Show EARLY CULTURE IN MEXICO Ex existence stence of highly civilized prehistoric people there revealed by antique pleasure garden that an unknown highly cultured people of whom neither history tradition nor legend has preserved any record flourished in or near the valley of mexico and enjoyed spiced chocolate and aromatic beverages from transplanted tropical fruits grown by them in a marvelously built garden at from 11 1 aioo to 2000 years ago is the latest theory of 0 guillermo the recently discovered garden of 0 montezuma a mr applied to the department of public instruction for a special permit to make explorations inthe in the garden he states that concerning awen tyone ty one successive maciques caciques caci ques on the land with codices in possession of oc the national museum has led him to believe that the garden has great antiquity he has been devoting a large part ot of tour four years to studying the plants found there through the inscriptions he has been able to glean historical data concerning twenty one successive caciques maciques caci ques tropical trees flowers and fruits were transplanted from the isthmus of and central america to this garden and there were grown cocoas coccas vanila parota barota chiti and another rare flower flover which gives ok off its odor in the night light these plants and their friends were in ingredients of the delicious chocolates which were the favorite beverages ot of the aztec lords when cortes arrived the garden was visited by and the second named being identical with montezuma it la 13 claimed that Monte montezuma zurna appropriated this beautiful garden tc his personal royal uses and pleasure mexican herald the husking bee in maine one of 0 the old rural institutions which is still in vogue in spite of tho the progress of modern inventions is the old fashioned husking bee says tho the kennebec journal th the e journal Journ aVs s correspondents from various sections ol 01 of the state have been giving interesting accounts tor for the past two weeks of 0 gatherings ot of this baturo in their locality with the accompanying harvest supper which seem to differ in but few points from those recorded in the pages of new england story writers of 25 1 5 and 50 years ago about the only difference dit Terence seems to be that the modern farmer can call call all his guests together by telephone instead of waiting for slower methods of summoning them to bring results |