But profanity is not alone restricted to a frontier or border community, where laws and a sense of propriety are wanting.

One may hear it in old and civilised towns, as he walks the streets, and sometimes from the lips of boys.

In these saloons people of all ages congregated from youth up to hoary hairs.

Here were the Indian and the Negro, the American and the Mexican, the Spaniard and the Frenchman, the Italian, the Dutchman and the German, the Dane and the Russian, the English, the Irish and the Scotchman, the Chinaman and the Japanese.

One of the most noted of the saloons was the Bella Union, a Monte Carlo in itself.