The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-19
-FULION~GOUNTf. NEWS.
PANAMA..


writes Panama correspondent
of the Chicago Chronicle. Many
of them do not eat bread at all be.
cause they cannot afford to buy 1t.
They find a cheap substitute in
rice. A plantain which grows
wild in great profusion aud which
can be obtained by little exertion
and no expense is another staple
article of food among the very
poor. The favorite dish among
the lower classes is a sort of meat
and vegetable soup. For few
pennies they buy handful of
scraps and undesirable pieces of
meat at the butchers, which is
the same class of stuff that is Civ
en- away as dog meat at our mark
cts, and this is mixed with vegeta-
bles, probably the cuttings from
refused stuff, also, and the whole
boiled into sort of porridge. The
pan or utensil containing this
questionable mixture will then be
put upon the table-more fire.
quently the hoor-and after it has
cooled sufficiently the whole fami-
ly will gather around, with forks
and spoons, and the way they go
after it is literal example of "ev-
cry fellow for himself aud the
devil take the hindmost.
Four to 6 cents per day will pro-
badly be sufficient to meet the
scant requirements of grown up
persons among this element, with
an allowance of half or less for the
youngsters. Clothes do not en-
ter into the bill of expenditures
at all, because very few are need.
ed, and the cast-of garments of
other people may be utilized to
meet all their requirements in this
way. The Children forge around
the neighborhood with the goats
and the buzzards and seem to be
quite as successful as either in
the scavenger line, for like both,
they are always eating something.
1t must not be understood from
the foregoing that all the people
of Panama are poor lacking in cul
ture, for this would be far from
the truth. There are many fam
lies who import their meat from
Chicago and their wines from Eu-
rope. There are many beautiful
homes adorned on the outside by
the lavish ornamentation that ma
ture so willingly provides in this
latitude, if she is but given a
chance to show her handiwork,
and furnished with taste and ele.
gance within. You meet men
who are we'll dressed, who can
speak several languages and who
will discuss huently the big topics
that are engaging the attention OF
the rest of the world. Most OF
the women of the best circles are
Latins or have been brought up
accor ding to the Latin standard,
and this means they are good
women, devout in their religion,
devoted to their family, neat in
their attire and affable In their
manners.
Neither is Panama, unclean and
poverty ridden as it is generally,
lacking in physical charm. Ma
ture has way of training green
4 vine to ornament every rotten
stump, and here she has done hel
best to deceive you by ilinging hel
green banners everywhere, by
hanging up gorgeous flowers thai
nod to you from their ponderous
stems, by sending monster but
81 terfiies with brilliant coats fit a
# cross your path, by putting birds
f with flashing crests and crimson
$ wings in all the trees to amust
+ you with their antics and charm
81 you with their serenades. A
E night when the sea breeze is blow
"a ing the mosquitoes and the fou
# odors inland, and the stars arr
Il blinking at eacll other across tn,
* great spaces, it is hard to realiz,
that you are in land of diseas,
and decay, where death is unusu
ally busy in sharpening it's sting
aud feeding it's victims to tn,
= grave.
LANTERN SET RARN aEiRE