Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-05-01

OF customer he milks one of the.
goats into his measure and pours the
contents into bucket or the bowl
that is brought for him. Occasional
Is milk man comes In with pair
of cans strapped over the back of a
donkey, but that is exceptional.
As In South America. yon can buy
turkeys and geese ''on the hoof
They are driven In from the country
In focks no that customers may make
selections as they pass through the
streets Everything else is peddled,
not only food In the form OF fruits.
meats, cakes. bread. vegetables, FISH.
butter and cheese. but all sorts OF
dry goods and notions, shoes, stock
ings and even hats, tinware. hard
ware, stationery. sometimes on tray
suspended from the neck OF man.
sometimes on a cart and oftener upon
the back of a donkey You can IRE
quently see In the streets show cases
with glsss fronts containing all kinds
OF dry goods suspended from pack sad
dies OF donkeys and transported from
house to house, while the owner or
attendant bellows an inventory OF his
merchandise and Describes ita merits
with "a brazen voice. There are. how
ever. many Ane shops In Athens.
Those. in the new quarter Of the city
will compare with anything In our
towns of the same size.
Other relics of ancient times are
public cook shops. found In the Oldest
quarter of the city. similar TO those
of Naples. where a variety OF viands
are prepared n, the regular meal
hours and sold already cooked at the
most extraordinary low prices, House
wives 20 there for their supplies In
stead Of to the market II saves fuel
and labor and nothing IL wasted. This
custom In said TO have come down
from the classic period before the
Christian ora. and then, NJ now, pro
fosBionul cooks used TO 60 about the
town with stoves on whecls allied with
J bright fires OF charcoal over which
persons who have no stoves or ranges
in their houses can cook their meats
or vegetables for a small fee. II Is
common to see II peripateuc cook
standing in front Of a prosperous look
ing residence while the soft and gen.
inl atmosphere is filled with the odor
Of frying tish or roasted rabbit
The currant trade Is The largest and
the most profitable In Greece. and n
considerable part OF the cultivated
area is planted with currant bushes
In large zelda. much Ike the vine
yards Of Italy and France The
bushes are planted In rows about
three feet apart, with a single stalk,
which is trimmed down every fall in
order TO strengthen the roots, New
shoots spring out with the sunshine
In March and April and. by August.
nrc loaded with large white and black
currnnta unlike those grown In Amerl-
en- You can buy them In boxes at
any grocery store for minco pies fruit
cake and plum pudding and that sort
Of thing The development of this
industry has been gradual In 1890.
after the independence OF Greece was
established. the crop amounted to only
about 800 tons In 1899 1t was l53.-
500 tone and 1t was a poor year. The
average for the last ten years has
/ been about 100000 tons and the val
nc OF the currants exported annually
has reached nearly $4,000, 900. The
largest quantity goes to England and
I France The United States takes
/ 10000 tons which you must appre-
ciate Is au enormous quantity Of dried
currants The French wine growers
use them for toning up their wine,
while Gurrant culture Is profitable
there Is n good deal of risk In IT,
/ The crop ls easily affected both by
drought and excessive rains. Severe
windstorms may blow the fruit of the
bushes. and the hills surrounding the
Gulf of Coriptb, which is the most pro
! ductivc eccJion OF the country. are
exposed to storms which at any day
may convert good crop into poor
ono
! Olive oil is source of wealth. and
the beautiful silver lenyed trees are
one OF the pleasant features OF the
1 landscape. olive trees live to a
great age. II ls asserted that groves
are now standing which bore fruit In
/ the days OF Socrates and Demosthe-
nes, and near Elusis. which was n
cemetery for the burial of distinguish
ed people trees are pointed out which
have been standing for $500 years,
/ The trunks are enormous and are per
forated with holes, new bark having
grown around the wounds made by de
4 cay Most Of the olives are consumed
I in the country They are the stan
of life OF the peasants Much of the
oil is sent to France.
The traveller who comes TO Greece
from Italy or from Turkey or the
Oriental countries is always gratifled
at the absence OF beggars, You may
live here for years and never see one,
except few cripplcs blind and do
crcplt old crones who sit at the doors
OF the churches and hold out their
hands pleading pitifully for aims
There are excellent hospitals aud asy-
lumH for all the Ills and woes that
human kind suffer and. although
there are many poor and afflicted peo-
Pile and much misery and degradation
In Greece, the pride and Independence
of the people will not permit them
to beg. and the benevolent spirit Of
those who are more prosperous makes
good provision for them, Philan.