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SMOKING MEBR1HUANA, j
It Fills Mexican Peons With Some
thing Like Delirium Tremens.
Water bugs and worms are among
the tidbits in which, the Mexican peon
delights. He catches his bugs as they
skim along the top of fresh water
ponds, drying them and then eating
them with as much zest as an Ameri
can boy eats peanuts. As near as the
peon can explain it, their flavor is
something on the order of the chest
nut, but as no white man has ever
tried eating water bugs, or if he has
doesn't dare confess it, the exact taste
of these Mexican morsels can't be de
scribed very accurately.
The peons dote, too, on the nice,
fat pulque worm. This insect is about
two inches long and half an inch thick.
They fry the dainty in grease and
pack it in brown paper packages of
a dozen worms, which fetch 2 cents
a paper. An industrious pulque worm
collector makes a good living.
The worm inhabits the maguey or
pulque plant, from which is distilled
the agua mieL or honey water, of
Mexico. After twenty-four hours fer
mentation it is very intoxicating. Aft
er the Mexican has primed himself
with several drinks of agua miel and
has smoked half a dozen cigarettes
made of the dried leaf of the merri
huana weed and brown paper he is
ready for any crime of violence.
This combination of stimulant and
narcotic has the effect of deluding the
victim into thinking that his enemy
and every peon has a choice collection
of enemies is a pygmy in stature. At
the same time it gives him an idea
that he is tremendously strong and
wonderfully brave. So he sallies forth
to make mincemeat of his enemy or
enemies, and, as a rule, lands in the
local calaboose"
One of the peculiar effects of mer
rihuana smoking is to distort the size
of all animals, making- them of enor
mous size and horrible shape. The
smoker is filled with a horrible fear,
something like the horrors brought on
by delirium tremens. A kitten or a
puppy to his distorted vision appears
as some terrible creature. A common
sight in Mexico is to see a swarthy
"greaser," armed to the teeth, flee in
terror from a small dog, while he
would fearlessly attack any man with
his knife or his machete.
A FAMOUS RACE
The Greatest Steamboat Contest orrthe
Mississippi River.
The greatest race ever run on the
Mississippi was between the Natchez,
a boat built in Cincinnati and com
manded by Captain T. P. Leathers,
and a New Albany boat, the Robert E.
Lee, under Captain John W. Cannon.
There was spirited rivalry between the
two vessels, and when the Natchez
made the fastest time on record be
tween New Orleans and St. Louis
(L278 miles in 3 days 21 hours 58 min
utes) Captain Cannon resolved to beat
it. He engaged the steamer Frank
Pargoud and several fuel boats . and
arranged for them to meet him at va
rious points up the river with wood
and coal. Then he had his boat cleared
of all her upper works likely to catch
the wind or make the vessel heavier.
On Thursday, June 20, 1S70, at 4:45
p. m., the Robert E. Lee steamed out
of New Orleans. The Natchez follow
ed five minutes later. The race had
been advertised in advance and was
now awaited with gathering interest
at all the river towns. Large crowds
were assembled at Natchez, Vicksburg,
Helena and other large Places
Hetween Cairo .and St. Louis the
Natchez afterward claimed to have lost
seven hours and one minute on account
of a fog and broken machinery. The
Robert E. Lee, however, was not de
layed and arrived in St. Louis thirty
three minutes ahead of the previous
record established by her competitor.
Fifty thousand people from the house
tops, the levee and the docks of other
steamers welcomed the winner as she
steamed into port. Captain Cannon
was the lion of the hour. The business
men gave a banquet in his honor.
Travel Magazine.
A SIMPLE YOUNG MAN.
Parable of the Bundle of Sticks
Brought Down to Date.
Ellis O. Jones, in Life, relates the
following interesting tale. Of course
it has a moral all interesting and
truthful stories have:
The old man called his son to him
to explain the mysteries of business.
"My son, said he, "you have finish
ed college, and you must make a show
at least of getting busy. Let me ex
plain to you a few fundamentals. Here
I have a bundle of sticks. See if you
can break them."
The young man had been absent
from school with appendicitis at the
time his class had read the old story
of the bundle of sticks, and so be was
not next. He tried and tried to break
the sticks, but could not.
"See how easy it is," said the old
man. taking the sticks, cutting the
cord and breaking them one by one.
"Gee, that's a bum joke!" said the
young man as he puffed his cigarette
and tried to look interested.
"It's no joke," said the old man. "It
is a parable. The bundle of sticks tak
en together represent organization,
which is verv desirable in the case of
capital. If. however, we look upon the
sticks as representing labor it is crim
inal and immoral for them to be tied
together. They won Id then represent
a union. Always keep your capital
sticks tied together and your labor
sticks separate."
"I should think what's sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander," said
the son. whose point of view was still
blunt.
"It depends on how big a goose yoa
are," replied the old man.
Brewery Workers Accomplishments.
Reports read to the International
Union of United Brewery Workers
convention in Chicago the other day
show an immense gain in the organi
zation in Canada. Among the success
ful accomplishments of the past year
were the organizing of the women em
ployed in the bottling shops of Milwau
kee, St. Louis and Lacrosse. Wis, and
the voluntary affiliation with the or
ganization on the part of the beer
drivers of St. PauL'who formerly were
members of the Teamsters' Interna
tional union. In the matter of juris
diction between the Brewery Workers
union and the Steam Engineers union
it was decided by the convention that
a referendum vote should be taken by
the engineers in the breweries as to
which international they desired to af
filiate with.
To Unionize Working Girls. 1
In a report made to the Central Fed
erated union Miss Leonora O'Reilly 01
the Women's Trade Union league said
that the league bad formed a large
committee to organize thoroughly I be
800.000 working girls in Greater
New York. With this end in view,
she said, the city is to be divided into
districts, each member of the commit
tee to be in charge of a district.
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