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after acre, mile after mile, of eeen. tury" plants laid out in rows that stretch away to the horizon wbetbaS it is at the hay edge of mighty nIair or at the summit of a rugged and steen mountain. You wonder at the i'm. mensity of the thing. Haciendas win have their thousands of acres planted in nothing but the maguey, or, as the Americans call it, the century" plant The earth is laid out in one tremendous pattern, maguey plants in long sween. ing perspective.
 Well, it Is from this plant that the natives make pulque.
 Pulque is the juice taken from the heart of the maguey and allowed to ferment for one day After that time it must be consumed within twenty. four hours or it is positively useless The railroads that run through tha principal maguey districts operate fast early-morning pulque trains in much the same fashion that the roads that run through Orange county, N. Y. op. crate early-morning milk trains to New York. From the depots it is hustled in wagons and on the backs of porters to the innumerable saloons and from thence dispensed to the public
 Mescal and tequila are two native rivals of pulque. Mescal is a sort of a cousin to whisky, although to the eye it is as clear as water, and tequila is to mescal as brandy is to whisky. They are both wrung from the heart of the magney plant In low part of the country where pulque cannot be pro duced the natives use meseal, for this beverage is of course capable of long journeys, and where native can get puIque he usually prefers 1t.
 The effects of pulque is witnessed in the natives, does not seem to be so pyrotechnic and clamorous as are the effects of certain other drinks upon the citizens of certain other nations. The native. flledwit pulque, seldom wishes to fight. Usually he prefers to adore his friends. They will hang together in front of bar, three or four of them, their legs bending, their arms about each others neeks, their faces lit with an expression of the most ideal affec- tion and supreme brotherly regard. It would be difficult to make an impress sion on their feelings at these times with a club. Their whole souls are completely absorbed in this beatifc fraternal tenderness.
 Still, there are certain mixtures, cer- tain combinations which invariably
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times day pretty girls gather Ito plan excursions, abjure fogs, exchange nov els and eat chocolate bonbons, all with "the most delightful liberality in the display of scarlet stockings, which, with high-heeled slippers and spark ling buckles, are scattered over the verandas like peoples in the field?"
 Mrs Burton Harrison is still here, the Rodick is still here, the scarlet stockings are still here; everything is the same and yet everything is changed. The fish pond" of the Rodick, as the office of this famous hotel used to be called, because such tempting bait was here available, and so many gslden fish were caught by fair girl anglers, is not quite the rendezvous of old. It was in the fish pond" that Fred Geb- hard met Miss Lulu Morris, now Mrs. Gebhard, and it was the possibilities of the fish pond that made the original summer girl, if the summer girl ever had an original, sigh: Better three hours of Mount Desert than three seasons of New York;" but though there are still scarlet pettieoats and scarlet umbrellas, and though the blackboard and the canoe are in their glory, Bar Harbor
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her big picture hat. A scarlet sash is folded into close belt about her waist and tied with long floating ends behind. The hat, by the way, is of green shirred muslin, airy and dainty enough for 9 garden party. There are water colors handy and a book, but Miss Morton, for it is the eldest daughter of the governor of New York whom one has caught rocking" is looking out over the water of Frenchman's bay. A young man lies at her feet in such com fort as young men can take upon rocks, and little beyond is blonde girl all in white, from the dancing plume of her white organdie hat to the toe of her little white shoe. Her white organdie dress stirs with every puff of wind that plays with the curls of her red gold hair.
 Rocking by moonlight is more chilly and more sentimental. The warning light in the tower of Egg Rock light house shines like a star upon the hori- zon. The waters are still, save for the flash of canoe paddle or the refrain of boating song. The cry of a loon sounds from overhead like the shriel1 of lost soul going out with the tide Presently the fog settles down damp and dark, taking the curl out of one's hair, and inclining one to nestle rather closely, for protection only, to the side of the nearest young man. Thus it is that engagements are made at Bar Harbor.
 Perhaps the best canoeist hereis Mrs. Frederick Gebhard, who manages her dainty shell of birch, with it's crimson
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ton wore white corded silk with broad satin ribbons. Miss Mary Harrison, of Philadelphia, who has some claims to the belleship, wore shadowy India mus lin over silk of so delicate tint as to suggest the flush of pink rather than to force attention to the color. Mrs. John Minturn wore Persian mauye silk and Mrs. Morris K. Jessup black accordion-plaited muslin trimmed with white lace edgings and with white lace collar.
 Beautiful Stanwood is open, but one sees little of Mrs. James G. Blaine. Mrs. Burton Harrison, too, lives very quietly at the "Sea Urchins." Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York World, has spent more money than one would like to count improving "Chat- wold," an enormous place, all turrets and towers. On Ogdens Point George w. Vanderbilt is lavishing money with out stint on his estate, Point d'Ar- cadia.
 But what matter summer palaces or froclxs for the German, when sumae flames, when tall grasses bend beneath their weight of brintage, when giant brakes spread out their layers of green, and when under the shoulder of huge rocks driftwood fires burn close to the surf which swirls up between black and drowning walls. Here is stretch of beach glittering with the green species of sea urchins, there pool filed with star fish and starry anemones. ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
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A JAG OF PULQUE.
Where a Drink Will Fill Ones
 Vision with Sea Serpents.
stephen Crane Describes the Horrors of PuIque and Registers Few Flo auent Vows-Inebriety in the
 City of Mexico.
copvR1GHr. 1895.

The first thing to be done by the in yestigating tourist of Mexico is to begin to drink the national beverage, pulque. The second thing to be done by the Investigating tourist is to cease to drink pulque. This last recommendation, however, is necessary to no one. The human inclination acts automatically, so to speak, in this case. If the great drunkard of the drama should raise his right hand and swear solelnnly never to touch another drop of intoxicating pulque as long as he Hved-so help him Heaven-he would make himself ridic- ulous. It would be too simple. Why should a man ever taste another drop of pulque after having once collided with it?
 But this does not relate to the Mexi- cans. This relates to the foreigner who brings with him numerous super stitions and racial, fundamental tradi- tions concerning odors. To the for
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times handed 1t over to Big Thunder, the red man who is the most expert of all Bar Harbor braves with the shin ing blades. Mrs. Astor wears dark blue serge when she goes canoeing, tucked up, fshwife fashion, over a pet ticoat of crimson.
 Miss Hinl5le, of Chicago, has a canoe built especially for her. all silvery grey with the silky birch outside, all blue and silver with puffy cushions within.
 Miss Hinl1le goes as far as Egg Rock lighthouse alone, but not when she can be induced to profit by the muscle of bold volunteer waterman.
 The Bar Harbor canoe is light and swift, nearer the Indian model than any other pleasure boat used. With a crimson parasol at one end and white duck trousers at the other it carries as much summer fun and frolic as a craft can hold.
 The best bicycle rider at Bar Harbor is Mrs. William c. Denny, of Boston, who is out on the ocean drive or bay drive every morning in smart short skirt of cheviot, with blouse and high russet shoes.
 The most graceful rider is Miss Pau line Whitney, whose engagement to .Almeric Hugh Haget does not prevent her taking most lively interest in the wheel. In a white serge costume with blue facings, or in trim-ftting black, with touches of White here and there, she is invariably one of the most pie turesque figures that spin past the
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When the Negro Was Created. :,

The Mexican Indians, as Wen those of the Central American fepsat phot lies, have superstition to the effecs 'tS tbs the negro was made before either atore m white man or the Indian, or even ooif, tor the sun was created. They accouns ade ,s hes color by declaring that he was ina ,.a ce and dried in the dark. Their own 70 l~so ot they say, was made in the morning s,,,, IT the first day, between dayhgh. st aaD in a up. On this account they deiighs o,ber n term which they apply to eaGn ' The and which signifies ''dawn peopie. and white man, 'swho fears darkneso socord. ing to their belief, at noon' on
 day of creation.
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WOMAN AND THE BRuTEs.
The Magic Influence of the Feminine
 Hand.

The Magic Influence of the Feminine
 Hand.
 It has almost passed into an axiom with sportsmen that many horses will bear a woman's hand upon the reins who are absolutely intractable to Q mans control; and if we study ehil- dren learning to ride, we find that although it takes girl seat and proper balance, yet is she rarely more nervous or more tiinid. Certainly women pet their horses more than men. They talk to them, pat them, and make friends with them to greater degree. They do not, howev- CT. as perhaps might be expected, whip them less On the contrary, they, for the most part, adopt Solomon's meth cd of discipline. Few women drive without the whip in constant use. Pos- sibly the symbol of power is in itself dear to them. Compare, in this regard, the frequency with which you find women armed with great dog4whips, utterly unnecessary for the control of their canine pets.
 In this case it is, perhaps, more for show than use that the scourge is car ried, for there are few rarer or more ridicuously ineffective sights than a dog being thrashed by it's mistress. Nevertheless there is much reason to believe that the cultivation of scourge is in some way productive of unfortun- ate results, both intellectual and nor al It may, and generally does, lead to an exaggerated estimate of physical prowess, and ometimes to a lache submission equally injurious to the character of the oppressor and the op- pressed. I think too that much of the petty tyranny which is conspicu- ous in the treatment of women is a corolary from their personal expert encc; one of those cases, wherein the. attempt to exercise power without having acquired due sense of respon- sibility and justice, leads to a form of government at once feeble and vio- lent, afraid to make the slightest com cession lest authority should be wrested from its grasp. Fortnightly Review.
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ONE MILLION DEMIJoANs.

That Is the Annual Consumption, and
 Most of the Biggest Have Water ln
 Them.
 Demiiohns are made bottle-shaped and flask-shaped The bottle-shaped demijohns come in seven sizes, ranging from one pint to five gallons. The fask-shaped are made only in the larger and smaller sizes, and pint, quart and five gallons are virtually it's standard sizes. A great many demi- johns, both flask and bottle-shaped, are used for the distribution of pure water, spring and sterilized. In this country more large demijohns are used for water than for wines and liquors, and the number so used is increasing.
 Next in numbers to the large demi johns used for water are those used for wine and liquors. Chemists and drug gists use many large demijohns; gro- cers use them for vinegar and oils, and many are used for the distribution of fruit extract to. bakers, confectioners and dealers in soda water. The small est sized flask is used as safety pack age. as pocket flash for liquor and quite extensively for perfumery. When used for perfumery and cologne the small fiasks are covered with finer class of reeds and willows. With in year some liquors have been put on sale in pint and quart sized bottle shaped demijohns.
 With the growing use of demijohns for waters there has been a growing demand for q covering through which the water could be seen. Various dem johns of this kind have been made. In one the bottle is placed in 8 wooden crate with a hinged cover, in another the bottle is hooped with wood, in third it is held in frame of reeds.
 Gradually the shipping demijohn has been developed. The ordinary manner of packing demijohns shipped in boxes was to pack them in hay or straw. Demijohns are now packed in boxes specially designed for the purpose. The demijohn is protected by spring cushions of steel or rubber. There are both flask and bottle-shaped shipping demijohns, in various styles, and with variety of cushions and fastenings. There are thirty or more patents on shipping demijohns.
 Ilc duuud1 LII johns in this country is estimated at one million. Much the greater num- Der of these are made in this country; the imported come from Germany The American demijohns are mostly covered with rattan; the majority of those that come from Germany are covered with willow, which is cheaper there. Demijohns are made in this country in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and few in Maryland. Demijohn coverers work in places where the manufacture of glass is car ried on. The materials used are pre- pared by machinery, but the actual work of covering the bottles is done by hand. Some glass manufacturers have of late taken up the making of demijohns on their own account, at that season of the year when the bot tie manufacture slacks off.
 In the east demijohns have largely taken the place of jugs. In the far west jugs are still used, but demijohns are gradually busting them in the south.-N. Y. Sun.
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 A CANOE PARTY.

 their architecture and made them fit better with their foreground of blue water and fairy islands. Money has anchored fleet of pleasure yachts in harbor side by side with the fishing smacls and the birch canoes, and withal money has not yet driven away the painters, the students, the professors who would be boys again, and all the merry band of vacationers who wear stout shoes, dress like (artistie) tramps and live like gods together through long days of glorious sunshine in this crystal atmosphere.
 The Bar Harbor girl sits on the rocks The world is familiar with that fact. Before she leaves home she plans her summer wardrobe to be effective against a rock. The best rocks are along the shore walk. In front are the black masses of the Bald Porcupine, against which the spray dashes white, and behind is the foam-wet shrubbery that hides. the ulti-millionaires pal aces. Perched upon a jutting ledge, in the full sunshine, for a rich tawny brown skin is as muck the standard of beauty here as in the Marquesas, is girl in pale green duck, with scarlet blouse and scarlet peoples holding on
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goes there. can be no doubt but that pulque bears about the same relation to the uninitiated sense as does Ameri- can or any kind of beer But the first encounter is revelation. One under stands then that education is every thing, even as the philosophers say, and that we would all be eating sand- wiches made from door-mats if only circumstances had been different.
 To the Mexican, pulque is delirium of joy. The lower classes dream of pulque. There are pulque shops on every corner in some quarters of the city. And, lined up at the bar in con- ventional fashion, the natives may be seen at all times, yelling thirsty sem tences at the barkeepers. These pulque shops are usually decorated both inside and out with the real old paint ings done on the walls by the hand of some unknown criminal. Looking along the pale walls of the streets, one is startled at every corner by these sudden lurid interjections of pulque green, red, blue, yellow. The pulque is served in little brown earthen mugs that are shaped in miniature pre- cisely like one of the famous jars of the orient
 The native can get bowling full for anything from twelve cents to twenty cents. Twelve cents is the equivalent in American coinage of about six cents.
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SWEARING OFF.

breed troubles. Let the native mix n'o o pulque at three cents glass with sonle s of that vivid native brandy and tnei. is likely to be monstrous turinon ~, .a little or no provocation. Out at sansr e- Anita, which is a resort for the lost, .o classes on the Viga canal, they useu ot os have weekly ceremony when 'Ssv Was the same order as the regular ounua' a,',, night murder in the old days of Mu, 's. berry Bend. And it happened oeca'7 the natives mixed their drinks.
 STEPHEN CRANE.
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bold mountain barriers or through the picturesque glens.
 Miss Alice Webb, daughter of Dr. Seward Webb, is another of Bar liar bor's devotees of the wheel Coasting down the hilly Eagle Lake road, under the spruces and the cedars, she is very pretty to look upon in her natty dress of blue duck with black and white facings.
 The bicycle flower drill of few days
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CANOEING AT BAR HARBoR.
The Summer Girl Smiles on the
 Rocky Isle of Mount Desert.
Blackboard, Golf Club. Bicycles Summer Sports and Wen-Known Women Who Are Best at Them-August on
 the Coast of Maine.
COPYRIGHT. 1895

The "Eastern Isle of Eden" makes one think always of scarlet stockings. Is it tradition from the days when Ghamplain discovered .L' Isle des Monts Deserts," or did Mrs. Burton Harrison couple the idea in more re- cent but still comparatively remote epoch when she wrote "Goldenrod, :" and told of the daily dress parade on the piazzas of the Rodiclx, where three
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cushions, as if she were an Indian girl bred to the woods and the waves. Her favorite excursion is to Long Porcu- pine, whose clefts and caverns give room for whole summers explorations.
 Another expert with the paddle Is Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who, while she was here, sometimes handled the dainty implement herself and some
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eigner, the very proximity of a glass of pulque is enough to take him up by the hair and throw him violently to the ground.
 It resembles green milk. The aver age man has never seen green milk, but if he can imagine a handful of paris green interpolated into a glass of cream, he will have fair idea of the appearance of pulque. And it tastes lille-it tastes 1ile-some terrible con coetion of bad yeast, perhaps. ormay- be some calamity of eggs.
 This, bear in mind. represents the opinion of a stranger. As far as the antagonism of the human stomach
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Familiar to Him.

eYes, I've moved fun Mizzourv to Kanzaz fo' times. and back agin,''
 on mus. know .he foaa pretty well, then, Uncle Reubo@
 ..I-r eckon I do; l could borry coffee aud tobaccy most anywhere on the way.''-Chicago Record.
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A Hlessiupin DispuIse.

Mrs. Norris-Don't complain of the dinner all the time. Just suppose you had lost the use of your palate like poor Cousin Henry and couldn't taste a single thing you ate.
 Mir. Norris Il shouldn't mind that if l always dIned at home.--Life.
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Many men of celebrated thirsts in New
 York would consider this profoundly Ideal condition. However, six cents represents something to the Indian.
 Unless there are some Americans around to be robbed, he is obliged to rustic very savagely for his pulque money. When he gets it he is happy and the straight line he makes for one of the flaming shops has never been outdone by any metropolitan iceman that drinks- In the meantime the
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swarm of pulque saloons are ,a.
 taxed, and the aggregate amooas ,easlly ? their payments to the governrou.' ,0uns of almost incredible. The Indian <, IS dusty cotton shirt and trousers ' hi his tattered sombrero, his happinp sa nA dals, his stolid dark face, is of tbs .s san type in this regard that is familiar Ssuls 4 every land, the same prisoner, the sanO " victim. same
 In riding through almost any part :. this high country you will nass sa's so ot
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has become almost as much as Newport cottage city.
 Money has destroyed the quaint yell low, red and brown tinted fisher village huddled on the coast of
 The gay and thunder-smitten pile
 Which marks afar the Desert Isle"
 But money has built palace "eot- tagesn which are in better taste than Newports because something of the gay freedom of the life has got into
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That is the Annual Consumption, and Most of the Biggest Have Water In Them.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-05

would recommend an app ..g
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-05

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mas been impossible 10 convict tN' IAl
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and. however brutal the contest 'l '-
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have made them amenablc 20 atf.t' II.
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young that IL rs better TO become a. ~.
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nssrharic arts, trades. or proie- ..,
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a determination 10 suppress ihr-t '.I.s
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