The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-04-03
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,eople as they are, of finding them un-
prepared for callers, than to take your
.tand in the early hours some morning
mon city's busy street and watch the
various types as they go fling by.
ourselves, then, at one oi
these points, in the city OF Buenos Ayres'
little by projecting door
way, let us note for time the changing
scene. Bucnos Ayres is not sleepy
city; il retircs late and gets up early In
the morning, and already is showing
GOOD many signs of life and toll. In the
narrow street before US are number OF
early street cara not very heavily laden
as vet, and whose drivers, therefore, ,send
their teams galloping down the smooth
track and around the sharpest OF sharp
turns at speed even more reckless thah
usual. The South American cardriver,
like every patriotic citizen OF his country,
;s fond of excitement. When he comes
To a hill he opens the brake and whips up
~, horses: away 20 car and contents, and
YOU are apt to think, as You Hold ON aUd
wait for the crash, that in comparison
with this a ride on a tOboggan slide Is
very tame affair indeed. There are no
bells on the horses which pull these
cars, nor does the driver ring one as he
approaches the corner of street In
stead no carries a large cows horn htted
on tho inside with reed, the whole
forming wind instrument whose sound,
heard in every key and Mt all hours oil
the night and day, cXccls In absolute
hideousness all other noises yet made or
conceived. For this reason they are, 81
warning, very effective. The streets
themselves arc too narrow for double
track, and cars are obliged to return to
their points of starting by IA different
route. There are eight strcet-car com
panies In Buenos Ayrcs, with total OF
218 miles Of track.
Jumping nimbly on and of these cars
and running back and forth from house
= -e-a.;on "a not restrfcrcu DJ ~o"y
N\s N\S,lc MtoSS on Tmo ..,~ors nre their compan-
ions. the bootblacks open -cyea' all reaoy
to canture tho early riser. One oil tnes'
| Ill, ,ccosted me IL few days ago, anc
then, discerning in' some sunt'' pco'
black way that ] was irom Tue ohi'e'
States, he sputtcrcd forth DIS ch:''
stock OF English in one overwhcin,n
sentenco, without pause or hrcnk' 'oni
hooia oh yes do all righti let hi
shine them.
Ont in the roadway now, is strang
panorama of morning labor. Here al
thick wheeled carts loaded with soil
bales OF wool, and drawn by tW
or three horses hitchcd tandem to accon
modate these narrow streets; aud mild
eyed COWS, natures own milk wagons
boing led about from door to doc
These men on horseback, wish such
array of cups and cans hung pannicr-lit
on either side, are butter pcddlers.
l. In Buenos Ayrcs butter is delivered
with cream then, but the motion or t
rough-and trot to which /
horse is trained has churned
into fresh sweet butter now. Hi
up among his load, with his feet dan
ling along the horses neck, sits t
dairyman, bounding up and down all t
while, and his internal condition at t
end Of the ride has never been accurate
determined. Here is u man who, cv
at this oarly hour, will bell you a slice
hot tortillo, the South American Il
cake, from Il tin which he carries up,
his head. And there, on the oppos
side of the street, is another novelty
little, whitc-hairch, wrlnkicd faced o
woman, with great pile of papers up,
her head and another under her arr
Her dress is ragged and her eyes a
dim with age, but she keeps movil
alonga such queer semi -trot, and ca
"La Nacion!" "La Nacionl" over al
over again in such cracked, iusterle
YHsssnRS" wHtHaf, that one ,tSS catiGSoSs liz IL
smiling at the droll figure. while
pities her, too, from the bottom
his heart. But she moves cheerily
with her load, and so 10 the rest
them-poor poems with canvas shoes al
Hat caps of red or blue, peddlers wi
huge baskets Of vegetables, and who
armies OF Italian street cleaners, brow
brawny sons of toll. Each one hurri
by as though he were trying to ovcrtal
the one ahrad of him.
All, save only the leg yars. All, q
beggars! They never go. The creatu
does not exist which "stickoth closer tn,
abeggar." They greet you wherever Y,
may be, and are with YOU wherever W
may fly. They arc Of all ages, size
kinds. Some of them are old me
srizzled and tottering, who hold out ia
tered hats with muttcrcd story of We
which has been so many times told that
has lost meaning even to the spcake
and AM !! has flowed together into confuse
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'"PS' ISL s"rrowlul looking sonora, hol,
ing baby which drowscs all dav ~,
Parentiy with its body resting unon !
ho'her lap and its little head rcclinin
upon her breast, the pavement, or uno
vacant space. The torpid good natur
u u' 'ncsc infants is amazing, aud it's secre
lies inside large bottle of sootbin,
syrup, which is ih" dirty little cbcrub,
ualiy met. And just beyond this famil,
group OF beggars you may come across =,
Soii'ary child. doggcd and sullen of cx
preston, and wearing such nm mir % ~,
sloom that you wonder ii the poor thinO
even knows how to smile. OF course 5
good deal of this sadness is of tho nro'