Evening star., 1895-11-09

Paris I suppose it is not the Paris of old.
The municipal government Is very good
one, but 1t is. believe. virtually under the
accounts for its excellence 1 presume. 1
was not particularly impressed with the
French people. They are an emotional set,
up and down as this craze or that one
strikes them. like barometer under the
influence of the atmosphere. There does
not seem to be any stability to them.
On CromwelFs Slab.
Returning to his impressions of things,
Gov. Shepherd said the most beautiful
sight he saw in Europe was the cathedral
at Cologne. TT is simply superb he re-
marked. land, as my daughter Grace aptly
said, 1t is a poem in stone st. Paufs and
Westminster Abbey look like Methodist
meeting houses when compared to it,. The
governor smiled when he mentioned West
minister Abbey. Il went to the abbey. of
course" he remarked, land 1 walked
around over the dust of kings and queens,
and stared at the memorials of the great,
who were so mostly by the luck of birth.
when l happened to look down and 1 saw
the name of Oliver Cromwell on the slab.
1 said 1 wanted to stand there, because
real man had once lain in that spot. entire
ly different from the kings and the rulers
around, who had been puppets that merely
moved as their strings were pulled. 1 tell
you 1t felt good to stand there above the
place whence CromwelrS body had been
indignities. and to feel how much more he
had advanced the civilization of the world
than the crowned things remembered so
magnificently around him.
Waterloo and Napoleon.
Il saw the magnificent tomb of another
great man, too. that of Napoleon. and
visited the battlefield of Waterloo. In my
young days 1 was a great student of
Napoleons career, and that immortal bat
tie ground was of vast interest to me. AS 1
stood there On the mound and looked over
the beautiful scene. l was not surprised
that Napoleon had met such overwhelming
defeat there. because realized that 1t was
on that field that he was first confronted
by the Scotch and the Irish. Their regi-
ments comprised the flower of the English
army then, they 40 today. There would
he nothing to the English army were it not
for the Irish and the Scotch. The English
soldier. the Tommy Atkins of today. is
mere figure, a fine machine, 10 be sure, but
the Scotchmen and the Irishmen are the
men that England would depend on now,
as she always has, to do her fighting for
her.
Some Conditions In Europe.
'If anything could have possibly made
me better American than l am" said the
governor, exp-essively. ut would have been
that trip 10 Europe. The people over there
have only one motive, and that Is simply
how to solve the problem OF actual living.
When 1 was going up the Rhine looked
at some OF those old castles on the banks,
hoary with the age OF centuries, and built
in the days of the reudal system when the
word Of the. barons was absolute law. and
the people lived only to do their bidding.
1 thought how little changed the conditions
were between now AID then in the same
country. Today the Hohenzollerns have re-
placed the barons, and the women still till
the fields and the men carry the guns.
=, tz l-k, ~ - Ill
many, England and France are stretching
out hungry hands for colonies to give their
sluggish blood chance to circulate. In
themselves there Is no further chance for
development. Over there servant Is born
a servant, and never expects to be any,
thing else. a carpenter Is born and lives
and dies in his shop. where generations Of
carpenters have preceded him. and where
an American all this seems monstrous, and
he turns with relief to his own country,
where every man may reach any eminence,
no matter how great, to which he may be
able to lift himself by his moral and ply
sical strength, providing he possesses the
power and determination to exert 1t sue
cessfully. And so I say. IL anything could
have made me a better American 1t was
my trip abroad"
Good News From Batopilas.
The Star representative turned the con-
versa ton to affairs nearer to home at this
juncture, and told the governor that some
of his friends here were somewhat exer-
cised over reports that a flood had re-
Gently caused some injury at Batopilas,
where his mines are situated.
Yes" said the governor, "for thirty
days before my return to New York I had
received no telegraphic Information from
Mexico and naturally felt little anxious.
Upon our landing. however. 4 found that
while the greatest freshet ever known in
that country had visited Batoptlas, the
damage done was very slight. The water
rose to a prodigious height. When I erect
ed the hospital at the hacienda I built 1t
eighteen inches above the highest water
mark ever known there, and still am in
formed that water was foot deep in the
hospital. The bridge i recently built and
the aqueduct were. however, uninjured,
and few adobe structures that were un-
dermined and knocked down were good
riddance and their destruction IS a good
deal Of a qualification to me. OF course
from the situation of the hacienda and the
of the arroyo through which
the river runs the chief difficulty we have
had to overcome down there has been the
danger from freshets and sudden rises of
the water. but the recent flood proves that
we have successfully accomplished this OBJ
1ect and that no apprehension is to be felt
from 1t ini the future.
Remarkable Experience.
'To give you an idea of what water can
do when 1t exerts its tremendous power"
continued the governor, Il will tell you
about cloudburst that occurred down
there shortly after I got there in 1881. I
was out on the ditch one Fourth of July
morning rushing party Of iaborers in the
work of cleaning 1t out. With good sup
ply of mescale 1 was keeping them instruct
ed in the work and 1t was progressing fine
ly. Sixty feet above the ditch was the new
roadbed. where l had intended to place a
railroad for the purpose of bringing the
ere from the mines to the hacienda I no.
ttced above me q few small white clouds
that seemed merely to neck the blue sky
and a few minutes later perceived that
they were becoming heavier. In less time
than I have taken to tell 1t those clouds
came together and the result was a down.
pour of water absolutely inconceivable to
a person who had not seen 1t. For mo-
ment I was stunned. and in another I
would have been overwhelmed If a quick
witted Mexican mason and some Of his
assistants had not grabbed me and pulled
me to the railroad bed above Here /
could see the full fury Of the water. It had
fallen in an instant almost, and the little
river in the arroyo, which was not more
than forty or fifty feet wide ten minutes
before, had become lake. 1t would be
difficult for you to believe it. but l do not
exaggerate in the least when I tell you
that l saw rocks weighing from fifteen to