The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-05-30

highest srablo point on the mountains
They go far up beyond the place where
we would till the land. There is so lit
tie good soil, they have TO use il all.
Rocky New England is not as we'll Gull
tivated as those portions Of Mexico
where 1t will pay to raise anything.
They. will take 4 wooden pillow or some
kind OF stick, and work up the soil
like garden. | saw the Indian corn
rows set apparently by mathematics.
so straight they were. A drill could
hardly have planted the corn rs straight
Occasionally, you will find valley in
Mexico which looks beautiful TO the
eye and contains every description of
fruit and product; but when you 90 TO
examine it, you will find that 1t is ex-
ceptionally narrow, and, indeed. Mex
leo is cultivated in little patches of
ground like Ireland. not quarter Of
an mere in patch, and that alone gives
the rich piece Of soil a SPLENDID appear
ancc. with its many costumes and vari-
colored productions. The spaces of
bad lands between the arabic places,
are long and vast
FOREIGNERS TIE BUSINESS MEN.
''Wnat constitutes the business class
OF Mexico?'
The Germans and French. They
are firmly planted in the business, but
the natives there look on them rs they
do on us-with Indifference A Mexi-
can will plant himself in your neigh
borhood, and just look ut You out of
| his eyes as ii he could stand sitting
there rs long as you, and meant 10 stay
N IIH al "a i'm
what YOU had accumulated in the coun-
try. In some respects. they are smart
or people than we are, said Col.
| Wharton.
''In what way?h said |.
'Wcll, they can wait longer. They
are more frugal. They live on little,
they do not want to change their base,
are not an initiative people, prefer what
they have got. and they have uniformly
| inherited what the foreigners put there
Of public character and much of q
| private character"
MEXICAN MINING.
''How did the gold come out of the
groundp"
''Why one of the poems will take a
rock as big as your desk and patiently
sit down beside it and split off small
piece with hammer, and he will look
that little piece all over TO see if it has
particle of gold in it, and let none
escape him. In that way, he will
slowly knock the rock to pieces, and
when he is done with ii, you will find
no gold there to get out. The govern
ment formerly and the churches got the
most of the gold"
"Then you think the mines of Mex
leo have been pretty well hunted
overpn
Eyes. Ii any man ever comes to you
and wants to sell you mine which he
says is full of water, and only needs to
have the water pumped out to work it
to good advantage, don't you believe
him. If that mine is full of water, it
is pretty certain the MeXicans have
done with it, and have got everything
out of it."
FINE CAVALRY.
''Did you see any of their trOOpsp"
Eyes; l saw some splendid troops.
There are 1000 soldiers kept in Mexico
City. They are as good troops as l
ever saw, clothed in blue, very much
like our regular army soldiers / saw
the finest regiment of cavalry there
ever saw. Every horse in it was black
except one ridden by the colonel, and
that was pure white"
THE CITY OF MEXICo
''Do you like Mexico City?"
81 did, very much, as place to
linger, to loiter, to admire. The air is
so pure and limpid that all distances
seem obliterated. You go up on the
mountains of Chepultepec, and the
city, three or four miles away, seems
so close that you can touch it. loved
to sit up there and just look down at
the city, the lakes, and at the distant
mountains. There are four active vol
canoes in Mexico, and some of the high
peaks you can see from Chepultepec-
one of them, forty miles away, looks as
if you can walk it in an hour"
''Is Mexico City busy place."
mo; stupid, yet picturesque. They
say it has 100000 people. There is
more life in New Orleans in one day
than in Mexico in month"
MAMMALIAN.
"Did you see any signs of Maximil-
| ian's dominions in Mexicop"
"Only one, kind of causeway or
viaduct that he built over the hill OF
Chepultepec to reach his palace there.
That is all you find of Macmillan in
the country"
'.Do the Mexicans say anything about
Macmillan, or have they any regard
for his fatep"
mot one bit. They consider him a
mere barbarian. They consider his
fate to have been inevitable. and are
rather glad that he died, but do not say
much about it. If the poor man were
alive to-day, and he could see the en-
tire absence of an impression he had
made on this people, it would break his
heart"
SANTA ANNA.
"Did you hear anything said about
Santa Annap"
mo. saw his grave. however, in
beautiful cemetery out by the shrine
of Guadalupe. There is a spot up
there hardly an acre in extent, which
contains the celebrated dead of Mexico
under some beautiful monuments.
thought that cemetery was the prettiest
had ever seen. also saw the grave