Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-05-04

The few are not only rich but very
rich and the rest are In the depths of
poverty. AS the result highwaymen
and thieves and beggars are among
the principal products of the country.
The latter are so numerous and in
their evident destitution so necessi-
tous, that the only way to keep peace
with ones humanity is always to car
ry supply of small coins aud thus
be able to drop a mite into each sup
plicant palm. The extreme wretch
edness of the Mexican peon coupled
with the severity of his labor cannot
fail to move the most indifferent.
And yet that passage in Burns ''Twa
dogs" in which the lean one of low
degree replies to the sympathy ex-
pressed by the fat one in brass-col-
lar may, after all, express a sound
philosophy, and relieve, just little,
that compassion which the sufferings
of the poor must always arouse.
s'The're nae sac wretched as ane wad think;
Tho constantly on poverty's brink,
There sac accustomed to the sight
The view OF gies them little fright
Then chance and fortune are sac guided
There aye VII less or more provided;
And tho fatgued VII close employment,
A blink of rests sweet enjoyment
But to return to the ride from
Zacatecas to Queretaro. The face
of the country between these points
is something like Vermont, made up
of hills and valleys; only there is no
timber and the valleys are much
broader and like the great plain north
of fZacatecas extend out to the foothills
quite level; and the rise of the hills
in sharp ridges or detached masses
some of them may be dignified as
mountains-is very abrupt. When
one is fairly down from the extreme
altitude at Zacatecas, this section is
one of the most rich and productive
in the whole Republic. The great
variety of natural products, which is
the boast of Mexico, begins here to
appear.
Great heaps of corn, barley, oats
and rye, for shipment, may be seen
at the railway stations, and great
fields of these cereals may be seen
growing by the way; two crops OF
which may be taken, and are taken
by the enterprising husbandman,
each year. Oranges large and sweet
lines small and sour and bananas
plump and luscious are far plentiel
than apples, gooseberries and GU
cumbers are in Vermont. Eacf
train is besieged by throng of men
and women, with well filled baskets
on their heads, offering these fruits
for cent apiece.
Strawberries too, large as robins
eggs, in curious little baskets heap.
ing full, tempt the traveller to pur-
chase, basket and all, at very mod.
crate price. But alas for the
| "Tricks and qurks that in us lurk!''
AS the traveller goes through his
basket of strawberries he soon finds
those no larger than wrens' eggs and
underneath these cabbage leaf, ar
tistically folded and almost complete
ly filling the basket. By the help OF
a little of the philosophy of humol
he resolves to enter into no particu-
lar inquiry as to the meaning of the
word cabbage" but hereafter when
ever he may see cabbage leaf, he
will be reminded of the advancing
civilization of the Mexican people.
Irapuato, an old market town &C
miles from Queretaro, has become
famous as station where ripe straw
berries are sold at the train every
day in the year.