Middletown transcript., 1882-02-17

of substance, in fact. He is a steady
going man of middle age, with prom
inent scar on his forehead. imagined
some interesting story. No, he said it
was got in breaking vicious horse. A
sensible man lets fighting alone; there
are enough at that already. The Amer
leans have excellent ideas. They all
work all wish to improve and make
money. Without money a person
might as we'll take himself off to the
cemetery at once.
The butter and cheese making is un-
der control of . Don Daniel" He is a
large, handsome young man, with rosy
cheeks, coal-black hair and beard, and
excellent teeth-a picture of health.
He is of lively turn withal, assemblies
around him congenial spirits, and the
strumming of guitar, and such cho-
ruses as,
Amarillo 81, amarillo no,
Amarillo Y verde me 10 pinto,
may be heard from his room long after
the sedate and the fatigued have gone
to bed. Another inmate of the house
hold is youth of eighteen, a very vol
uble young person, Salvador, who prof
fers himself often as q guide. He is a
cadet learning the business of conduct
ing a hacienda A; or, as some think, a
young scapegrace of good connections,
put here to be kept out of mischief.
Outside the household are the Mayor
donlO and the sobresdlieRte, chief aids of
Don Rafael the pGstero, who looks
after the pastures the cdpOrGI, who
has principal charge of the stock.
These are officials of a humble order,
dark, blanketed men, bandit-looking
enough on horseback, but in reality as
gentle as need be wished for. The
poems, or day laborers, live in about as
poor a condition as the Irish peasants
except for having the advantage in
from six to thirty
seven cents a day for their labor, and
seem without either chance or ambition
to better themselves. There is a prison
room at the mansion, where one is oc-
casionally locked up for a couple of
days. Not that this is permitted by
law, but " they. are not ciYilizated, as
the proprietor .eKplains, in English
which still leaves something to be de-
sired. Nobody makes any disturb
ance about it, and otherwise they would
not work. .
The family spends a small portion of
5he year here, in an informal style of
living. Servants and all call the young
mistress Cholita, diminutive of her
lame. Soledad. There is no eXpecta-
ion Of receiving OF Faying visits in the
Social life, owing to the
distances and scarcity of neighbors,
Ioes not exist. 1t must have been
onely indeed for the young American
,irl who had been employed as governess
# small children in the adjoining haci-
nda shortly before. The dogs swarm
n and out over everything. The place
S kept as a big, generous farmhouse,
nd not as a villa. Ithas been designed
or greater state in its time. The old
of the style, Of the First En-
ire, would command a premium from
dealers. The rooms are
lrge and finely proportional. There
re an octagon chamber, with beds in
olumned inches, and another having
he bed raised upon platform of high
7 palatial effect. The first proprietor
5 said to have been a man, finally
uined by his extravagances, who had
alf Tulancingo at his table: and if he
Yere inspired by sudden notion to go
D the capital, one hundred and thirty
lilies, say, distant, he rode his horses
i'll they dropped dead under him.-W.
I. Bishop, an Hdrper's Magazine for
larcb