MARKETS OF MEXICO OPEN AIR INSTITUTIONS FORM A PICTURESGUE FEATURE. tower Class of Mexicans Said to Be Born Tradesmen—Market Place in Small Town a Veritable Beehive of Industry. City of Mexico. —One might travel the world around and find few more picturesque institutions than the mar kets of Mexico in the warm colors of a spring day. This does not refer to those big market places of the capi tal, and to those painfully new build ings to which the residents of various cities throughout the republic point with pride; but to those open-air, sun bedecked plazas of bartering which •one frequently runs across in the sub urbs of Mexico City and the smaller towns and villages of the interior. It is in these outdoor places of dickering that one may catch the true spirit of the lower classes in their most typical dress. It has been said that the lower class of Mexican is a tradesman, born to buy and sell, and that he would much prefer to haggle all day over a profit of ten cents than to earn a wage of 50 cents. Hut be this as it may, the market place is the great gathering place of small traders from far and near, who come to gossip over the latest news and trade small talk, as well as to dispose of their more marketable wares. The market place of a small town is a veritable beehive of industry, or the semblance of industry, and it is A Typical Market Woman. ■only necessary fcr the sightseer L visit such suburbs as Coyocan to be come convinced of this beyond perad venture. The little market of a town is the goal of all ambitious tradesmen in its territory. It is at this point that traveling peddlers, street vendors and mountain Indians begin their day's labor, and they have usually spread out their wares before daylight. Here may be seen the wandering Spaniard or Syrian, with his peddler's pick spread out, with all its gaudy attractions —highly colored handker chiefs, combs, strings of glass beads, bracelets, necklaces and cheap finery of every description. His is the ma gician's bag to the poor Indian criatia i with only a few centavos to bespangle her natural charms, and his is one of the most attractive booths of the plaza. Hut Itinerant peddlers are common to all countries, and one must turn elsewhere to catch those typical wares of the people. There, spread out on the ground, one may see the cheap native pottery, in various and sundry shapes, serviceable and otherwise, which the Indians themselves have made in their crude fashion. There are the native fruits, luscious and tempting, but fast spoiling in the glare of the sun. There are native man tillas, shawls, rebozos and perhaps a booth with other wearing apparel for woiuen. There are sombreros, and frequently one may run across char ro suits of leather with spanglos of •sii.'er pieces to catch the eye of the visiting ranchero. And there are rough native shoes, with long pointed toes, that were the style in the United States several years ago. In fact, there is no limit to the va riety of the wares which may be seen for sale within the limits of a very small market, though no grand pianos have been noticed in the display. There is everything, from a penny's worth of peanuts to a peso's \»onh of more substantial merchandise. And on a fiesta. It is indeed a scene of bright colors to catch the eye of an artist. It is to the little market plaee that the Indian, Tarascan, Tarahumara, or whatever his tribe is, trots down from the hills to dispose of his handi craft, his baskets, his blankets or even his crude violins. Jut the Mexican market place is not. only a plaza for buying and selling. It seems to be the meeting place for everything, for dogs, cats and Indian babies. The dogs and cats are al lowed to scamper around in every di rection, with but little cause for ap prehension on the part of buyers and sellers, and as for the babies —t.bey are spread out in every direction in the sun, dirty little contented speci mens of humanity that are the only things in the market place not lot sale. HADLEY TO BE A FARMER. Missouri Attorney General Seeks Health Tilling Soil. Kansas City.— Herbert S. Hadley, at torney-general and a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, is to become a farmer. A short time ago when the doctors thought Mr. Hadley's health was breaking he went to Texas and from there to New Mexico. While staying at Roswell he found a little farm, two miles out of that place, that he fan cied as an ideal place for a country bome while the chance that it would Herbert S. Hadley. grow in value offered an opportunity lor an investment. He made an offer on the place, which has since been accepted, and now he is going west to take title to the property and plant 20 acres of corn, at the same time getting the benefit of the high altitude and out door life. Mrs. Hadley will go to New Mexico later in the summer. In appearance Mr. Hadley shows no signs of poor health. Most of his friends have come to the conclusion that indigestion is his most serious trouble. When he works under high pres sure 16 hours a day he occasionally runs down because his nervous system affects digestion. He is the reverse of Gov. Folk, who eats four big meals a day when he is working hard and grows fat on a hard campaign. CHIEF OF MODERN WOODMEN. Head Consul A. R. Talbot Unanimous ly Re-Elected. f.incoln. Neb. —Head Consul A. R. Talbot of the Modern Woodmen of America, who was unanimously re elected at the triennial convention held in Peoria, 111., is a lawyer of this city, and was formerly the partner of William Jennings Bryan. He has been at the head of the Woodmen since 1903. when ho succeeded Lieut.-Gov. Northcott of Illinois. Previously he had been a director of the order for 12 years. Mr. Talbot has served in the Nebraska senate. Under his adminis- A. R. Talbot. tration the Woodmen have flourished, now having 950,000 members, of whom 150,000 are in Illinois. The sal ary of the office was increased from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. The election is for a term of three years. HHiman Hair in Wedding Gowns. Madge O'Rourke, the famous Irish- American dressmaker, was showing a customer an assortment of wedding gowns, relates the New Ofleans Times- Democrat. "In every one of those gowns, were you to rip them apart," she said, "you would find a lock of hair hidden —red hair, brown hair, golden hair, eveu hair. "Sewing girls believe that she who works on a wedding gown, if she sews a lock of her own hair into it, will be married herself within the year. "Oh, yes, the belief is universal. Every wedding gown in the world is apt to reveal, when cut up, a lock of hair —some red, some gold, some black, and some, alas, gray." Density of City Population. The Federation Review, a paper de voted to the cause of liberal immigra tion laws, in an article on the dens ity of city population says: "Although there is a certain area of about three and a half acres on Manhattan island, where the density of population is at the rate of G30.000 to the square mile, yet the city of Paris shows a far greater average density of population than New York, the figures for Paris being 79,300 a square mile and for New York city proper 40,000 a square mile. The average density of Lon don's population is 37,000 a square mile, and that of Berlin is G7.0V0." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1908. J Picked Up in-##--##- j I Pennsylvania 1 PARlS. —Caught tn a moving wagon wheel, 8-year-ol<l John Mason of this (Greene) county, was frightfully in jured. BUTLER. —A heavy rain damaged crops and washed out sections of the plank roa ' the main auto thorough fare between here and Pittsburg. LATROBE. —In a freight wreck at Bradenville an engine and ten cars were demolished', Engineer J. H. Mirsch 01" Irwin was seriously injured. FINLEYVILLE. —Fire at Hackett Sta tion, near here, destroyed' the store and residence of Louis Bourge and the residence of Matthew Drobesch. Loss, $6,000. WASHINGTON. —After ftn absence of 30 years, John Tanner, long thought to be dead, returned to his home in West Finley township, llis aged mother fainted from joy. GREENS3U RG. Eleanor Troy, nine years old, was run down by an automobile and her recovery is doubt ful. The chauffeur ran into a crowd of children crossing the street. GREENSBURG. —Touching a match to the fuse of a stick of dynamite which he had placed under his left arm, August Stock was blown to pieces at Edna No. 2, near here. WASHINGTON. The Universal Rolling Mill Co. of Washington has filed its charter for record'. It will manufacture steel sheets and plates. The plant will be located here. GREENSBURG.— When Frank Jur asko, a Donohoe miner, went home in toxicated, he was greeted in the door with a kettle of hot .water. Jurasko's face, arms and chest were scalded. MONONGA HEL A. One man was killed, three persons were Injured anil the plant of the Monongahela Water Co. was wrecked when one of the boilers exploded with terrific force. WASHINGTON. Suit for $2,275 has been entered against the borough of Charleroi by the Charledoi Water Co. The company claims the bor ough is delinquent in payment for water used. KITTANNING. Although a bride of only six weeks, Mrs. Benjamin Goldpart of Manor township has asked the court to compel her young husband to support her. Goldpart is said to be in Pittsburg. WASHINGTON.— Henry White died here from an injury received in a pe culiar manner on June 27. While at the bottom of a deep excavation re pairing a leak in a water pipe, a run away horse fell in upon him. HARRISBURG.— WhiIe Roy Spen cer, aged 17, of Steelton and Earl Pax ton. about the same age, were rowing across the Susquehanna river in a steel skiff a bolt of lightning struck Spencer, killing him instantly. BCRANTON.— NichoIas de Mazo, 22 years old, an Old Forge Italian, shot and killed his 14-year-old bride of sev en months at her sister's home in that town. She had left him because of brutal treatment and' because of the report that De Mazo had a wife in Italy. WASHINGTON. W. 11. Farquhar, a Centerville farmer, was caught in the cogs of a mower and one foot was crushed. Farquhar was alone in the hay field and it was several hours be fore assistance reached him. He had stopped the horses, but was unable to extricate, himself. WASHINGTON. —The county com missioners petitioned the court for permission to authorize another bond issue not to exceed $125,000, to be used in constructing the bridge over the Monongahela river at Mononga hela. The expense is to be borne jointly by Washington and Allegheny counties. HANOVER.—Henry Deardorff, a farmer of Bonneauville, decapitated his 19-months-old son Charles while mowing grain. He was driving a reaper through the field when the child ran into the tall grain and was cut down. The father found the little fellow's body on making a second round of the field. EAST BRADY.— Wishing to experi ence the novelty of being in the water during a storm, J. R. Audley Lindsay, 23 years old, and James Quenn, lti years old, went swimming in the Allegheny river here while a heavy rain swept the valley. A bolt of lightning was carried by a pipe line into the river, killing both. K ITT ANN ING. —"Wait, papa; I'll open the gate!" exclaimed the 8-year old son of Mack Beatty of Dayton, and running in front of his father's mow ing machine the child's foot was cut off before the horses could be stopped. ALTOONA. A wealthy merchant here has been swindled by a stranger who negotiated for the sale of a de vice to make bank notes of all de nominations by putting blank paper in one end of the machine and turn ing a crank to get money at the other end. ! KITTANNING. —In crossing the j Kiskiminetas river near Roaring Hun i Hubert Schrecengost fell from a boat j and was drowned. BROOKVILLE. Summerville, six | miles from here, is greatly wrought ; up over an expected outbreak of black | diphtheria at that place. GREENSBURG. —WhiIe harvesting ; wheat 011 his farm in Ligonier town ship, William Clark was prostrated by heat and died without regaining | consciousness. MONONGAHELA.— The eight-year old son of Thomas Short of Baird sta tion died from tetanus, resulting from | stepping on a sharp piece of wire while barefooted. IRWlN. —Seventy dollars was the fine paid by Emanuel Gongaware for killing two turtle doves. A game warden found the dead doves in Gong aware's possession. GREENSBURG. Florence Still wagon, six years old, residing near her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stillwagon, was probably fatally burned while playing near a bonfire. NORRISTOWN.—Two large barns of the State Hospital for the Insane burned, entailing a loss of $50,000. : All live stock was rescued. Much ex j citement prevailed among tlio 2,000 1 patients. NEW CASTLE.— After a family 1 quarel Frank Rossena, a prominent ' local Italian, who acts as court inter preter here, shot anil fatally wounded his brother-in-law, John Chocco, of j Pittsburg. HAZLETON. —ltalians and Hunga rians clashed in a race riot while on the way to a swimming dam on the outskirts of the city and three Hun garians were stabbed, one of them probably fatally. ALTOONA. —Thomas Keller, a boy, was riding along the street when one of the tires of his bicycle was punc tured. He stopped to repair It and found a valuable diamond iStickpin sticking in the rubber. FRANKLIN. Gov." Stuart has granted a respite until August 18 for Mike Holka, who has been sentenced to hang July 14 for killing Police Cap tain Bdward Meehan here. An effort will be made to have the supreme court reopen the case. BROWNSVILLE.— Two men were killed and eight injured, one serious ly, when a flat car 011 which 15 ball players and their friends were being taken to Brier Hill, where a twilight game was to have been played, left the track, throwing the men off. KITTANNING. —Avonmore, on the Kiskiminetas river, is without fire protection and citizens are planning to install a water works and organize a fire department. A reservoir will be constructed on the hillside and several artesian wells will be drilled. POTTSVILLE. —To have the engine jump the track and see the fun was the explanation of nine-year-old John Socick of Morea, near this place, j when arrested for placing a piece of iron pipe and stones on the track just j before the Pennsylvania railroad flyer was due. 1 POTTSVILLE. —The large breaker of the Maryd Coal Co., about ten miles from here, was destroyed by fire, this making the second time within the past year and a half that the breaker has been burned. The fire in both instances is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. OIL CITY. —A parasitic disease has broken out among horses in sections of Mercer county, seven animals hav ing died recently near Orangeville. The first effect of the disease is to rob the horse of its hair. If neglected it always causes death. Several cases have been discovered' near Clarks 1 Mills. WASHINGTON.—Charged with at tempting to pass a counterfeit bank note, Tony Domroskey and Tony Key eakev of Monongahela were sentenced 1 to six months in the workhouse. The i "counterfeit" was the humorous invi tation made by a novelty house known as the Cassie Chad wick green back. HARRISBURG.—The state railroad commission has directed that the complaint of J. B. Keller of Mount I Joy against the Pennsylvania Rail road Co. be dismissed, as it is one i for court action. This complaint al leged that there had been unneces sary delay in delivery of cattle to the ! complainant at Mount Joy. MONESSEN.—After a year's con tinuous building operations and the | expenditure of several million dollars, | the Pittsburg Steel Co. has fired for ' the first time four of the eight new j 60-ton open hearth furnaces at Mon i essen. NEW WILMINGTON.—The Thomas j Jamison scholarship fund in the Alle gheny theological seminary was won in three departments this year by : Westminster graduates. The pupil in each department having the highest j grade gets SIOO. You Read the Other Fallow s Ad 1 You ar« reading this one. jj I That should convince you ;-j | that advertising in these : | columnals a profitable prop \ I osition; that it will bring • 4 | business to your store. The fact that the other I fellow advertises is prob ably the reason he is get ting more business than is falling to you. Would it not be well to give the other fellow a chance To Read Your Ad In These Columns [ Yonr Stationery !s your silent representative. It you sell One goods that are up to-date tn style and of superior quality It ought to be reflected In your printing. We produce the kind that you need and will not feel ashamed to have represent you. That Is the only kind It pays to send out. Send your or ders to this office. The Buyers' n Guide Ths firm* whose names an repre sented in our advertising columns are worthy of the confidence of every person in the community who has money to spend. The fact that they advertise stamps them as enterpris es* progressive men of business, a credit to our town, and deserving of support. Our advertising columns comprise a Buyers' Guide to fair dealing, good goods, honest prices. V J G.SCHMIDT'S,' ; — HBADQUAKTBR» FOR |1 popular "" hct " t " c'rea.,^ 1 # CONFECTIONERY Dally Delivery, Allorders given prompt and skillful attention. Don't Use a Scarecrow To Drive Away tin Mail Order Wolf l ou cajl drive him out 'WjI 11 order houses' own weapon 5 —advertising. Mail order J thousands of dollars every hlf/f9 week in order to get trade iv i'W'i. sPf /'■from the home merchants, i 'fwli' y° u * or a minute ''l (112 they didn't get the busi ne9S ? Don't take it for granted that every one within a radius of 25 miles knows what you have to sell, and what yoor prices are. 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