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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08
Extensive Drop.

Hiram Jones, says Lippincott's Mag.
azlne, had just returned from tour
or Europe. Il suppose said a friend,
that when you were in England YOU
did as the English do, and dropped
your H's?' No." moodily responded
the returned traveller, Il didn't. | did
as the Americans do. l dropped my
VS. and Ks"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08
Senior Quezon's Speech.
Mr.. Quezon said in part:

Mr.. Quezon said in part:
Ever since American occupation OF
the islands two different policies have
been proposed by the two great politi-
cal parties then. in existence in the
United States. One policy was to in
definitely retain the control of the is
lands on the ground of the assumed
untitness of the people thereof to take
care of themselves until such I'M
known century as said people shall be
fit for self government and in the in
terlm to develop the natural resources
or the archipelago through American
capital and establish schools and build
all sorts of means of transportation
and communication. This policy con-
sidered the question of independence.
for which we fought, one after the
other, Spanish and American domina-
ton, as something that the Filipinos Of
today may properly continue to have
In mind, but they must have out of
sight
Cites the Case of Cuba.
1.-THE other policy was to grant Phil
fppine independence as it has been
granted to Cuba. Inasmuch as the
sponsors of the first policy were in
power when the United States took
possession of the archipelago and re-
manned in poSer until last March. they
consistently proceeded to put into prac-
tice their policy; they induced Ameri-
can capital to come into the islands;
they built schools, roads, railroads. tel
egraphs, telephones, etc; they made a
successful effort to have free trade
between the Philippines and the Unit
ed Suites
AT the very start of this policy they
Ihophesied that in proportion to the
increase of our trade with the United
States our content and satisfaction to
live under American tutelage would
increase, and they predicted the day
when the Filipinos of their own desire
would never sever their connection
with the United States. In orddkthat
they may not prove to be false proph-
cts those who thought this way cou-
pied their forecast with the astound-
Ing reasoning that the Filipinos want
ed independence now because they
We're not ready for it. but when tney
were fit to take care of themselves
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08
Simple Fire Extincuisf1er.

A siphon Of soda is an excellent fire.
extinguisher as the carbonic-acid gas
in the soda water helps to stifie the
flames. The siphon can be tilted. and
the fluid will carry to a considerable
height, such as the top of blazing
curtain, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08
WEST DUMMERSTON.

Mrs. E. j. Slocum who has been in
Ill health long time, is gaining slowly.
She hopes to be able to be home be-
fore long and to be able to care for
herself and son.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08

For the lands sake-usc Bowker's
Fertilizers They enrich the earth and
those who till it,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08

Philippines in a few years what has
not been done in other countries in
generations. But while this speaks of
your energy and wisdom it also speaks
of ours and of our advanced civiliza-
ton when you came to the islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11

often not wait on the table. The cook
would leave il asked 10 do the washing,
and even the moso has limited duties. As
a result. the average wellto-do family
has four or five servants and the leaks
from housekeeping are almost as large as
our own The cook expects to board her
family out Of the kitchen. She often runs
a sort of Aztec boarding house outside.
In the homes Of the wealthy there lis
usually a housekeeper who carries the
keys and manages the servants She buys
the provisions and takes charge of the
nurses and children. In such houses there
door day and night. He opens the door,
upon knocking. and he usually sleeps on
the floor just inside IL.
wish l could show you Mexican kit
chen II is nothing like anything We
have in the states. 1t is little room
with a floor OF red bricks. The range is
a number OF oven-like holes in ledge
OF brick and clay, which extends t%o
three feet out from the wall and
whose top is about four feet from the
floor. Each Of these holes is one cook
ing place. They are filed with charcoal
and the draft comes in from a hole
underneath. The pots. which are some
times OF copper, but more often Of red
clay, are set on the live Goals and water
Is boiled. soups are made. meats are
fried and. in short. first-class meals are
prepared in this way. The fuel IL COM
paratively cheap. and a workingman's
family can do it's cooking on about cents
day. Much OF the food Is boiled and
fried. and the good cooks make TASTY
soups. stews and fries. favored with pep
per. Almost everything is hot with con-
diments of one kind or other. The cook
ing is a kind of a mixture of the Span
ish culinary art and that OF the Aztecs.
The Indians OF the days of Montexuma
surprised their white invaders with their
tables. They had thirty different ways
OF dressing meats and it Is said that
at one meSi served for Montexuma
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Bits of Wit and Sarcasm That Emliv@m@d the

bill. Deliver vas making speech on
the wool schedule. undoubtedly the great
est speech of the session.
He illuminated the gloomy recesses OF
the most intricate OF all the schedules
with pat quotations. delicate humor.
singing sarcasm and a ready repartee
that quickly disarned those senators who
were rash enough to enter the lists
against the brilliant Iowan. He was at
his best when Warren of Wyoming, pom
derous of build loaded with first-hand
knowledge of the wool industry, but de-
void Of the sense of humor, went to the
mat with him.
Nobody. perhaps knows better than |
do began Warren. the genuine repub-
lcanism OF the senator from Iowa
or what feeling of interest he has in the
farmer. He is farmer, so am l. we
are both farmers.
To all this Dolliver replied simply:
You arc the greatest shepherd since
abraham
Warren furled the flag of truce which
he had 6euratively held out to the in
surgent chieftain. promptly subsidized and
ever since then the sobriquet of the dead
Iowan has followed him through public
life.
Another insurgent who has since re
turned TO the reservation, Nelson of Min
nesota also took rhetorical fall out Of
Warren when the latter was in pom
derously sarcastic mood.
The debate was on the lumber schedule
and Nelson was referring to the abnor
NAL demand for lumber following the San
Francisco earthquake. Warren asked him
if he predicated his argument for reduced
duties on the occurrence of an earth
quake, and the little Scandinavian sena-
tor who has a reputation for blunt speech.
retorted
II have never thought that even an
earthquake would affect the senator from
Wyoming at all on the tariff.
The cotton schedule. almost as dimcult
of mastery as the WOODEN schedule. was
another in which Delivers ready wit
flashed like rapicr. subject that took
up a great part Of the debate on this
schedule was the relative expense of the
process of mercerization by which cotton
--cds took on the l,ister Of silk.
DolliS>- boldly ridiculed the assertions
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How Neat Is PEDDLED MNEMeo

Mexican black beans very well cooked
and equal to the best baked beans from
Boston. They are usually served the day
after cooking.
Mexico is stock-raising country. but
meat is so high that the poor mans
house seldom has it. There are cook
shops about the markets where the
shreds and cuttings and scraps are fried
over charcoal and offered for sale Here
the Indian customers take up the greasy
morsels in their fingers and consume
them without knives, forks or plates.
The ways Of butchering and marketing
are different from ours. Every part OF
the animal is eaten. A great deal Of the
beef is cut in long strings, and sold al
most by the yard an it were. Much Of
1t is jerked or dried. and is used for
stews. In some of the interior cities the
butchers wagon is a mule with a frame
work of hooks on the saddle. This frame
work is hung with the halves and quar-
tiers Of beeves. and as the mule moves
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ago oEe could live almost 4nyw here x,
Mexico for t-sn1 s. - s; d day. bu: tine
prices have gone Up 50 per cent. and here
in Mexico Cit. il costs about =
mich for room alone as 1t formerly cost
for full board. The same IS true of every
thing brought Ii from abroad ard as to
many things produced in the country.
Rents are exceedingly high. Here -
the capital flats rent for from $50 to 500
q month. and good houses of from eight
to twelve rooms bring from sl.OoO 10
"a, OoO a year. while in the best residence
sections they are even higher than thai.
There are families here who live in two
rooms. FOR which they pay s. So
month. and the very poor are crowded
into warrens where the rent is as low as
a dollar In the latter case the rooms
are o.ten uniignted ard without ventila-
ton. and the common laborers who form
the tenants get only from 20 to - cents
per day Back in the country the wages
are lower and the accommodations still
worse.
am told that the wages Of domestics
are rising. but they are still nothing as
compared with those of the states. the
average general servant gets from IS to
% cents a day, and he is paid BY the
day In the smaller cities cooks receive
from IS TO 70 month and they work
rom dawn until far after dark IL they
understand Row to use cook stove and
20 do foreign cooking they get double
this. but this is from the foreigner who
always pays through the nose
Housemaids get s. or 81 a month, gar
deners 20 cents a day and coachmen
from S. 10 $40 month without board
Cnauffeurs are skilled laborers here and
their wages run as high as SIS or $40. while
the moso or man servant who tends TO the
door. carries the water and does other
odd jobs receives from IS 10 $12 in silver
a month. Some OF these wages include
board and others an allowance for food.
The latter. however is seldom more than
= cents a day II consists OF cents for
beans and cents for pulaue. or Mexican
beer.
Notwithstanding these low rates, 10
keep house costs considerable money. The
work il carried on differently than with
us, and you have to have three times as
many servants to secure the same end
The labor Is divided. and one girl will
never do another girls JOB. The cook
viii not make the bed nor vii. the cham
oermasd 20 the kitchen ana she viii
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along the blood from them drips to the
ground Some Of the mules are small. and
the meat almost touches the roadway,
raising a dust which peppers the meat.
Some such men are meat peddlers. and
they will hack Off a slice for you upon
order. The charge will be about the same
whether you choose meat from the neck
or the lOin.
have spoken of the first breakfast.
The meals Of the day are different from
those we have in the United States. Here
is how one eats around the clock: When
he rises he has desayuno or the first
breakfast This is SO little that 1t would
hardly form a wedge to keep the skin of
an American stomach from the back
bone. 1t is merely a cup Of coffee. or
chocolate. and rolls. The coffee Is often
an extract poured from bottle into hot
milk. Such breakfasts are served at all
tie native hotels. and if you want meat
or eggs you have to pay extra.
The next meal is almuerzo comida.
Almuerzo consists of rolls, meat and eggs.
with coffee and chocolate, and the comida.
served between IL am. and 100 pm.
is made up of a soup. eggs. rice. fish;
SMALL coffee, Dinner comes after O'Clock
arll 1T is much the same the cOmida
AS rule the cooking is fairly good. save
that there is too much pepper and grease
to suit the American palate.
You can have your nrSt breakfast IN
your bed il you want 1t. The second
breakfast is eaten in the dining room
with all OF the family at the table. After
this breakfast they take siesta or rest
Of two hours or more. The business
hours are from to about II or l. and
from to s. Shortly after the stores
begin to close. and after the business
parts Of the cities are dead.
AS to what Mexico drinks. the text
would make a whole letter. The rich
have all kinds Of wines. and the poor have
their aguardiente, or Mexican brandy. and
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made of hole in the ground the same
being lined with cactus leaves and so
covered that the meat cooks and steams
away all night.
Another dish made of mutton is pu
cherO. This is a sort OF stew made
by cooking the mutton in little water
with carrots. parsnips. green corn. cab
bage and a haff-dozen other vegetables
as well as onions, apples and squashes.
The stew is kept on the fire two hours or
so without skimming and IL comes out
steam cooked. 1t is dressed without salt
or other seasoning
And then there are eggs in half
dozen different styles. chickens and tur-
keys. kids and young pigs and. in short.
almost as many different dishes and ar
ticles OF food as we have at home.
*
Frijoles are served at every meal, ex-
cept at the nrst breakfast. They are
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Its Origin.

MISS ELSIE DE WOLFE was talk
AVA ing about the new servant trust.
1t originated in the Philippines" she
said, among the army servants there.
1t travelled west to Honolulu. IL Is now
spreading they say, on TO San francisco
This coming trouble reminds me OF a
story.
WHO originated the provcrb about a
rolling stone gathering no moss? ops
man asked another.
The other man quietly replied:
That, my dear fellow. is a quotation
from eloquent but vain appeal to r
suburban cook to stay on one month
more"
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of disaster that awaited the passage OF
the tariff bill. He began his speech with
the same mock gravity that added to
the piauancy of the utterances OF Cum
shoe Bill stone. "Ffddling Bob" Taylor
and Bradley of Kentucky. hut almost i'm
mcdiately grin spread across the faces
of senators and representatives when he
likened the bin to the second command
ment
There is nothing like il in the heavens
above in the earth beneath or in the
waters under the Garth. declared the
Confederate veteran. Il think that when
it becomes law there will be none TO
fall down and worship 1t except the
idiots. the insane and the protected man.
ufacturers,'
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because he came to my house when L
was behaving like a gentleman and not
interrupting any one, and he said he had
come down there 10 talk tariff 10 me.
That is the reason | killed him.
Senator Johnston of Alabama, who is
rated by his colleagues a. one of the first
humorists of the senate. was another
statesman whose sense of humor refused
TO be quenched by the many predictions
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CPARKS of Humor That
- Flashed Forth on the
Floor Of Congress-Among
the Past Masters of the Art
Were "Fiddlin' Bob" Taylor.
Rayner, Stone, Beveridge.
Tillman and Bradley-Gore
Quoted Macbeth and Tay-
lor Summoned Mark Twain
to His Adultery Badinage
in the Heat of Controversy.
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Johnston dealt more with pure funmak-
in; than with sarcasm thinly yelled. II
was late in the session before Bob Tay-
lor delivered himself of some general re-
marks. From the standpoint of straight
humor it was considered the best safety
valve used during the entire tariff sss-
sion. Through 1t all the Tennessean
never smiled or relaxed for an instant
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drlnS can point to both demOcra tic and
republican administrations and exclaim
II told you So
II has rarely, however, found favor with
the men who depict hurnor for the lighter
weeklies. but a study of even the last
tariff act will uncover field of Wit and
hImor that has remained closed book
to the great body of voting Americans
or TO the advancing phalanxes of our
SUfragette sisters.
Except for the periodical discovery of
a. alleged Joker little creeps out of
Washington 10 Indicate even a suspicion
OF humor in the tariff making The tariff
Joker" however. is counterfeit h-.rlor
that only adds to the bitterness OF the
fight and ii may be eliminated
On the Senate side. however the Wit
of Dolliver Of Iowa, Bradley of Kentucky.
Taylor of Tennessee and Johnston of Ala
hama and the sarcasm of Gore OF Okla
horna. Stone of Missouri and Rayner OF
Maryland kept cropping TO the surface
and relieved more than one tense stua-
ton when senators we're glowcring across
the desks a each other and filchinG the
dictionary OF its VitrioIic terms.
Dollver. indeed was the only member
IF the insurgent wing who INDUCED in
any humor- The others We're too grimlv
set on attacking the bill and harassing
tine EspuplCdn majority 10 ALLOW them
selves that recreation The differences
between them and the regulars naturally
furnished the democrats with material.
but their sallies brought few smiles to
the opposite side of the Senate chamber.
over in the House. where dignity Is
usually at a low par in comparison with
the upper chamber, strangely enough the
quota of fun was far below that of the
Senate The fact that most of the time
In speeches was apportioned out by the
leaders. the general desire to talk only
Tor home consumption. the shorter tenure
OF ofce doubtless had much to do with
the almost total absence of levity
DolEvers characterization of Warren
OF wyoming as the greatest shepherd
since Abraham was undoubtedly more
widely circulated through the country
than any other bit of wit or humor that
eniivened the debates on the last tariff
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cactus Aguardiente is distilled from the
juice Of the sugar cane Ii IS brandy,
SO hot that a rag wet with it and laid on
the skin will soon raise blister. and l
have been told il is good for sore throat.
In Guatemala ii is called white eye.
and several glances from IL will make
the foreigner drunk.
Puloue is about the cheapest beer of
the world You can buy it all over Mex
leo for cent glass. and the wholesale
price is about one cent d quart 1t Is
said that over 100000 gallons OF IL are
consumed daily in Mexico City. This
makes about six tumblerfuls per day for
every man. woman and child in the cap
ital, and the consumption Is proportion
ately large in many other parts OF the
republic The beer is brought here by
the trainload. and il comes In also on
carts and in wagons 1t yields thousands
OF dollars and the tax upon IL forms an
important item in the governments rev.
enues. Even during the times or the
Spaniards, more than hundred years
ago, the annual consumption of this beer
in Mexico City was about 1O0.O0O.O00
pounds and the net revenues to the
crown were SOo.OO0 Mexican dollars.
This beer is natures own product. II
comes from the sap of cactus of the
same species as the century plant. This
is called the maguey. and it may be seen
by the tens of thousands. running in
rows back and forth upon the planta-
tions of the high tablelands. Near Pu-
ebla is the Plain of Apam. which is en-
tirely given up to the production Of
pulque. The plants there cover tens or
thousands of acres. making forests of
cacti The leaves of the plants sprout
from the ground around a green cone.
which is a foot thick at the base and
which rises high above the leaves, ending
T. ~s~ L. Dc ic
the stalk and il takes about ten years
before IL flowers out. at which time the
plant dies
Il 10 just before the Towering that the
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HEY are at II
d gain, the tariff
ma kers-high pro-
tectionists. down
ward reVisionists
and the middle-of-
the-road statesmen.
Tariff debates have
often inspired sar-
casm and ref1ec-
tons of q mordant
nature, and the
student of modern
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~ like washing YOUR hands. or course
you lose little weight
Essentially sarcastic in his humor was
Gore. the blind senator from Oklahoma
In one of his passages he showed his
wonderful memory and wide reading by
quoting. to the discontinue of his op-
ponent. passage from Macbeth. to
which drama allusion had been made
Gallinger. solemn and fond of hectorinS,
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Then Johnston proceeded TO dissect the
free list Of the tariff bill. and as he went
on no one enjoyed his whimsical allu-
sions more than Aldrich and his coll
leagues on the finance committee.
Il discovered in this free list he said,
''catgut. whipgut. or wormgut. | was
not amazed that the human article was
not included. because We shall be able to
diminish the number we need the
duties increase. But the people are not
left wholly without hope. for there is in
cluded in the free list mamma. joss sticks.
ipecac. nux vomica. dragons blood. asa
foetida and balm of gilead. l do not
object to any of them. and they may be
said to be in the nature of countervail-
ing duties on appetite. But there is one
still further on which / shall move to
strike out: that is leeches.
Tillman with the same frankness that
he displays in fighting for appropriations
for the Charleston navy yard, announced
one day.
Il want protection for that pulling in
FAINT in South Carolina-the tea indus
try-and we shall get S1o.u0.OCO by IL,
too In extollng the merits OF South
that Hale demonstrating. asked him 10
be little less boisterous.
Tillman, reproachfully. in the falsetto
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merely to suggest to the senator from
Montana that this imaginary invasion of
our markets by the Germans. TeutOns,
Vandals Goths and NisigOths has become
so intense, and the Germans are so anx-
ious to capture our markets. that their
laborers work for nothing pay a bounty
for the privilege. and ship razors over
here as ballast on their ships
The speeches of Bradley, Taylor and
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Paying his respects again TO the oppo-
sition. he uncovered this prophecy:
There is jingle of gold in the very
laughter of modern financiers. the eyes
of politicians are jaundiced with il. and
I sometimes think that IL the great re-
public could be lifted up and spread out
in the kingdom of heaven the republican
party would dig UP the golden streets of
the New Jerusalem in three hours, and
levy a tariff on the harps of the angels
for the protection of American industry
Bradley OF Kentucky. who refuses 10
look on the dark side OF life and who is
non school. sat silent until jute. a prod
net of his state. appeared on the tariff
horizon. Upholdins his earnest plea for
protection on jute. which is a vegetable
fiber used largely in the making of bur
lap and the binding Of cotton. he said:
What is iute? Where does il come
from? Who are the people who make
jutec Heathens. yellow men. spotted
men. everything on earth but white men.
They go out and work in the fields.
had some pictures Of some of them the
They have never found out that the day
of fig leaves Is past.
why should we not be protected
against such labor? We pay more inter
nal revenue than any other state in this
Union except two. Now. I have not
made anybody mad this session. I have
not been mad either I am not going to
be mad unless the Senate refuses to give
me tariff jute. Then reserve to
myself the right to get mad and stay
mad during the remainder of this ses
sion.
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n LAND Where Cooks Get
= So a Month and But
lers I8 Cents a Day-A Peep
Into a Mexican Kitchen.
Queer Methods of Cooking.
Some Favorite Dishes-Mules
as Butcher Wagons-Pulque
or Mexican Beer-It Costs
Cent a Quart-The Origin
of the American Cocktail.
copyrighted. 1915. by Frank G.. Carpenter,
Special Correspondence Of The Star.