February S, lfoS.
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FEATURES OF LIFE IN MEXICO
Obitrratiois aid Imprassion of an Omaha
TraTtler.
PICTURESQUE SCENES IN CAPITAL CITY
Koalneaa aa4 PacIbI rton Karri
na4 aarprlaln Annrnneea
ft b Tip reeallarltlva
of Satire Basse.
Aire In Meaioo, away from ths pmiae
tlon of tha stars anil atrlpea. I rall"l
that my conduct tnuat b exemplary, aa
from two to a orn Mexican policemen
with sabers and revolvers hanging from
their bait, wra patrollnir every atatlon.
The road from Laredo to Mexico City took
us through a barren desert with little to
attract ona. sxcept tha email villages of
adobe homes and different varieties of
cacti, changing with the altitude. Theae
a (lobe houses are about sixteen by twenty
feet, ona-story, tha walls are made of sun
dried clay brick, and tha roof la made of
native g raj was. They bare no floors or
furniture. They build their fire In the
renter of thla house, and the entire family,
together with tha hogs, chicken, dogs and
cats, sleep and lira in tha them. '
At ona of tha stations on the National
railroad I was vary much Impressed by the
sight of a number of natlre women, dressed
In tha ordinary costume of the natlre. who
came with water Jam to art the waste
.water from tha engine, .and I noticed a
number of then) who engaged in a rery
vlgoroua s truffle to be serred first, and
when they would secure their jars full
cif water they would carry them on their
head. ' I was Informed they often oome a
.rilHtanca Of from a half to sereral mllea.
water being rery scarce In this high alti
tude. eeaas la Mexico City.
Upon reaching- Mexico City a different
view ta presented. Passing- through a beau
tiful park In front of the railroad station,
which opens out upon tha principal avenue
leading from tha Alaroato to the president's
castle, Chapultepao, you take a rab ana
ure drlrsn past the fashionable residences,
and . by tha Alameda, which Is tha
city park, to the hotel. On Bundsy morn
ing we went to tha Alameda, where wa
'saw and heard the aama Mexican band
which faro red Omaha muslo lovers with
' such charming muslo during our exposi
tion. Tha park la a delightful spot, filled
with banana paJraa and ornamental trees,
as wall as shrubbery and flowsrs.
lit tha afternoon wa visited Chapultepeo,
about four mllea from the center of the
city. At ona part of It la a toologleal
garden, which baa a specimen of nearly
every wtld animal and bird of tha republic,
' and In tha center of tha park Is an eleva
tion about 100 feet high, covering perhaps
five acres of ground. In this park Is tha
- historic and pioturesque hill of Chapul
tepeo, surrounded by Ita beautiful forest,
gardens, springs, lakea and ancient resi
dence of the Asteo kings. Tha front of
tha castle overlooking tha city Is occupied
by tha president, and tha rear la occupied
by tha Mexican Military academy, whloh
was founded In 182. In 1847, when the
American army Invaded the country and
tormed Chapultepeo, It was heroloally de
fended ty the cadets, and at the foot of
Chapultepeo hill stand a monument erected
In honor of those bravo defenders.
, A couple of days can be put In to good
advantage In Mexico City, visiting the
stores, the public market, cathedrals and
the National museum. Wa climbed the
long, winding atone stairs leading to the
belfry of tha cathedral, and from there
had a fins view of tha city. Its lakes aa well
aa tha mountain ranges surrounding It, and
(o the aoutheaat, In ail their grandeur, we
saw the giant peaks of Popocatepetl and
Ixtaoclhuatl, entirely covered with snow.
Tha .bull fighting season was on and
of course offers a great attraction. How
ever, tha educated people of Mexloo aee the
brutallslng and demoralising effect It has
lmon tha naonle. and it will be a sreat
ten forward In Its civilisation when that
sport Is abolished.
The English-speaking population of the
city Is about 7,000. The population is
about three times thst of Omaha, three
fourths of which comprises the lowest
clitee of laborers.
Life oa tha Market Place.
.The Mexican market is a large one-story
building, about 250 feet square, built of
steel and glass with stone floor. It has
acven aisles, in which the people rent
apace, and here you can buy almost every
thing In the way of eatables. Kverythlng
Is usually apportioned out in two centavos.
The women arrange their vegetables or
goods In little plies on a blanket spread
on the floor or tables. These will
be little piles .of three or four
heads of lettuce, little plies of half a
dot en small white onions; If thj potatoes
ore sbout the site of on egg the pile will
v consist Of about three. There W.U be
' about two tablespoons of bea:is, and a
tiy small cabbage cut In two, and a small pile
uf red peppers. The women aqua: on the
ground by the side of their goods, whether
they be flowers, fruit, vegetable or mea
nnd the shoppers go to the market with
small baskets inadn out of native reed,
which ere well nmle and very chciip i
.bought one at Cordoba tilled with eighteen
large oranges for 28 cenUvo. Kverythlng
the women buy they place In tlilx basket,
with perhsps a cubbuge leaf hore and
there to separata the different articles.
Outside of the large stores no wrapping
paper Is used. Teople go to the meat mar
ket for a pound or two of meat and the
butcher ties a string around It, and they
carry H through the street by the string.
In the markets they also have very tine
gnm. venison and large rabbits, weighing
IV IT WELL.
Familiar Features Well Known
to H rid reds of Omaha 1
Citizens.
A familiar burdeu In every home.
Tha bnrden of a 'bad back."
A lame, a weak or an aching back,
Telia of kld.ney Ills.
Doan's Kidney rills will cure you.
Her U Omaha testimony to prove It.
Mr. W. V. Doollttle, No. 'M Houih
'ifith utreet., engineer on the I'ulou
raelfle R. R., nays: "For two years
and a-haif I bad backache. At nrt I
thought very llttln of It, but during
the winter of 1HIW it utntlnally jrrew
worse, anil I aw that something bml
to b doue. Getting up and down frtui
tli enjrlne gar me no small amount of
trouble. I could acaively endure the
pain and thought sometimes niy buck
would break, Procuring Doan's Kid
ney Pills at Kuhn A co s drug store.
I took them and they completely cured
i::e."
-For sale by all dealer. Trice ftrto.
Foater-Mllburn Co., RufTalo, X. Y miIa
agenta fur the T S.
Remember the name, Doan's, and tiiko
do other.
perhnpe fifteen found, very much larger
than our northej-n rabbit, Tli rhkkens
are all aold alive, la early times they
picket th -hicktna allva at the market
and the purchiuKT did not kill them until
tht-y were taken home. In order that they
might save the blood and make a fine
sauce, but some years ago the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, which has a branch in MUco,
had this barbarous practice stopped.
The morning I happened to be In the
market the revenue official came around
with hla book of S-cent stamps, and every
woman, no matter if she sold only 10
cents worth of good, had to purchase one
of these starrest.
Cutoa af Tlpplaax.
Another notlrahle holdup Is the custom
of tipping, which is very general through
out Mexico, especially in the capital. It
haa grown Into such s practice that It
one neglects to tip he finds himself very
much neglected. The hackman who took
us to our hotel, after receiving his so
cents, followed us around for nearly twen
ty minutes asking for his tip. The boot
black, after receiving his 10 cents, expects
an additional S cent, and the cargador
expects the same.
And right here let tne say a word about
the cargador. He takes the place of tho
hore In our country. He Is a compara
tively short man. very stout and with broad
sho'.tlders. All of them carry a brass chain
with a numbered check attached to It, so
that whenever you have any controversy
with him. or desire to report him to the
police you do so by hla number. The
principal tent for obtaining his license Is
that he must be able to carry a minimum
of 250 pounds on his back. You have bag
gage that you can scarcely lift, and you
send for a cargador; he swings It over his
shoulders and walks sway as easily as
though It weighed but a few pounds At
Vera Cms cargndors assisted In carrying
our grips from the railroad station to the
street car, and from the street car to the
hotel. I gave them SO rente apiece, aftor
paying their car fare. They were not sat
Isfled with that and Impudently asked for
a dollar. After parleying over It I told
them I woald get n policeman, and they
said all right, because they knew there
were none there, and they waited around
tha hotel and kept up their abusive tnlk.
We then explained the matter to the hotel
man, and he told them that If we paid
their car fare and gave them 60 cents
apiece they were more than paid. When
they found they could not get anything
more they commenced to beg, and said,
"Benor Amerlcaner, please give us 26 cents
more, because we had to wait so long for
ths street car, and I told them that If they
had acted decent I would have given them
a quarter, but as It was they must va
moua, which means to get out. In going
from the hotel to the depot In Mexico City
the driver took us out of our way several
blocks so he might go over half the hour,
and thereby charge an additional 26 cents.
Until lately nearly everything was carried
on the backs of these cargadors. I saw
several of them handling household goods
by the use of hand trucks; however, one
may now find plenty of carts and heavy
transfer wagons.
Mexican lanaeta.
About an hour after sunset I observed a
very bright sky In the west. This strange
phenomenon cannot be seen north of the
Tropic of Cancer. About half an hour after
sunset it appears as a glow of silver light
and extends Into the sky about 46 degrees.
In the winter It Is seen after sunset and
about the time of the summer solstice It
appears before sunrise. Twenty years ago
when I studied astronomy Ita origin was
absolutely unknown. It Is probably due to
the luminous rings or bands about the earth
t the equatorial region, somewhat like tha
bands of Saturn.
Within a radius of at least 100 miles of
Mexico City there grow Immense fields of
the maguey plant, commonly known as the
century plant In the United States. I al
ways had the mistaken idea on account of
Its name that It did not blossom until It
was 100 years old. The plants blossom In
their native country when about 10 years
old. They blossom but once and then die.
When they are ready to blossom they send
up an Immense spike twelve to fifteen feet
high and four to six inches In diameter,
tapering toward the top; then the flowers
come out which look like a giant lilac bios-
some. Once It haa blossomed It loses Its
commercial value. The plants are raised
from little suckers taken from the parent
plant when six to eight Inches high and
planted quite close together; when they
are about 2 years old they are again trans
planted Into rows about ten feet apart each
way. They then grow until , they ure 4
years old, when they are ready to be
tapped, and the natives extract a Juice
which In Central America and Mexico Is
converted Into a fermented drink called
pulque. The sap, which abounds in sugar
and mucilage when the plant Is about to
flower. Is at that time drawn Into a cavity
formed by cutting Into the heart of the
plant, and the sap will remain in this cup
shaped heart. The yield may be as much
as two gallons a day for several months.
Mexican Boose.
The juice Is fermented in reservoirs of
rawhide and pig akiiu and early In the
process, say within two or three days, It
is )ilt asu lit., resembling spruco beer, but at
the end acquires the putrid odor of the ani
mal matter contained In the hides. It is
only for quick consumption and after five
or six days la thrown uway. It Is sold In
the city for 1 cent a glass, or 3 cents a
quart, and the poor people practically live
on It and tortlllua.
These saloons are dirty, gaudy holes In the
wall and have a sour smell that you can
detect a block away, especially In warm
weather. As they are pretty strong now,
I wonder what It will bo In July and
August. Ho hi ml tho bar ure a couple of
sloppy looking Mexicans, who servo thla
drink out of open barrels. When they
bring It In from the country In these pig
skins, they1 empty it Into the barrels In ths
saloons. The Mexican woman of the lower
class Is not allowed In a cnntlna, a modern
sulonn, but la allowed In pulquero, a
pulque Joint. You will sea the Mexicans
with their wives and children all squat
ting on the floor nnd eating tortillas and
drinking this pulque nnd they drink so
much of It that they get senselessly full,
when the police have to take them off.
And that reminds me of the halani, or
the Mexican Jail. I could not get inside,
but I looked through the bars. The first
thing they put a man In Is what Is called
"In comunlcado." for three days. Nobody
ran see him. He cannot speak to any
body, no matter how Innocent or guilty he
may be; even If he Is arrested on suspicion
he cannot speak to a soul for three days.
I met an Englishman who got Into a fight
In Mexico City, and he was arrested and
sent to bulam, and he snld he had no bed
or covering of any kind. He had to sleep
on the hard stone floor for three days,
after which he was allowed, at his own ex
pense, to send out for a mattress and
blankets and also to communicate with
counsel or friends. He said the place waa
absolutely filthy and lousy and the food la
absolutely unfit for a civilised man to eat.
Ood pity any American who gets Into a
Mexican Jail, for he will have great diffi
culty In getting out alive.
t'nrlona I .aw a.
To show you how nonsensical some tit
their laws are, I will relate an experience
of a friend of mine, who la manager for a
large plantation company In Mexico, with
a policeman one nlgl.t In the city of Cor
doba. He was looking for a laborer one
evening In the lenidence part of the lit
and had his addresa on an envelope. He
was not lumlllar with the streets, so he
saw a rural s (or potlaamam lantern sit
ting at U Interawctlo of the streets, ard
tl.e rurale waa sitting In a doorway some
little distance away. In order to save him
the trout le of gtt!ng up he lifted the lan
tern up In his hand so he could se the
address on the envelope, and the policunan
Immediately put him under arrest that
being an offense under the law. of which
Mr. Randolph waa Ignorant. Fortunately
for him he had his wife with him and the
hotel keeper, who was a native Mexican,
and all taken to Jail. They wanted to de
tain Mr. Randolph, but the hotel man ex
plained that aa he did not know the laws
It would be a crime to detain him, but that
he would be responsible for his appesranoe
In the morning. They all went back to the
hotel and sought the advice of a Mexican
lawyer. He went back to the prison with
them snd told the comlsssra what a sin It
waa to arrest this man, and further stated
that If they arrested him and put him In
jail It would cost tha policemen a certain
sum of money, together with hla position,
but that If they Insisted on taking him that
he (the lawyer) would remain In hla steed.
Mr. Randolph was not detained, snd the
next morning the jefe politico, who In Mex
ico Is the Judge, sheriff, magistrate the
whole thing asked the rurale why he ar
rested Mr. Randolph and he replied: "I
had to discharge my duty." The Jefe po
litico then said: "You would have dls
charged your duty had you arrested a na
tive, but you know this wss sn American
who did not understand our laws, and in
consequence you will loee your position.
Mr. Randolph said thst had he been a
stranger In the city he might not have
fared so well. The government of Mexico
has a reward of $:"5 for every policeman's
lantern that can I taken from a police
mn. WILLIAM 8. HELLER.
LABOR AND IVDISTHV.
There are more than 60,000 electricians In
me l nitea state.
A achool for the study of shorthand Is
conducted by the Canadian Pacific railroad
at Montreal, Canada, for the benefit of em
ployea.
There are 44 Yrt hotels In the t'nlte.1
States, representing an Invested capital of
over iimkkukv.uio. These establishments em
ploy J.uOO.OOO persons.
According to the statements made by
those who have tnvesttpated the subject,
among whom are charity organization
woraers ann pnilantnropists. mere are ino,
000 Idle men In New York City at present.
Michigan state labor bureau reports that
labor was sesree last year and many fac
tories were forced to run at less than full
capacity. H aher waaes were paid, the ad
vance amounting to about 6 rents per day
per capita.
Do strikes pay? The recent rough esti
mate that the total cost to strikers, employ
ers and the publlo during the twenty years
enning witn laou was i,iw,vuu.wv may oe
rainy correct. Every strike involves waste,
snd the public, as a rule, suffers more than
eitner employer or employe.
The pig Iron furnaces of the United States
were producing at the rate of 19.600.000 tons
per annum during the month of December.
The output for the year 1904 waa not up to
tha records of 1002 and 1908, but the opera
tions for December Indicate thst 190& may
surpass all previous years In production.
The labor department of the Dublin Ire
Inn,!. Hrv.rH nt Trade reDorta that employ
ment was. on the whole, rather worse dur
ing the last month. As compared with a
year ago most trades show a decline. In
the 274 trade unions, with an aggregate
membership pf'over 600000. 7 per cent were
reportea as unompioyea ai me mu oi
vember. . . .
The Iron Molders' Union of North Amer
ica paid out the sum of 1278,806. S7 In benefits
during the year 1904. outside of strike pay.
It waa divided as follows: Death benefits.
164,400; sick benefits, 1306,698, 26; out-of-work
benefits, $18,708.11!. As the organisation haa
no stipulated out-of-work benefits the latter
sum represents exemption from dues to
members out of employment.
China's resources of coal and Iron are
among the largest and most favorably sit
uated In the world, according to Engineer
ing. The extent of the great coal flelda has
been put at 400,000 square miles twice the
area of France and more than seventy
times the aggregate extent of all the coal
fields of Britain. Of the quality of the de
poslts much haa yet to be learned, but the
distinguished German geologist. Baron von
Rlchtofen, reported many years ago that
both the anthracite and bituminous varie
ties were equal to the best product In Eu
rope. '
RELIGIOUS NOTES. '
The Roman Catholics are prosecuting vig
orously a mission among the Kentucky
mountain people
The Woman's Foreign MIsbIoti Board of
the Interior are planning to place $100,000
In the treasury by October next.
riMA a th tandlnr evanaellata In the
great Welah revival la a Miss Rees, who Is
quite young, but la very successful as a
singing evangeimi.
The receipts of the American board for
December, 1904, amounted to Io9.906.16, of
which 831.023.81 came from donations and
$882.35' from legacies.
The fiftieth yeur of the regular weekly
publication of the sermons of the late Rev.
Charles II. Spurgeon has Just been com
pleted. The Jubilee sermon is numbered
I.tsw.
''The Rev. K. W. Wottrott, the American
missionary, who for twelve years has been
laboring in Central Africa, Is visiting this
country. He worVs among the people of
the Sutnaraeus ae7t.
Most Kev. Arrfliblshop Williams, whose
eyes have been successfully operated upon
for cataract, Is doing well. He Is still at
Carney hospital, but it Is expected he will
recover the use of his eyes.
A Christian woman In Tokio Is having
30,000 "comfort bags'' made for th soldiers
in the field, into each one of which she
puts one of the gospels and a tract. -The
soldiers welcome these gifts most heartily.
Over 2 per cent of the membership of the
Presbyterian church in Japan has gone to
war. This Is more than twice the pro
portion of enlistments from the general
population. 8ixty-one Presbyterians are
officers In tho army or navy.
President Roosevelt, under the personal
recommendation of Archbishop Farley,
has appointed Rev. Joseph M. McQlnty of
New York to be a naval chaplain. The
stalwart young priest la six feet tall, light
complexloned and an athlete.
The American Bible society has recently
received a number of Interesting communi
cations from Its agent in Japan, the Rev.
Mr. Looinls, who says: "We have donated
more than 3'J.OeO testaments and guspels
among the 4S,uoo wounded Japanese sol
diers." The First Church of Christ (Christian
Science) in Boston called the Mother
church, reported, November 1, 1904. a mem
bership of 31. 4, a gain of 8.U0O for the
past year. There are now 610 Christian
Science churches, besides the Mother
church, in tha United States.
A statement comes from Baltimore that
J. Plerpont Morgan will come to the relief
of the Catholic University of America by
purchasing the Woodley property, the title
to which that institution claims under a
deed executed by Mr. Wn gunman. There is
also a rumor that Mr. Morgan may make
a large donation to the unverslty.
The Free Methodist mission In Africa,
which Is to be formed into an annual con
ference, comprises six stations, with four
teen American missionaries and thirty-five
native catechlsts and helpers, six organ
lxed churches. The mission property is
valued at $56,150. and the native contribu
tions lsst year amounted to $446.
Rev. Dr. Clifford of Ixjndon. as president
of the Liberation society, has Issued a
strong appeal to the Free churches on the
subject of disestablishment. Dr. Clifford
says: "The evils of the state establishment
of religion fire making themselves more snd
more manifest to the minds of the electo
rate." He believes that "disestablishment
must speedily become a question of prac
tical politics.''
Very Rev. George M. Searle. In addressing
the New York Congregational club recently,
"gently rebuked Protestants in general for
being unacquainted with the literature cir
culated by the Paullsts, yet repudiating It
wholly." Father Searle, who is the head of
the order of Paullst Fathers, was listened
to with grent delight by the club, whieh
had an unusually large attendance to listen
to him and Dr. Gladden, its luvitsd guests.
Rev. F. E. Hlgglns. the logging ramp
Presbyterian missionary of northern Min
nesota, travels all over the timber region
of that state with a dog sled. Mr. Higgles
weighs over 'Ml pounds, hut his dogs have
hauled him forty miles In six nnd s hr If
hours. Sometimes he makes a journey of
2f miles in the dead of winter through the
forests and sleeps between his dog, sll
three covered by a blanket.
Pope Plus X does not believe In nepotism.
A brother of his is a postal clerk In Man
tua, one of hla sisters keeps s tavern st
Kitse, another does tailoring at Talsano. a
third keeps a store. The two sisters who
used to do his housekeeping followed him to
Rome. They do not llva in the Vatican,
however, but have a few room In a quiet
part cf the clly, where they do their own
work. They cannot call on the pope with
out previously notifying B.slc tl, ths maes
tro di CHS'
THE RETURN OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
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The Adventure of the Empty House
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
The Adventure of the Triory School
The Adventure of Black Peter
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
The Adventure of the Three Students
' The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nea
' The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
The Adventure of the Abbey Grunge
The Adventure of the Second Stuiu
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