Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-10-04
rHs CITY OF NExICO.

MexicOis q $ rious and Ivy no means
n gay city. There are no crowds upon
the sidewalks, no eating Of ices in pub
lie, no cafes chantanss, no ling Pari-
sian. by Dor l O'clock the good peo-
plo appear to have retired already, to be
up betimes in the morning Tor the work
OF the day. Ami!itary baud p.rys three
evenings IN the week, but even this,
except on Sundays, is 40 sparscly at
tended that the men seem to I've discours-
ing their music for their own sniuse-
ment. Policemen ere found stationed
at abort iAtervuis in the quiet streets,
with tleif. lantern, set in thu middle OF
the roadway. Tney are Obliged ny the
regulations to signal their Whereabouts
every ga tgs Of an hour, and the sound
81 their WHISTLES, which hnse shrill,
duletul note, like a November wind, nay
he heard repeated from one to the otAer
all the night through.
As the place does not expect tourists,
there are almost none o. the applrten-
snces for their enlightenment to he met
with elsewhere. While this may have
ito annoyances, If the demands Of an
ardent curiosity remain too long unan--
swere !, the freedom flom responsibility
to Baeieker or Murray has advant-
ages Of its own. The visitor with an
eye for the picturesque lips into deli
c.ous feast OF novelties, makes discover
les on every hand, and may have the
pleasure OF testing the value OF his own
unaide'l conclusions. BY daylight. with
its brg ht c"l"rs np"n it. and its normal
stir Of life. the lamou, remote capital is
a very different place. Ely little aud
little the mis- ,~,hensions Of the night
are shaken off. From the first moment
of disappointment We like it always
more instead of less.
Figures go by whose blankets ono
burns t. takesrom themi orporti res. The
men Of the pocrer sort wear or carry
universally the S rapa--a blanket with .
head. Apart from Its artistic pate rs,
it is a useful garment in many emergen-
cies. 1t is not the most improbable
thing in the world that, i'll the course of
the Mexican revival. we my yet see it
introduced in the States, and running
the course OF popularity Of the ulster.
The corresponding Iational garment "f
women is the rebozo, shawl or scarf,
generally OF blue cotton, watch, crossed
over the head an lower part of the face,
gives Moorish appearance.
Mexico is extr ordinarily fiat, and its
streets land a. regularly ut right angles
rs IN our own most symmetrical town.
At the ends of All of them, in what
socver direction, the view is closed by
mountains. It, fltness, together with
its petition in reference to the adjoining
series of lakes, is one OF the c:rcum-
stanc which have occasioned the
greatest soiirituds in the past, and still
CAL for almo-t as much. Bad olors
beset the nos,rlls, aud e.Jgnant cutters,
neglected heaps Of garbhg,., 'he sig.t Of
the waytarer nhont the interesting
streets. The situation in this 2 RI icu!ar
is crying shame. The citizens of
Mexico should stop, as if an enemy we're
Mt their gates, and devote themselves to
its remedy. Not another railroad should
be built, not another ,lu ar voiel to
any public nrpose, tt it is attended
to.-W. H. EiSioo, IN Xe,p.r's .Laya-
cine.