I
When was pulque first made? QuH
sabe? There is a tradition that abo
a thousand years ago, when the wk
like Toltecs held sway in Mexico,]
certain man one day discovered a fid
mouse gnawing at the flowerstalk off
growing maguey. After frjghtend
the mouse away, his attention was
traded to the golden fluid which quia
ly filled the hole the mouse had mal
He tasted it and found it good. 4
large quantity of the honey-water w
gathered and the man's beauti
daughter was sent at once to carry ■
golden liquor to Tepancaltzin, tn
king of the Toltecs. j
By the.time the girl arrived at ■
king's palace the 'fluid had ferment
and was what is now called pulqy
The king tasted it It was good. H
over the golden bowl from which ■
king drank, his hungry eyes teas!
upon the lovely maiden- who M
brought the gift The result was tM
the ungrateful old reprobate decid
to keep the golden liquor—and al
the beautiful girl. j
While the king was making 1
maiden a prisoner in his harem, d
servants gathered round and dr
up the rest of the pulque. They w
unused to the liquor, of course, d
presently each one of them felt that!
himself was as much a king as ■
man who ever walked. j
in due course of time the mald
bore a child for the king. By t
time the whole Toltec nation, inci
ing the king himself, was worship
at the shrine of the bianco nentlll
they called the pulque. And so til
named the infant the "Child of fl
Maguey.” From that day to this
steady and mighty river of pulque ■
flowed, and continues to flow, from fl
great maguey plantations down fl
throats of the thirsty "Children of fl
Maguey.” j
likey waiting for the hance to stick
ITE . .him in the back.
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New York.—Four
weight, 506 pounds;
Dictionary Pillow.
F once knew a woman who wrM
books, .a woman who was vfl
learned in the matter of French fl
Latin and German and Greek, ord
when her nights were dark and drfl
ful and Bleeplpss, she would lie awfl
and think of words—what langu
they were derived from and wM
their original meanings had bd
She told'IBS that it —a—t
source of pleasure to her, and kfl
her from growing nervous when fl
felt wide awake. Often through ■
chill, gray dawn, I, too, lie awfl
and think about words to keep my J
from the unpleasant tmaginings ti
sometimes haunt one in the nln
time.—Christian Herald. I
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geons is a torture chamber But tl
most unique feature of all consists j
the series of curious pictures in tl
roof of the bridge. There are 69 <
these painted on triangular woods
panels fitted into the pitched roof 2
the bridge. One after another the
tell the salient facts of Swiss htstoz
or portray events in the life of tl
saints of the town. St Leodgar ar
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"We are hungry. We were with a
circus in Chicopee', Masa, and were
known as ‘The Fat Family,’ but the
circus went broke and owed us $100.
We had just enough money to get to
New York and we came. Here we are,
now. We have no engagement no
money, no food, and no place to
sleep. Not having food is a gertous
matter. Tbe children are fond of eat-
ing.”
The police sent the tall, thin man
and woman and the four very fat
youngsters to 44 Lawrence street for
the night -"n
“KING WOULD BE LOAFER”
Philippine asset is the force of medi-
cal missionaries.
"Salvation," says Mrs. Adams, "fol-
lows ' sanitation. The missionaries
carry a Bible in one hand, but in the
other they have bottles of castor oil
for the interior, and coal oil for the
surffl ce of their brown friends.”
■’with her husband, S'. P. Adams of
the ' Pan-American organlz^km A in
Washington, Mrs. Adams has crohsed
South America on mulebacke lived for
months where no white woman has
ever been seen before, and had adven-
tures that would make a lifetime’s talk
for the average sportsman. This be-
ing considered. It is of a certain im-
portance that she is a very pretty wo-
man. On this year’s trip she visited
Rajah Brooke in Borneo, the third
white rajah of his line and the only
one left in the world. He lives in regal
state, unbothered by telplones, in
his province of Sarawak. It adds'"!'
picturesque modern touch to learn
that he married into a flourishing Eng,
lish biscuit business. " )
English Women Wonderful.
korhose wonderful English women in
Borneo." said Mrs. Adams in admira-
tion. “They are the finest frontier wo-
men in the world. Where their teapot
14 is home. They were preparing to
go hundreds of. mil eg by boat to the
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