Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 November 1897 — Page 6

INDIAN MAIZE MILLS.

HOW CORN CAKES ARE MADE IN MEXICO.

Where Hard Labor Is Pat Upon Women. Food That I* Either Too Hot For Comfort or Too Tough For Digestion—In Indian Hut#.

[Special Correspondence.]

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., NOV. 10.— Right here, where the western offshoot of the main line of the Santa Fe takes its course toward and among the Indian towns of Arizona, is a good place to halt and indite a letter. I have started for Mexico, but on my way thought I would take a cursory view of the most interesting Indians along the route.

Westward from here, scattered along an irregular line, are such numbers of Indian towns and villages, substantially built and occupied by a superior class of red men, that one might spend years in studying tliem and their surrroundings. They have been frequently described, and our scientists and ethnologists have found them a fruitful subject for investigation. It is now more than 20 years sinco the first government expedition made its explorations, and yet the students have not completed their studies of these unique people and their great mud dwellings housing hundreds of Indians.

These Indians are shy about admitting strangers within their domiciles. In the first place, you have to climb up a ladder the height of one story to find entrance to their living apartments, and, in the secoud, it is ten to one you will be met at the doorway by some black browed Indian, with a surly dog snarling from between his bandy legs, and your admittance sternly combated. But a dollar here assumes the size of a cart wheel to the aforesaid Indian when it is his in prospective, and it is only nocessary to. show it to him to have the frown on his brow relax and the cur dog kicked howling into a corner.

Once within you are sure to find the mud walls of the room coated with whitewash, the mud floor cleanly swept and both floor and walls adorned with interesting ourios. In ono corner may be a shrine, but in another is always to be found the primitive mill in which the corn is ground and prepared for the table. This mill sometimes consists ol a stone slab merely and a stone rolling pin, and again of a stone trough, with tho milling slab slantwise against one sido. But always you will find the mill in operation and the "millers" at their posts. Theso latter ore women, generally old squaws grown aged at their labors, but frequently young girls with bare and shapely arms and little hands, black hair loosely hanging down their shoulders and in a negligee dress consisting of a single garment belted at tho waist.

I have Boen m&ny Of these "molinoras" both hero and in old Mexico, as well as in Central America, and they aro always picturesque. Those of Yucatan and the hot regions are more so than these of tho Pueblos, as they usually work naked to tho waist and their apparatus is more primitive. The milling stones consist of a flat slab, called tho "metatl," and tho stone rolling pin, called tho "motalpille," both words derived from tho ancient Aztec an earthen bowl or gourd to hold the corn and another to receive the meal.

By this laborious process of grinding botween two stone# oorn has been converted into meal by these people for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, and it is always the women of the household who have to do it. All the day long and sometimes well into the night they toil at tho mill, stopping only to make tho nieal into cakes and bake them on another stone slab or flat iron plate ovor a hot fire.

Theso cakes, by tho way, are the famous "tortillas," pronounced "torteeyas,"but no matter how pronounced they aro nutritious, though nearly as tough as leather. Tho Pueblo Indian, as well as tho nntivo Moxican and Yuoatecan, subsists almost entirely upon those tortillas, together with "frijoles" (freeholays) and "chile con earn©." The frijoles aro nothing more nor less than beans, tho round black beans of the country, which aro first boiled, then stewed in fat or fried.

And speaking of richness—why, 1 don't kuow of another article of the kitchen that can surpass these frijoles iu rich, nutritive material. I have oaten

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theni a hundred times, and if I had my choice I should prefer them "re-fritos," or retried, with all the pork fat fried into them by repeated heatings.

Then there is the "chile eon earn©," or meat seasoned with red hot peppers, which only sui Indian or Mexicau stomach can "stomach" anywny. Sometimes it is called "chile Colorado," or red pepper, and (bis reminds me of a fanny mistake some packers of this warm meat and pepper mixture have made Followiun the example of those enterjaristn# Arms who have pat canoed beans on the market, they have prepared the chile Colorado likewise. There may have, been no mistake In that hat, never having seen the word* in prait

probably, they have followed the pronunciation of them and stamped upon their cans the wonderful legend "chili colorow."

Now, everything that these people eat is either too warm for comfort or too tough for digestion. The Indian or the Mexican is an inordinate drinker of black coffee and a perfect fiend at smoking cigarettes. I have often thought that, what with his devouring of tough tortillas, bolting of redhot chili Colorado, and swamping his stomach with coffee, the lining membrane of that organ must be as durable as that famous piece of leather which made the dasher of the "one boss shay", and which was "found in the vat when the tanner died." Anyway the Mexicans, if not the Indians, are frequently the victims of indigestion and their skins are as brown and oily as a smoked herring.

The women have finer complexions than the men invariably, and this may be owing to their smoking fewer cigarettes—for they all smoke some-—or to

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their drinking less coffee. Again, it inay be owing to the fact that they are women and ought to look pretty, regardless of what they eat or what they drink. 1 have seen many of them grinding at the mills, iu the corners of Indian huts, beneath straw thatched shanties and in the open air, and have always found them exceedingly attractive and picturesque, with the warm, rich coloring of their complexions, the velvety softness of their skins and their graceful attitudes. If our artists would only think it worth the while to leave Europe out of their itinerary some seasons and take a trip or two down this way, they would find abundant material to transfer to their canvases. •. J. A. ELDRKDGK.

IN EDISON'S LABORATORY.

HU Wonderful Collections of Photographs and Substances. [Special Correspondence.]

ORANGE, N. J., Nov. 15.—Several years ago Thomas A. Edison gave it out that he had "gone out" of electricity and the taking out of patents. Mechanics and metallurgy, he said, would thereafter receive his closest attention, though he should use electricity as a means whenever it seemed the best thing to do and should take out patents whenever that was necessary in order to give himself the legal right to use any one of his own inventions.

And so it is that the visitor to his laboratory here, which must have originally cost $500,000 and is unquestionably tho finest in the world, sees as many or more things not electrical to interest him as those which have to do with the mystic current and its various applications. The photograph gallery, for instance, is not excelled in its appointments by any in the country, and the Edison collection of photographs is certainly unique. They include, besides the photographs that have been accumulated in connection with the kinetoscope, a great number of photographs of microscopio objects, and it was by means of the silent testimony of one of theso photographs that the wizard won a suit brought for the protection of his most important invention.

Even more interesting than the microscopic photographs, which include some truly wonderful ones of the eyes of insects, is the collection of substances already referred to. This is a really unique aggregation, and Mr. Edison declares that it includes every known sub stance on earth—skins and bones and hair of animals, common and rare, scales of fishes, feathers of birds, shining crystals, gleaming metals, earths from all quarters of the globe, stones of every sort, salts, rosins, gums, chalks and chemicals. Besides, there is a wonderful gathering of manufactured products—textile fabrics, metallic sheets and all sorts of fiber twisted into cords from the size of the finest silks to great cables. Every sort of paper ever made is included, too, as well as a perfect collection of rubber fabrics, and there are also specimens of all the seeds of the earth. In fact, the collection is practically what Mr. Edison claims for it, and the articles of which it is made tip could not be listed even in much less space than that afforded by one entire issue of a newspaper.

To some the collection of mechanical and trade devices would be most interesting of all. It is not universal, of course, but it is undoubtedly the most comprehensive of its sort in the world. Pickaxes of many designs, saws, coffee mills, meat choppers, wheelbarrows, ladders, strange contrivances from strange lands, the very use of which is not apparent without careful inspection, are heaped together quite unclassified, and perhaps unclassifiable, A half day's examination would not only bewilder the visitor, but add to bis admiration

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VIEWS OF MAUD GONNE, THE HANDSOME IRISH CHAMPION.

Absentee Landlordism In the United States. Twenty-one Million Acres of Soil In Possession of Aliens Bally of the Irish

People For liberty.

[Special Correspondence.]

CHICAGO, NOV. 16.—Since the date on which the first general congress of the United States in Philadelphia sent a message to the Irish people asking for their sympathy the history of the great western republic has been a subject of passionate interest and pride to Irishmen in general. They aro intensely proud of the fact that multitudes of our countrymen have contributed by their valor and genius to build up and safeguard the liberties of America. Our ex* iles, driven by English misgovernment and tyranny and in pursuance of Enj land's policy of exterminating the Irish people from their native land, have been, or at least have always meant to be, the champions of freedom.

It has been well said by one of our prominent leaders, that a bad son never makes a good husband and that the more an Irish exile loves his motherland the more certain he is to be a good citizen of his adopted country.

Long centuries of intercourse with England, centuries of struggle against her not only for freedom's sake, but for actual material existence, have taught the Irish people to distrust her. Frc bitter experience they have learned that she is never more to be dreaded than when she speaks fair and offers her friendship. They have seen treaty after treaty broken whenever it suited English policy to do so. It is but natural and right that they should ever be on the watch to defend their adopted an^ beloved country from even the shadow of English intriguer and influence, which have brought such deadly ruin on Ireland, on India and on any other land where they once take firm hold.

Then it was the Irish who first drew attention to the fact that 21,000,000 acres of the soil of the United States were actually in possession of aliens, mostly British, and not wishing to see the curse of absentee landlordism established in this country the Irish Nation-

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al League of America in 1884 sent delegations to both the Republican and Democratic conventions and had planks inserted in the platforms of both parties declaring against the ownership of American soil by foreign syndicates or individuals.

Again, the Irish National League of America found that it could serve the interests of the old country and of America at the same time by drawing attention to the way in which England, always persistently following her policy of extermination against the Irish people in Ireland, using the Irish landlords as her willing instruments in this abominable work, was first reducing the Irish peasants to utmost ruin by systematic plunder and then, as their maintenance in the workhouses would become a heavy tax on the landlords, which would militate against wholesale eviction, shipping the broken down paupers to America. In 1883 a delegation of prominent Irishmen, among whom were the late Eugene Kelly and John Roach, waited on President Arthur to bring to his attention the manner in which the Irish landlords were getting rid of the burdens they themselves had created by deporting to this country the inmates of Irish workhouses, paupers, imbeciles and others. Since then the emigration laws have been enforced more strictly than they were before This year Irishmen bare again exerted all their efforts to save this great country from a real danger into which England tried to draw her. The arbitration treaty was rejected, and now many generous hearted Americans, who at first saw only in this treaty an affirmation of the great principle of universal peace and justice, and as such were ready to support it, now recognize the complications ana dangers into which it might lead the great republic.

The hypocrisy of England is so apparent. Bow can an empire whose whole fabric is built upon bloodshed and the ruin of weaker nations talk of peace

for the versatile powers of the man who and arbitration? England's handsale could get such a collection together and red with the blood of the dusky tribes

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in South Africa. She is conspiring against the free Boer republic of the Transvaal. She has through wanton misgovernment and plunder brought about a famine in India which is destroying hundreds of thousands of lives, and now die is carrying warfare nxid destruction among the gallant tribes of India, who, with the sight of the famine before them, venture to doubt the

benefits of British civilization and government Why, England has engaged in more wars against weaker nations during the record reign of Victoria than any other country of the world during the same period!

If England so loves the principle of arbitration, why does she not arbitrate the Irish question? Our cause is so just we would willingly leave it to the justice of the United States or any international tribunal. But England would not consent to arbitration with a weaker country than herself. She is straining every nerve, she is spending millions with lavish hand, to get the arbitration treaty passed with the United States. She has been beaten once, but she has not given up hope. She wants arbitration with America to bolster up her prestige in Europe, which has received severe blows of late. She wants a treaty with the United States to secure her food supplies in case of war, for which she is preparing and which her policy of imperial extension cannot fail to bring about sooner or later.

The patriotism and fidelity of Irish people to the federal government have never been doubted. One of the most agreeable pictures of my visit to this country has been to learn in my conversations with many distinguished Irish leaders whom I have seen here that iu the event of any difficulty with any foreign power my countrymen in' the United States would leap to the front as one man to defend the integrity of the republic and the honor of her flag. In matters that concern the welfare of their adopted country and of their native land their self sacrificing devotion to the cause of Irish freedom is too well known to need any words of mine.

At the time of the Fenian rising over 300,000 men were enrolled in the organization iu America, and no movement having for object the independence and welfare of Ireland has ever failed to obtain their financial and personal support. Next year the century of our great struggle for liberty of 1798 will see the return of thousands and thousands of Ireland's children—not only from America, but from Australia, South Africa and every country where Irishmen are scattered over the world— to take part with the people at homo in the immense national pilgrimage which will visit all the glorious battlefields of •'98. It will be a rally of the Irish people, an affirmation before the world of the principle of Irish nationality and a demonstration that the whole Irish race are united in the determination to free their native land and are waiting and watching for the opportunity when England's difficulties will give them an opportunity of doing so

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