The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-19

"We, should smile, and that's what's the mat
ter with the country; but you can't have everything
in one place It's mighty common thing yer to see
man live hundred year, moren that, ifhe don't
get knife in him, and You can live cheaper and
better yer than anywhere else ever struck, and
there amt many diseases and fruits is so plentiful
| that you can git all you want OF 'em for real; but
you've got to do things as these yer peoples daddes
done 'cm or You'll have o cross over you before you
know 1t, bet yer"
"Many Americans here9n
"Lots Of 'em. Why every cuss that every Jumped
the country along the Rio Grandy ia yer, and all the
handy men with guns from Frisco is yer. There's
friend OF mine yer what the vigllantcs was after
back in the dftes-he's Killed i've men In the States
and he's one OF the best ieers you ever see. We've
got good society among ourselves. There come
down yer a feer dead broke who said he had opened
bank up In oregon and skipped, and we treated
him square and got him work; hut we found out
that he had killed woman in Georgia, aud coming
in from the bull fight one sunday we got the drop
on him and fllled him full of lead, and I'm id glad
OF 1t, because he was an horny -"
Kind reader, You may think the above overlrawn,
hut we totted 1t down Just as we heard it, and we
can assure Nou that there are many just such Amcri
cans In this city. We met man who lives In one OF
the largest cities In MeSico and is doing well and is
good citizen, who committed a horrible crime In
the State OF New York some years ago. There is a
cross the Rio Grande for NIL the money In the Treas
ury II is supposed, but-hc Is small man-he boasts
OF having disguised himself IA a woman and at
tended his mothers funeral In New York some years
ago. We trust he did. II he ran such risk for
such purpose only he cannot be wholly bad.
There isan old gentleman who loafs about the Hotel
lturbide here an American of siXty.flve or seventy
years, whonourshed as asaproperty agent In Washing
ton some years ago. We heard this old gentleman
Boosting in the courtyard night two ago having
"beat the United states Government ont OF
but he said the Treasury agents were after him and
he had TO "skip." lie said he had little income of
800 or $500 year now and 1t went further here than
$1,000 or $4,000 could In the States, and he was per-
fectly happy. While we did not like his principles
we had to admire his candor.
II Is to be hoped that the good people OF Mexico
will not Judge Americans by such specimensa as these
In the cathedral there are no pews and no seats,
and all, high and low, worship together. We at
tended mass there. The music was very tlne the
vestments OF the clergy were magnificent, the service
was very impressive, and the congregation was very
deSout. we never saw 50 many cripples at any
church abroad as we did there and 1t ptiful to
see them hobble, crawl, and drag themselves about
our friend from Iowa emp,ied his pockets of all the
change he had and borrowed all we had to give to
them, anu as we came away we noticed a tear In his
eye God bless him You don't often meet man
nowadays with woman's heart. When we got
back to the hotel he talked about the "poor cripples
until late in the night and wished he was rich, SO
he could build hospital to " hive the whole nockn--
as he expressed it-and take care of them. said he:
81 tell you It's a shame. II l were the President
oil this ranch, I'D providefor those poor devils right
away. would, tell you lcouid. I'm going to
see the President tomorrow and Pm going to inter.
cede for them. I'll talk to hlm-whats his name %
"Daz."
"Yes that's it; Diaz I'm going to put it right
square at him. never saw so much deformity. /
never Travelled before, and didn't think there was so
much misery in Gods world I'm going, but ] want
you to keep mum about 1t, to drop couple hum
dred dollars into some poor box around here If can
ind one.' And he did.
And, kind reader, as we draw this last rough letter
to n close 1t occurs to us that we saw an American
here with the mark Of Cain upon hm-that's one
type; and another who boasted of robbing his Gov
ernment of s310,oO0-thats another type; and still
another, ELUSIVE and impusive, brave and tender,
good anu strong, who hurries off TO Indulge in
charity ont the sly, and that's type "verily,
sir knight, there are good and bad everywhere but
the heavens are Ger ALL" SQuID