Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-08
The Milkman of Cuba. CaoitaI.

Among OLneT Interesting street iOlE OF the
Cuban capital are the lechero or miIkman,
the dulcero or ven ier o. sweets the cocnero
or cabman, the mercanchiste or notion ped
der the aquador or water seller, the rega-
tonear or Duckster, the 2apatero or Shoe
maker, and the latonero or tinker. TIE
lechero and his sy stem here are worthy Of
magazine illustration. Milk for the mar
kets and hotes is brought into the city by
immense ox-caIts in cans having the APP
pearan Q Of diminutive cylindri al pagodas,
but large proportion OF the inhabitants
cling with obstinate conservatism to the
ncient method of supply. AT all hours of
the morning have met on the hi ,hways
away ont III the suburbs sober droves of
half-dozen cows accompanied by half
dozen muZzled calves IS they were being
ieisurely driven into the city by brown
facet countryman and two or three of his
barefooted boys.
Arrived in Havana, these rustic groups
became the travelling milk supply. Almost
without guidance the animals sock the be-
ginning OF the milk route" and, on reach
ing the door of the first customer, come to a
halt, the cows and calves taking position
with military precision, in single file, along
side the fasstone footways of the narrow
street. Our guajiro or countryman is now
the city lechero milkman. The urchins
run into the customers house. secure the
order, and the lechero mlks the required
quantity there and then before the very eye
of the housemaid, the portero, or ell senior
himself. In this way from house to house
the queer cavalcade passes, until cow after
cow is MIXED clean, when the muzzle is in
turn removed from each mothers calf, and
the little te.nerIllas are free to take undis
puted possession of the "stripp;.gs" The
system has obvious advantages The milk
is assuredly fresh. 1t would lie difficult for
the lech 70 to seCrete water butt about his
person. -Edg2r L. Wakemans uba Letter.
In the Bazar> of Persia.
The bazars are constructed by rich men,
as are also the caravansaries The stalls
are renteL Some sections of the baz ar
belong TO mos Iues, to which they have been
bequeathed. The bazar proper consists CT a
row of rooms or stalls ON either side of q
road or passage, which is covered by "a
brick arch resting on the partition
walls of the STALL A stall is rarely more
than ten by thirty feet in size The end
next tho passage is provided with movable
doors On passing along the narrow alley
separating the stalls, one may observe
workmen sitting in the shops and busy max
ing hats, shoes or other articles of trade.
The different kinds of goods are usually
kept separate
Some Sc tons of the bazaar are given UP
wholly to the manufacture or to the sale Of
one kind of goois The section called cheet
frush is devoted to the sale of sugar, tea
and coffee There is quite a number of
shops in which Persian carpenters msnufac-
ture chairs, tables, lounges and bedsteads
In the summer season and autumn the
baZars are we'll stocked with fruits and
vegetables, and there are certain markets to
which caravans resort with wood, hay,
straw and grain. A multitude of human
beings pass to and fro through the arched
way and long trains of came S, horses and
donkeys force passage through the crowd,
their burdens of wood, hay or boxes quite
filling up the road. and compelling all
pedestrians to halt or to find refuge in the
shops. Land OF the Imams. =
In Contact with Mighty Mean Folks.
Some years ago | used to stroll around
town as a newspaper reporter, ana | used |
to be thrown in contact with some mighty |
mean people. | found a great many p ople
who We're eager to tie interviewed, and |
would always Stop over in the conversation,
and when they saw how it looked in print,
WOulu WilLe a letUeT 10 Juo newspaper say
ing that l had grossly misrepresented them
Then | discovered that people who were
making big money out of the public thought
it was none of TIE publcs business how
they made it, and resented verything that
published about their methods and pro-
ceedings an intrusion into their private
affairs
Then l found that large number of
prominent men, especially the railroad
magnates. were almighty fastidious con-
corning what | wrote about their affairs
but were always too busy or too surly to
give me the information at first hand, and
relegated me to subordinates who mixed
every thing up, and OF course misled ma.
Then, when the result appeared in print,
there would come howl that would make
the air around the newspaper offices blue
for a week The world will find out some
day that reporters are angels in disguise and
the worst treated of all the laboring classes
Cor. Chicago Journal