Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-01-21
Terms Of Nnbseription.
FROM OLD MEXICO.
DR.. II. K. Hinde Writes the
Message an Inter-
cstin9 Letter.

y
and ten years old to-day! Is it
possible2 1t is difficult for me to
realize the fact that / am so oldi
and vet sometimes when | let my
mind run back over the past and
think of all that has transpircd
within my memory it seems to
me a hundred years ago since ]
was boy. One reason Of this, !
am sure, is the intervening civil
war of 1SGl.G4 The terrible
events of that war seemed TO add
at least quarter of a century to
my life. Away down here in this
foreign country where everything
is so novel and strange, and wher"
there are 80 few | can converse
with ! am left a great deal to my
own thoughts, and on ibis birth
day, especially, am thinking
thinking! My father seemed TO
me an old man man when he died,
and ] am six years older than lac
was when he passed away, and yet
surely ! do seem so old as my
father was.
But the family record must be
true, aud it says on Jan. 6, 1884,
| was born, in Sharpsburg, ky.
My life has been cocval with the
reign Of Queen Victoria, and what
wonderful events have transpircd
in the worlds history within that
period.
As, with the rapidity Of thought,
l run back over the years of my
Kentucky boyhood, my Ohio Col
lege days, and Missouri manhood
life, the uppermost feeling in my
heart is, how good God has been
to me all these years! Amid all
the vicissiudrs aud trials Of life,
two companions have been CON
stantly by my Sidc-gooduess and
mercy. With such companion
ship pledged to me, if faithful to
the end, I will not hesitate to go
cheerfully forward the few remain
ing years or days that may be
spared me in this life.
OF all the unexpected things
that have come to me in this life
the most unexpected is that / am
now in this old City of Mexico as
my home for the time being How
strangely are some Of the events
of our lives brought about, Two
weeks spent in this historic old
city have shown me many strange
things and awakened many unns-
ual reflections. The first impress
sion that comes to me here is that
/ am in a more foreign and strange
land than ! have ever visited be-
fore, not excepting the countries of
Southern Europe, Switzerland and
Italy. The people themselves are
the greatest novelty, and the source
of the greatest interest to me.
have met with no such mixture
and variety of population in any
other country-Spanish, Peon, In
dian, in every conceivable shade OF
mixture, color and language.
The very mystery of the origin,
aud Obscurity of the prehistoric
times, of these people, adds to the
interest of their study. Very little
is definitely known of Anahuac an
terror TO the conquest. The Tol
tees were the earliest historic fam
lily. They were not the first upOr
the plain however, as the pyra
mids of Cholula and Patzcuaro
and the ruins of Militia and Pal
enque testify The nation that bull
them did not write its name, ant
they are as unmeaning to the Tol,
tees as they are to us. The Tol
tees came down from the north il
the middle of the seventh century
They established their capital al
Tula, and came upon the Stage Of
history as fighting men and fight
ing women.
Tula is to-day only a peon vii