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ACCMt IN QUAMAOUATO
ASTItlKING picture of native life
in Guanajuato, the treasure
l chest of mercurial Mexico, is
given in n communication to
the Nationel Geographic society by
Frank H. Probert. Mr. Frobert reveals
' the Mexican peons as they are known
only to the American who has lived
among them.
Leaving the wulled inclosure of the
railroad yards, says he, one looks down
on the apparently crumped and crowd
ed city of Guanujuato, capitul of the
richest of the south central states of
Mexico. Hard by. to the right, is the
bull ring, the scene on Sunduys and
fiestas of farcical combats between
two-legged brutes and four-legged
beasts.
In the soft sunshine of summer days
the first vista of the city is striking in
deed. Churches of magnificent propor
tions; ancient and modern architec
tures strangely blended in the same
edifice ; stutely buildings ; imposing
markets; stores of all descriptions;
and dwelling places, rudely bare, vari
ously colored with neutral tints of cal
cimine, their grated windows and open
doors exhibiting to all the sparsely
furnished Interior where bird, beast
and human eat and live together. The
wrdid squalor of the many contrasts
strikingly with the oppressive opu
lence of the few.
The cobblestone streets are crooked
and narrow; so narrow, in fact that
caballeros must take to the sldewulk
to permit of the passing of any kind of
vehicle. The dingy tram cars drawn by
relays of mules, three ubreust, beaten
into subjection by the stinging lash
or coaxed Into action by the curses of
i he youthful drivers, whose vernacular
is wonderfully expressive and effec
tive; indeed, I douht if anything but a
mule can really appreciate the depth
of feeling and Irresistible persuasive
ness of the vile expressions.
Odd Sights in the Streets.
What strange sights one can see In
these muin arteries of the city! I
liave set my camera on the balcony of
k my room at the Woods hotel and will
snap what passes by. At first, a herd
of patient-plodding burros loaded down
with slabs of the pale green sandstone
quarried neur by and used for build
ing purposes; a legless cripple shuttles
along on a board, propelling himself
with his hands; a cargador trots along
tirelessly with his awkward burden, in
this case a sewing machine : more bur
ros overloaded with charcoal ; another
iuck struggles under the weight of
acked ore from the mines; still an
other bearing grain to the market, and
the street car demanding loudly a clear
track; a funeral procession where
laughing children carry a baby's cas
ket, swaying from side to side to the
accompaniment of anything but appro
priate music, and behind the mourners
In silent solemnity.
Strangely superstitious are these
people. Grossly ignorant, constant in
their faith, pathetic in their simplic
ity, kindly and respectful, their life Is
pitoraized in the verse:
"Let the world slide, let the world go;
"""A fig for care and a fig for woe!
If I can't pay, why I can owe,
And death makes equal the high and
low."
Hanging Judas lacariot in Effigy.
Tls Eastern Sunday moruing. I am
awakened at early dawn by the tooting
of tin horns, accompanied by the so
norous screeches of bass viols and fid
dles as sounds are sawn from their
strings; by the shuffling of sandaled
feet over the stones of the street, and
by the babel of voices of passing peons.
Church bells clang, sirens scream,
whistles wildly mingle In the melody of
merriment; for is not this the day
wnen Judas Iscarlot is to be hung in
ffigy.
A grotesque dummy figure is pa
raded through the town, followed by
the Jeering and cheering crowds, who
have risen early to give expression to
their righteous indignation against the
betrayer. After circling the city the
procession halts, Judas is promptly
yanked by the ropes from the bearers
and dangles in midair, a sorry sight,
aplt upon, cursed, condemned, con
signed to everlasting purgatory, to
which place, at sunset, he is sent by
the explosion of dynamite concealed
in bis carcass. Ribaldry runs riot as
the day advances, and night falls on
an exhausted though happy people.
What matters If the prison Is over
crowded that night, or that the supply
of pulque or mescal Is depleted almost
to the degree of exhaustion?
To the casual visitor from the
State the habits and customs of these
lowly people are strange, bat fasci
nating. They do not need our com
miseration or sympathy; they are con
tent in their mode of living, and Who
shall say that they are the less happy
or human in their habitat than many
of us?
Peon Is Always a Peon.
The Mexican peon knows that he is
born to serve, as did the old southern
darky, and caste or class distinction is
emphasized on all occasions. The
moM rides silently behind the lordly
caballero; the peon woman steps into
the street and bows her head as the
padre pusses ; in the plaza on Sunday
evenings, when the melody of martial
music fills the air, the upper clusses
parade in one direction, while the
peons gyrate us an outer ring in the
opposite direction. As a class they
are industrious and skillful It the time
element is eliminated.
The peon miner is a competent work
mun when unhampered by modern ma
chines and bus a "nose" for ore thut
is truly remarknble. As tillers of the
soil their methods are primitive but
productive ; they still use oxen and the
wooden plow share, and the fields are
fenced with imperishable dry-rock
walls. In the making of pottery and
basketry they excel; In running hides,
saddlery and the working of metals
they ure inimitable. The women, too,
can grind corn on a inetute. cook tor
tillas and frijoles, raise families, laun
der clothes on a rock near the creek,
and make the most exquisite laces and
the finest of drawuwork with equal
skill.
IS MODERN MILES STANDISH
Bashful West Virginia Youth Speaks
Proposal Into Phonograph and
Sends Record to Sweetheart.
It is too bud to have to climb up and
remove the laurel wreath from the
beetled brow of Miles Standish. His
has always been a name to thrill the
youth of the seventh grade and the In
roads he made upon the Indian popu
lation of New England entitle him to
a high place in the hall of fame.
That little piece of love-making
which he curried on with I'riscilla,
with John Aldcn us his proxy, has
long appealed to the hosts who look
upon bashful MM as one of the attri
butes of u brave warrior.
Of course. Napoleon, Alexander and
Antony wereu t particularly backward
about their WOOtafS and Itlchard HI
was rather a parlor favorite in his
way ; hut soldiers, that Is, good Ameri
can colonial soldiers, have usually
been baihful,
Washington was : he says so ftlm
self. And so wns Standish. Both lost
irls because they were too slow. But
when it conies to downright dyed-in-the-wool
bashfulness we must all
staud back and let the ushers lead Al
fred II. Manning of I'arkersburg, .
Va., down to the front seat, says the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Gentle
men, bring forward the cruse of oil
and anoint Mr. Manuiug. Hand him
the cake.
Amid all these wars and rumors of
wars comes from I'arkersburg a story
which alleges that Mr. Manuing. un
able to nerve himself to the point ot
asking a young woman to be his wife,
spoke his little piece into a phono
graph and sent her the record.
By and by he received another rec
ord. Putting it on his machine and
cranking up. be released the mechan
ism and, while great beads of perspira
tion stood upon his brow, he heard
the little oak doors emit the single
word "Yes."
To the captious,
methods might be
smacking too much of Indian customs.
It will be rerall.il that the aborigines,
meaning to declare war. would seud
their enemy a snakeskiu tilled with
bullets.
But these critics are too harsh ; pro
'losing by phonograph Is businesslike,
to the point and sanitary. It may
luck some of the sentimeut, but it ac
complishes the purpose. It fetches
home the matrimonial bacou. We sin
cerely hope that in the years to come
Mr. and Mrs. Manning will have no
occasion to smash the record!
Mr. Manning's
considered as
Strongly Disapproved.
"We won't stand for suggestive mo
tion pictures in this town."
"Nor
"Yesterday, Just as a kiss began ou
the screen, something went wrong with
the projecting machine and It lasted
for nearly three minutes."
"Well! Well!"
"Bat In ihc meantime 24 indignant
matrons got up and left Urn piac."
"IF THK SIIOK FITS YOU
THKN WEAK IT"
By
ADAM I.IAR
Ancient CoMtime.
There was once a yong lady named
Duff,
Who sat out in the sun on a bluff;
"You've a nice coat of tan,"
Said a timid jroUnfl man.
n lit I hardly think that Is enough.
o
( III, lorcnzo!
The Ixirenzo Adolphus MacDride,
Told Miss Mill, mi his poor wife
hud died.
Hut she lit on them there.
And pulled AdolphuB hair.
For Lorenzo Adolphus hud lied.
o
Any yueen fan Do It
May and Myrtle don't speak now,
alack,
It happende at hridRO. not long
back ;
Myrtle's old sweet heart, John.
Was kidding them on
When May simply took Myrtle's
".lack."
o
Always It Sure
He came down town Sunday nipht.
"EXCUM me if I sec a little cxcittTl,"
he said to a friend he met on un
paved Box Butte avenue, "but on
ly u few minutes ago I suw a man
jump out of a second story window.
I was going past the house. I rushed
up to him, utpsjetlM to tm. i Mm dead
or at least injured, but instead be
was only slightly bruised. So I said
to him, "Why did you Jump out of
that window?" lie said, "because
a woman lied to me." I said, "you
don't mean to tell me that you
jumped out of a se.-ond story win
dow because a woman lied to you?"
lie said, "Yes. she told me her hus
band was in Denver."
o
Yew, Ye Of ' torse
Most teachers are unnoyd by the
frequency with which pupils want to
leave the classroom. So this partic
ular teacher made a new rule that
no scholar woui.i be allowed to feQ
out during school hours unless they
had u written excuse from their par
ents. One of the youngsters hro'i
in an excuse written by his father
and here is how it read: "Please
let my boy go outside, because he's
sick inside."
o
Some .lob Em- Sure
I went to the Imperial one night
this week. Two seats ahead of me
sat a large woman who wouldn't
take off her hat. A cross-eyed man
came in and sat down in the sent in
front of me and behind the woman
with the hut. He couldn't see eith
er. Se he tapped her on the back
and said, "Lady, oh lady, 1 want to
look us well as you do." She turend
around In her seat and gave him u
harsh lok and said in a rich Irish
brogue: "Oh. yer do, do you? Then
you'd betetr run home und change
your face."
o
I king!
Yonu all no doubt read about that
squib in my column about the woman
who said one of the Alliance boys
hud "hardening of the artillery.''
Well, at one home they were talking
It over. The little girl in the home
caught some of it and of course had
to know ul ubout it, child fashion.
"Papa, what are pieces of artillery?'
she asked. Her papa replied, "I
think they must be the kind that the
girl next door plays on the piano,"
Ml the reply.
O
Fine Eor n Fat Man
Aconling to the St. Paul Dlsputoh,
"All the apparel necessary for your
sojourn In Southern California is
nabiluwofsiiwiirbs a jehel wksoenh
III hevevyegwvscf oevdhks J j tao
in. - o- -Some
Man, For Sure
"Why, do you know Jesus Chrlats
overcoat wouldn't make that man a
comfortable vest," Is the way one Al
liance professional man sized up an
other business man this week And
the best of It Is. the Wor.'.B lit .
Rati Sle. Eor Men
Now that the season for fall styles
shows is almost over and men are lie
ginning to think of what they will
wear this winter, 1 will endeavor to
present a few of the latestfashlon
hints. If every man In Alliance will
carefully observe these few and sim
ple rules, I assure you there will be
a swell bunsli of swells hereabouts
this winter.
You know the It A. li s and others
will not wear green four-in-hand
ties with dress coats and celluloid
collars wll not be much in evidence
at their functions.
Vests for the laity will button up
the front this season. Those for
the clergy wll button up the back,
mostly.
The tails of dress coats will be two
in number this full und winter, the
tuilors say, und they will uang down
behind.
Shirt collars will contain two col
lar buttons one In front and one be
hind. Trousers will be very much worn,
especially around the edges. This
will be true In artistic centers
Tuxedo coats will be without tails
this year and will have satin collars
and lapels. They will button up the
front.
Spats will be popular, particularly
annmr Alliance men who are mar
ried They will be particularly ia
evidence ul the breakfast table.
Socks will be two In number and In
many cases fcetless. Home darning
will languish for the period of too
war.
Solid hone collar buttons will be
appropriate for young gentlemen who
travel the primrose path, as they will
match the heads.
Dress shirts will have hard bos
oms. (in account of the war there
w ill be only 6f.7 pins in them Instead
of the usual 9s 3.
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Exact value of a slacker.
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( IammIc Library
You know in those dry times it 14
well to get your think tank busy. I
have designed an advertisement
which 1 think maybe I can sell to
someone if 1 can get hold of the right
people I have thought it ought to
go somethting like this: "CLASSIC
LIBRARY Not a dray line in any
of the volumes. The book comes in
pints and quart sizes, any titles de
sired Can be shipped without doted
tlon. A boon for prohibition states
or communities, henpecks and oth
ers. Marvel Distilling Co." Don't
chu think I could sell that ad?
Oliver Oil
I guess I'll call it off now for this
week. By the way you fellows who
hud some materials for this column.
Bring It In. I don't like to work SO
hard, myself.
Migratory Birds.
The sense of direction in migratory
birds Is as marvelous as It Is mysteri
ous. The familiar Inhabitants of our
dooryard martin boxes return the next
year t' these same laixes, though
meanwhile they have visited Brazil.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Having sold our ranch, located fourteen miles north of Bingham,
eighteen miles northwest of Ashby and eight miles south of the Spade
ranch, we will offer at Public Auction, at that place, beginning at one
o'clock in the afternoon, following a dinner served by the Red Cross
ladies of Bingham, on
TUESDAY, OCT., 9th
The following described stock and property:
140 HEAD OF CATTLE
75 head of cows and heifers, including several . good milk cows.
35 head of yearling and two-year- old steers. 30 head of calves.
2 EXCELLENT BULLS
1 Three-year-old pure bred Angus bull. 1 Two-year-old high
grade Angus bull.
6 HEAD OF HORSES
1 pair two-year-old mares- 1 pair black geldings, coming 3 and 4
years old. 1 yearling colt. 1 8-year-old saddle horse.
FARM MACHINERY, HOUSEHOLD GOODS, ETC.
1 hay stacker. 1 hay rake. 1 hay mower. 1 low down iron-wheel
wagon with hay rack. 1 buggy. 2 sets work harness. 1 Fremont
saddle, almost new. 1 kitchen range, almost new. 1 piano, Gerhard
make, good condition. 1 Minnesota sewing machine. And complete
set of household furniture, including chairs, beds, rugs, stoves, etc,
10 dozen chickens. 50 bushels rye.
DINNER to be served by the Red Cross ladies of Bingham.
Trn AM C. Six months time at eight per cent interest on all sums over $10
1 EflViyiOw" on bankable paper approved by the clerk. No property to be
removed until settled for.
TUTTLE BROS.
CLYDE RAY, Clerk
Ashby
COL. H. P. COURSEY, Auct.
Alliance
