The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-13
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 AMONG HOME AUTHORS.
A chaplet of Criticism.
XIII

The unnitiated and unwary tourist, who is "doing" foreign country, finds himself most effectually done by ordinary railway guide books
 These ut-and- dried semi authentic descriptions of lands and scenes new to the traveller with their dull, eye-wearying pages of statistics, road facilities, typographical and climatic features un- interesting local peculiarities and "chestnutty" romances) may be properly accepted the literature of the misinformed.
 Our modern sight seeing has too much of the rapid transit, beaten track grand excursions cheap fare, palatial car and hotel characteristics to suit those who would Qike Arden's forest philosopher discover
 Tongues n trees. books in the running brooks Sermons in stones and good in every thing"
 The Mexico e sr.:!sh conquest and do1iiT,a- tion the mine and temple enricher of Cortez, the despoiled homes of brave and handsome native race the literary Edorado of historians, Robertson and Prescott the land of gold and silver and onyx of levers, volcanoes and bull rings, of mountain lakes, picturesque cascades, moss-grown aqueducts and broad, sweeping rivers, of luxuriance squalor intrigue, bad politics, natural wealth and degrad- ing slothfulness, has, within the past ten years, been gridironed by speculative Yankees
 Prior to 1880, the locomotive mileage in Mexico did not exceed five hundred. The chief part of this service the English built railroad between Vera Cruz and the oft-visted capital. At the present time, American owners and engineers have nearly three thousand miles of "the ties that bind' in successful operation. To-day, the hauLs of the Montezumas and their mixed descendants are regulated by steam. Grades have been leveled tor rents bridged and freight and passenger tariffs ad- usted by enterprsing business seekers whose banks and offices are mostly in Wall street.
 Commenting on the recent great change in Mex ican travel, one of our wide-awake home newspa- pers says:
 Before the railway Mexico was almost iso- lated from the mercantile world by the sowness of communication. Now 1t is in telegraphic and daily mail and express connection and the City of Mex ico has the same banking and exchange relations with the worlds centers the great cities of the United States and Europe. Internal peace has fol- lowed and favored this progress. The commercial and industrial development of the country has gone forward slowly, according to American ideas, but rapidly compared with previous Mexican experience The statistics of trade with the United States, gathered from customs figures, show that 1t has nearly doubled since 1879, and has steadily gained as compared with that between Mexico and Great Britain and France
 Finally, the barriers of ignorance, prejudice and misunderstanding which separated the United States from Mexico have been to a great extent removed. There is a growing tolerance of oppos- ing ideas Awless collisions along the frontier becoming less frequent the troops of the two gov ernments cooperate in checking Indian hostlities American business houses have their branches and agents in Mexico, and Mexican newspapers are filled with the advertisements of American firms and products.
 The investigating Yankee has arrived, with both feet and his collar box, at El Paso Zacatecas Mar