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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

They do not They read Puerto del Sol,
or Gate of the Sum-. A little further on
is a barber shop called la Peria," or
THE Pearl and around the way to-
bacconist sells cigars and cigarettes un-
der the sign of THE White Cat" l know
of a pulque saloon-pu1que is the beer of
the peasant which goes by the title of
1.-The Sanctuary" and in the Street of
the Holy Ghost there Is another called
"The Hang-Out of John the Baptist"
Some stores have such names as "Vesu-
vius,'' 1.-THE Violets," :" ''The Pearl of the
Occident,'' ''rhe White Rose La Per-
fumista" and 1.-THE Drinking Place of
Hidalgo" The old-time merchant never
puts his own name over the store, but,
like the Chinese, chooses instead some
fancy title which gives no indication of
who he is or what he is selling.
Odd Business Methods
The customs inside the stores are as
strange as the signs. 1t is only the de-
partment stores and principal shops which
have any fixed prices, and you are usual
ly asked three times what the merchant
thinks you will pay. This is especially 50
as to foreigners, whom the clerks are
sometimes allowed to charge what they
please, In which case they may receive
percentage of all over the regular price.
There is but little cutting of prices. Our
motto is quick sales and small profits
Ihe motto OF tne mexican merchant is
big profits no matter how slow the sales,
and he keeps his goods on the shelves
until the price is paid. He buys on long
time and one and two years credit is
not uncommon. He sells largely for cash
and he often gives credit But I am told
he will not pay cash, even if he has idle
money when buying new stock.
find that merchantile credits here are
as good as those of the United States,
althoueh q many men charge that the Mex
leans are tricky in dealing. They are
said however, to meet their bills, and
ii is claimed that 90 per cent of these
long credit sales are paid in full. The
English and Germans understand this
and take advantage of it, whereas the
American more often demands cash with
the order, thereby losing a sale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

thought Of threatening. Pusillanimous
running away from, or after, the strong
er side; incessant vacillation and change
of mind. and the total incapacity to work
out and adhere to reasonable policy
that Is all the ST. great powers Of Europe
with their eleven million soldiers, and
revenues OF five million dollars have been
able to effect in three months of hard
work.
The humiliating. position Of the Euro
pean concert is entirely due to the fact
that there is no leading statesman with a
will insight into the sum of political facts
and instinct for real policy. Instead
there are puny, preventious politicians
whose idea of statecraft is the dividing
of Europe into two sentmentally inimical
camps. The one consistent idea of policy
in England. France and Russia on one
side and in Germany Austria and Italy
en- the other, is to aggravate, intrigue and
keep up constant state of crisis and
menace without, however the courage to
go to war. That was not the way Bis
1narck despised the policy of pin-pricks.
CT sentimental alliances and animOsities;
he made working deals with Russia a the
same time as he was making the Triple
alliance. and he persistently f0iled the de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

cans wear These sombreros are loaded
with silver and gold in the shape of en-
broidery and most of them have heavy
bands of gold braid round their crowns.
Let us stop and look at some of them.
Here is hat as big around as the tire
of a limousine. 1t is of bright red,
trimmed with silver. The embroidery
runs round the crown and it has eight
strands of silver wire as a hatband, That
hat which hangs above 1t is gray. II
is embroidered with leather, and at the
right and the left are two sombreros
of black, laced back and forth with great
bands of silver. There are hats as green
as the wing of that parrot which the
peddler has thrust into our eyes, and
hats of plush as white as snow. with
golden embroidery woven about them.
take up one of these sombreros and put
on a blanket to make myself look like
a Mexican, and am photographed to show
how they look. My hat weighs several
pounds, and 1t is worth $40.
Other clothing costs almost as much.
go into tailoring establishment fur
ther on up the street, and look at some
riding trousers of buckslxin, with solid
silver buttons lining the seams. fine
pair costs $20 and the short roundabout
Jackets embroidered with silver are like
wise as high. / enter a saddle establish
ment next door which has saddles and
brides with tr9pplnss OF silver, ana am
told that the haciendado often spends
several hundred dollars his equestrian
outfit in addition to the cost of his horse.
This land is one of the rich and the
poor. The rich have so much that they
squander their money, and the poor are
so desperately so that they do not real
ize how poor they are. The most OF
them dress in cotton, with a blanket
which costs not more than dollar. They
have leather sandals which are nothing
more than two strips of thick cowhide
large enough to cover the sole of the
foot and tied on with strings. Such foot
gear costs about % cents a pair.
But let us go on with our walk. Look
at the sign over the store in front of
which we are standing. You might think
those letters spell Hats and Sombreros
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
CHILD's WASTED HOURS
Professors Attack on Modern Spell
ing

From the London Standard.
TT is estimated that every English
child spends on the average 2300 hours
in learning to spell. A German child
spends 1900. and the Italian child $50
hours This was one of the state
rsents made by Professor Rppmann in his
lecture on "Simplified Spelling and
Purity Of Speech" delivered before the
Royal society of Literature.
The lecturer began by saying that
before we could formulate any system
of phonetic spelling of the English
language 1t would be necessary to have
some standard of pronunciation. The
nearest approach to that standard was
the pronunciation of English generally
used in the drama, but this in the main
was southern English in which such
sounds as the 'wh at the beginning
Of what" and "where" were unknown,
and the letter "r' was well nigh obso-
lete.
At one time we wrote our words
phonetically, and the printing Of the six
teenth century probably represented
words better than the stereotyped SPELL
ing of today. 49,
Great works. he continued. were
written before spelling became fixed.
There were people who talked about
the venerable beauty and historic charm
OF our words. but that had nothing to
them. which was neither historic nor
charming. DR.. Johnson fixed our SPELL
ing, and in doing so always preferred
to drag in something foreign. or in
many cases something that was sup
posed to be classical. but which most
certainly had no classical origin. Why.
for instance. should he have preferred
honour to 'honor?' Probably the worst
two instances were rhyme which
looked as though it were Greek, ana
naughty which had the 'gh' put into
the middle Of 1t for no reason whatso-
ever 1t came from the French word
'haut.'
1t took at least year longer for an
English child to learn its language than
was needed by German child. Spell
ing had no educational value whatso-
ever. 1t gave no encouragement for
children's reasoning powers. If child
asked the truly childish question
'why?" when he was told that word
was wrongly spelled. the teacher had
no answer to give. so the child's natural
desire for reasonable information was
quelled early in it's school career. Chill
dren in their composition never used
the most expressive words they know,
for fear of nisspelling them, and chill
dren who were fond of reading never
used half the words they had read for
fear of mis-pronouncing them. All
these facts tended to an impoverished.
vocabulary. e
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shoulders and on his head sombrero
as big as an umbrella. He also wears
a red shirt and trousers and a brown
Jacket, gayly embroidered. This repre-
sentative of Dame Fortune walks up
and down Sixteenth of September
street all day long asking every one
to buy his lottery wares 1 photo
graphed him today and he insisted on
having a copy of the picture the mo-
ment I snapped it. There are many
lottery ticket sellers about the cathe-
dra1 and in front of the national pawn
shop, and also at the entrance to the
ring where the bull fights are held.
There are many street peddlers selling
clothing, some selling straw hats and
baskets, and some who are loaded with
toys and trays of candy and sweetmeats.
l saw a man today who had score of
birdcages tied TO his back. He was ped
ding canarles and parrots. Near him
was woman with an open umbrella
filled with picture post cards, and farther
on walked porter loaded with dressed
chickens which were tied by the legs in
a great bundle. He offered them to the
passers-by at so much apiece. There
are men who carry kids over their shoul-
ders and peddle them from house to
house. and boys who go along with great
screenlike frames of ShoestrngS tied to
stick. There are some men peddling
books and others with mirrors and no.
tions for women. There are some who
drive live turkeys through the streets
so that you can buy your Thanksgiving
bird on the hoof and know it is fresh.
The Game Chicken Sellers
There are even peddlers selling game
cocks. Think of the demand that such
a trade must imply. There is game
chicken man now We can see only his
legs, which show out below the great
framework of baskets covering his back
and reaching high over his head. Out
of each basket waves the tail of a cock,
and as he goes by we hear great
squawking Each of the baskets con-
tains a game cock and the best of them
will bring twice as much as a turkey.
The cocks have their heads inside the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
COUNT BIRCHTOLD
Austrian Foreign Minister, Who, BY
His Blunders, Ruined the Balkan
Policy of His Country

cluded that they must strike at once
With Turkeys defeat the whole Aus
trian policy had to be abandoned In the
week of the ultimatum Austria had de-
clared catesorically that she would not
tolerate the annexation of Novi-Bazaar
and that she would further not tolerate
the annexation of Salonca or of the strip
of territory running to Salonica. Yet
in all these points she has ha1pto eat her
words. The Slays have had their way !.
And now Austria's internal position IS
worse than ever. The creation Of The
Greater Servia which she so much feared
is fact And the politicians of this
Greater servia are already pursuing IRE
deptisn by talking of their interest in
their brother Serbs in Austria. The whole
of this muddle which has damaged Ans
tria as a great power and in her internal
affairs is due TO the blunder OF Bercn
told
England is no better off than Austria
with her foreign affairs, according to the
general European view which is thar Sir
Edward Grey has failed in every enter
prise he started on, with the one excen-
ton of the enterprise of keeping up a
ceaseless quarrel with Germany. GREY
was partly puffed and doomed into his
position FIRST by Gladstone. then by Rose
berry. and partly he owes his srccess
to his talents for showing a responslp,e
manner and keeping silent when speech
would reveal his unfitness He ostenta-
tiously ignores foreign history hne,,ist;cs
Institutions and art The whole work or
negotiating With diplomats who do moi
speak English las to be carried on ~
Sir Arthur Nicholson. one of Sir Ed
ward latest humiliations came after his
al'ortive attempt to prevent a Chinese
loan. in which enterprise he was fooled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Birds Foil the Hunters

From the London Daily Nail.
The annual truce between game blJe
and men which is approaching will end a
campaign that was compact of curious
episodes. In number of widely separ-
ated places owners Of shoots complained
that they have been quite unable to shoot
their partridges. and the stock left Is
enormous. The covies seem suddenly TO
have learned what driving means and
have this year avoided the waiting zurs,
just as all the birds learned after some
years to avoid telegraph wires.
This was in the earlier part of the sen
son. Since Christmas the birds have b.
come much more manageable. but they
have paired and 1t is against the Ell.
quette OF sportsmen. az birds seem q
knew, to shoot paired birds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

There are now many American stores
in the Mexican capital and most of them
have fixed prices marked in plain figures.
but, even so, you can get some reduction
in these days of hard times. About the
finest establishments are the jewelry
stores. They are filled with gold and sill
yer trinkets from Paris and with precious
stones of all kinds. find such places
in almost every block, and along the
Avenida San Francisco are many which
would be a credit to Boston or New York.
There are also big groceries, dry goods
stores and hardware establishments The
curio stores are Interesting. They sell
Mexican drawn work, stamped feathers in
the shape of pocketbooks and purses, and
Spanish fans. laces and mantillas. Nearly
every such shop has half peck or so
of opals which it sells by the piece or
the handful, according to quality. Some
of these stones are beautiful and an es-
pecially fine one will bring 500 and up
ward, Others, which may reflect all the
colors of the rainbow, are punched to-
gether and sold at a few dollars a pint.
There are cigar stores everywhere. Every
one in Mexico, from the lately weaned
baby to the gray haired old grown-up on
the edge of the grave, smokes cigars or
cigarettes This is so of male and fe-
male. Mexico makes excellent brands
of tobacco, and that about twice as
cheap as in the states. You can get a
fairly good cigar for nickel, and one
that costs 10 cents here would be worth
25 cents in the United States. The cigar
cites. which are often put up in black
paper. look deadly, but the tobacco in
them is mild and I am told they are
good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

sire of other diplomats to drag Germany
at the cart-tail of any European con-
cert" So Europe now badly needs a Bis
mark to teach it the elements of policy,
and to escape in their present insgnifi-
canoe the present petty pretenders to
craftsmanship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Peddling Goods at the Capital

Mexico City is full of peddlers and
they accost you on every block. There
are hundreds of men and women SELL
ing lottery tickets. I meet one such
every time ! go outside my hotel. He
is a native Mexican. six feet tall and
as heavy as former President Taft. He
has bright-colored blanket over his
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-08-28

OF Forsyth, und by which Snd action plain
tify seeks to forever bar aud preclude the
snid defendants, and each OF them, from
setting up amy interest or claim in and 10
said real estate adversely to said plnintln,
and which said notion IS rcturnRhlr to ana
trinhle ON the first dny of the next regular
term of this court, to br holden Mt the court
hoiI>p In the town OF Forsyth on the 9TH
,luy nf October, lpl3, at which time and place
said defendants nre required ana cont
minded to he and appear ana to plead,
nu,vCr or drmur to plaintiffs sntd petition,
otherwise the allegations contained III Snlu
petition will be taken rs confessed ana
Judgment rendered according To the prayer
thereof forever bnrrinFHnd preCludlnE Sind
dp(yndantS from hereafter setting pnny
CHIN or title to said rrnl property,
The Tnney County Republican having
been designated by the pnintitt ana hrr
attorney OF record as the news paper most
likely To- give notice to the defendants OF
the tendency Of this action, IL L. further
ordered that Il copy Of this order he pub
llshpd I'm said newspaper, once u week Tor
and during four weeks succcsSivcly, the Inst
Insertion Of snid order to he ut least thirty
dnys before the first day Oi the next regular
term OF this court. ,,,,,,.,
Stptc of Missouri, County OF Tnncy, s.,
u +. &, Davis, clerk ofthr circuit court U
the county aforesaid, hereby certify that
the foregoing Is Il true copy OF the oriRlhh
order Of publication rs the same appear,
of record in my office. This the nth day OF
ESrall &c. DAVIS,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court.
| First insertion August ~ II II
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-08-28
Our Columns are Pretty Advertising This Week but We Need CON-

there and she and Mr.. Lewis took our
pictures. We haven't seen them yet
but we felt beautiful and are sure it
will be the photographers fault il the
pictures are not.
Earl Hicks had an attack Of some
kind Of throat trouble Sunday and the
directors fearing diphtheria (some cases
having been reported near Gauison)
dismissed school. But when Dr..
Hummel, who had been too i'll TO visit
patients since so many cases of throat
trouble developed, was called and said
it was tonsilitis.
Schlers, Rozells, Smiths, Wrights,
Lawerences, Goldie and Jewell McPher-
son, Dora Harris and Beulah Jackson
went to Brown Branch Sunday TO hear
Dr.. HornadaY preach. 1t was a
pretty long, hot road but we believe
after hearing the two sermons none Of
them were sorry they went. Those
who did not 90 had a nice time at
Sunday School with Mr.. Colder as
Superintendent and teacher.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-08-28
BRADLEYVILLE.
Too late for last week.

Elby Delman left for Ozark this
morning. He expects to attend the
School OF the Ozarks next term.
Mrs. Mollie Smith is visiting her
father in Springfield,
J. o. Lewis, our last years teacher,
visited friends here last week and was
at school Friday. We were very glad
TO see him again and hope he will
come often. He will teach at Hollister
this year.
Loral lawrence is at home, his
school having beer dismissed because
Of the diphtheria scare.
The literary exercises Friday after.
noon were very entertaining. We
have never seen anything in the way
Of amatuer acting By the grown
ups-better than that Of Earl Hicki
and Ruth Wright in The Milkmaid'
and Of Laura Reese in the Fruit Ven
der" Dora Harris had her Gamer
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-08-28
The Apple Crop.

Under the date Of Aug. 20, the Mis-
souri State Board Of Horticulture gives
this summary
Reports from the following territory
are from men who are interested only
in giving the facts for the benift Of the
fruit growers; and are not from buyers
or shippers associations.
New York reports AZ per cent Of
last years crop, West Virginia IS per
cent, Virginia 90 per cent, Illinois so
per cent, Oregon 90 per cent, NO.
River District Sc per cent and Mis-
souri 40 per cent.
This indicates that Missouri COVERS
should have no trouble in marketing
their apples TO the best advantage,
Growers who have been giving theil
orchards good attention--and those are,
in the main, the growers who are To-
Gated in districts where frost damage
has been comparatively light for thc
past ten years-will receive as mucl
for this years crop as for their crop il
1912
Growers report no damsge OF con
sequence from drought. UnspFayet
orchards, as usual, show heavy losse
from codling moth during July an
August. These orchards, however
nave little material effect on the toti
production, as only spr iyed orchard
are producing considerable quantity (
apples for market
JOHN BLAND Secretary.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-08-28
ORDER OF PUBLICATION AGAINST
UNKNOWN PERSONS.

In Action Brought Under Section 2I5
In the Circuit Court OF Taney County, IN
the state Of Missouri. In vacation. To
the October term, lal3,
Eva NJ. Miller, Plaintiff,
",
Tobn W. Uantorth, II ne be living, or II
dead, the unknown heirs, consort. de-
yisees, donees, alionces, or Immediate,
mesne, remote, voluntary or involuntary
grantees Of John W. DnnfOrth. deceased,
Thomas Y. Layton, II he be living, or II
dpad the unknown heirs, consOTt, de-
Visees, dunees, uliCnees, or immediate,
mcsne. remote, voluntary or Involuntary
grantees OF Thomas i. Layton, deceased.
Judith p. Young, II flving, or If dend, the
unknown heirs, Consort, deviseeS, donees,
nIienees or Immediate, mesne or remote,
voluntary or Involuntary. grantees OF
Judith p Young, deceased. Matilda G..
Weaver, W, b. Hendricks, Forsyth Hall
Association, G. w. Layton, David John
son, and Amusa Muncie, defendants.
The State OF Missouri, to all Of the above
named defendants, directing:
You nre hereby notified that the above
nomed plnintin has this day filed with the
understVnad clerk OF the circuit court OF
Tnnry county, Missouri, invocation, her Pc
| fition, duly verified by affidavit, wherein
| snid nIaintin alleges that the defendants
| claim some title, estate or Interest In the
| subject matter Of said petition and IN the
| lands hereinafter described, hut That said
| nigintin cannot insert the names cf said
| dpfgulnntS IN ntT Sdlu ptlllltli btOiuSN WV
names OF said defendants are unknown tt
her; in which snid petition plninfin furthel
ayers hat the defendants have obtained hit
,Ieri,r I'd their rinins to the property herein
nft,r described from John W. luniOTth. dc
ceased, Thomas +. Layton, deceased judith
p Young, dereased. as heirs, cOnsOrts, de
| yispes dOnecs, alienees, or immediate
mpsne, or remote, voluntary or involuntar.
, gTnutees OF said John W. Danforth, Ihomh
r, Layton, or Judith 7. Young, or iron
/ Matilda G. Weaver. W. y. Hendricks, For
| syth Hall Association. David Johnson. o
! 6masa Muncie: and that said petition con
tains as full. correct aud complete recita
tsGa description of the clnims OF snid dt
PENDANTS and how said Claims nrr derived q
= the saiue are known to plaintiff.
tits therefore ordered by the undersiFne
clerk aforesaid IN vacation, that said do
feudnnts be notified that an action has bee
: | commenced against them In the clrcu
| court Of Taney county, in the state of Nj
/ souri,. for the purpose Of trying, determii
ing. settleing, defining and quieting u
q title to the following described real csta'
In fancy county, tc-wit: The north half
lot - In the southeast section OF the TOW
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-08-28
County Sunday SChOO! Convention.

The County Sunday School Conven-
ton OF fancy County will be held this
year at Forsyth on Thursday and Fri
day Sept. 18 and l9. Mr.. S, L. Will
Jams, one OF our efficient field secre-
taries, will be with us through most, il
not all, Of the convention. He may
get in on Wednesday evening, aud il
he does there will probably be an open
ing meeting, with an address by Mr..
Williams, that night. Let our people
begin to get ready for the meeting al
once, by securing places ior delegates
and arranging affairs so they can be
present at the meetings. Every Sun
day School in the county is requested
TO send at least three delegates, anc
more, il possible. A full program vii
appear in the county papers as soon al
it is all arranged.