As it was difficult at that time to find a fabric store! It was a true rare luxury to buy weaveeed and this was only fact times, of year in year, when the harvests were abundant in the regions. The majority of the clothes, also ceroula, was done in a sewing press using the wire of twisted cotton in roca. Some Higino times Pear tree went to make purchases in Ic, one of the cities most important of the interior of the province of the Cear, at that time, point of meeting of the cattle tenders who came of the Hinterland of the Cariri, the Paraba and the Inhamuns. From there it was extended in direction to the coast, the General Road of the Jaguaribe for where the pertaining to the state of Cear sertes and the salty meat transited floated of, for the centers of storage and distribution of the port city of Aracati. In these trips the city of Ic, Higino Pear tree usually took its two older children, Peter Higino and Manoel Higino.
At that time the majority of the farmers bought charge account, with stated period of payment of one year, generally after the harvest of the harvest of the cotton, the tobacco or the sales of jab. Case the purchaser needed to guarantee the business was alone to pull a wire of the mustache and to affix it on the notations made for the creditor. Higino Jose Pear tree was a pacific and diligent man, but it did not tolerate violations. However, one day it found what he did not want, that is, certain citizen called Manoel de Brito, insolent goat that beating in people gave and liked civil disturbances. This fortuitous meeting happened after a mass in the chapel of Saint Antonio in Cariutaba, day 11 of June of 1873. The disaffection and insolente Manoel de Brito if approached sorrateiramente, held in the reins of the horse of its Higino and said in intimidador tone: – You wise person who who orders here, are I? If he prepares that any day of these, you go to take a beating! At that moment, the blood it fervilhou of the feet cabaa, but it did not want to face it of hands abanando, especially after having done the first confession of the year, before the sacred mass. .