The Holt County sentinel., 1896-10-16

picture ah'ch would be the delight o
the landscape artist, and gives us al
ideal of th. tabled Land of Beulah" ur
ti,e far off gardens of Peri.
Many changes have occurred sine
lSs1. Most of my pupils have grow.
up TO vigorous manhood ur beautiful
womauhnud, and among the older one:
OF my acquaintance, Old Father Time
the tomb builder" has been busy trac
ing his tell tale etchings on brow ano
eye. | visited my old school, no, moi
my old school, Just the old house, for oil
the - who gathered there IN 1856 10,
one was present IN 1895. | tell you il
sets "A fellow 10 thinking. The building
has had some repairs. new seats and
! desks, but the black boards. then new
STATE, and even the uncnuth stoves and
their cumplemeats OF rusty, refraci DRY
pipe, recalled vividly to my mind the
long aga when | was pedaSogue at
"Cracser's Neck" or Highland. l;ut as
| sat looking int, lh- fresh Young happy
( faces of the children, not recognizing a
single one. Thought some long, long
thoughts! .!h- seasDBs have come and
gone, with mathematical regularity, the
slghing autumn winds are just as soft
and blimy iiov as then, but We have all
changesi -nnconSciously To ourselves, but
none the less surely.
On the iinge- of Gad's right hand
Stands ths worlds s,ft spinning axle. v
Since lSS6 have been something Of a
"globe trriter." | have spent several
years Ia tie south, teaching when felt
like il. but lot 80 steadily as some years
previous. Srhnnls there are slowly i'm
date"
| spent nearly lG months IN Mexico
aud about ? months IN Cuba.
While IN Mexico | visited the famous
battle grounds of Churuhuscc. Chapul-
tepic, Moiino del lsey (King's M'ils,)
CeTre Gorrn. Contraras. ani Buena
Vista, aud | now know something of the
Mexican War and will be better equip
ped to teach that portion OF United
States history than ever before. | meyer
WIS a Very active partisan IN politics.
and do rot care tn Influence any ones
vote, and | wish it to be emphatIrally
unders TODD that what | shall say of
Mexico will not be handicapped by any
such motive. My object Is simply to
state few facts ia relation TO that
country, without regard It, politics.
Mexico Is not by any means an "Eidor
ado" for poor man. \ mechanic will
do fairly we'll lf he is able to do superior
work or skilled labor in which there is
little or no competition, but the laborers
of Mexico are very poorly remunerated.
Wages range from 22c TO 3Jc, and yet
bread, meat and many other necessaries
of life are somewhat dearer in their mar
ke:s than our own.
The r. are abnut seven millions OF the
Poems (native Indian stocE( whose adult
laborerS receive nnly lSc per day. The
Peon laborer gets 9c to buy his -four or
meal fos has tortiiIas "a kind of cake
they bakel and the other o. is held in
reserve for other expenses. The Peon
is really IN a species OF slavery, and If
Hacienda Plantation) is sold the Poems
who live on it go with it-they are al
WAYS in debt and Peon and debt go with
the plantation.
IL is true that silver dollar of the
United States Except the Trade Dollar
passes for nearly two Mexican dollars.
The reason for this is that the Mexican
can buy ot the United States, with
which he largely deals, nearly twice as
much with the United States dollar, as
he can With his own, notwithstanding
the fact that the Mexican dollar is sey-
erai grams heavier than ours. The
United States dollar has a redeemer
and the silver disc with its deYice of
Eagle, Snake and Cactus has not.
To illustrate: At Vera Cruz bought
a bottle of beer fer 31c, American
silver, and Mexican paid 6jc for bot
tie of the same ,n Mexican silver. Every
thing else is sold on tht same, or about
the same basis.
| might remark, par larenthies. that
The national beverage is Puique (pron-
ounced POGO! Key, and Mescal. 1t is
very smooth, seductive fluid. but
at the same time a very villainious one.
| would say To any one who may con
template a visit to Mexico, "look not
upon the Pulque when it is red when
it moveth itself Alright, for it biteth like
taurantla aud stingeth like a cent?
pede; and verify, / say unto YOU" your
dome of thought OF thought will become
SO abnormally developed that You will
need a potash kettle for hat. No, if
you 20 southwark seeking beyer
age that maketh glad the heart,
tarry IN the mountains of East
Tennessee, get acquainted with some
mountaiueer, obtain an Introduction to
gallon Jug OF rye whiskey and peach
brandy, a mixture which is 10 years old
and has not been caresssd by the hand
of the revenue officer. Take a liberal
drink OF that, and you will fancy that
the Jug holds imprisoned the sunshine
that kissed the red checks of the peach
es. or chased the shadows over the
billowy fields OF rye. Take another
horn and you will hear the notes of the
sky lark and the voices of the mountain
maidens singing the Harvest Home"
Cuba Is about go miles long by about
100 miles wide. 1t is not the fiat, marshy
low malarial country which one would
expect to find. True, there is malaria
on parts of the coast, but very little
inland I had n taste of the coast fever