The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1888-06-02

> Under the big cottonwood trees
now standing on the east of the
t the ditch, the bodies were heaped
} up and burned with brush and
| fence rails
The ungenerous cruelty and gen.
| eral mallgnity of the Mexican
character are sufficiently illustrat-
ed in this bloody scene of their
victory. The average low-grade
, Mex lean is combination inciud-
} ing the blood frequently of the
: old-time Spaniard, the native In
) dian, and the negro, and does not
often lack the lniquitous traits of
all these.
The morning following our ar
rival we were taken in charge by
President Ferguson of the Texas
Press Association, Secretary
McAdee of the Board of Trade,
and Real Estate Agent Dignowity,
who arranged us in superb car
riages for ride about town and
to the neighboring missions,
which, on account of their anti
guilty, all visitors are ANXIOUS to
see.
1 The first one, Conception"
founded in ZIG is just beyond the
J suburbs of the city, and, although
no SO handsome from an archi-
tectural standpoint as the others,
! has been we'll cared for and its in
| terror still serves the purpose for
which it was built. Scant but APP
propriate decorations surround the
altar and statute of dark-hair-
ed, dark-skinned Madonna glori-
fees its centre.
Further on some 4 miles from
the city, we alight again at the
San Jose pronounced San Hosea
, founded in 1920, and spent an hour
in the contemplation of its ruined
beauties.
What determined old fellows
those Spanish religious fanatics
must have been. After Drawing
all the terrors of unknown and
stormy waters they landed at last
upon a strange and barren shore,
and not only pushed their way
over a hundred miles inland in
the face of hostile Savages but
went to work at once in this iso-
lated country and built cathedrals
which even in oul time would be
, considered ornaments to our larg-
est and finest cities. Nearly all
, the sculpture and elaborate cary
ing which once adorned the San
Jose Mission has been removed OF
is in ruins but enough remains to
enthuse anyone with an eye for
beauty. Most of this artistic work
is said to have been wrought in
Spain and transported with relig-
, Gus care and amid untold Difficult
ties, and its exceedingly high
, grade of merit seems to justify
such conclusion. Beneath the
alter in the chapel lie in CHASTITY
array the bones Of one of the
sainted old founders of this build
ing, and the little Mexicans who
eyed us suspicieusly during our
rounds were particularly emphatic
and indignant when we raised the
curtain to look at these grim rel
les. This is an odd sort of relig,
ion, combining ignorant super,
, stition and more enlightened
christian ideas until one becomes
confused and is at loss to know
where one is ended and the other
begun.
As if to give us the full benefi
of a contrast our escorts next hal
, us at the Lone Stare Brew
I cry, an immense and very modern
, structure where the beer which
mildly intoxicates is turned on
| by the hundreds of gallons ever!
, twenty-four hours. Beer making
requires an elaborate and inter
esting process, but our party more
r particularly enjoyed the rur
Though the big cooling caves
where the temperature is Away
kept below the freezing point
bsxt we spend some time a
tho San Pedro Park, an exceed.
, ingly picturesque enclosure, and
in the evening are driven home b,
way Of Government HILL" the
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