People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
Some Mexican Relics.

l. D. BULK, VINO mas Oeen manag-
ing Willis K. Folks grain business in
Mexico for the past five months, ar
rived in town Tuesday Of last week.
He came from Wichita, where he
had been visiting his family since his
arrival from Mexico about two weeks
ago. MIR. Burk brought number of
interesting relics and novelties with
him this morning, among which was
a collection OF Mexican coins, some
matches, water pitcher, toys, baskets,
etc. He gave Mrs. Folks a number of
presents, which are highly priced.
One Of the articles is water pitcher,
made in the City Of Mexico, in which
water becomes cool and purified. The
pitcher is made Of peculiar porous
Mexican clay, and it is said that boil.
ing hot water placed in it will soon
become delightfully."- cool. The Next
cans use these pitchers on their tables
and carry water from the public
watering places with them. The
outside is glazed, land painted after the
Mexican style Of art.
Mr.. Burk also presented Mrs. Folks
with fine waste basket made 10 the
City of Mexico, Of Mexican cane, and
a Mexican fan. The fan is a novelty.
1t is made Of cane aud is unique in ap-
pearance. He gave Master Guy Folks
aMexiCan toy known as the "cup and
bali" a plaything very popular with
the Juvenile Mexicana aud no doubt
interesting to young Guy.
Another interesting and valuable
present consisted Of large collection
OF photographs Of things and points
OF interest in this picturesque and in
teresting republic. One of the photo.
graphs Is an interior view of the
famous Catholic church az Guadalupe,
where reposes the celebrated picture
of the Virgin Mary, which has with.
stood the weather Of four centuries
and grows more beautiful and lifelike
IN color every year. This church and
picture are familiar to readers of his.
torlcal literature. There are twenty
SIX tons Of silver in the railing sur.
rounding the pulpit Of the church,
aud the scOnSes are Of pure gold. The
silver was given to this church by one
woman. This house of worship is the
coStliest in the world.
Another picture shows the maguey
plant, from which Mexican pulque is
made. This plant resembles the cen.
tury plant Of this country. They
grow in large fields In Mexico. When
they are "ripe" liquid substance
tasting like huttermilk, is extracted
from them. In twenty.four hour:
this milk ferments and changes until
1t mades 4 pretty good article Of beer
After it gets older it becomes
"pulque," and is the favorite iap
liquor of Mexico. A drunk from Mex
lean pulque lasts about three day:
and leaves no distressing effects
Persons under pulque influence mani
fest their principal traits OF charac
ter by getting out in the streets and
singing, dancing, speaking, etc.
Another picture gives a good view
OF the town of GuanjuatO, pronounced
Wan-a-wa-tO, where one-eighth of the
silver of the world was mined from
1888 to 1910. There are 10000 people
In this town, which is situated on a
mountain peak. The only road lead.
lug 70 the place is slow-going, rick.
ETY. street car line, which follows a
raVine and pulls into the place
through a saddle" at the top of the
mountain.
The collection of coins brought
back by Mr.. Burk consists of a silver
dollar, half dollar, ffty.cent piece.
auarter-dOllar, ten-cent piece, hall
dime, a copper cent and a 25-cepr
salnplaster-a note on the bank Of
Cnfhauahaua. The silver pieces re-
semble very much the American coin