Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1889, Page 23

4 1 ] PARLIN, ORENDORFF Buggies. Watertown. N. Y., that we offer at less than wholesale prices. , prices for the next 30 days. MADE A COLONEL OUT OF HIM Mexico's Unique Method of Dealing With Bold Bandits. b CONVICTS IN SOLDIER GARB. Whe Cinco de Mays Celebration and ihe Gallons of Palque That the Patriots Drank—Diaz as a Dictator. Rivers of Pulque. Mgexico Ciry, May 8.—[Special Correspondenca of Tur DEE.|—It is now thres days since the “*Cinco de Mayo,” and most everybody is sober by this time. The Cinco de Mayo cele- brates the victory at Puebla by General Zaragoso over the French under Max- millian, twenty-seven years ago. The day is observed in pretty much the same stylo that the Fourth of July is celebrated, except that the Mexicans uave one additional factor not possessed wy the states—‘pulque.” Of this beverage 127,000 pints ave drunk daily in the City of Mexico, while on Cinco de Mayo it is said the consumption was over 100,000 gallons! Pulque is the juice or sapof tho magney plant, fermented in o pig- vessel, and sold during its fermentation. When perfectly fresh, in the carly morning, it tastes like a superior brand of fresh apole cider; a little later the milky taste begins to develop, und by 10 a. m. it is very like good buttermilk. By 8 o'clock it begins to sour, and at sundown nothing but the Mexican It is used by tourists, preachers, peons, 1l drink it in abundance. Pulque is a sure cure for dyspepsia, ‘tis said, and once they taste it,one is astonished to see how many Americaus develop cases of @cute stomach troubles. Pulque does not take the place of beer as a beverage, since half a dozen immense breweries flourish in the re- public despite high taxes, and notwith- standing you have to pay wwenty-five ceuts a bottle for the beverage—thus putting it bayond the reach of the poor indhm.m’ peon,” who cannot spend. more than a ‘“‘tlaco—three cents—for his tipple. THE PUHQUE TRAIN is an odd sight as it draws into the St. Lagare station. Imagine a train of ten cars, rolling in at daylight, laden with ig-skins und bottles of pulque, fresh fmm the fields, Before the sun gilds the top of Popocatapetl, that pulque distributed by carriers into thousands of homes, and will be on sale at the hundreds’ of ‘‘pulquerins’ throughout the city. The special trains by which the New York newspapers reach their Sunduy readers, is the only American institution comparable with the pulque train, and when it comes to efficiency of service it would be difficult to decide between the two. The Cinco de Mayo this year was ob- gorved with greater pomp than usual. The Alumeda and Zocalo were decor- ated exquisitely, President Diaz made the most of his military stationed here, and although they are undersized and not at all well drilled, they presented an imposing appeavance because of their bright upiforms and gay caparis son i "here were 27,000 regular sol- dievs in line, besides the ols r@n “leporo” cun stomach it. classe Chapultepe ico. The son of President Diaz was with the cadets and awtracted consider- able attention. By the w a unique organization. The presi of the republic, Geuweral Diaz, i mander-in-chief of the arn highest officers are generals ions. For state reasons no one ever ge beyond this rank. Most of the SOLDIERS ARE CONVICTS, When o man is convicted of a minor offense he is clad in uniform, a gun is put in his hands, and he becomes, forth- with, a soldiec. When the term for which he was sentenced has he may reman, if he shes, in the service. In this event he u stripe on his coat slceve tinguish him from the othe he aiso reccives 12 cents a day m addition t#®ood and rations. he isa convict he is still under guard of paid soldiers, who have orders to shoot him if e attempts to escape. It is not an uncommon sight to see two convict soldiers carvying water, each followed by a regular soldier with a gun full cockea. A story is told that illustrates the military service of Moxico most admir- ably, and its truth 18 well vouched for. it appears that there lived in the moun- tains near Guadulajava, a very famous badit. He had committed so mauy crimes and had such a lawless gang ot ruflians with him, that a reward of $10,- 000 was offered for his head. In vain they tried to trap him, until finally the pursuit was abandoned. Then the ban- dit chief wrote a letter to the president offering his services, and those of his men in the regular army. The upshot of it was that the leader received a full pardon. « WAS MADE A COLONEL in the regular army, and his men were put in the service at one dollar a day each! “IB1 General Porfirio Diaz,” as the Mexican papers term him, prosident of Me , is one man in ten thousand. He is idolized by the conservatives and florcely hated by the others, especially the peons. 1f ever a mun was a dicti- tor, acting under the title of president, Diaz is the man. His fidelity to the best intcrests of Mexico is unques- tioned. That he is patriotic, houest and diplomatic are indisputable facts, But he constantly reminds one of the French king who, being told that the interests of the state demanded certain ssions from him, exclaimed: “The T am the state!” That General Diaz is ambitious his best friends do not deny, aud it is not hard to believe that he could SAFELY DECLARE HIMSELF DICTATOR in the eveut he finds re-election at the end of his present term atall difficult, with safety. He hus the army at his back and the army holds down Mexico. Apropos of Mexican Y!‘\!ni\‘lflll:, a gentleman pointed out, the other day, at Guauojunta, & one-armed mau, ap- parently sixty odd years of age. *“That,” said he, '‘is General Gonzal2s, who cleaned the republic out of 30,000,000 during the four yoars he wus prosi- dent.” 1 looked at the general with more than ordinary interest when my informant added: “If he did that with one arm what would he have been capa- ble of had he possessed both his arms?” President Dinz has kept his skirts sin- gulurly free from stain and the thieves and plundevers realize they have no sort of show with him. Some of his enemies, however, say that Diaz has made his father-in-law, Senor Rubio, mimster of state, so that a sort of **Jor- kins' arrangement cam be made with contractors and others who always are ready to ‘fry fat” when necessary, Of onds of Diu allegation, and say that at the head of affairs, because, being a relative of the president, he ecan be move implicitly trusted by that official. And thus it goes: chu and count charges, political intrig all the time. It is fun, all this dancing,for the office-holde! but the trouble is the poor peon,working a* . cents—a day, has to pay the fiddler. There's the rub. And when Mexico has her next revolution, this is whav it will spring from. CHARLES — Bill Brigs By one of his chums in N. ¥. Mereury. You bet you, now Parson, I knowed him ; Bill Briggs wus a fellow to know, An’ Itell y an has throwed him 1t's a- AW LS. 1t was ail very well, you a-standin’ Excusin’ hiln there by the bier, But I noticed you frequent a His memory one ou the ear. - You said that ho died a-repentin’ An’ blubberin’ over his sin: That's your way 0’ misreprese: Us outs to tickle the ins 1t all hypocritica} drivel; Bill wasn’t a felier to trim, An’ he didn't work on a swivel— No *turn, sinner, turn,"’ for him. All the turnin’ he done was at faro, An’ that he done fa'r ard squar, An’ ef he mus’ dance the bolero Hot-footed, forever down th Tha'll be plenty o' parsons p: In that little jamboree. Who are goin’ 10 funeral: Remarks which is too dam 1 Bill Briggs wasn’t nobody’s liur, He could bust ali the boys, just the same, An’ he didn’t need no hell fi To round them up into his game. His plan was to give 'em a show, sir, To every chump a squar’ deal, That's nothin’ to bragabout, no'sir, Nor nothin’ to make hin squeal. Well, William is dead, an’ P11 let you Jest it the way that you w But I've got a loose twenty to bot You'll weaken at lust worse'n Bill. sl 4 THE EMPIRE NIGHT-GOWN. The Daintiest Garment That Loyely Woman Has Yet Worn, The empire night-gown is about the duintiest, most visionary, intangiblo suggestion of a garment imaginable, says the New York Sun. It is made of the thinnest grass linen ever woven, and embroidered entirely by the deft fingers of skilled needle-women. A touch of the ordinary machine work would be lege to the ethereal slum- ber-gown, whose every seam is not a seam at all, but ’f tiny beading of em- be broidery set tween two rolled edges of the material and fast- ened by invisible stitches, It is drawn up into fine shirring about the low surplice neck, back from which turns a full broad flounce, cut in deep joints and edged with real Val- enciennes lace. Just below the ma- terial is shirred by ribbons run under ace inserting into the short, full Josephine waist, the folds falling straight again to the feet, where the numberless tiny tucks are run by hand. The sleeves are full puffed affairs, ending in the broad rufile just below the elbow. The chemise is of the same sheer, thin cloth, drawn up about the shoul- ders into the full broad ruffle, with its deep points edged with lace, and the corset cover is shaped by fine tucks at the waist, the fullness above them fit- ting the bust and gathered again into the broad rufe which falls back from the neck. We have a nice line ot the H. H. Babcock Buggy Cos work, made at | For the purpose of reducing our stoc :of fine work. we offer special If you &%vant a good buggy, cheap, it will pay you to get our prices. A MONSTER SNAKE WAS THIS. The City thclj;;ld a Council of ‘War. He Carried Off Hor and Other Live Stock, Bubics Before The ing Moth ., Catde and seized Shriek- Stew Him in His € During the last twelve months it has been among the inhabitants of the districts east and north of Arima, that their do- tic animals of all kinds were being inastrange, unexplained manner ording to a write: n, (Trinidad) Gazette. vo. a pig, a calf or a donkey be- g reported missing, and latterly even larger animals—some valuable mules join tho and horses—had gone to smaller domestic fry that h peared. Among the sufie LIKE A VERY DRAGON OF OLD.I a matter of frequent complaint | ho was playing a few yards from Rooted with horror, she’ then \w her eniid enveloped in the coils of the upper part of the body of a colossal snake, which glided awny with its prey into the depths of the forest. A num- ber of residents of the district, armed with guns, to whoss ranks were continually to scour the eountry ke, among them Joseph new, accessories the ! peion and Paul Legrand, sr., | of two child vietim: tement in Arima was raised iest piteh on Tuesday when ~ was brought that the gri been scen on the Arima and_that two children, Juan d Pablo Hernandez, had been ied off by him. The report of the two oceurrences stated that the snake had been distinetly seen on the two oc- ions; that, consequent 6n the alarm ven on the first occasion, the people were on the gui vive,and thata hunger, IBmmanuel Calderon, had t i with shot into the beu swallowed young wdez, but with the only effect of hastening his progress in the direction of the Morne !Heu or Blue Mountain. The warden thought the news serious enough to request, through the colon- al ctury, some assistance from Port of Spain, with rifles of greater pene- | trating power than the guns used by Agostini, of Aripo, lost two mules | the majority of the pursuer Accord- within five days on his cocon planta- nt Gibian was sent to tion, and Mr. J. G. de Gannes, in vis s by aftornoon.traln with six Dol ek pei Rl il pohcemen. armod with Muctini Henry Turure, had lost his hovse which he | ! gosnnl oney.ihe goyernony had ieft to graze for only half an hour, | i sotaslony u distance of about a hundred yards | from where he tracto A st was talking with i con- inge feature of these er found at the spot visited, or i its neighborhood, to show sign of some struggle with a giant carmen or i vorous beast, which the monster tivst supposed to be, Besides no animal of the size required to carry off a horse was known to exist in the island, In many of the cases, howev was noticed that the ground unde cocoa trees and the forest undergrowth showed signe of having been crushed, not traupled upon, by the body of some mooth but gigantic beast. The people began to watch at ight, no alarm as monster on his raids,save the barking of dogs, a few of which had also disap- peared with dismal howls. It was also noticed that the teaces through the vagetation always stopped at streams, and seemed to vanishaltogether after that. 12 On Sunday mornifig the inhalntants of Arima were thrown into consterna- tion by the news thu¥ three children had disappeared in the Ward of Goan- apo during the past week, and they were supposed to have become the vietims of the raiding monster. Their names were given as Mdria Concepcion, Marc Antoine and ‘Oarmen “ulillxlll. The news wns telegraphed to Port of Spain, and the warden was instructed by the governor to continue his efforts 10 track the monster, especially by col- lecting an armed posse and instituting energetie pursuit. TLater in the afternoon news was brought from Aripo that two children, Paul and Rose Legrand, brother and gister, had been lost, one on Saturday and one on that very morning. In this instance the mother had been the terror-stricken eye-witness of the car- rying off of her fnue poy, aged three years. It seems that while sitting in a state of semi-stupor, mourning the loss of her®littie daughter, Rose, five years old,who biad disappeared in the grounds round her hut Saturday at uoon, with- out any traces being found of her, she was startied by the screams of her child depredations was that no trace of blood | yet making knownthe passage of the | of the central agricul- ch held its first meeting day at noon, when the colo- reretury brought forward the :stion of the great snake, stating that he had obtained all available informa- tion from the warden up to date. o'clock Thursday morning a motley cavaleade was seen issuing out Arvima in a northerly direction. 2y were den and his party on their way to the Blue mountain, in the neighborhood of which searching par- ties had locuted the snake the day be fore. He had been seen by one of the hunters to enter the Guachuaro caves in the hill separated by a hollow from the mountain, and a cordon had graduaily been formed round the hill to prevent his sallying out. Rev. Cure, of Arima, whom they met on the way, further told them that he had heard the snake had tried to issue from the caves on the southern side, but had to beat a retreat in these dangerous recesses on being greeted with a volle, With the war- den’s party were also the colonial sec- retary, Me. MeCarthy,Sergeant Gibian, the armed police from town and guides from among the residents of Arima heights. But other parties were. also on the warpath and the party received several additions on the way, Reaching the hidden waters of th Arima river, the party entere in which wuas a pool. Presently the dogs become unruly and one of the men saw the waters move. With rifles cocked, all eyes were now fixed upon the pool. The dogsnow began to howl, and whether the noise roused the terrible occupant of the | island caves or he otherwise became aware of the existence of the party, the head of a monstrous snake suddenly appeared on the surface of the pool, und two large and lustrous eyes became fixed with a diabolical gleam on the intruders, An angry hiss, like the plunging of a red- hot beam into the pool, issued from the hideous head. A muttered signal, and a volley rang with reverberating echoes through the cave. Large stounes fell upon the jagged roof, and the startled guacharos flew wildly in all directions, i —— uttering their dismal screech. The huilla bad not been led by the bul- lets aimed at his head. With great rapidity he seemed to uncoil his length from the depths of the pool, and with fully twenty-five feet of his body raised and curved forward as if to dart at his assuilers, he seemod to be emerging from the vool. A few whispered rds notified half the party to aim at his head and the other half at the central party of his body. The second volley produced the desired effect. The colossal snake leaped wholly out of the pool, and with a few terrible convulsions, in which he lashed the water and the floor of the cavern, he sani quivering to the ground, a third volley for a quiotus in- suring his certain death. This fact was then made sure of, and the caves were soon invaded by the pursuers. “The monster was dragged out into the level and found to measure for seven feet, the thickest part of his body having a diameter of two and a half feet. 1In color he was yellow in the upper part of his body, dark above, with dark rings en ng the body between which semi-lunar gray dis served asspots to variegate the skin. He was opened by the machctas of some cocon pruners, onder the dircetion of Mr. MeCarthy. In him there were found the half-digested body of a deer, and a number of forma pauperis forms, probably swallowed by him, with the body of some unknown and un contractor, By 6:30 p. m. the joyfal concourse, dragging the monster, reached Arima, where the necessary steps were taken to preserve the eaveass for display in the council hail of Port of Spain. The ex- citing occurrencos connected with this monster are still the subject of general discussion and gossip. The island has not for & long time been disturbed by tragic incidents of this extraordinary nature, We have been favored in the matter with perusal of a dispateh from the Ameriean consul to his department at Washington, wherein he refers to the occurrence as an extraordinary event, heating creation in the snake story record, which joined to the monumental assurance of its editors, places the small at the mouth of the Orinoco, wherein he represents the United States government, in the foremost line of the West Indie: — - flower Seed For Rat sovery that sunflower seed is esistiblo bait for rats recalls the fact thav it is likewise the favorite food of the Iinglish sparrow, when he can- not get wheat, The Louisville Courier Journal thinks that if both those nuis- ances could be suppressed by this means 1t would be worth the go while to nume a suppleme: Day for the planting of sunflowers, s The Birthplace of Robert Burns. By Robert G, Ingersoll. Though Scotiand boasts & thousand names Of patriot, king and peer, The noblest, grandest of them all ‘Was loved and eradled here, * Here lived the gentle peasant prince, The Joving cotter king, Compared with whom the greatest lord Is but a titled thing ! "Tis but a cot roofed in with straw, A hovel made of clay; One door shuts out the snow and storm, Oue window greets the day. And yet I stand witnin this room And hold all thrones in scorn, For here, bencath this lowly thatch, Love's sweetest bard was born, Witain this ballowed hut I feel Like one who clasps a shrine, ‘When the glad lips at last have touched The something deemed divine ! And here the world through all the years, As long a8 Aay returus, ‘The tribute of its love and tears Will pay to Robert Buras| fartin, Oth & Jones Sts OKLAHOMA'S FIRST NEWSPAPER. The Guthrie Getup, a Littlo Sheot Which Acts Up to 1ts Tit The salutatory of the Guthrie Gatup, the first newspaper published in Okla- howma, breathes the air of the free and unfettered west. *We prance into the field at the head of tho procession. Praise Jehovah, all ve good people, and lev the praises ro- sound to the measured stroke of our new job press. Ah, there’s the rub! If you do not give us jobwork we must go buck to our wife's folk. his would place us in o wretched fix, for wo ave not mar- ried. This last statement,” adds the editor facetiously, “is particularly di n sted to single women who hold corner ots.” Then the policy of the paper is briefly outlined in vigorous language. **Should any man even as much as kick bis dog we will give the public an accurate es- timate of the motive power used. Pag- tors, free of charge, cun look at onr devil, and the W. C. T. U, is hereby ap- proved. The correct weight of the ne born will be given.” IProm a peculiar phase of the situation the ‘‘long felt want” paragraph is miss- ing, but the editor presages much for the futur “Our Washington hand press is im soalk, and this accounts for the postage stamp size of the present edition, s it had to be printed on our new job pross. The next issue expocts to put on en- larged and more dignified pants, and then we'll make things hum until Guth- rie is a manufacturing capital of 100,000 people.” A suspicious and lugubrious note fol= lows: funeral notices will be published at a discount of 60 per cent.” The rural localette column’ fairly teems with scintillating brilliancy. “Our streets are being laid out. Thank heaven this cannot be said of our citizens, “Uncle Sam stopped the selling water at the little village of Oklahoma. Poor fellows! They will now have to drink beer, “A few lying p\l‘pfl are reporting stor- ies of free flowing blood and numerous killings. The whelps know better. There hasu’t been a man killed in Guth- rio since the 22d. “The first Sabbath in Oklahoma was a quict and orderly one, Noreal estate business was done, the gambling games were postponed until Monddy morning, and no one was killed. “I'he firsy fire in Guthrie was the burning of Marshal Jones’ tent. The writer had a rifle stock badly scorched, and this curiosity relic is now for sale. All relics of the conflagration now on sale at the Getup office. ““An oxcursion from Arkansas City, Sunday. That’s proper, boys. ““We have three banks, but one is & sand bank. Ha! Hal “Jonathan Bowers s the first sub- scriber. Lord bless him. Come forward brethren, *“Guthrie has no flies on her, *Fast Guthrie boasts the fairest claime holder in the west, She hails from Chi « cago, sings like a lark, and will make it hot for jumpers.” - She Wasn't a'Gator. A Florida gentleman dreamed a few nights since that an sligator had him, He had often heard that if you would gouge them in the eyes they would tura you loose. 8o he proceeded to stick his thumb into the aligator’s eyes, He awoke instantly from the screaming of ruin from his wife, when he found that he had almost put both her eyes out. She claims he dia it on purpose and re- fuses to become paeified. She is mad yeot.