The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, January 01, 1892, Image 9
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5o, liTlve brought pulque iuto use
as a medicine and a tonic.
But to return to the Mexican staff of
life. An ordinary maguey will yield
250 cubic inches of sap a day. Very
vigorous plants will produce 450
cubic inches in 24 hours and not dry
up in five months. Maguey under
cultivation on good soil can be de
pended upon to furnish from a gallon
to seven or even nine quarts a day.
All the great haciendas in Central
Mexico have maguey plantations,
which are highly profitable. In a
field of 10 acres 1200 plants can be
set out from sprouts. When tapped
at maturity each plant flows with milk
and honey like a vegetable spring,and
its produce Is worth between $20 and
$30.
The maguey produces more alcohol
than either sugarcane, potatoes, corn
or grapes. Pulque, which is the fer
mented juice, is very cheap, being
sold everywhere in Mexico at a penny
a large mug, and it is the universal
beverage of the working classes.
Mescal is a gin obtained from the
juice extracted from the leaves and
roots, fermented with pulque and car
ried through a still. Tequilla is an
alcoholic whiskey, and there is also
a brandy made from pulque. The
pulque carrier with his donkey is seen
on every country road and city street.
He supplies the pulque-shops with
liquor from his bags of undressed
sheep-skin, looking for all the world
like pigs on their heads or backs.
The product of the maguey fibre,
called ixtle, is worth from 10c to 15c
a pound when cleaned, and a full-
sized maguey, ufter-yieidiug a return
of $20 or $30 in pulque, is good for
$3.50 more in textile. The Indian
women have the patience required for
dressing the fibre, and the work is
done in theii*cabins and huts. The
hemp which they send to the Aine
River market is of excellent quality
and there is an increasing demand for
it, so that it promises to become an
import of the greatest importance.
On this account the invention of an
improved dressing machine is greatly
to be desired. — [St. Louis Republic.
Ups and Downs.
He—They had a lover’s quarrel,
parted, and she married her father’s
coachman for spite.
She—What became of her lover?
He—Oh, he married her sister, and
bired the coachman. — [Life.
A Silver Question,
nsonby—Heigho I every silver
r has its cloud.
piniay—Yes. You can’t earn ft
er dollar without working for it.
be Jewelers’ Oircul
sstTTis wooiien
wans perch in truly triumphant
fashion. Part of the walls of old
Byzantium are thus crowned with
houses, and at Roumeli-Hissar, be
neath the windows of the American
Robert College, a whole village clings
to the scarpments and towers of the
frowning “Castle of Oblivion.” I'io
odder or more delightful confusion
of beetling walls and comical houses
could be imagined. The tops of the
thick walls form lanes and alley-ways,
leading down from level to level by
steep inclines or crumbling steps. The
crow’s-nest houses stand at every pos
sible angle and elevation, overhang
ing the abyss on the further side of
their lofty foundations, and gay with
all the hues of the spectrum.
A New Source of Quinine.
It is announced as one of the most
important discoveries of the present
year that Messrs.Grimaux and Arnaud
of Paris have succeeded in producing
quinine from a Brazilian syrup. The
result is quinine, absolutely identical
with the substance that has become £0
familiar to us all, and so indij
able to medicine.—[New
Picayuni
A Wonderful Well.
The reports from the artesian well
at Huron, North Dakota, show that it
is the most wonderful well known to
exist. The water spouts up to a dis
tance of about 100 feet, and the
amount that flows from the well is
tremendous, being estimated at from
8000 to 10,000 gallons a minute.
Even at the lowest figures enough
water is ejected to furnish every man,
woman and child in the state of North
Dakota with at least four gallons of
water every four hours. As to the
pressure, that has not yet been fully
ascertained, but from tests already
made, it is known to be considerably
more than 200 pounds to the square
inch. With a fair test it is likely to
reach 228 pounds. The pressure has
steadily increased in the last three
days, and may exceed the above fig
ures.— [Post-Express.
A Cocoanut Tree’s Long Journey.
A cocoanut tree that weighs six tons
is to be transferred from Honolulu to
to the public park in San Francisco.
In a trench around the tree, which
stood in a grove near Honolulu, a
massive box was built to enclose the
roots. Above the box was a frame
that had jackscrews for lifting the en
tire mass. After the tree had been
raised it was canted and its long leaves
were gathered together and tied. The
nuts were wrapped in soft sacking.
By hydraulic power the mass was
raised on a truck that carried it to the
beach where it awaits shipment.
fiiy at
an immortal youth. - Men who resist
The truth may become its strongest ad
vocates, or wholly lose their power to harm
it. They may unwittingly establish the
wavering in the precious faith. Unbelievers
may receive their first lessons In the truth
from its assailants, and, struggling through
its quicksands, reach the everlasting rock.
As 1 traveled over one of our great railways
I saw a sceptic take a Bible from his travel
ing-hag and read half through one of the
Gospels. 'When he paused, a conversation
ensued.
“I am reading this hook with reference to
a single question, and I am marking every
passage that bears upon it.”
“May I be permitted to ask what the ques
tion is that so engages your attention?”
“It is this, sir: Whether there is any way
to God except through Christ? I am not an
atheist, nor am I a Christian, but the more
I read these reputed prophecies and Gospels
the more I am persuaded that I shall have
to submit myjapison to the Scriptures and
go where they point, or keep on in *he dark,
where, I confess, I have been for forty
years.”
It was a slur on the Bible, which came
from an unexpected source, that led him to
look into this book. Whatever be may have
been, he is now to all appearances an honest
inquirer after truth. Thus God overrules
the evil to his praise.—[The Armory,
THE SPIRIT’S SWORD.
On one occasion Dr. Malan was traveling
by diligence to Paris, his fellow-travelers
being a French officer, a member of his own
congregation, and another gentleman, a
stranger. According to his custom. Dr. Ma
lan took out his Bible and read some por
tion of it aloud.
The stranger remonstrated, avowing infi
del opinions and loudlv assailing the Word
of God. The French colonel, seeing that the
discussion was likely to be a protracted one,
and not altogether persuaded of the wisdom
of his pastor iu thus introducing the subject
of religion in a public vehicle, interrupted it
by saying:
“You are well aware how greatly I respect
you. Dr. Malan. but I think at this time you
err somewhat in judgment. You should
first convince this gentleman that the book
you are reading aloud is the Word of God,
since he denies it to be so. You can hardly
expect him to submit to an authority that
he openly disavows.”
“Colonel!” said Dr. Malan, “I ask you,
would you—if you were going into the field
of battle—endeavor to persuade the enemy
that the weapon in your hand was a sword,
or should you use it?”
“Most undoubtediy I should use it,” said
the colonel.
“That is just what I do,” said Dr. Malan;
“I believe the Word of God to be the Sword
of the Spirit, and I use it accordim'ly.”
Silence soon followed, and at the end of
the day the three travellers pnssed the night
at the same hotel, Dr. Malan and the French
colonel proposing to continue their journey
on the morrow.
At breakfast the next morning, as the
friends were seated together at the same
table, a waiter entered the room and in
quired of Dr. Malan “whether or no he was
proposing to go on to Paris bv the dili
gence?” On receiving a reply (n the affir
mative, he explained, “The gentleman that
travelled with you yesterday desired me to
inquire, as, if v’ou are purposing to go on
to-day, he wishes to be your fellow-travel
ler.”
Before the journey was completed, Dr
Malan and the professed skeptic had l>eeom*e
cordial in their intercourse. In after years,
the latter became a communicant in Dr.
Malan’s church and his attached friend in
the bonds of the Gospel.
JtR. FLORENCE'S ADVICE,
Florence, the actor, once gavo some ad
vice to a friend in these words:
“My Dear : One gallon of whisky
costs $3, and contains about sixty-five fif
teen cent drinks. Now. if you must drink,
buy e gallon and make your wife the bar
keeper. When you are dry, give her fifteen
cents for a drink, and when the whisky is
gone she will have, after paying for it, $'175
left, and every gallon thereafter wHl yield
the same profit. The money she should put
away, so that when you have become au
inebriate, unable to support yourself and
sbuned by every respectable man, your wife
t>a^h&ve money enough to keep you until
■■femes to fill a drunkard’s grave. ”
pies or kills the T word
costly machine of thq
the labor of men and
attention has recent!
case of a foreman in
iug press works in thij
of rare skill and genii
ally yielded to drink
his employers, and wt
position still, holds it i
to lose it with anot
offense. The most de
machinery of all, tha
and brain, sutlers m|
dulgence.—National
SERIOUl
We reproduce I
dress recently
Montgomery befo?
Abstinence Society^
“Let me call your
of intemperance. Yol
spirits are filling the
overflowing. This is tlj
State, the giant evil,
is probably not too mu|
single evil is inflicting :
physical, intellectual,
terests of our State than!
bined together. Yes,
dread army, under oue
ments that ever desolated!
and death—blasting, mi|
tornodoes, earthquakes,
war, conflagrations, sb
and murder—the legal lz hI 1
cursed more than all thl
bined. This monster has hi
his home, “the flesh” for a I
for a father. He has no eye
He has no ears and cannot hi
a coil by which to bind. Hel
which he stings. Look at thd
that stagger and doze and I
and fester, and fall down ur
of intempereuce. Of the 80,0
fill a drunkard’s grave; of the
dren that are left,worse than c
3,000,000 of women, who have|
tied about their necks and ar
shame and disgrace; of the 50
yearly sent to the poorhousel
500,000 of convicts annually sed
300,000 annually bequeathed to
ity; of the 10W) murders that
ear; of the 3000 rapes that areeb
the demon.”
temperance news and
Delirium tremens kills four ]
in England.
The man who paints thetowrf
by making a picture of hiinso <
England and Ireland togethi
000,000 gallons more beer than/
year.
It is less important to a
her lover’s diamonds sboulc
than that his drinks should
The Cincinnati police ar
rest on sight auy boy und«
of age seen using tohacco ill
The law of Fiji provides I
giving drink to au aborigil
of any district shall be suh]
$350 and imprisonment.
The Prohibition canteef)
Kansas, has had onl.v
ness out of 049 men.
army has forty-one iiSp-
Out of the mayors
seven are total abstainot
reformers, and besides the]
favorable to alliance or.-
Twenty Scotch provosts aVf
stainers.
The W. C. T. U. has gain)
ship 10,309 during the year
crease Ohio I urnishei 18/1'
egon 1000, Indiana 750, c
360, while in Virginia tho <i
doubled, and Japan gained^
The statistics presented
Somerset in regard to
London are significant,
for gin and four cents for
its own commentary on the J
Whitechapel and other slue
Babylon.
It is said that eleven
cently at lunch in Shat]
that all were total absta J
E iriences, They had eaq
mperature of Nort
ty-five to thirty^ “ ^
them had
cause.