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New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

portant food crop, and Mexico IS now i'm
porting barley national prohibition of pulque
does not seem possible until substitute for
the maguey can be found for other agricult-
ural purposes.
Making Pulque
Propagated from suckers, the maguey
attains enormous size, and in the course
of five years more is ready to blossom.
1t is, in fact our century plant, but the
leaves attain length of ten feet and the
flower stalk rises to from twenty to thirty
feet above the ground. But before the
mauguey flowers it's central stalk is cut
down, and the heart of the plant is
scooped out TO form a bowl, which soon
fills with "aguamel (honey water). The
plant, which would have died after flower
ing, continues to yield fluid at the rate of
from gallon to gallon and half daily
for period of from three to FIVE months,
depending upon the skill Of the men who
handle the job. The usual method of re-
moving the liquid is for the workman to
suck it into a pipette formed of Gala
bash. When the calabash is full he closes
the bottom aperture with his finger, and
then releases it into such a pig sheep
skin was used for carrying wine in the
memorable days of Don Quixote. Then
he scrapes the cavity from which he has
emptied the aguamiel, so as to keep the
wound of the heart of the maguey fresh.
If he is a good workman and removes but
the outer layer of the plant, it will con-
tinue to yield it's sap for five months. If
he is careless or unskilful and wounds the
plant too deeply, it may die in three
months, or less.
The aguamiel is sweet, slightly astringent
and aromatic in flavor. The odor is not
unpleasant and the aftertaste bitter. Car
ried in its skin bag to the hacienda or
farm house, it is poured into large vat
or cowskin hung on a wooden frame, de-
pending upon the size and Importance of
the establishment, where small quantity
of stale pulque is added to start fermen-
tation. In twenty -four hours the aguamiel
has been converted into the pulque of COM
merce, a milky looking and sulphurous
smelling liquid, and is shipped to the
larger centres of production, where it re-
tails at five times the cost of production
1t was estimated some years ago that the
consumption of Mexico City amounted to
100 or more carloads daily, at cost of
10000 pesos a day. Doubtless, there has
been no dimnuton in the cost during the
revolution.
To Begin Il Campaign
AS to the effect Of the national drink
on the people there is wide difference
of opinion.
DR.. Felipe Valencia, Mexican physician
of distinction, who has travelled much and
observed greatly, asserts that pulque is
the curse of the nation, just as mate is of
the people in extreme South America. He
considers that it's effect is much more dele
terious than that of beer, and that the
constant use Of pulquc in large quanti-
ties 10 certain to wreck both the moral
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Threat
From. The Eur

fFrom The Eyr;cl
4 TAWNY haze throbs in the sitting
From the horizons verge in chaos rise
Bunches of ponderous and copper cloud
To vast furnucle in menace bowed
Over the Ridge upon whose writhen crown
A spectral shower of shuddering light falls
Back in the twilight where the mari slope
dips
Among the crater's torn and twisted lips.
Brindled scum green, sunk in his veiei
abode,
Squats the huge howitzer, the bottled toad
The cloud bulb higher heages without Il
sound.
Behind the lair, ranged in q boding round
The gross shell wait. querulous whistle
shrills.
The dim ground vomits shadows. The lair
fills.
High in the sulphur haze q fretful swarm
Of planes gyrate before the thunderstorm
The spiked wheel turns. One voice mono.-
onously
ln1oneS. ana one by one voices reply.
A long chain rattle5 or as though it sang
The stagnant air rings to a sudden cang
The shadows scatter in noiseless crowd
The iron mouth tilts slowly t'ward the
cloud.
And with one fame, one crash, one tearing
cry,
Calls down the fire and thunder from the
sky.
ROBERT NICHOLS.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Hate Not, Fear Not

ffrom The New Statesman
K ILL If you must, but never hate.
~ Man is but grass and hate is blight:
The sun will scorch you soon or late,
Die wholesome, then, since you must
fight
Hate Is fear and fear is rot
Ihat cankers root and fruit alike:
Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not,
Strike with no madness when you .striks.
Fever and fear district the world.
But you be calm though madmen shout.
Through blazing fires of battle hurled.
Hate not, shrink not, but stare death out.
ROBERT GRAVES
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
NJ Ex1co CITY (by maiD-At time

Nj when the press s' of this city is ''s ds,
voting columns Of editorials to the
dangers threatening Mexico as a result Of
prohibition in the United States and the
plans of the American whiskey interests to
establish six giant distileries in the chief
cities of this republic, I am able to say on
the highest authority that no concessions
will be granted for distilery purposes.
Have the American whiskey men never
heard of pulque, the form in which the
Demon Rum is best known to and best loved
by the masses of the Mexican people? If
they haven't heard of puque-
Sabe que pulque,-
Licor divino?
Lo beben los angeles
En- de vino?
Which may be freely interpreted: Don't
you know that pulque is liquor divine the
drink of the angels in place of wine?"
In our own glorious Republic whskey men
have been accused of taking an interest in
politics, and brewers in German propaganda,
but neither has been charged with an at
tempt to corner the celestial alcoholic mar
ness men and ought, therefore, to know that
they cannot compete with a national drink
which is to some extent an agricultural by
product and which is so cheap that at manu-
facturers' prices a plain souse may be pur-
chased for cents, a complete jag for 3
cents, insensblity and a fine headache for
cents, and a murderous fit of the D. T.
for dime!
4 Profit at Gent
To be exact, the pulque hacendas are able
to make a handsome profit by selling the
beverage at 1 cent per liter.
No alcoholic drink known to the United
States can be made so cheaply, and the edu-
cational campaign that would be necessary
to bring about the general adoption of
substitute would cost Millions for the Indian
population, so per cent of the ID 900 900 in
habitants of Mexico, formed taste for
pulquc four centuries prior to the discovery
of America by Christopher Columbus. 1t will
be found hard to overcome habit and
preference which have existed so long.
What, then, is pulque?
The question is much more easily answered
than the propounded several years ago
by President Taft: "What is whiskey?'
Pulque is merely the fermented juice of
the maguey plant, which thrives, without
cultivation, on the Mexican plateaus, and is
valuable for many other purposes than the
production of intoxicating drink. 1t fur
nishcs vegetable parchment not less durable
than vclum; twine, rope; both needles and
thread; molasses and vinegar, and roofing
for houses. 1t acts binder for friable
soil, and its enormous root formation con-
moisture during the dry season. Corn
and barley grown between the long rows
of maguey. Without the maguey there is a
probability that this arid land would become
a desert. That, at least, is the opinion of
many of the most intelligent landowners and
as corn is m important II not tho most i'm
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Our Quaint Enemies

tFyonr The Portland press)
Having killed as many Germans as we
could, tho people of that delightful country
now appear to assume that it is our lob
to keep as many Of them alive 90 possible.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Wave

and physical structure of the addict. Hav-
ing been invited to contribute q series of
articles to eel Pueblo" the official news
paper of the republic, based on the re-
suits of travel in the United and South
America, as we'll as Europe, he plans, as
he told me day or so ago, to expose the
pulque evil and attack it in every way he
can. DR.. Valencia is far from being an
extremist. He likes good glass of wine
and approves Of beer in moderation. He
would also approve of puque in modera-
tion, if the lower classes could be brought
to moderation in consumption, thing that
now appears impossible.
More Drunkenness Than in Cuba
On the other hand, Mexican aristocrat
assured me that he always drank small
glass of pulque daily, and believed that it
had valuable tonic qualities and was an aid
to digestion.
The effect on the Mexicans who are neither
of the aristocracy of birth or of brains, is
unmistakable. There is more drunkenness
here than in Cuba, and about as much as
would be found in Kentucky before that state
went dry The pulque drunkard is quarrel
oOiitc anu OIlIIS easily 1QJO CRIME.
The upper class Mexican considers himself
a gentleman, and he is. The lower class
Mexican calls himself an ''hombre" (man).
and has a code in which personal courage
ranks first in Importance.
An anecdote will suffice to show the effect
of pulque on the "hombre" where a thou
sand might be told. A dispute having arisen
between two poems as to which was the
braver man, one bet that he would stand in
front of an electric tram. The wager was
to be paid IN pulque and the cash having
been put up, the tram smashed one puloue
addict into pulp, and the other, considering
the death of his friend a great joke, went
to the hospital after having tried to consume
the entire amount of the wager at sitting.
Worse Euiis Feared
The problem of pulque is one of i'm
mense difficulty for the government. Pro-
hibition might produce worse evils than
the beer strikes which have taken place in
Great Britain and are being threatened in
the United States. The government would
not, believe, hesitate to attack the evil
at its source, but for the immediate effect
on the soil, which would result if the
maguey no longer cultivated. And
but for pulque the maguey would not be
cultivated.
The government, on the other hand,
recognizes the instinct for stmulant which
prevails throughout humanity. 1t hopes
to devise a scheme for regulation short
of prohibition. But while it is trying to
solve the pulque problem it will not COM
plicate matters by authorizing new estab-
lishments for the distillaton of grain. AS
evidence of freedom from fanatical senti-
ments, either for or against the use of
alcohol, it is worth noting that the tariff
on the importation of foreign wines has
recently been reduced. Two weeks ago the
import tax on case of champagne was
lao pesos. To-day the tax is only 40 pesos.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
No Mexican "Dry" Wave
No of heRo
By L. ]. de Becker

portant food crop, and Mexico is now i'm
porting barley, national prohibition of pulque
does not seem possible until substitute for
the maguey be found for other agricult-
ural PURPOSES
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
GuAR RAM1EE

n,.,sd A. ths Postofrce at New York Second Class
Mail Matter
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
Keep Stamps Separate.

Purchasers of 1919 War Savings
Stamps should not place them on 1918
certificates. If the 1918 certificate
has blank spaces, just put the certi-
fcate away without filling it in with
1919 stamps.
The same Thrift stamps and
Thrift cards are used this
year as were used last year, and when
a thrift card holding sixteen stamps
is filled, it will be exchanged for a
1919 War Savings Stamp on pay
ment of the additional cents, which
represents the difference between the
price of the War Savings stamp and
81, the value of the sixteen Thrift
stamps.
Keep your Thrift samps and your
War Savings Stamps firmly ident-
fled in your mind. The Thrift stamps
are worth a quarter. The War Saw
ings Stamps will be worth five dollars
in few years. If any question arises
about your stamps or how you should
handle them, 60 to your local post
office and ask the postmaster.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
Peter N. Hammaker.
PUBLIC SALE.

BY virtue of an order of the Orphans
Court for Frederick County, the under
signed, executor of the last will and testa-
ment of Mary E. Baker, late of Frederick
county, Md, deceased, will sell at public
sale on the premises on the road lead
ing from Jimtown to Fraley's store and
about one mile from Catoctin Furnace,
Md, on
FRIDAY, MARCH %, 1919,
at O'Clock p. M,
the following described real estate, viz:
All that valuable property containing
about
THREE ACRES
of land, more or less, improved with a
good frame weatherboarded house con
tanning five rooms. There is also good
out kitchen. There is a good garden and
a variety of fruit on the premises. Good
water at the door. The property is con-
venient to church and school and desira-
bly, located in many ways.
TERMS of Sale as Prescribed by the
Court -One-third of the purchase money
cash on day of sale, the balance to be
paid on ratification of the sale by the
Court. All conveyancing including rev.
enue stamps, at expense of the purchas-
er or purchasers.
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
At the same time and place will be sold
the following lot of personal property:
Two bureaus. IL chairs, lot of rockers,
beds, couch, sideboard, cherry table, 2
cupboards, and other articles not men,
toned.
TERMS:-CASH. No property to be
removed until settled for.
JOSEPH C. GERNAND,
mch 6 At Executor.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
Distributing Clothing.

Through seven depots in northern
France and Belgium the American
Red Cross is now conducting its task
of distributing clothing to the desti-
tute refugees of those countries. The
work is growing and during the last
week of March there will be nation
wide collection of used clothing, shoes
and blankets to meet the imperative
needs of the refugees of the Allied
countries.
Cable reports to the National Head
quarters of the Red Cross show that
distribution depots are in operation
in Lille, Amiens, Laon, Mazieros and
Verdun, in France, and at Adinker-
ko and Bruges, Belgium. Refugee
garments shipped during January to
those depots totalled 9,O6O separate
articles. Some of the largest items
were 1000 mems shirts, 2Z,oOO
children s petticoats, A, 900 chemises
and 10000 blouses. In add ition TO
the work of the seven dist ributing de-
pots $500 garments were given to
the needy in Paris during the month.
Every survey that has been made
in Europe shows that the lack OF
clothing is one of the most serious
problems faced by the populations
struggling with reconstruction. TO
help, the American people will be
asked to donate a minimum OF ten
thousand tons of cast-off garments.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
PUBLIC SALE!

Having sold my farm, will sell live
stock and farming implements at my res
idence at Graceham. Md, on
FRIDAY, MARCH 81. 1919
at 10 o'clock, a. M,
SEVEN HEAD OF HORSES & COLTS
No. /, Lottie, brown mare years old,
good worker and driver; No. 2, Pet, roam
mare 4 years old, good leader and can't
be hitched wrong; No. 3, Bessie, roar
mare coming years old, good wagon
leader and can't be hitched wrong, in
foal by Humbert; No. 4, Dolly, roam
colt coming years old broke to work
and drive, No. 5, Bird, sorrel mare 10
years old, good plow leader and works
anywhere, No. 6, Bell, bay mare colt
coming years old, lady broke, fine
driver and good saddle mare; No. 7, Basil,
7 months old;
16 HEAD OF CATTLE,
HOLLY, of M C. End No. 3566S9, a
Registered Jersey cow, will be fresh by
day of sale; 10 milk cows most of which
are good grade Holsteins, 5 of which will
be fresh by dav Of sale. balance good
grade Holstein heifers one and two years
old;
TEN HOGS,
consisting of one sow and pigs. balance
shoats weighing from so to rs pounds
FARM IMPLEMENTS, ETC,
consisting of seven-foot cut Mccormick
binder. almost as good as new, used
seasons, six foot cut Mccormick mower
in good running order, good horse rake
New Ideal manure spreader, Auburn
wagon and bed, barshear plows,
double corn plows, 3 double shovel plows
shovel plow, 2 spring tooth harrows
Ontario Shoe grain drill. land roller
set hay carriages lS-ft long, set woOC
ladders, spring wagon, sets Yankee
/ breechbands, sets front gears, SCI
single harness, 6 collars, 5 brides. lot OF
! single, double and triple trees and many
other articles too numerous to mention.
TERMS:-A credit of months will be
| given on all sums in excess of Ten Dol
| lars, the purchaser to give note witt
security satisfactory to the undersigned
bearing interest from date. Sums OF
and under Ten Dollars, Cash. No prop
erty to be removed until terms of sale
have been complied with. Settlement
must be made day of sale
C. p. SNURR.
Edgar L. Mercer, Auctioneer,
Luther Buhrman & A. D. Hoover, Clerks
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
U. S. To Sell Gas Masks.

William Jacobus, the metal expert
has been authorized to sell at public
auction for the Government Chemical
Warfare Service, at the Ford build"
ing, Long Island City, the entire con.
tents of the great plant which was
equipped to supply the United States
Army with gas masks and other war
equipment.
The sale includes / 900, 600 pounds
of rubber and ruhherized fabrics, 3OO,-
600 pounds of rags, $4,000 pounds
of tin scrap and celluloid, 100000
corrugated boxes, 100000 paper,
bottle tops, 10, 900 complete gas masks
and knapsacks, and a huge quantity
of other articles. Mr. Jacobus has
handled many United States Govern
ment sales of like character.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
Armenian And Syrian Relief
Drive.

The Drive is on in Frederick County
this week for Armenian and Syrian re-
lief funds.
The allotment for the county is $l4, 900.
Mechanicstown district is due $500.
The drive in this community is being
conducted through the Churches. Each
church planning and conducting it's own
drive in its own way. Some of our
churches raised funds earlier in the year.
These churches by presenting this re-
ceipt will be credited for the amount
raised and also the district will get credit
for same.
All persons and organizations wishing
to contribute to the relief fund will please
make same through Mr. John Jones
Treasurer, at The Thurmont Bank on or
before Tuesday March l8, 1919.
God loves Cheerful giver.'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
Debs Gets 10 Years.

Washington, March 10.-Convictions
under the Espionage act of Eugene V.
Debs, Socialist leader and Jacob Froh-
werk, newspaper editor of Kansas City,
were sustained today by the Supreme
Court in unanimous opinions delivered by
Justice Holmes. Both men were senten-
ced to 10 years imprisonment.
Debs was convicted on three counts,
but the court passed directly on only one
of these that charging him with obstruct-
ing recruiting and enlistment through
statements made in speech at Canton,
Ohio, last June.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
To Prevent Hog Cholera.

The following law has been passed for
the purpose of reducing hog cholera to
a minimum and if possible to free Mary
land from the disease entirely. The copy
of this regulative comes from the Mary
land State Board of Agriculture. 1t be-
came effective January l, 1919.
Garbage, table refuse or other pro-
ducts which might contain pieces or
scraps of pork of any description, other
than that made on the immediate prem
ises where fed, which has not been pre-
viously sterlized. shall not be fed
to swine on any premises in the State of
Maryland without first having been heat
ed sufficiently to destroy the hog cholera
virus.
"Sterilizing apparatus used for this
purpose shall be subject to the inspection
and approval of the Live Stock Sanitary
Section of the Maryland State Board of
Agriculture.
The report of the hog cholera work in
the State of Maryland for the year of
1918 shows that in the cases where it
was possible to trace the source of in
fection that 40 per cent of the outbreaks
was due to garbage feeding. In fact,
this agent was responsible for nearly as
many outbreaks as all other agencies
combined, and it is significant fact
that this product was fed by onlya small
percentage of those raising hogs. 1t is
also conceded by every authority on garb-
age feeding that it cannot be fed sue.
cessfully in a hit-or-miss manner. and
that the project requires careful study
of housing facilities. proper feeding and
prevention of disease.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
Special Services.

Two special services will be held in
the Reformed church at Creagerstown,
DR.. P. E. Heimer Pastor, on Sunday,
March 16. At l.3O p. m. Sunday School
and Foreign Missionary service will be
held. At 715 o'clock in the evening
there will be Roosevelt Memorial Ser
vice, an address will be delivered by Dr..
Heimer. All returned soldiers are es-
pecially invited to attend this latter SER
vice and they will sing keep the Home
Fires Burning. -
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
New Disease Proves Fatal.

Chicago, March 9.-Commissioner
of Health John Dill Robertson an
nounced tonight that the first report
of death attributed to lethargic en-
cephalitis to come to his attention
was reported today. He had issued
instructions to all physicians requir-
ing them to report all cases OF the
disease with their observations on
it's character. The commissioner
said the disease resembles but most
certainly is not the sleeping sick
ness" of Africa.
The death reported today was that
of a man 40 years old.
A case reported in Evanston is that
of young woman who had been. in
a state of coma for Is days.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-13
NO. l
752 Merchant Ships.

America is once more a great fac
tor in overseas shipping. The mir
acle" fleet which she built as part
of her war machine is being rapidly
converted into liners and freighters
and already her cargo carriers are to
be found in every port in the world
notwithstanding the vast tonnage re-
quired still by the army and navy.
The American flag now floats from
the masthead OF nearly one-fifth of
the entire sea going tonnage of the
world. Whereas, at the beginning of
of the war, her ships carried less than
10 per cent. of the country's exports
and imports, today the American
merchant marine comprises 46 per
cent. of all the shipping between our
own and foreign ports.