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there We're :OO different dishes and the
servants who prepared them and waited
upon the table numbered more than 1.Gb.
They had chickens. turkeys. pheasants.
tame and wild geese and a half dozen
different kinds % game. They had fsa
from the lakes and also some from the
ocean. which We're brought by fast run
ners over the mountains. more than 100
miles away. At the better class houses
OF today the Mexicans have elaborate
iuncheons and dinners. and not q few
serve their meals in European style. The
average family. however. lives a la Mexi-
co. and the meals are much the same
throughout the republic
The principal articles of food are tor
tillas. tamales. enchiladas and frijoIes
There are also other forms OF chile con
carne. and some dishes the names of
which cannot give. The tortillas are a
kind Of mashed hominy pounded and
kneaded into a tough dough. They are
made of Indian corn soaked for twelve
hours in lime water after which the
swollen grains are mashed by rubbing
them between stones. The mush or dough
thus made Is kneaded into cakes as thin
as knife blade and OF about the size of
a saucer. These are baked over the Goals
but are not allowed to brown. They are
eaten without salt or any other season
ing. Tortillas are always sold about the
markets, and you can get them hot from
the fire at cents a dozen.
Tamales are also cakes made of the
same sort of corn. but when they are
finished they are wrapped around ground
pork. highly seasoned and incfosed In corn
husks. In this form they are boiled In
lard for a quarter OF an hour and then
served steaming hot
In making enchiladas Indian cornmeaI
Is used as base. but the cakes are
filled with kind OF hash OF onions,
peppers. potatoes and native cheese An
other favorite dish 10 barbacoa. q sort of
barhecued mutton prepared in an oven
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-tA L<<A1SO -
He cost OF living is
rising in Mexico.
and the hotels are
now charging dou-
BILE what they did a
few years ago. !
am paying So a day
I or two rooms
without bath. at
my hotei, and every
tine J eat IL cost
ne 4 dollar 0.
more Ten years
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man arraigned in Kentucky for murder
His claim was that he killed I'm self-de-
Tense. He admitted on the stand that
nobody had drawn a gun him and
that nobody had insulted his wife or
daughter and the court was nonplussed
why did you kill him. was finally
asked.
Il killed him." replied the Kentuckian,
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of it's ex pensiveness, and. during COLO
guy with the patient. tireless Smoot. dis
posed of the latter's claim that cloth.
under the process Of mercerization, lost
weight. because the treatment by caustic
soda ate the vegetable fiber. Against the
array OF figures and expert testimony he
opposed the simple argument:
The process of mercerization is exact
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There vas one passage which eNcife1
considerable merriment. I'm which mo late
JEFF Davis of Arkansas and Senator
Lodge were the participants, which las
been lost to posterity. The scholarly
New Highlander had proposed an amend
ment to the paragraph affecting salted
fish and Davis began scribbling indus
triousiy on a memorandum pad. Until
that time his appearance on the floor had
heen limited TO lurid attacks on the octo-
nus that dwells in the vicinity OF wall
street and his speeches had not betrayed
any spirit of fun.
There was considerable curiosity
therefore. when the Vice President an
nounced. THE senator from Arkansas
Davis sent the results OF his laoors -
the desk and in resonant tones the read
ing clerk read an amendment admitting
the sacred Goldfish and the succuient prov =
bean free of duty. The amendment CO
cred these two Boston delicacies In every
known form and other senators. II
shirt of levity, added them in weird an
strange forms
Through il all Lodge stood with falnt
smile. but when the permanent RECORD It
the debate left the government printing
office the only humorous contribution 81
JefY Davis TO the Payne tarin Was MSS
ing.
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proposition soon got into the condition Of
Mark Twain's boat in storm. Mark
said:
She heaved and sot and sol and hcayed
And high her rudder Hung.
And every time she heaved and sot.
mighty leak she sprung :
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the gravity of his expression. He launch
ed into it as follows:
IT have sat speeches. in my chair
when the matchless senator from Rhode
Island pleaded with suppressed emotion
for the wage-earners and demanded that
they shall have their | per cent Of the
profits OF protection hlissfully indifferent
as to who gets the other ~ per cent l
have lodged behind my desk in mute but
uncomfortable agitation as the thunder
hollis of love rolled from the esophagus
of the senior senator from Idaho in de-
Tense of the American hog.
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led the Debates ON the Last Tariff Bill
lOoo0ll

which he sometimes employs answered:
Mr. President. do not see why the
senator should complain of my bolster
business when some other senators have
been csvorting around here and horsins
about though they were In the circus
which is in the city
The father Of the Senate thercupon de-
sisted and Tillman picked up the scat
tered threads Of his cloqucnce. Whom
the bill came 10 passage. however, the
pulling infant was silent.
The bill went TO its final reading and
passage amid rather solemn scenes. for
II marked the final split in the republican
ranks and heralded the loss OF their con-
troll OF Congress the next fall Even
then il had its touch OF humor. with
stone of Missouri. more Familiarity known
as ,Gumshoe Bill" as the irrepressihls
joker.
Beveridge. in gloomy grandeur. rose 70
explain his vote against the bill. In
measured tones. like the tolling 81
shin's bell. he recited that Lincoln. Grant.
Rlaine and Mckinley were protectionists.
Then. with increased solemnity, he added:
Il too. Mr.. President am protec-
tionist.''
Aldrich. who all through the strenuous
charges with smile. refusing to los"
his temper. was on his feet AS soon 2
the Indianian had sat down and plnnsca
his face between his hands
lie swung tho party whip over hcF-
-ridge-s shoulders and. as tho last crack
of his words resounded through the
crowded Senate chamber the senior sen
ator from Missouri took up the refrain
Of discord In mock solemnity, and with
sepulchral dignity. he said:
Mr.. President. I feel that | am duly
impressed with the solemnity OF the oe-
ca sion. have listened with deep inter
es; 10 tho sad and somewhat fearful and
pathetic funeral orations which haNe
lust been delivered. II Is customary. Mr.
President. after the sermon to sing
song I commend to my brethren on
the other side an old song that ! heard
when | was a boy. Tho first verse.
little paraphrased, ran something Ike
this:
.Hark from the tomb = doeful sound.
Mr. attend the cry.
rear brethren all come view the ground
Where shall shortly lie. :
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had seen fit to taunt the democrats with
Inconsistency.
He was telling the Senate that the votes
Of certain southern congressman. when
articles in which the south demanded
protection came up for vote. reminded
him of democratic congressman who
had described the Payne thrift bill in
these kind words:
The tariff bill is nothing short of an
outrage. The witches whom Macbeth
met on the heath never brewed r hell
broth half SO vile as this legislative COM
pound
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Instead, however. he recalled a hear
ing years ago. before the finance commit
tee. when the cutlery schedule was up for
investigat ton. This same item. he observ-
ed, had then made lasting impression
on him. One Of the men pleading for no
reduction was deeply affected by the
bare possibility of a change in tho para
graph that he had actually wept before
the committee. Gore helped along the
game in his strident. rasping voice.
Mr.. President" he began, Il wish
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To illustrate the effect that the reitera-
ton Of tariff. tariff. tariff for weeks had
on the Senate nc told the story of
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II have been dumb with admiration
as I watched the shepherd senator from
Wyoming drive the wolves from the fold.
with wool in their teeth, but without the
loss of a single Wyoming sheep. / have
rctreated to the cloakroom when the i'm
petuous senator from Utah Haunted his
mercerized skirts in the face of the Sen
ate and hrandished his German razors In
the air.
Sir, ! have looked and listened until |
have determined to get on the rear end OF
this discussion and disturb the atmOs-
phere of the Senate for hour on gen
eral principles. only touching the tariff
III the high places, because there are no
low places, except on a few raw ma
terials!
Referring to the republican platform
and it's pledges. he convulsed most of his
auditors with the following characterize
ton.
but the platform and the bill are as
different as the plan of salvation and
Sherman's march to the sea: and God
knows when Congress will adjourn. The
sovereign people will soon awake from
their iridescent dream of a downward re-
vision to find the same old vulture of pro-
lection rising far above the Dingley mini
mum and soaring to the blue cerulean of
the Aldrich maximum, with the american
consumer by the seat of his pantaloons in
his talOns.'
Further along in his speech he declared,
sadly:
1.-The grand old party used to tell us
that the foreigner paid the duty and that
we did not pay cent Of it, and rode into
power that proposition; but that
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In the face of this declaration, Gallinger
asserted. the same democrat had plunged
his hands into the vile caldron. pulled out
a prize package labeled lumber and
had voted for duty on it.
Gore Immediately quoted the following
passage from Macbeth:
And he these Juggling fends more believed
That paIter with MS IN double sense.
Thst keep the word of promise TO our ear
And break it to our hope.
He followed the quotation with the as
sertion that he knew of no senator better
qualified to fill the role than the august
senator from New Hampshire.
Undeterred by the chuckles of his col
league at the neat turning of his guns
rror himself nv the fiery solon from
Oklar Gallinger retorted that Gore
would probably vote for duty on agri-
cultural products. The blind senator
promptly replied:
The man who believes in a duty on
corn should not be allowed to run at
large anywhere outside of the United
States Senate"
When in his sarcastic mood the Okla
homan pitches his strong. strident voice
notch or two higher than usual, and
this mannerism only heightened the eff
feet of the printed words.
Rayner Of Maryland. undoubtedly in
his time the master Of sarcasm. enter
tanned his colleagues early in the session
with story on himself. reserving his
powers Of sarcasm for a description Of
the citadel of protection, that held the
Senate in Unsurpassed mirth for the
best part Of an hour. The story followed
complimentary remark by Aldrich to
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the effect that he thought Rayner was
capable of drawing up as good tariff
bill as could be devised by one man.
Il beg to differ with him. protested
Rayner. II tried it once. In a holly
contested campaign a friend had urged
him to write a book the tariff and dis
tribute it through the district. The book
was work of 100 pages. and the Mary
lander was proud of it until the returns
showed that he had lost by exactly 100
votes. Il have always thought" he con-
Guided. that if the book had been LOGO
1000 votes"
The paragraph on razors put the Senate
in happy mood one sultry afternoon.
1t began when Simmons of North Caro-
lima. now chairman of the finante COM
mittee. proposed an amendment reducing
the rate on raZors In answer to query
ny William Alden Smith of Michigan,
as the senior senator from the Bay state
likes to he described. Simmons replied:
The proposition is to enable the con-
suners in this country to secure raZorS
at a reasonable price" gazing reflective
~ over his spectacles at Smith.
For domestic or social purposes" ask
cd the Michigan man. in playful mood.
Down in my country. replied the Tar
heel senator. they are sometimes used
for social purposes by certain part of
the population. especially the colored
population and the senator chuckled
audibly.
principally among the republican popu-
la tion. however.
This merry badinage went on from one
chair to another. until Senator Carter OF
Montana. never more dignified than when
a. wave of this sort was passing over the
Senate rose as though to deliver a eu1gy
on some departed statesman.
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t'cpyrlghted. ISI5. by Frank q. Carpentrr.
Special Correspondence of The Star
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POTOMAC LEAGUE.

STANDING OF THE CLUBS
w. L. Pet. W. l.. Pet
Cong. Hgts. ~ 3 800 Oxon HILL. s 800
G.. ii. t.. s Z .5S3 Fairlawn.... .42s
Steel Plant. 8 8 800 Highland. IL .154
YESTERDAYS RESULT.
Steel Plant, 4; Oxon Hill. 0.
TODAY'S GAME.
Government Hospital for the Insane VS..
Congress Heights.
Steel Plant defeated Oxon Hill yester-
day, to o. in an exciting and closely
contested game.
Bryant ard Carico. both twirled gilt
edged ball. allowing three and seven hits
respectively. while Bryant famed ten in
seven innings to Carico's seven in six
Two of Oxon Hills three hits were of
the scratch variety. the one clean hit a
double by Rusk in the fifth. But three
of Steel Plants hit column were solid
smashes.
cap" howe contributed the fielding
feature of the game, when he came in
on the dead run and picked Chilli Jones'
Texas Lacquer out Of the grass about on
a line with his shoe tops.
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National League Games.
Giants Beat Pirates.

PITTSBURGH, August 5-Demaree's
great pitching won for New York from
Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon. 2 to /.
Singles by Snodgress. Burns and Fetch
er gave the visitors their first run in the
sixth In the seventh. when Murray and
Snodgrass started the double steal Simon
bluffed Murray ten feet off third, but
threw wild to left field. giving the Giants
the winning run.
Chief Wilson's three-bagger and vloX' s
out gave the Pirates thei- only run in the
eighth. With Hyatt up in a pinch and
Butler on first In this Inning. McGraw
took out Demaree and sent in Marquard;
Clark also switched, sending Hendrix to
bat in place of Hyatt. Marquard struck
him out. Camnitz pitched good game.
Chief Myers had his right thumb split
by a foul tip in the third and had to quit.
Score:
New York. .......... o O o %
Pittsburgh. o o o OIL
Three-base hit--O. Wilson. Stolen bases-yiox,
Murray. Left on bases-Pittsburgh. 2: New York,
4. Roses on balls-Oh Camnftz. 2; of Demaree,
2. SHuck out-By Demaree, 4: by Camnitx. 2:
by Vanguard, 1. Hits-On Demaree, ) in %
innings; Oh Camnitz. in innings. Umpires-
Nessrs. ODay and Emslie. Time Of game-1
e0ur and A minutes
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BY J. ED aRILLo.

There is no man more resOurceful than
Connie Mack. Just as soon as weak
ness develops on his team he seems able
to reach out and get material which fills
the hole. His latest acquisition is Shaw
key. pitcher secured from Baltimore
who has yet to lose a game for the Ath-
letics having won three. Yesterday this
Shawkey was responsible for the over
throw of the aspiring Maps. who after
facing him for nine innings had two hits
and one run to their credit, the lone
tally being the result OF an error.
Up to the time that Mack picked up
Shawkey he was not among the star
minor leaguers who are being touted, yet
he appears to have added considerable
strength to the Athletics pitching staff.
Any pitcher Who holds those smuggling
Maps TO two scattered hits is not an or
binary pitcher. either. 1t would be just
Mack's luck to pick up sensational per-
former to help out his pitching STAN, the
weakness of which led to the belief that
the Athletics might have a hard time
staying in front.
II the three youpg pitchers who will
be asked to join the Nationals i'm the fall
SHOW dnyuBng ike their present IoTLh
against the American League teams. Grit
fith is sure to have bang-up pitching
| STAFF next spring. Shaw. who has been
with YORK. in the Tri-State League. for
several months. is doing remarkable work
for his team. He Is is not only winning
| most of his games. and Is given credit
| for having lifted his team into second
place. but he is making quite strike-out
record In that company: Shaw Is a mere
| boy, but he is bigger than Walter John
| son. and is picked to make a great
pitcher some day. Ayres' record for
Richmond is good enough to warrant
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August 11-Northwest S. s. vs. Southeastern,
Central grounds.
August 12-East Washington s. s. North
west s. S., Northeast s. S. grounds.
August 13-Central vs. Southeastern. Central
grounds.
August 14-East Washington $. s. vs.. South
eastern. East Washington s. s. grounds
August 15-Central VS.. Northwest ;. =, Cen
trail grounds.
August 16-Central VS.. East Washington
s.. Central grounds.
August E1Southeastern League vs.. Northwest
$. s.. Capital City grounds.
August 19-NUrthwest s. =. vs.. East WASH
ington 8. s., East Washington s. 8. grounds.
August 2O-Southeastern East Washington
S. s.. Capital City park.
August 21-Northwest s. s. VS.. Central. North
west $. s. grounds.
August Southeastern vs.. Central, Capital
City grounds.
The following are the grounds which will be
used and their locations:
Capital City League Park-North Capitol and
l. streets northwest.
Central League Park-1st and streets north
east.
East Washington Sunday School League
grounds-13th and ID streets northeast.
Federal League grounds-Grant Circle and Up
shur street northwest.
Marquette League grounds-35th street and
Wisconsin avenue northwest, Olympic field
Northwest Sunday School League grounds
Georgia avenue and Kenyon street northwest
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nmaERTINENI @l1l1ENT
NEsshappenin&$S1 SPortdom

t, aance OF making good, while the left
"a t1 hedgepeth, with Petersburg of
me virginia League, distinguished him
III na'urday by pitching no-hit game.
:, Is OF course. a great difference
III tne strength of these little leagues
Gnu DE ones, but a pitcher who shows
LASS there is apt to make good here. for
.ne reason that While he has to face bet
ter nitsers, he also has the benefit of bet
Ter support and stands a chance to learn
better system of play.
by some peculiar oversight. Billy Evans.
.n,. sHi.eu as the best umpire in the
-Ahlerican League, did not uInuIre A ball
game on the local grounds this season
untii yesterday. Evans was assigned here
o civ peIore early I'm the season for a sim
SIC sahle' which was prevented by rain
ana since then his schedule never hrought
MIN to the nations CAPITAL
u seems rather strange that with 81
usesueu'y Few GOOD umpires on the
SIAN the recognized head of them all
months re Kept out of city for four
Iioii,hs oi slx-nonth season There is
no doubt, of course that tbis bonnana5
accioentaiIy, but it surely shows that the
present system of assigning umnires is
laui'y, or city like Washington would
no no. ne vs uee,l.ed OF having the star Of
the stan omciate at its games more thsn
once in four months. '''''
They are having more troubles IN Ct
Louis, Last fall President Hedges sold
pitcher named c. Brown tn Montenm-
cry. was supposed that he kept a
string on him. Brown has been sensa-
tional performer this year and was sold
=, 10 one OF the Dig league clubs for $1,000,
that the money was divided by that club
and Hedges. which Hedges denied The
press OF St Louis is making an awful
howl because sa., the Browns need strength
players whom he needs.
incidentally. Stovall is on record as say
ing that he was under the impression that
Hedges had string on Brown. 40 that
q severe panning.
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Dickey Rudolph Hammered.

CINCINNATI. August 5.-Cincinnati
hammered the ball to all corners of the
lot and won a one-sided game from Bos-
ton yesterday, ID to a. Rudolph began
the game for Boston and was hit for
twelve hits, good for eight runs, in six
innings. Noyes succeeded him, but was
batted hard seven hits and five runs
being made off him. Score:
Boston. . D o 0 . l.
Two base hits-Mann, Tinker Three base
hit-Egan. Home runs-Bates, johnson. Hits
On Rudolph twelve in six innings: OF Noyes,
seven in two innings. Hits-Of Ames, four in
Two innings; Oh Johnson, three in seven innings.
Sacrifice hits-Tinker, Sheckard, johnson. Sac
rifce fy-Rndolph. Stolen bases-sIcDonald,
Connolly, Devore, Sheckard. Double play-Mc-
Donald. Sweeney to Myers. Left on bases-Bos-
ton. s.; Cincinnati, s.. Balks-Johnson, Ru-
doph. First base balls-Of Johnson, 4: OF
Rudolph. ]. Struck out-By Ames, 2; by John
son. 4; by Rudolph. B. Wild pitch-m.Ames:
game hours and % minutes.
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AMATEUR JOURNEYS O. K.
So Says Frank Erne, Former Cham.
pion Boxer.

NEW YORK. August 5.-As rule most
professional boxers look upon the anna
teur tournament as joke. Frank Erne,
a former lightweight champion, declares
this is a mistake. II had very fair sue
cess" said Erne recently, when l was
one of the good ones. and 1 owe my
start to the amateur tournament. You
can look the lists over and almost in
variably where you find high-class pro-
fessional boxer you will discover that he
worked up from an amateur tournament.
Jim Corbett is a striking example. Cor
bett was as good as an amateur as he
ever was as a professional. and it was
only when he had practically exhausted
the amateur field on the coast that he
turned his attention to professional box
ing, with such success that he won the
worlds championship. It's great school
for a man who has ring ambitions"
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BREAKING IN" rs NO CINCH.
So Says Chappelle, the Man 70,
Whom Chicago Paid $4,000.

breaking into the big leagues says
Chapelle, the costly White Sox player. lis
no cinch. So much has been written about
me that 1 feel it my duty to pound out
a homer or something close to it every
time 1 go to bat. But batting In the
big show is quite different from batting
in the bushes. When 1 took my first
step at the plate I must admit I felt
bit nervous. Any other player would
under the same circumstances. But as
soon as 1 get accustomed to my new
environment I'll get my bearings. l
my job here. and 1 feel certain that
just as soon as l get accustomed, to the
pitchers I'll hit my old-time batting
stride
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GOOD YOUNG CATCHERS.
Several Are Now Being Developed in
Major League.

NEW YORK, August 5.-This year ap-
pears to be a good one for young CATCH
ers, no less than five being developed in
the American League. That five clubs
should be able to land young backstops
equal to the job of catching regularly if
needs be skaters all presidents in the
Junior organizations history. With these
youngsters jumping into the limeiight the
stars OF several veterans are beginning to
wane. And next year when the race is
started it will not be at all surprising If
some of the old-timers will be warming
the bench or else playing in the minors.