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ORDARTOWN STANDARD, January 10th, 1007. THIEVES OF MEXICO. the W.T-Y rateros will steal wie COAT OFF YOUR BACK. On* Una n Tooth Railed So Vl>«t IK* 9t*nl the DenfUt'a Watch. The Way a Judge l.nnt HI* Ttuie- plece and 111* Turkey Uluner. '1 Imre are no burglars In Mexico, ami for n very simple reason—^the daytime and the public street afford the admit ratero well easy opportunities for ap propriating other people's property that It really is not worth his while to boih- er with night raids or to take the risk of forcing an entrance into private houses. Other countries, other customs— 1 ratero Is an institution In Mexico, and, like the rest of the Mexican 'astitutlons, he is indigenous to the soil. The sr.eak thief in other countries is a waste prod uct of civilization's human mill; the burglar is a poison separated some- vherc in the process of milling. The ratero is nothing of the sort. He is Just as legitimate a product. Just aa much a part of the regular output as any other member of society. He la without shame or reproach iu his call ing ami is quite at peace with man kind. There is a diversity in the methods of these thieves, ranging from the audac ity of a moment's impulse to the most elaborately plotted trap. Bold speci mens attack a victim suddenly and rely upon the surprises for au escape. A mau descendiug from a street car has the diamond snatched from his scarf before his feet have fuirly touched the ground, and by the time he lias caught his breath the thief is lost in a crowd. A woman stops to gaze into a shop win dow in busy San Francisco street in tlie Capital city, and her richly embroid ered cloak is Jerked from her shoulders, and the nimble footed ratero disappears before a nearby gendarme gets the alarm. A crowd gathers in the street to watch a horse fallen on the slippery asphalt pavement, or a procession on a liesta day, and the very'hats are not safe on the heads of a respectably dressed people, or it may be on a Sunday, when all the suburbau trains are crowded, and the little stutions as well, that u long arm Is thrust into the open window of a starting electric car and several hats gathered before any one knows what has happened. The more wily and considerate of the calling avoid giving these rude shocks to their prey. These are the ones who annex pocketbooks and watches so quietly that the loss is only gradually appreciated and who teach women the folly of wearing dangling orna ments in the street. Often they are so elegantly dressed that no one could ob ject to being elbowed by them, while the plausible situations they create at test their lively wits. Certainly they supply an ever fresh flow of stories, many of them too wildly impossible to be told of any other couutry. 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Ihe dentist perfectly I after u eur- [ three days, I ut." lice?*’ was the fce long?” Jiis palm, smiled fout a handsome > over before the t way round," he Fpntient resigned- Fgood grip on the fay back quietly in a loud crack of I dentist held up a Ith. f to part with that, Ffeel anything?^ •zzled response. 1,” said the Mexican, Disappearing in tho later the dentist clap- |s empty watch pocket then that he appre- Ijest of his patient. Ttoo perfectly rounded ! close Is nevertheless Fong the raconteurs of fiid that a certain Judge at the opening of court flthout his watch, which to have left under his }mark to that effect wns loiterer, mid presently Yrived at the judge’s casa fchat the Judge wanted the f had been left In the bed. the Judge had sent the Ihe man was carrying and liked for supper, as he had |ts. slble statements could not Iconfldence. The watch was Jfor the bird by the lady of f herself, and the messenger i way rejoicing. |me the judge ot noon for fhe al and the afternoon siesta, and with his first inquiry for his wntoh ihe trick was exposed. The Judge, how ever, while lamenting the watch, ap preciated tho thief’s ingenuity and pro nounced him needlessly generous in the matter of the turkey. But, since the ratero had made the suggestion, why not bring home some friend* for supper after all? The Judge returned to court, and tin? worthy seuora saw that the turkey was prepured In the manner no accept able to Mexican palates—cooked with itch, dark chile sauce. It was Alone to a turn when u limn came in breathless baste to say the scamp who stole the Judge’s watch that morning had been apprehended and the watch recovered, but the judge needed the turkey cent as evidence in disposing of the case. “But the turkey is already cooked.” protested the distressed housewife, with no thought but for her supper. “Si, seuora; but the judge says to 6end It us It is. and he’ll send it thick again before it’s cool," 1 So the Judge's wife sped the turkey on its way. and withiB u few minutes her husband appeared with bis friends. “I hope you didn’t forget to cook that turkey, Matilde,” lie said cheer fully. “I can almost forgive the ruscal that’s got my watch for the sake of mole de guajolote.’’ Sobs choked Matilde’s mortified re sponse ns she realized that she had twice l»een victimized, and the party supped frugally, though not without mirth on the part of the guests. The methods a f the ratero who en ters your office tAi sell you something or to offer his services are quiet and seductive. A merchant dealing in curios wns at tracted by a tiger skin serape draped over the shoulders of a stupid, low country Indian passing along the street He called him into his office, examined the skin and began to dicker for a trade. “I’ll give you for It.’’ “No, senor. I do not wish to sell.’’ “Well, the thing isn’t worth that; too many tigers caught In traps for J the skins to be worth much anyway. However, It’s a fine skin, ami I’ll give you ten for it. Just double what you’ll get anywhere else." “Puea, no, senor; I do not want to sell. I wouldn’t take a hundred for this skin. It’s all I have to cover me at night.” "Now, what do yoa tell me such a lie for? You know yoa can buy three serapes with the money.. Jf you won’t f be decent and make a trade,'why then get out of here and stop tuking up I room and my time.” So the meek and obedient native set forth under the very eye and wrath of the proprietor. Nevertheless as he went lie swept up a fine new typewrit er from a table that lay athwart his path, covering the whole movement by a skillful readjusting swing of his tiger skin, and lie emerged into the street with his prize folded to him under the all enveloping cloak. He was never found. The fences of thieves ure too numerous and too much on to the game for pursuit to be easy. The unfathomable serape, like charity, covers gracefully u multitude of sins which tb** haven of tin* pawn shop afterward forgives outright. An American woman whose stock of household linen had been steadily dwin dling was driven at lust to accuse a long trusted chambermaid, with un pleasant results. Within an hour after the girl had gone in u tempest of indig nant tears a group of American neigh bors gathered at the house, believing that the lady wus desperately ill, dying or dead. It appeared that the outraged damsel had made tlie rounds of the neighliorhood. getting money from one woman to fill u prescription for her suddenly stricken mistress, borrowing sheets from another for the dead and articles of clothing for the burial, even enough white silk to make the shroud. But in spite of all that can truthfully be said of tb<? ratero and his confreres the City of Mexico is by no nieuns a nest of thieves. It is the careless and the easily duped who suffer, and there are many Americans long resident there who have never missed more than the few articles of clothing u washer woman might choose to pawn. Meantime the vigilance of the police is doing much to make the paths of dis honesty less easy to treud. 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