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MEXICO's ALCOHOLIC DRINKS

forms. the pulque maker cuts the
flower stalk out OF the center OF the
plant, leaving a bowl-shaped wound
into which the sap of the plant flows
quarts. This will become pulque
.*
Tequilla is another drink in Mexico
which might perhaps he called nation
al. 1t is also a product of the maguey.
but the sap of the plant instead of
fsrmenting is distilled, and the result
ing fluid rs nearly colorless and of
about the same potency as gin. The
species Of the maguey plant from
which tequilla is distilled is that with
the long thin and sharp pointed leaves
closely resembling the plant from
which henequin fiber is obtained, for
the hennequin plant is also a maguey.
The drink Of drunkenness. in Mexico
is aguadiente, which. translated into
English. is burning water 1t be-
longs to the brandy family and is dis
titled from sugar cane. for 1t should
be known that the maguey from which
pulque is obtained does not grow in
the hot or coastal regions of Mexico.
the home of the Mexican sugar cane.
There Is large commerce In Mexican
aguadiente. thousands Of barrels being
annually shipped to Europe-to come
back to Mexico, or the United States
or other American countries as high
grade French or Spanish cognac.
Cactus Is coming into repute. or dis
repute, as source of alcohol. Com :
mercial experiments are being made in
Algeria by the French with varieties
of this plant and chemists have found
that 220 pounds of its fruit returned
As to SO per cent Of pure alcohol. which
is said to be Of excellent quality and
agreeable to the taste Of those whose
taste turns to alcohol
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1t was Grants plan that he must be
cruel to be kind" The north held twice
as many southern men in prison as
did the south, hence to return them to
the Confederate army would be but to
prolong the struggle There were
thousands of Confederate soldiers in
the prisons in Massachusetts,. Missouri,
Mississippi. Illinois. Maryland, Ken
lucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Della
ware and Indiana, and to send them
home was but to add to the strength
of the opposing army and thus keep
up the struggle.
AS consequence to this refusal, the
prisons in the south became congested
with northern prisoners and the food
scarce. While there may have been
many cases of needless suffering. a
great deal of II was due to the fact
that it was impossible to secure proper
supplies in medicines and the necessi-
ties of life, even for the non-combat-
ants.
A pretty story is told OF the visit to
Arlington cemetery Of a camp of Con-
federate veterans at the time of the
funeral of Gen. Joe Wheeler. In pass
ing down the long line Of white stones
glittering in the glow of the dying
sun. an armless, gray-hatred veteran
In faded gray caught sight Of q name
newly cut on the stone. He beckoned
why. here IL Jim. You all remember
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1914, by the appointment OF DR.. Lewis
This movement to secure care Tor
Confederate graves was commenced oy
the Charles Broadway Rouss camp OF
United Confederate Veterans of Wash
ington, which found in Arlington ceme-
terry the graves of 1856 men and in the
Soldiers Home 12S more. In June.
1899. an appropriation was made 10 re-
inter these bodies. and the folloWlns
wear by order of the Secretary of war
the reburial was done in part of the
cemetery at Arlington now known as
the Confederate section. Handsome.
new white marble stones were placed
at the head of each grave.
In 1902 ex-senator j. b. FORAKER. at
the request of the Charles Broadway
Rouss Camp, presented a bill to pro-
vide for the care of the graves and Sc
cure ownership of the ground in which
they were located. The amount asked
was but 100000. but was amended to
secure twice that amount. This bill
became law in April, 1905, and by It's
provisions there was commissioned
appointed to see to the location OF an
graves of Confederate soldiers and
sailors of the war between the states
who died while in Federal prisons or
hospitals: also that the government
should secure permanent control or the
land, that stones should be erected
with an inscription and the ground
properly cared for at government ex-
pense.
During the war there was no official
exchange Of prisoners until 1852. when
what was known as the cartel OF ex-
change was agreed upon by the armies
This lasted but year. and during that
time the prisoners were turned back
on both sides to their own regiments
But at the close of the year Gen Grant
refused to any longer continue the
compact, giving the following reasons
in a letter written at City Point. Va,
August, 1864.
"On the subject of exchange / differ
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spent each year six weeks in the spring
and six weeks in the autumn in mill
tary ma marfeuvers-twelve weeks out OF
the ffty-two - besides their regular
three years service.
x r
Gustav was not born, however, witt.
warlike spirit. When he was a little
boy he always said that he was going
to be a Herr Pastor Afta" he grew
up he took degree as doctor of ju:is-
prudence, being quite an authority on
international law. He also was given
a degree as an engineer. He has
well cultivated taste for Chinese porce-
lains. rugs and curios, taste developed
and fostered during his sojourn IN Pc
king from 1900 to 1903 as chancellor of
the German legation. During thus time
at Peking he also learned several
Chinese dialects.
Do all these attributes. pious, scholar
ly, esthetic. sound like equipment
for the master of krupp? Had it been
one OF his brothers one would not have
marveled at 1t. for they seem to be of
a different stamp.
To go back little, the father of the
sextet, the late Baron Gustav Won Bon.
len und Halbach, who bore the title OF
governor-in- chief of the castles. was.
minister resident for the grand duchy
of Baden at The Hague at the time OF
GuStavS birth. The Family hhd tulee
residences house at Carisruhe,
villa in the Black Forest and an old
place on the Rhine, called Abercastle,
next door to the ancient and historic
castle occupied by their cousins and
intimate companions, the princes of
Schomberg-Lippe.
The six sons of the house of Won
Rohlen und Halbach were Arno Har-
ry. Alwyn, Gustav, Fritz and Gurte
Arno the eldest. is said to have been
queer from infancy. AS a child he had
a tame goose follow him always every
where When he grew up he became
engaged to an English beauty and
l,eiress, the daughter of Sir James Nc
Carroll Hogg, an enormously rlch AUS
tralian The engagement was broken
because of Amos going insane. He Is
now confined in what is called the
fortress an old castle in northern
Prussia devoted to housing insane GER
man officers.
Harry, the second son, was a WHO,
harum- -scarum youth, to judge from the
tales told of him. On one occasion he
won wager by riding his horse into
the opera house, either at Berlin. or
Carlsruhe He trotted down the aisle
and leaned onto the stage. There ne
turned. faced the audience, vauiteo
back over the orchestra into the aisle,
and SO out into the open air once more
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TNGERSOLL'S INDIANAPOLIS
SPEECH. IA VISION OF WAR

and torn with shells, in the trenches.
by forts, and in the whirlwlnd OF tns
charge, where men become iron. WIFI
WE are with them in the prisons OF
hatred and famine; but human speech
can never tell what they endured
I'VE are at home when the news
comes that they are dead. We see the
maiden in the shadow of her first sor-
row We see the silvered head OF the
old man bowed with the last grief.
.The past rises before us. and we
see four millions Of human beings gov
hand and foot-we hear the strokes Of
cruel whips-we see the hounds track
ing women through tangled swamps:
We see babes sold from the breasts OF
mothers. Cruelty unspeakable! Out
rage infinitel
-Four million bodies in chains-four
million souls in fetters. All the sacred
relations of wife, mother. father ana
child trampled beneath the brutal teet
of might And all this was done under
our own beautiful banner of the free
The past rises before us. We hear
the roar and shrek Of the bursting
shell. The broken fefters fall: These
heroes died. We look. Instead of
slaves we see men and women and chill
dren. The wand of progress touches
the auction block, the slave-pen. the
whipping post, and we see homes ana
firesides and schoolhouses and books,
and where all was want and crime and
cruelty and fear, we see the faces of
the free.
These heroes are dead. They died
for liberty-they died for us. They are
at rest They sleep In the land they
made free under the flag they rendered
stainless, under the solemn pines. the
sad hemlocks, the fearful willows, and
the embracing vines. They sleep be-
meath the shadows of the clouds. care.
less alike of sunshine or OF storm. each
in the windowless palace of Rest
Earth may run red with other wars
they are at peace. In the midst OF
battle, in the roar OF conflict; they
found the serenity OF death I have
one sentiment for soldiers living ana
dead: Cheers for tho living: tsars for
the dead"
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A New Aeroplane.

TT HE British government so ru1nT
has It, Is experimenting with a
new aeroplane which. It Is thought
may revoiutionize flight and give the
country possessing It an almost over
whelming advantage In aena1 waf.Ae
chine is it's ability to rise In the AIR
Immediately, without the preliminary
run necessary at present, but the sredt
thing claimed for IL Is the power OF re-
air, thus rendering bornb-dropping on
any selected point relatively simple
matter. The comparative failure of
bomb dropping raids by aerop!anes up
to now is due to the high rate OF speed
at which aviators have been obliged 10
travel over the points at which their
attacks have been directed. II the new
model fulfills expectations its pilot VIII
be able to stop practically dead over
the object that he aims at destroying
and drop his explosive missiles at his
leisure, or as much so as the enemy
aeroplanes and anti-aircraft guns viii
permit.
The inventor Of the new aeropiane is
a native of Trinidad. by name Mark
Lange. By profession he is surveyor
and civil engineer. and has wide me-
chanical knowledge. Mr.. Lange, who is
still in his thirties. originally offered
his invention to the French govern
ment, which jumped at it and bade the
inventor come to France at once. This
was quite recently. Accordingly he
did so, but, on arriving in England, en-
route for Paris, was asked by the Brit
ish government why he desired to go
to France. On his explaining, the war
office replied that the beneficiary of an
invention by a British subject should
be the British government. and LANCE
was readily made to see the point. He
saws the government is now building
a model of his craft with which TO
make experiments, and that meantime
he himself is to become a member OF
thu Royal Flying Corps
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No Fear of Error.

ID Ev. ALFRED NOON, patriarch Of
IN the Sons of Temperance. said in
Lunenburg:
I'm glad to see that England, as re-
CARDS her beer, has followed the ex-
ample of Russia with her vodka and
France with her absinthe.
English beer-over here we call it
porter, stout or ale-is very strong and
insidious It makes men slaves.
There's a story on this head story
about a young man who used to take
his beer out of his own pewter mug.
He said to the barmaid one day:
always give me my beer IN my
own mug. Never any other. Make no
mistake
"tOh, no fear Of making any mistake
about your mug, SIR said the bar
maid.
Nor said the young man:
"No.' said she. The handles always
warm"
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leans because of strong strain of
American blood in his veins. His fa-
thcrs mother was Miss Sophie Borie.
Il member of the Borie family of Phil
adelphia. Her two brothers, John and
Adolph Borie, were in their day con-
spicious citizens of the Quaker city.
Her sister, Alwyn, also married a Ger
man, Baron Won der GoltZ. The son
of this union. Gen. Won der Goltz. was
recently the German governor of Bel
gium and is now commanding the Ger
man forces in Turkey.
There is strong strain of the French
in the Borie family, which probably
largely accounts for the Gallo 'joie de
vivre" wit. and great personal charm
of "Taffy" Krupp Won Bohlen. His
mother. too, was American, though of
Teutonic extraction. as she was
daughter of The United States officer
Gen. Bohlen.
Born at The Hague August Z. 1870,
the present master of the krupp works
will be forty-five next August. He is
young for the terrific responsibilities
which rest his shoulders. He is
one of family of six sons. a spirited.
dashing notable sextet. all military in
training and attached to different regi-
ments. They were brought up with
French and English tutors and special
instructors. and from sixteen years on
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Gott Strafe England!
> 1cHARD HARDING DAVIS said at

ID IcHARD HARDING DAVIS said at
Nv tea in New York:
'The Germans. every time they take
a drink, lift their glasses solemnly and
say. God punish Englandv They say.
God punish England when they meet
and when they separate. Bills in
scribed God punish England are post
ed up in public places, and people all
over Germany wear buttons and
brooches with God punish England
written on them.
That's one side of the picture, the
German side. Here's the other side,
the English side.
"1 journeyed recently through
quaint English village. There was a
bust of Bismarck on the village green.
Beneath the bust the old village gar
dener had written:
"'God forgive Germany!
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and States Make
War ON the Mosquito

paign and has arranged to spend twenty
five thousand dollars in the preliminary
phases Of the war. When Baltimore got
the idea of fighting mosquitoes the
mayor wrote to Gen. Gorgas for advice.
it having been under the leadership of
Gen. Gorgas that the foes of the mos
quito expelled him and his family from
the Canal Zone, place which he had
come to look on as his own The ad-
vice was furnished by the authority on
the destruction and prevention of the
mosquito, and a sanitary engineer is
now engaged in making survey of the
favorite breeding grounds or waters Of
the Baltimore mosquito as preliminary
to the campaign against him.
Few persons realize the universally
of the mosquito. Myriads of him appear
in Alaska, and If he is not to be found
at the north pole and the south pole it
is established that he breeds in incal-
culable numbers in the bare and unin-
habttable Nby mani regions Of the arctic
circle. Though he Is bloodsucker when
the conditions are favorable. he finds
it possible to exist without human or
animal food. He is a vegetarian when
this necessity is upon him.
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Jim in Company B." he explained. in a
ouavering voice to the men pressing
around. Il never thought 1 would see
any trace of him again"
And with tears in their eyes each
veteran left leaf on the mound above
their long-lost dead.
IT was at Columbus. Ohio, in 1867
that a party Of southern women visited
a cemetery to leave flowers on the
graves of their soldier friends. While
there they noticed the mounds above
the Union men bare, and with one
thought they united In strewing bios
SONS above those who had been in life
the men in blue. Francis Miles Finch
heard of this incident and penned the
immortal poem ending with the lines:
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he has been greatly aided by the Ger
man architect Baurat Schmol who has
laid out whole communities with great
skill and art. The pointed gables tiled
roofs. rough plaster walls, quaint win
dows. pretty gardens and immaculate
streets of these various colonies would
make attractive dwelling places for
any one. And there are any number
of these model communities near Essen
and also near the great Krupp coal
mines at Datteln- Near Essen are Al
fredshof. Altenhof and Friedrichshok
while there is the Hanover mining set
tlement and the latest achievement
the Emscher-Lippe colony OF hfty OF
hcials and a thousand wage earnefs
near Datteln.
The Krupps have been IN Essen sinos
1860. Friedrich Krupp, great-grand-
father OF Fraulein Bertha Krupp. was
born there in 1887. In 1910 he found
center of a great coal district. and
therefore peculiarly adapted to the
support of this enormous industry The
Krupp foundry had a hard time of II
until in 1859 the prince regent Of Prus-
sia-later Emperor William I-gave n
its first order for arms. an order caIl.
ing for 800 cannon From that mo-
ment the fortunes of the Krupps were
assured. The son OF this Alfred Krupp,
Friedrich Alfred Krupp, became a dom
mating figure in Germany and was an
intimate personal friend of the present
emperor. His death at his villa. Auf
dem Hugel. in 1902 left his daughter,
Bertha Krupp. the nominal head of the
great krupp gun works.
In appearance Baron Krupp Won Boh-
len is rather un-GermaD, being OF
medium height, slender of build and
with keen. sensitive. expressive face.
His coloring is chestnut-hair and eyes
being Of this soft brown. Although
like all German officers, he is much at
home IN uniform. unlike the ma jority
Of them he looks equally smart and up
to-date in civilian attire. An air OF
friendly bonhomie. ready wit,
easily arouse sympathy all combine
to make OF him a charming personality
entirely lacking in that 'schneidig-
keie" (curtness) so cultivated by many
of his compatr1ots.
This devoted, cultivated, enlightened
couple must have many moments of
poignant and bewildered sorrow as
from their residence on the heights
above Essen they look down on The
grim wilderness of smoking chimneys.
fame belching blast furnaces and vast
miles of factories all devoted to the
manufacturing Of engines Of destruc-
ton. Even the most fanatic patriotism
is not proof against those flashes OF
acute realisation of what war means
that must come to this thoughtful,
ma ture ly gentle and benevolent couple.
Given all his titles, Baron Gustav
Krupp Won Bohlen and Halbach is doc
tor Of laws. doctor Of engineering.
minister plenipotentiary to his mag
isty the King of Prussia. chamberlain
to his royal highness the Grand Duke
of Baden, captain in the reserve Of the
regiment Of the Leib Garde Cor body
guard) of the Potsdam Hussars and
member of the Prussian upper cham
ber-quite a formidable string OF
honors. offices and responsibilities for
a pay. debonafr, charming, clever.
friendly good fellow like "Taffy"
Krupp Won Bohlen.
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among the ruins, over the Inequalities
and wild, waste spaces of the Cam
pagna. That historic district furnishes
a setting for this fashionable sport not
eQualed anywhere else In tho world.
In 1904, the year following her fA-
theirs death, Fraulein Bertha Krupp,
the quiet, retiring, modest inheritor OF
the greatest fortune In Germany. came
to Rome merely as a tourist There
she met the gay and much courted
"Taffy'' 1t was a case on both sides
Of real love at first sight. a love that
has grown and ripened into one of the
ideal marriages Of the day.
Although she was mistress Of mil
lions. Fraulein Krupp, true to the best
German traditions. sewed and embroid-
cred every stitch of her trousseau her
SELF A German ''baut's" trousseau is
a tremendous affair. 1t consists of
dozens and dozens of everything I'm
tho way of underwear. house linen, Ia
BILE linen. handkerchiefs. etc This enor-
nous paraphernalia required of bride
partly is the result of the German
custom of having the laundry work of
a household done only three or four
times n year. The American habit of
weekly washing they consider intoler
Baron and Baroness Krupp Won
Bohlen und Halbach have three chill
dren and lead a quiet, Industrious and
unpretentious life. mostly at their coun-
try villa, Auf dem Hugel, overlooking
Essen. Contrary to all expectations and
prophecies. Gustav Won Bohlen has de-
voted himself heart and soul to the
great responsibilities thrust upon him
by his marriage.
At the centennial celebration in 1910
1-A
Krupp works in 1910 by the old. orig
inal Friedrich Krupp, the present kaiser
conferred on Gustav krupp Won Bohlen
the Order of the Red Eagle and made
him a baron in his own right as rec
ognition of and reward for his splendid
work among the employees of the in
Vulnerable Krupp enterprises. He
planned and developed one of the best
cooperative systems in the world. He
carried still further the many benevo-
lent schemes begun as long ago as 1856
by Alfred Krupp, schemes which in
clude schools Of various kinds, lyceums.
libraries, better housing of wage earn
ers, pensions, sick funds. insurance, a
sanitary commission and other up-to-
date undertakings.
'Tafry" Krupp Won Bohlen. the au-
thor1ty on Chinese curios, the crack
amateur sportsman, the delightful com
panion and man of the world, is also
the great authority in his country on
all phases of sociology that touch
workmen and their problems The re-
suit Is an entirely satisfied lot of work
ers. The Krupp employees numbered all
told 43,0s3 in 1902. What must the
roster be now? Strikes are unknown
among Krupp enterprises, and wage
earners all over Germany look upon
service in the Krupp company as the
goal of their desires.
The perfection of the workmeus
houses and model towns has been made
an especial study by Baron Krupp vor
Bohlen for the last ten years. The cot
tages are marvels of convenience inside
and have attractive exteriors. In this
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Knpp Worlds Death Dealing Organ
TayHe Was Not Born With Wke
That He Wished Become Herr Paor-S Military Train
Model Attractive Cottages KnFp
Works Emrly-A Crack Sportsman Baron Gusus Also Great Authority His
Sociology That Touch Woen and Their Roben
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The Fire Field.

NHAYoR THOMPSON of Chicago. who
GV1 is advertising stricter measures to
prevent insurance frauds, said:
There are. you know, q great many
business men who in their ideas about
insurance are like Exc.
I'm afraid father said Exe's son.
this property isn't worth repairing
any more
Very we'll; son. said Exc Send.
then. for Smith of the Marine and Fire
company at once. Let us always bear
in mind the old proverb: What can't
he cured must be insured"
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Ut is now fifty years since the last
gun was fired at Appomattox, since
q the last prisoners of war left the
~rav walls Of their cells. In the north
and south squads of pale. weakened
men turned their faces homeward after
months of suffering. But there were
+bousands who never lived to go back,
who net death in a strange land. ana
whose bodies were inferred in an alien
soil
Half century has gone by. the boys
of that day are now grandsires: the
battle-scarred fields are now blooming
Yet nothing more emphasizes the spirit
Of mutual interest and the BOND OF
union than the fact that by the care
of the government the Confederate
graves all over the land have been
sought. located and cared for. OF the
10000 Confederate prisoners. who died
in captivity. there are now twenty
three thousand whose graves are being
properly looked after by Uncle Sam.
After the close of hostilities the gov
ernment cared for it's dead in national
cemeteries. But all over the north in
Union prisons there We're desolate
mounds in which the bodies of Confed-
crates rested. while thousands of
near prisons.
The present commissioner for caring
for Confederate graves is DR.. Samuel
z. Lewis. who has held that post for
little more than year. While the
work was begun by the government IN
1907 under Elliott. 1t was discontinued
some years ago. but resumed in March.
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WiIIie's New Reading.
EVANGELIST BILLY SUNDAY sail

EVANGELIST BILLY SUNDAY said
L. on his Princeton visit:
Revised versions! New readings!
They do away with hell fre and with
original sin, and they make the way
of the transgressor very easy.
Revised versions and new readings
are always selfish and ignoble. They
remind me of little Willie.
Never put on till tomorrow said
do today
All right. ma said little Willie.
I guess I'll Just finish up. then. the
other half OF that there cherry pie !"