H.T NATURE'SOWN BREW The Wonderful Pulque of Mexico Which Sells for x One Cent a Glass. IT'S THE SAP OF A PLAOT. rermentS Of Itself aild l3 an Agree- able Every-Day Beverage. ORIGIN OP THE POPULAR-COCKTAIk Hexican Cooking Is Kot So Bad as Tour ists Havo Painted It. PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE PEOELE'j fuoBjasrcsBsyas or tux sisfatcsi Mexico Citt, Bept 2. EXJCO has the best and cheapest beer in the world. You can buy it all over Mexico for a cent a glass and there ore a thousand li censed shops i n Mexioo City.Iheclty gets Sl,b0O a day revenue from these shops, a nd 290,000 pints of this liqnor ore cold here every day. This makes 1 two tumblers to each man, womar3n4.cMlcMn -the Capi tal and the consumption throughout the re mainder of the countrys proportionately great. The 3Iexicarrbceris'CaTi5d'ptqne. It is nature's own beer, and it Is-made fromjihe sap of a cactus plant of the same species as the century plant. This grows in Mexico to a height of frora-6 to 1G feet It is mode up of great green leaves, which ore a foot wide at the bottom, sod which are often eight inches thick and eight or ten feet lone. These leaves start up from the ground around a greea-oone, which is a foot thick at the base and which-ends in a point as simp as a needle. HOW BEEB 13 -STAKE. It takes about ten years for-tHs-cone to grow to its proper sue, and if it is left a flower grows upon it and the-plant after --rSr A MEXICAN blossoming die Just before blossoming, however, it is readv for pulque making. This, is dore bv cutting the cone out of the plant and this leaves a great bowl in the plant about as large as a two-gallon crock. Into this bowl the sap of the leaves runs in streams and each plant will produce from 8 to 13 quarts ot juice per day. It con tinues to yield this, amount for six months, end one plant will produce barrels and t-ometimes riogheads ot liquor. This liquor is the natural beer. It flows into the bowl as sweet as sugar and as clear os crvstal; After 21 hours, however, its color has changed to that of skimmed milk. It has begun to ferment and it tastes like buttermilk. It begins to smell and its odor and strength increase as it grows older, so Iaie a Jjnnk, kenar f that for a block around a pulque shop you hae the smell ol a limburger cheese fac tory. and you can shut j our eves and find the" saloons by your nose. The beer has about the same effect as good Bavarian bock. It makes you feel comfortable, and too mnch of it goes to your head. It acts on your liver and kidneys and aids diges tionj If yon take it toward night it cures your insomnia, and I find it.an excellent tonic rULQUE TEDDLERS AKT SHOPS. This pulque is raised in big plantations. There are tens of thousands of acres of the plants crowing near Mexico City, and one railroad receives S1.000 a day for carrying pulque into the capital. I traveled for miles through these pulque plantations and 1 saw the Indian peons gathering the liquor. Each man had a bag of untanned "pjgskin on his back and the ju:ce iab drawn from the plant into this br means of a long gourd which acted as a siphon. The Indian would poke one end of this gourd into the hole in the plant and suck the air and the juice out and then turn it into tills dirty pigskin bag. These bags were made of the hide of a uhole hog, and some of them looked as though they n ere not more than two or three days old. The legs and the month of the skin were sewed up, and when the bag was full of the liquor these u obbled about, making the bag look like a lire animal. JLXUtaOer. The pulque ferments in thesef bags. In them it is carried Into the city and it Is served cither from them or from barrels Tho method of deslint; it out to the custom ers is no more appetizing thau tho mode of "gathering it. A dirty Mexican in his shirt sleeves, with his artos bare to the biceps, takes a glass the size of a schooner and thmsts hi arm into tho barrel up to the elbow and gives vou the pulque with his hands dripping. If you can conquer your nose, vou drink It, nnd the result Is not at all bad. CLOsn at six o'clock. These pulque shops are found in every Mexican block. They are open from early in the morning until 6 o'clock at night, and at thU tlmp. thev are closed bv lnw nnrl nr f not opened again until the next morning. .uexico nas weeucuv poucs regulations in regara to tee peons or common people, The pulque shops are patronized chiefly By them, and you nnd less disorder in Mexico at night than in any city of its size in the United States. The high-priced saloons, which sell all kinds of liquors, ars kept open untu mianignt ana later, ana near the billiard balls clicking and the rich Starting a.Piiiptt BtpJum. foreigners and well-to-do Mexicans carous ing in the Itnrbide barroom early in the morning and all day Sunday. The pulque product, however, is the most, Srofitaole of any liquor production in' exico, and many of these pulque planta tions bring in from 510,000 to 512,000 a year. X know of one man who gets (200 a day from his pulque hacienda, and lam told that R. M. P ulsifer, of tne .Boston Merala, is con ztected with a company of Americans who proposa to go into pulque, making. OTHEE TJSES OIT r mm -Tt a. Tgr. The pulque plant is one of the most use fol -plants in the world. Its fiber mokes ex cellent thread and the Aztecs use its thorns for needles. They thatch their houses with its leaves and in the days of Oortez they made paper out of it. This paper was like papyrus and there are old Azteo manu scripts in existence which were made in this way. A number of other liquors in addition to pulque are produced from the plant, and in one district a very fine brandy called mescal 1b produced from it, and te quila is another liquor much like Scotch whisky which comes from the maguey, plant. The leaves of this plant contain thousands of fibers and these make the MEAT WAGOIT. strongest kind of bagging and ropes, which are equal in strength to linen. The title of our most popular drink oomes from Mexico. The Aztec word for pulque is pronounced mnch like octail, and Gen eral Scott's troops called the liquor cocktail and carried the word back to the United States. It is said that the liquor was dis covered by a Tolteo noble and that he sent it to the king by the hand of his daughter, Miss Cocktail (Xochitl). The king drank the liquor and then looked at the maiden. The first tickled his palate, the second en amored his heart. It was a case of love at first sight in both instances, and he married the girl and started a pulque plantation. From that day to this the Mexicans have kept themselves saturated with pulque, and Miss Cocktail is one of the Yenuses of Mexican tradition. wtli, ktli. you quickly. Mexican brandies are very strong. There is one called aguardiente, which is made from sugar-cane, and which is as strong .as it is cheap. I had a sore throat a few days ago and was advised to bathe my neck in this brandy. I found that it made the skin smart, and concluded to see how much alcohol there was in it. I poured a wine glassful of it onto my marble wash-stand and touched a match to it. It exploded like coal oil and blazed away for ten min utes. Two million dollars' worth of this biandy is made in Mexico every year. It produces drunkenness very quickly. Mexicans have some good wines, but they are very dear, and an ordinary claret cost $1 a bottle. The chief drinks at meals are coflec and chocolate, 'and the Mexican choc olate is delicious. It is flavored with cinna mon and is served quite sweet There is always a fcam on the top of the cup, and in all the Mexican markets you will find choc olate mixers, a little wooden stick with a knob on the end, much like that of a baby's rattle. You stand these on end in the choc olate and make the knob go around by whirling the stem between the palms of your hands. WHAT THE MEXICANS EAT. Before I came to Mexico I was told that I would find nothing good to eat in the country; Every one said that the hotels were horrible, and my friends patted their stomachs and looked at me tiith commis erating eyes. They said that everything Mexican was a mixture of red pepper and grease, and that the only good hotels in the country were those kept by the Americans who had gone down there, I ventured into the land with fear and trembling, and at first patronized the American hotels. I found them dear and nasty. The cooking was abominable and the service was worse. I then tried a Mexican hotel, and found it excellent. Some of the best meals I have ever had I have eaten in Mexico, audi shall not soon forget a dinner at Taluca, where a pretty Mexican boy gave me a dinner of ten courses, and where the cuisine was equal to that ot a good Pris restaurant. Through out Southern Mexico I found splendid hotels. They were often kept in old monas teries, and at Zacatecis 1 slept in a big room off a cloister, where the door was four inches thick and the key weighed a pound. One end of my room opened out on a gar den, which constituted: the center of the building, and every night I could walk around this in the moonlight, and see it soften the outlines of the great Moorish dome of the monastery which looked down upon me. The cooking here was good, and the same was the case at Gnanahuato. HOW MEAUJ ABE SERVED. The Mexicans serve their meals one dish ill 7 & m !. begin faner with soupndendit wit' hpRnsi Ti'.f. miter at tne notei unura a lnwl nfKnnn in von nnd VOU ladle OUt as much as j ou want. After soup you, have a linlt it rinroti different kinds of meat and vegetables served separatelv, and you close 1 witti a dessert of conee. aiexican luju-iea always form a part of thefneaL These are E renounced freeholiesand they are Mexlean lack beans. Thev are superior to the Bos ton baked beans, and every one.eata them. Thev are never eaten on the doy they are oooSed and they ore always se'rred in great abundance. They .plose the meal as rice closes a dinner in Japan, and I suppose tie Idea is that the man who has not had enough of other things can fill up on beans. Only tho better classes of Mexicans eat meat, and one of the great fields of Amer ican investment is in the packing interests oflexlco. Ham and beef bring high prices and the meat business of the city is manuged by monopolies. Good beeves are worth from $25 to JflO a head, and there is more mutton eaten than beef. A great deal of the beef oomes from Guanahuato and the meatiiuroni of this citv are mules. Tako one of the greasiest, dirtiest mules you can find and fasten a framework of hooks ton saddle on his bock, Let this, framework extend about a foot above the mule anil on the hooks hang the halves and Quarters of beeves 10 that the blood dribs from them on tho ground and so that when the mules are small tho meat almost touohes the ground, and yon have THE 2IESI0AN BUTCHEE OAST. The butcher or meat pedler wears a great blanket about his shoulders, a broad brimmed hat on his head and his feet aro bare. If you buy a qnarter of beof he will carry it into the house on his head, and if you want a slice he will hock off a piece for you and oharge you about the same for the neck as the loin. The Mexicans sell every part of the animal, and in every market you will find little cook shops la which shreds of beef are fried and offered for sale. These are for the Indian customers who stand about and eat the greasy morsel with their fingers. In Mexico City the butchering is more carefully done and beef is comparatively cheap. You can get a roast for 18 cents a pound, but; pork fs more expensive. The pork business in Mexico City is controlled by a Mexican who has made millions out ot it, and he is now putting op one of the big gest packing houses in the world. Be has his agents all over the city and he imports his hogs from Kansas. Mexico is the land of the Fry. Nearly every kind of meat is cooked in lard, and the consequence is that lord is very high Jiriced. It costs 81 cents a pound, and it argely takes the place of butter. It is very hard to find good butter in Mexico. That made by the natives is largely from goats milk. It is -as white as smear-kase cheese, and is dressed without salt A smart Ameri can has started a dairy in Mexico City. He has Jersey oows. and gets from 85 cents to $1 a pound for his butter, and proportion ately ss high prices for his milk. HOUSEKEEPING 13 EXPEKSIVB. Yon find good chickens all over Mexico, and there seems to be plenty of game. Chickens ore peddled around in coops on the backs of men, and now and then you will see an Indian with perhaps two dozen tied together by the legs and thrown over his shoulders, lie goes with these from house to house and sells them. Eggs are sold in the market in little piles of lour .to the pile, and not by the dozen as we sell them, and I note that in some places the eggs are packed in corn husks for shipment. Everything in the Mexican market seems to be sold in piles, and I could find no stand ard of measurement except the dye. There were piles of four tomatoes, of six little potatoes, of a handful of red peppers and of other like things around each pedler, and these pedlers wero Indians, and the Indians seemed to be the market men of Mexico. They carry their wares for miles into the city on their backs, and a dollar's worth of market stuff is carried for days in order that it may be sold here. The buying is done in the same picayune way as the selling, and this citr of 300.000 oeoDle lives from hand to mouth. I don't believe there is a cellar in the whole town, and every morning the servants go to market and buy enough for the dav. They buy for cash, and before go ing to "bed you have to letve enough silver with your servants for the morning market ing. It is not fashionable for ladies to do their own marketing, and everything is bought by the servants. The result is that housekeeping in Mexico is very expensive, and between the priees charged and what the servants steal the outlay is even greater than it is in the United States. THE U2TCVEBSAI, SIESTA. The Mexicans themselves live much more cheaply than we do. The morning meal even among the richest classes consists of only a cup of chocolate or coflee, with plain bread or sweet cake. The Mexicans eat this by dipping it into the chocolate, and they often take this meal in bed. Coffee is served in your rooms at all the hotels if you desire itf and if you live like the Mexicans you will find your charges muoh less. The sec ond breakfast is served at 13 or 1 o'clock, and at this all the family sit down, and it is really a dinner rather than a breakfast. Soup is always served at it, and the Mexi cans have a hundred different kinds of soup. The evening meal is taken abont 7 o'clock! and at this the family meet as at the second breakfast. No work is done by anyone in Mexico for about two hours after this Cmidday break fast, and the business hours here are from 9 to 12 and from 3 to 6. Between 1 and 3 the .4 Pulque Peddler. whole city sleeps or gossips, and after 7 o'clock you will find none of the stores open. Mexican bread is almost altogether made by the bakers, is fairly good and tastes very much like the French bread. I have not had a waffle nor a griddle cake since I came into the country, and I look in vain on every bill of fare for hot biscuits and pie. I do not find, the Mexican dishes half as hot as they are painted, and I doubt not but that their cuisine is fullv as healthful as ours. Frank G. Caepentee. TRIUMPH 07 A WRITER. Be Held His .Header so SpellBonnd That He Dared Not Tarn IieaC 'Speaking of illusions," said a gentle man who resembled George "Washington, "I recall reading some years "ago an essay on 'Wood-peckers,' by Maurice. Thompson fn his 'By-ways and Bird Notes.' The species of this bird, which the essay described, was very wild and unapproachable; but we had just got track of one in a Southern forest and were trying to steal up close to the tree on which he was at work. Stealthily, from bush to bush, we crept, getting nearer and nearer, but compelled to do it with almost absolute nolselessness. "Well, the writer had skilfully carried me with him in his stealthy attempt to get a good view of the bird, and just as he was describing his most delicate venture and we were trying to make the last hush, it was necessary to turn the leaf of the book if t would follow the narrative. So completely did I imagine myself in the"Yirginia woods, ,that for just an instant I hesitated to turn the leaf of the book lest I should make a noise and frighten the bird." EffiflSSrafc .SSRfflPg'SOlWgg. - KTOMMT UJNCLji uAM U OKUlU. Everybody Should Be More Prosper ous This Winter Than fiver. 8TUDTIKG THE FLOOR OF THE SEA. AlJampfor-BMpsTIiat Defies ETerrMbrt to Extinguish. It PHOTOaBAPHDTG WON CHINA TTABI rwBrrrjtit tob tub ctspjnon.a The United States will gather this year more plentiful crops than, in all probabil ity, have ever been known in this country. From the great Northwest, with its 1m mensa wheat fields, from the Faeiflo coast, from the Central "West and from the South down to Texas, the grain crorS are the lamest eve nrodueed. The yields will .probably be about 080,000,000 bushels of wheat, 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn, between 600,000,000 and 700,000,000 bushels of oats and over 100,000,000 bushols of other grains, making an aggregate of about 8,300,000,000 bushels, or about 1,000,000,000' bushels more than in 1890. This Increase of 1,000,000,000 bushels is equal to 1,000,000 car loads of 00, 000 pounds each. Nearly all other crops promise the same abundant yield, rice, sugar, tobacco, fruits,.grasses, eta, all add ing Immensely to the profit of farmers. Cotton alone of all the big crops will fall short of 1890) but this will bo' an advantage, as the yield of last year was too large for' the demand. Aprominentmanufactnrlng journal points out that with all this enormous production of grain, prloes will be well maintained, bo cause of the scarcity in Europe, and so American farmers will receive more money this year for their crops than ever before. This phenomenal prosperity is certain to tax the resources of tho railroads of the country to on extent not yet realised, for the handling of the immense crops, and the business which they will neaessarily de velop, added, to the regular traffio. of the country, will require more rolling stock than is at present available. Boaimlng tho Depths of tne Bern. On a recent expedition the Prince of Monaco, who has mads many valuable con tributions to science, conoeived the idea of using the electrio light for illuminating the bottom of the sea in great depths of water, in which otherwise it would be Impossible to watch the progress cf experimental or other work. The Prlnoe has now built a yacht especially for the study of "ocean ography." The yacht hasa displacement ot 650 tons, and is provided with steam power in such a way as to reserve as much space as possible 'for the arrangements necessary for engaging in serious soientifio work, having in view, at the same time, the wants of family life. The engine room is large enough to accommodate, besides the chgides, various apparatus, Including a dynamo, an ammonia freezing machine, and a water still, all under the charge of one engineer. Besides being lighted through out by electricity, the vessel is provided with a search light of 10,000 candle power for Illuminating the surface of the sea dur ing night operations, and a very complete arrangement for lighting up the bottom of the sea when required. It is expected that this will be the means of making Tery valu able zoological observations and the dis covery oi many new species. The actual equipment of the vessel allows soundings to be made in the oceaa to a depth not exceeding 8,000 metres, and of ap paratus being let down to the bottom at depths ut to 6.000 metres, with the least possible difficulty. One of the special ob jects of the Prince's investieationi has been to define the direction and velocity of the great surface currents on the ocean, and in the mapping out of these he has made con siderable progress. Oceanography will shortly be enriched by a chart of surface currents prepared from data furnished by floats, to the number of 1,700, thrown over board in three distinct regions between Eu rope and America, Possessing exact and authentic information as to the departure and arrival of a great number of these floats, Prince Monaco has been able during the past three years to follow their successive appearances, and to construct his chart under conditions of exactitude which ensure its value as a record of the general direction and the mean velocity of the currents of the North Atlantic f InextfngulthaDle Ship's Lamp. An invention having for its object the steady maintenance of the illuminating power in ships' side and headlights is of supreme importance and interest to ship owners. Perhaps no better proof of this can be given than the accident which took plaoe some years ago, when a local steamer on the China coast collided with a French steamer. The vessel on which the blame for the collision was found to rest was mulcted in no less a sum than $365,000, simply because her lights had become acci dentally extinguished. To provide against such accidents, a lamp has been specially designed that is guaranteed to maintain its light in the teeth of a hurricane. Its main feature is an inner front casing, holding a still inner plain glass lens, the upper por tion of the case being continued with a bend, to form a shield, under .the inner mouth of the funnel, between it and the light. Any wind blowing down the funnel strikes this shield plate and is thereby, de flected through the lamp, between the cases of the enter and inner lenses, and finds vent at the bottom of the lamp. This deflection serves the double purpose of diverting the wind from the flame, and keeping the outer colored lens cool, freeing it entirely from the risk of being cracked when splashed by shipped seas, as ether "lenses are, owing to their heated surface. The capabilities of the lamp are best sug gested by the report of the tests to which it has be'en subjected. This report states that the lamp "nas been blown upon by a strong blast, passing througn a five-inch pipe from a fan driven at a speed of about 15,500 revolutions per minute, the light re maining unaffected, while an ordinary sig nal lamp was immediately blown out under a far less severe test, It has been blown upon from beneath, when the blast was so strong, as to necessitate the lamp being held to prevent its being blown awav. It has been played upon with hose with the top of the lamp open; it has been immersed in water to a depth of ten feet, and sub jected tu all manner of tests, but by none of these means could the lamp be put out. Physical Development. An athlete, who is also a member of a society specially devoted to the encourage ment of physical development, gives some general hints as to the cultivation of the physique that are worth considering. He says that members, on entering the physical cultivation society, are first taught what not to da They are told not to stoop, not to breathe, through the mouth, or to breathe air that has a temperature much above that of the external air, or that is impure, or that contains dust; not to wear tight-fitting or too heavy clothes, braces, corsets or shoes with high heels or narrowtoes. The novice is told to acquire the habit of holding the body erect, the shoulders back, and the chest well forward; to breathe through the nose and to take inspirations followed by full expirations several times dallyl" to de velop the muscles, especially of the chest by gymnastio exercise on Ling's system; to take a tub dally, if he finds that it dors sal impair his vitality, and to wear looso clothes, i. e., such as do not by their weight or shape impede the movements of the body. ,He must live in rooms that are in free and -direct communication with the es ternal.air, night and day, summer tad winter, and to take eare that their tem perature is not too hlh ta spend as much time possible daily in tne open air, and to maintain the temperature by muscular exer cise, "Walking is esoeelally insisted on as a most healthy ewivUe nriil hrnnd toes and f low heels tend to promote it, and the prao ui singing 8nauin De eumvaiea oy everyone, as it produees results the bene fits ef which eaa sesreely be overestimated. "We Need More Sleep. A German specialist, say Nalnrt, has re cently pleaded for giving children more sleep. A healthy Infant sleeps most of the time during the first few weeKsj and in the early years, people are disposed to lei children Bleep as much as they wilL But from 6'er 7 years old, when school begins, this sensible policy eomes to an eifd, and sleep is cut -off persistently through all the years up to manhood. At the age of 10 or 11, the child Is allowed to sleep only eight of nine hours, when his -parents should In slst on. hjs having what he absolutely re quires, whieh Is at least 10 or 11. XTp to 20. a youth needs nine hours sleep, and an adult Bhould hare eight or nine. Dr. Cold is ot opinion tnot insufficient sleep is one of tho crying evils of the day. The want of proper rust and normal conditions of the lierrous system and eSpclally ot the brain produees a latnestablo deterioration in both body and mind, and exhaustion, exoltabillty and In telleotual disorders are gradually tokipg the place of love of work, gengral Well-being and tho spirit of initiative. To Frciarva Wooden Posts. Many a farmer loses money that ought to be in the bank through not knowing hovr to preserve wooden posts. The post should be bored with nn inch nnd a quarter auger from the butt to a dlstsnce that will be six inches above the ground when the post is set. Then ohar over a mod fire for d quarter of nn hour, so as to drive all moisture but of the heart of the butt through the hole bored, fill the hole with, boiling coal tar, and drive in a well-fitted' plug, which will aot as a hydraulio mm, and force the tar into the hot pores of the wood, which will thus become thoroughly creosoted, and last sound for twenty years instead of four. As in ordinary cases, a four-inch post should have one hole in its center; six-inch, two, sido by side; eight inch, three; 12-inch, four. Posts which are already in the ground may bebored diagonal ly. filled up with hot tar (in the dry summer time,) plugged up and repainted. A Pleasing Disinfectant. A very pretty form of disinfectant is be ing Introduced into sick rooms in Australia, in the form of the green branches of euca lyptus. The reputation of the eucalyptus as an absorbent of malaria, and as an anti dote in fever cases is well established, and for some time its effects as a disinfectant in sick chambers have been carefully watched. Br. Curgenven states, after 12 months' trial, that in cases of scarlet fever, if the branches be placed under the bed, the bedding under goes thorough disinfection, the volatile vapor penetrating "and saturating the mat tresses and "every other article in the room, the vapor is also said to have a beneficial effeot upon phthisical patients, acting not only as an antiseptic, bnt as a sedative, and to some extend-as a hypnotic Firing Portraits on-Chrnn. A new art has been developed in the firing of portraits' on china. Hitherto painting was the ordinary method resorted to by those who wished to preserve the likenesses of their friends on porcelain or any descrip tion of ware. By the new method the pictures are photographed on the porcelain and then fired, in the same way as the ordi nary decorations of the ware. The portraits look like the finest photographs, and unless broken will last forever. The pictures can be adapted to any size, and can therefore be put on cups, saucers, vases, panels or me- aauions witn equal ease. DnpllC3rln Handwriting. A new mechanical device has been in vented 'by means of which, it is claimed, the solution of the problem of how best to duplicate handwriting is attained. The principle of the invention is that of the sewing machine and the stylographio pen combined. A needle rapidly projected from the pen point punctures the paper, making several copies at once. The number of copies depends upon the distance which the needle is allowed to project The sixty fourth of an inch would give four or five copies," an eighth of an inch about 30. Chinese Tarnish. Some recent information from Hankow as to the gum bt the rta vernkifera or Chin ese varnish points to the possibility that the celebrated Cremona vamish may have had as one of its ingredients some of this gum. It is now suggested that it may be worth the while of musical instrument, and especially violin makers, to make experi ments with this material with the view to producing a varnish that will give a mellow instead of a "glassy" sound. Photographic "Lens Shade. A useful little appliance for photogra phers is a lens shade, which is now made in two sizes of very thin light metal. Ih tak ing a picture in order to get the best re sults the lens should be always shaded dur ing the exposure of the plate, and this little apparatus accomplishes it effectually in the most simple manner. The shade can he ad justed to any angle, and when not in use packs perfectly on the top or the side of tho camera, GIANTS OF THE C0BDILLEEAS. They Guard Fabulous Treasures of Gold and Silver In Their Mountains. Philadelphia Pnts.Z In "Western Patagonia, among the Cordil leras mountains, dwell the giants of whom so many big stories have been told. As a matter of fact these Araucanlans, as they are called, are rarely under six feet in height, and sometimes reach eight feet, seven foot men being not infrequent. Though mildly disposed, they admit no strangers to their territory and by stubborn resistance they have compelled Chile to let them alone. Fabulous treasures of gold and silver are "believed to be stored away in their mountains, but prospectors who have ventured thither have always been driven away. They commonly adorn them seh es with rich and heavy ornaments of these precious metali The greater part of Patagonia belongs now to the Argentine ltepublic, Chile holding by treaty the strip along the Pacific coast, which continues its shoestring-like territory for nearly half the length of South America. Most of the country 1b a desert waste, cold of climate and contrasting strongly with the richly productive pampas or plains of the southern Argentine. These pampas are remarkable for the strange il lusions which beset the eye of the traveler who journeys over them. On any bright day a distant thistle field is as like as not to he transformed seemingly into a forest, while a few clumps of grass will take on the appearance of a troop of horsemen. Mirages are constantly in view, frequently offering n delusive prospect of water, bv which men are often deceived but their horses never. How to Take Off a Shirt. No one who frequents the gymnasiums during the summer season can have failed to notice men tugging and straining at their flannel shirts in a lam endeavor to get them ofE A flannel shirt, especially on under shirt, when wet with perspiration, sticks considerably closer than a brother, but a wet shirt "has no terror for any one who knows how trt hanrltn it dross the arms. take hold of the left side of the shirt with f- the right hand, and the right aide with the left hand, and the garment can be pulled off with perfect ease. 6.' '-1851'. TWO WORD LASHINGS. Judge Bchofleld's Attack Upon James Biooks irrCongress. KOTfllNG RUFFIANLY ABOUT IT. Ignatius Donnelly's Speech en Elihu B. Washburn Not So Neat. BOTH EEMABKABLr EFFORTS, HOfff TEE CwBrrtiH von tub bispatcii.J .The worst scarification given by one Member of Congress to another during the period of whieh I write was administered by Judge Schofield, of Pennsylvania, to James Brooks, 'of New York. Schofield was possessed of an exceedingly terse and ep igrammatlo style which he used with telling eflect. It was an artlstle Job. There was homaullnff nor pounding about it- His sentences Were like sabre outs, and every on of them out to the quick, and tho worst of it was that there was noth ing to do but to hold still and taVe it. Sahofield had no patience with those who favored a temporizing policy in dealing with the Bebelllon. Tho question of the amendment of the Constitution so as to abolish slavery was before the House. Brooks had made a violent speech against it, and had advised concession, and the ex tending of the olive branch, etc., as was very "common in the speeches of a certain class of politicians at that day, and had rec ommended, if not new safeguards for slavery, at least the continued toleration of it as a measure of conciliation, and had de clared in emphatio tones that wotould never subjugate 8,000,000 of people of the same race or lineage with ourselves. He announced himself, however, as opposed to dissolution of the Union, and claimed tho whole country as his own, and that it was his right to travel from one end of it to the other without being compelled to sub mit to an inspection of his baggage in cross ing any division line. Schofield, in reply, after commenting on the exaggeration of statement that we were contending with 8,000,000 of enemies, said: A VEBY NEAT FLAOELLATTOS'. With half the white and all' the black population of the seceded States, it wonld be verystrange if the Government was not strong enough to compel submission from the rest. The gentleman himself gives us some little encouragement. This little State ot Maine (in wnich he tells us in this con nection he was born), is a matcli for Eng land, France and. Russia,, and lie flnally tidds, for all Europe combined. Now sir, if this little State, which had only the honor of rocking hfs cradle, that claimed him only in long frocks and petticoats, could with stand all Europe single-banded, is it not reasonable to suppose that, combined with the State of his aaoDtlon. tho great State of New York, tbat possesses bin in all the glory of pantalooned manhood, It could floe cue woria ana tne rest 01 manmnu, in wnicu I supposo the rebels would be Included Maine can be relied on for the contest; so can Now York, since no perfidious hand now holds the helm, and the gentleman himself I gives spine hope that lie may yet be goaded into iue support ui iii abrugguug , suuenng country. There is a point, he tells us, beyond which his forbearance will not go. it was not reached when the rebels selzod our forts, navy yards, arsenals, ships of war, mints and custom houses, mails and postofflces. It was not reached when they put pirates on the ocean to seize, rob and burn tne peace ful merchant vessels from our own city. It was not reached when they raised the black flag and shot down our patriot soldiers after surrender and then burned the hospitals over the heads of the sick and Wounded, It was not reached when they murdered Womenand children and unarmed men, and burned the villages on the border without military motive. It was not reached when, by the slow torture of hunger andjcold, they murdered our dear, brave boys prisoners of war in their bands. But he has an ultfmatumnotwlthstanding. He announces it from his plaoe in this hall and boldly flings it in the teeth of the rebels, and has the coarago to hope that they may hearhjm. They must not go too far, not presume too mnch on his forbearance. lie will not stand everything. The insnlts and crimes I have named he can endnro, forgive, forget; but if they dare to Inspect his bag gage as he travels Sonth he will not submit. Never! Never! he repeats. "Will you tight then," inquires the gentleman from Iowu (Mr. Wilson). Mark now the pluck of his answer. "When the day and hour' come I will be ready to mark out the course I will pursue." Cambronne alone can answer tbat. CIPHER DONTTZLIiT'S OKKAX EFFORT. Another fearful flaggellation, though not so neat bv any means, was administered by Ignatius "Donnelly, of Minnesota, to Elihu B. "Washburn, who had made charges re flecting on Donnelly's personal integrity. It was, as a Speaker pro tem once expressed it on, another occasion, decidedly more pun gent than parliamentary, and itls "doubtful if the House would have permitted it ex cept that "Washburn had provoked a good deal of personal animosity by his overbear ing manner, and members were delighted at Donnelly's castigation, and no one raised a point of order to warrant the Speaker in stopping him. Donnelly said:. What is the meaning of this attack, Mr. Speaker, because there must be some mean ing to ltr xnere is a very simple explanation which has come out in my district, and which is one of the great arguments why they should send to this House the brother of the distinguished gentleman. It is that he owns General Grant: tbat he carries Ulysses Grant in his breeches pocket. Why Mr. Speaker, has he not lived in tho same town with General Grant? And should he not therefore perforce be War wick: the powerbehind the throne? I never could aocount, Mr. Speaker, for-tlio singular fact that the gentlemin did live in the same town with General Grant except by refer ence to tbatgreatlaw of compensation which runs throughout the created world. The town of Galena, having for q many years endured the gentleman, God -Almighty felt that nothing less than Ulysse S. Grant conld balance the account. Josh Billings beauti fully Illustrates this law of compensation when he says that it is a question whether the satisfaction of scratching will not pay a man for the pain of having the itcb. I leave the gentleman's constituents to apply the parallel. a rirrxE coaese btjt pointed. Mr. Speaker 1 bow humbly before the genius TJ1 sies S. Grant. J recognize Jiim as tho greatest, "broadest, wisest Intellect of this geperation. I cannot believe that he will degenerate into a puppet to be pulled by wires neld in the hand of the gentleman from Illinois; tbat he will suffer himself to be made a kind of band organ to be toted around on tne back of the gentleman from Illinois while his wHole family sit on the top of the machine, grinning and catching pen nies like a troop of monk!esK If it were in mv power to whisper anything in the way of advice into the ear of General Grant I would toll'lilm to take counsel from that profound remark nf Aminidab Sleek, when he said " ou all expect to go to heaven by hanging on to my coat tail, but.I will fool yon all by weniing a monkey jacket." Why. sir; wo had General Grant up In -Minnesota, and of conrse tho distinguished gentleman from Illinois was with him, and when Gen eral Grant was serenaded the gentlemau from Illinois stuck: his head ont of the win dow and thanked the crowd, and when thev rode in an open barouche together and the orowa nurranea, ine gentleman irom Illi nois laid his hand upon his breast and bowed profound acknowledgments. Why. sir, the people wero in great doubt as to which was Grant and wnich was Washburrt: they naturally concluded' that the quiet little gentleman must be the fourth-class politi cian, and 'that the pretention's fnssy indi vidual mttst be the conquerorotl.ee. Shall the two names go down in history together? Grant and Washburn? What u combina tion! Why, Mr. Speaker, tho intellect of Grant is like some of those ancient ware boues in the great cities of tne older conti nent, w hero floor rises njfove floor, and cellar descend below collar, all packed with the richest morohandise. The intellect of the gentleman from Illinois is like some of those establishments wo see on Pennsylvania ave nue, where the entire stock in trade of the merchant is sbread ont in thp Iront window, and over it a label, "Anything in this win dow for $1." Lord Dundreary was once asked, "Why Idoosadog wag, his tail?" "Why," said hfs jjorasmp "tne reason is uecauss mo uoc is bigger than the tail. If it wero otherwise, the tall would wiursl the dog." "Here we have an" instance, Mr. Bpeaker, where tho smallest kind of a rat terrier's tall attempts to waggle a Newfoundland dog." ClIKTOV LtOTD. Copyright, 1831, by the author. 1 m. , - . . , ...swirji vJr A STORY OF THE WBITTEN FOE, IBT CHAPTER VIII. A BOOT WITn MRS. MAWMOXE. Mrs. Marimone was fluttered by the tele gram from Philadelphia. For Mrs. Mari mone, a portly and dignified lady, to be fluttered meant a good deal. She could not believe it," Oh, dear me I Really, it was not to be believed. During the company's first stay in Boston Mrs. Marimone went so far as to purchase a photograph of Nickich, and while the picture was being done up, to study Freda's face. This was easier td do and not so degrading to Mrs. Marimone'a dignity as observing the frame outside "the theater. Such an impertinent face, with great laughing 'eyes looking aside, and a round shoulder tucked up to her ear, too 1 Just the same impudent creature her own Russian had passed on the milldam, en sconsed in a rig with Henroyd. Sho had heard of the outrageous actress disporting herself at Carson's Groves with Henroyd for escort, and she herself had seen ljer sup ping with Henroyd at the Adams House. It was dreadful! Mrs. Marimone invited Henroyd to luncheon and to dinner and to 5 o'clocks, and to evenings, nnd to Sundays. He came once to dinner to pay his respects. But, dear me, he was quite unapproachable. Mrs. Marimone simply could not speak even after dinner when she had her courage up. 3frs. Marimone felt her equipoise would be hopelessly sprained if Henroyd should tell her to mind her own business. She really wanted to' "save Breton from the clutch of an adventuress," but sHe feared he would not see it that way. She sent Corona to put brandy in his coflee. He had been so attentive to Corona, but he would take neither coflee nor brandy. Corona said he hadn't, but Mrs, Marimone knew what it meant for a gentleman to go to a Stoddard with a lady. Corona said he went because he could not talk there, bnt Mrs. Marimone knew better. Perhaps Corona had offered him the wrong brandy It JIB. BRETON 13 would be a good tnatch. Anyone whose jnind was not clouded by an infatuation for a bold actress, who tucked her shoulder np under her ear and laughed sidewise at- you, would be won by Corona's intellectuality and inches. Maybe he wanted tea. Ah, his mind was so clouded, that was evident! and There, he was gone and she had said nothing. The engagement closed, the company went away and Breton disappeared. Mrs. Marimone made up her mind to do some thing it they came again. Meanwhile, months passed before they came again; monthB during which Freda re ceived a straightforward letter of apology from Breton,-the which she returned with a little note bidding him tear both up and consider the matter forgotton; monthst dur ing which frequent letters came" to Daisy in the same hand, letters full of care for her; months during which Breton appeared here and there. The unconstrained conrtesy be tween Freda and him at such times taught Daisy to confess to herself that somehow she had been mistaken; months which, how ever, finally passed.. The frames were again outside the theater, the saucy face, was again for sale at Pollacks, the papers an nounced Miss Sonaday among the arrivals at the Kenton, and Mrs. Marimone de termined to do the something. These people could always be bought ofE Mrs. Marimone determined to see thegirl nnd buy her off. Mrs. Marimone with Fido betook herself in her private coupe to the Kenton. "Who on earth is it, do you suppose?" said Freda, flipping the card to Daisy. "Sure it's lor me Miss Sonaday?" "Yes, Miss." "Is it a does she look like a lady?" The boy was promptly sure she did. "A lady with a bag, isn't she a handbag. "Yes, miss; a green one." "Of course! Face wash!" "I suppose so," said Daisy. "You won't 'bother to see her!" "Oh, these face-wash people are always interesting, and now and then they have a good face wash. Are you in for a bottle if I plunge myself?" "No! You know what the last did. It combined chemically with the patent rouge you got and dyed me purple." "We'll make it green this time," laughed Freda, and went down to see the face-wash person, t The reception room was empty save for one lady, an elderly, ponderous personage, and distinctly a lady. She deposited a very small and greon blanketed dog on the sofa beside her, and rose with severe self pos session as Freda paused in the tioorway. "Not face wash," thought Freda. "Mrs. Marimone,?" she questioned with pretty un certainty, referring to the card she held. "Mrs. Marimone," returned the lady with, finality. She motioned Freda to a chair and reseated herself. "With your permission, I may presume as much,' corrected Freda quietly, with an air of wondering what she had to do , with it. Again Mrs. Marimone fonnd herself at a loss. "Ihave understood," she went on, as if in pursuit of the recommended frankness, "that my nephew' attentions have been seriously arrested by ." Mrs. .Mari mone altered her more direct intent and ended "by a lady on the stage." "Your manner in putting the fact Im presses me," said Freda, respectfully, "but I fail to see why I am honored by your con fidence." The girl's self-possession was not im pertinent, bnt it was absolute. V ifi nn ir 3 AMERICAN STAGE. THE DISPATCH "I shall hope to secure your interest," said Mrs. Marimone, with deepening sever ity. "Mr. Breton is of an old and distin guished family, his relatives have long looked to his auzmentin? the honor of the l family by a befitting alliance. We learn kuak 1113 iuicieai, is aujafeufcijr vcgicu an present in a ladv on tne stages we ." "If," said Freda, gravely, "if Mr. Breton contemplate augmenting the honor of his family by an alliance with a lady on the stage Mr. Breton and his family have my felicitations." During the pause that ensued Mrs. Mari mone felt her scheme of action somewhat unbalanced by Freda's appearance. No paint, glossy reddish hair neatlj held in place in spite of curls, a very simple dark dress and ahl it was short! and the buttons of the bodice crossed diagonally. Mrs. Marimone gathered determination as she observed the buttons, "My dear young lady," she said! "My business with yon. is confidential and im portant. Can I see yon in some less open place?" "Face-wash, after all," thought Freda. "I regret," she said with some reserve, "that I have no more secluded place at my disposal." Mrs. Marimone felt resentful. She knew very weil'that actresses always have suites. "3ray I add," continued Freda, "that my time is limited." Mrs. Marimone lifted her lorgnette and began decisively: "Mr. Breton 13 my nephew." This appeared to Mrs. Marimone an ex cellent opening to the conversation, but Freda only cooed, "Ahl" Mrs. Marimone found herself at a loss. "Miss Sonaday," she went on with some effort, "it is best to be frank. My nephew's interests are dear to me. You will under stand that." Mrs. Marimone swelled. "You might be aware," she said, "that it is not customary for gentlemen to choose wives from the stage." "I cannot believe," said Freda, quietly, "that Mrs. Marimone has honored me with MY NEPHEW. a visit for the sole purpose of insulting my profession. If she nas, I must assure her that what I will not hear from intimates I cannot hear from a stranger." Mrs. Marimone felt she had made a mis take, but she continue'd firmly: "Miss Son aday, there are doubtless many estimable actresses on the stage, yet Mr. Breton's family have other plans for him. I trust you understand." "Indeed I do not," returned Freda, in a deep voice. "I become each moment, my dear Mrs. Marimone, jnoro mentally in volved. Do you wish roe to convey to the lady on the stage the regrets of 'the family,' tempered by an expression of your personal sense of obligation or how can I serve you?" "Do not trifle," commanded Mrs. Mari mone. "My nephew, Mr. Breton, is devot ing his attention to you. I have come to point out to you Mr. Breton's high stand ing and to protest against your encourage-,, ment of his infatuation." Miss Sonaday made a sharp move and Mrs. Marimone hastened to add: "I I appeal to your womanliness, and I assure you, besides,, that Mr. Breton's family will " Mrs. Marimone stuck inglon- ously. "Will willingly?" assisted Freda. Mrs. Marimone gasped and continued: "Mr.- Breton's family wiH. willingly maka consideration for them profitable to you." Freda leaned back and regarded Mrs. Marimone thoughtfully. Mrs. Marimone, she observed,was an elderly lady, evidently a misguided elderly lady. Also, Mrs. Mar imone was probably Daisy's future aunt. Freda turned all this over in her mind, Mrs. Marimone, meanwhile, devoted her- self to hoping the girl would not insist upon too high a figure. At last Freda spoke: 'Your appeal to my womanliness is badly put. Upon consideration, however, I find myself unable to reply to your appeal to my pocket, as, believe me, my dear Mrs. Mari mone, it richly deserves. Upon the former score, therefore, I speak, and, I assure yon, such womanliness as I have speaks with me., That a woman is an actress usually means that she is more beautiful, more attractive, more accomplished than are your own so ciety daughters. That a woman is an ac tress guarantees that she can be a breadwin ner, 'the which your society daughters usually cannot be, though their husbands fail and their children starve. That a good woman is an actress means that a good woman's boner has stood such a proot as your .well-guarded society daughters seldom meet, and possibly could not stand. The man who loves such a woman has placed his heart welL The man who is lucky enough to win such a woman has crowned his life nobly. When such a woman accepts from a man, worthy of her, the name of "wife' the bargain is as fair a ope as ever heaven smiled upon." Mrs. Marimone seemed about to choke, but Freda continned: -"'Were I such a ' woman and such a man wooed me I would marry him if the King and all the court said no! If your nephew loves such a woman, and she will have him? yonrnephew is to be congratulated, and this, Mrs. Mari mone, with my compliments to his family." Freda bowed, and with her chin well set swept from the room actually swept, in spite of her short skirts. CHAPTER IX A DXCTiABATTrcr. It was none of her business to whom Mr. Breton might give his attention. Daisy said that to herself a dozen times a day, yet HM Sr, 't I atJ&as w
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