The age-herald., 1897-09-22

Hawkins or Pennsylvania, Fireman Jack
 Reynolds of Ohio, and Brakeman Joe
 Anderson of Missouri, were bringing a train Of empty cattle cars from Torreon.
 on the Mexican 1nternato1nal to Eagle Pass. Tex. They were within fifty miles
 cf the American fronlder and going along | at a lively clip. Rounding a curve, they struck two drunken Mexicans asleep on the track. The train was brought to a stop within 200 yards, and then backed | to the spot of disaster Of the men one
 was stonle dead and hte other horribly
 mangled. but breathing Greene wished | to put the victims on a car and report
 the accident at the nearest station, and
 abide the consequences. Win indefnAe terms i'm a Mexican jail, and possibly | death ahead of them, his associates de- l murred. Threatening to brain him with | a lump of coal if he fnterfered they l stuffed 10th bodies-the quick and the
 d6ad-inl.o tg1e fire-box ard started for 1 Texas with the throttle wide open. They l struck the bridge over fife Rio Graude | at the rate of seve,lty-fve miles an hour,
 and the sound of it was like thunder. | They ran half mile into the town of 1 Eagle Fuss before the train could be stopped Greene, Hawkins, Reynolds and Anderson took a norfhIbound train that night and have nester beel heard of dn the Rio Grande country since.
 The city of San Luis Potosi is building hall that will be the eighth wonder of the world. It has cost millions and will cost millions more. Seven years ago dozen skilled stonemasons from Pennsyl- vania were imported to do the oIn1- ta1 If to Ono EAnrfh of July member of the party got drunk and killed a Mexican in a barroom brawl His companions, in the language of General Crook, 'rcse like flock of quail and lit running" He was tried and condemned to be shot Then arose the certainty that with him in tine grave there wasno one to do the fancy carving on the city hall. It was decided to keep him at work and shoot him when he had finished. Every day, in summers shine and winters snow, this workman hangs like a fly against the great white wall and pecks away at gargoyles and gri- fins heads. A file of soldiers stand in the street looking up at him. His life ends with his job, and they say that he is the most deliberate workman eyer in the Mexican republic or any other r pub lic At the present rate of progress, ac- cording to the best obtainable calcula- ttons, tfe front of the city hall will be sufficiently scrolled and carved about the middle of 1850.
 The town of Victoria has one just judge. A Ittle while after the railway reached the Village the usual drunken Mexican was killed on the track in the usual way. The trainmen were promp 1y arrested and the train held. They said that they were running within the statutory speed and it was impossible to stop in time to avoid the mans death The alcalade said he would ice about that. He ordered the engineer to get up steam and back up the road to point two miles beyond the place where the death had occurred. He took a. saat in the cab. Reaching the desired spot he said: Run at the speed you had the other day, and when you came in Sight of the place where the man was lsaled put on the brakes" It was not to the engineers Interest to run too slowly, and the throttle was thrown,-sopen sTh9Si train went down the line at sixty miles an hour. It was the alcalde's first ride, and he was hanging out of the cab Win dow, delightedly looking at the rushing country, when the air-brakes were slammed down for all that there was in them He described seven or eight som ersaults and lit on his back twenty feet away. He rose, brushed the sand out of his hair and eyes, and looked at the loco motive, which was standing some yards further on and quietly puffirg. "Valga me diosw C'WeI, dang my buttens!) was all he said. He decided that the trainmen were not in any way ito blame and took them all to dinner with h.m.
 When MT. Bayard left the office of secretary of state it was estimated that
 not less than POO Americans were con- fined in Mexican jails, with no specific
 charges against them. The Harrison
 administration released them. Occa- sionally one hears of similar instance now, but very seldom. The people have come to know each other better The peons no longer look upon the locomo- tives as Satan. When filled with mescal they go to sleep by the side of the track and not upon it. The liberal and ad- vanced policy of President Diaz has
 brought the two countries much more closely together. An American citizen
 is safer there than along Chicago's
 'levee" or the New York Bowery. It is
 a great country for investment. If he gets into trouble fair trial will be given him. As a general thing our emigrants
 to Mexico are of a higher class than in
 the early days. We used to send our
 worst, and now our best. All of the injustice was not on one side. Our dark
 skinned neighbors had much of which they could justly complain. They had
 gamblers, and we taught them "brace games' of which they had never dream-
 ed They had horse thieves and we
 showed them swindling transactions in
 horsafiesh at which they stared aghast.
 They had confidence men, and we sent them some in whose hands they were children. All of this education cost them money, but things are better now. .... .,..,A, ......z. .. . -.--..-.--