San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-05-06

And when they are informed that
there are none, then they will lay In
good sup ply of mescal, call for red
hot chile con carne dinner, hire a
burro and start out for the purpose OF
trying their metal, and if they sue
ceed in downing them then they will
tell the natives that their mescal will
not compare witt the Kentucky
whisky, nor their burros with their
jackass.
When the Chicago drummer comes
to the city 1t is hard to tell whether
they are preachers or Doodle alder.
men, and he thinks every man he
meets is q revolu ZIONIST or q Pinker.
ton detective They are apt to carry
bible in one. pocket and deck of
cards In the other. The first thing
that they will inquire about 10 CARA
carrying on revolution IN Mexico
against President Diaz. When they
are informed that there has not been
anything of the kind here then they
will throw away their bible and you
may look for a wind storm to break
loose.
The first thing that they will now
do Is to visit cantina, sample the
pulque, mescal and aguardiente; then
they will 90 to the carne stand and
order the best that they have. They
serve them IN courses; first, roast pelon
dog, javalin, prairie dog, tarantulas,
turkey buzzsrd, horned frog and
lizard, fried in chile and garlic. For
desert they will call for q peck of
dried apples, and wash them down
with q gallon of "Cuan btemoc Beer, I"
Joe Schnaider's, of Monterrey to
swell them up so they can show the
citizens what q great (windy) city
Chicago is.
When the st. Louis drummers ar
rive the first thing they do is to hire
man to carry keg of st. Louis beer
under each arm and visit all the can
tinas in the city for the purpose OF
convincing the proprietors that be, r
is q better drink than mescal or
sguardiente, but before they complete
their rounds the st. Louis men are
knocked silly. beer all gone and the
mescal and the aguardiente holds
their own as the national beverage.
But before they leave for home they
will visit the carne stand and ask for
the best they got. They are served
with scorpions, yellow snakes, turkey
buzzard and pelon dog, all well sea.
sOned with chile, garlic and onions
and bottle of mescal.
When the New Orleans drummer
arrives the first thing that he will do
is to hunt for chile con carne stand,
order dish of frogs stuffed with lizt
yards, scorpions, centipedes, tarantu
las, we'll seasoned with chile and gar.
lie, and they will wash them down
they get through with that they will
visit the monte banks and stick to
them until they break them or get
broke before they show their samples.
When the Houston drummers ar
rive the first thing they do is to pull
out copy of the Daily Post that
contains a railway map of the
state, which shows that Hous.
ton is the greatest railroad
city in the United States, and
that the Post has done more to adj
vertise Houston and Texas than any
two morning papers in the state (;
that their merchants are the most
liberal advertisers in Texas and that
on that account they sell more goods,
handle more cotton than any city In
the south outside of New Orleans
They believe in advertising and
they reap the benefit of it,.
When the Galveston drummers
come to the city the first thing that
they will do is to display dozen
bottles of water that were taken
from the Galveston bar and they will
prove by the statistics that since
1870 they had permanent water on it,
and that t has not increased six
inches since then, Notwithstanding
the United States government spent
about five million dollars on it; that
they sell more whisky than
any other city in the United States,
and that they can raise more bales Of
cotto9 on a city lot than can be raised
on seven thousand plantation in the
south; that they are still DONG bust
ness at the old stand, hut sjuCe H1us-
ton has become the greatest manu-
featuring city in i've stale, and they
got daeu water st Nrlasc1, they pro
20 e te move to those cities next fell.
When - San Aut0uiO druDmers
come to Monterey they feel at home
They al ways carry u copy Of the
DAILY LIGHT With them, which
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