The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-06-25

lost Ut this point alone.
Every Mexican city has its plaza or little
park IN the center Of the city. That of Guiana
huato is planted with trees and flowers, ard
the band plays here every night, while the
people rich aud poor turn out and walk up and
down. or sit on the park benches aud gossip.
Ii was in this plaza that met one Of the most
ubiquitous Of travelling Americans-an Amer
lean dentist Our dentists are famed the world
over. DR.. Evans, Of Paris has become mil
lionare by plugging the hollow snags Of the
richly-fed royalty Of Europe. Other dentists
are max ing fortunes IN Madrid. Vienna Berlin,
and London, and you will now find them
charging big prices and doing good work in
Japan, China. aud India They are also getting
their work in on Mexico. and the Mexican
Capital has a number Of very successluloues.
The Guanahnato dentist was travelling tooth
tinker very nice fellow he was, too. Said
he, " can get ten times the prices get IN tie
States aud ] make sometimes 500 day i
charge what ] please and often get what /
charge ] made last month $50 out Of one
family. Tho head Of it was a Governor OF
State, TO whom had letters. presented them,
hat he grufly told me that he wanted no work
denc aud that ] could not look nj the teeth Of
his family. ] called again, aud this time met
his WIFE She took at once 10 the idea OF having
a SET Of teeth made, aud after bargaining i
finally made her one on rubber for I'D aud
the Old man was so pleased with the renewed
beauty OF his wife that he gave me an order
for work 10 the amount Of S75 more. dcu't
touch a mans mouth here for less than SO,
aud ] make good thing wherever ! 20. l
always manage to get letters Of intr0duc-
ton YOU know, 10 the Hefc POliticOs aud tie
Governors. and meet the best people. have
Travelled az over South America Ia this way,
and / intend 10 20 around the world
II was with this dentist that / visited the
cemetery of Guanahuato, aud took look at It's
wonderful vaults. There arc about 80 freight
cal loads Of human bones stored away IN these
underground chambers, and these bones have
been torn or fallen into pieces and arc piled mp
together as though they had been, rs they in
fact we're, literally shoyelcd into place. The
cemetery Is about four acres in size, and It's
walls which arc judge 90 feet high, arc made
M Of vaults one built ca the top Of another, 50
that the whole makes a wall Of many thousand
vaults around this graveyard. Each Of these
little vaults j. just big cnough TO hold collin,
aud they are rented out for from three 10 i've
wears 10 tie dead. After "A c0rpscs lease has
expired, the bones which are lett arc pulled out
Of the vault and thrown down into this gIcat
underground tunnel; and this tunnel, which Is
600 feet long aud so large that railroad train
could move through il, is now nearly filled
/ The air Is 80 pure that no unpleasant smell D
( perceived and ] went down among these dry
4 bones Of 10 generations and looked with my
American eyes into the 20O00D-odd Mexican
cyoho.es. which stared az me out Of the skull.
< piled there irn one shape or another. As
I pointed my gcslly fingers NJ these remains d
T The humanity Of the past / thought Of the mill
I ion fingers there crushed together, which had