The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-12-30

| sons be great, The same ceremony
more or less modified is performed in
Tia" open al hundreds OF other places
over the republic
As for hunting and HshiUg-wcll the
fish are here and The game is here.
and there are no laws to restrict
What better could you ask?
The turpOu are at the mouths Of
the various rivers entering the Gul. OF
MoXico. the smaller fry are az Patz.
cGaro and other of the republics 80
large lakes and lagoons. The black.
brown and grizzly bears are IN the
notEhborhood OF Salullo. Durango and
among the Sierra Madrc of Chihua.
hua, the antelope around Monterey.
Torrcon and Chihuahua; the black
and white tailed deer in the states Of
Cnlhuila NucvO Leon. chihuahua, Du.
range and Tamaulipas-around Vera
Cru they are so numerous that hunt.
ing parties Of business men so out
cYory holiday on foot and horseback,
returning in the evening with one to
three deer
Below Vera Cruz on the lsthmian
roads there are tigers and mountain
lions, and. well south, tapirs, croco.
diles, monkeys and birds Of paradise,
The climate of Mexico? How would
YOU describe May day and late
September night in the states? How
would You spell out the fullest glory
Of the sun, the most perfect eftulgence
OF the moon?
The technical authorities say:
Along the gulf coast the low ground,
extending I distance into the interior,
Is called the terra calicntc or hot
land then where It rises in terraces
to the table lands is called the TERRA
templada or temperate land, and
finally where IL reaches the regions OF
still greater elevation IL called the
terra fra or cold land On the terra
caliente 1t Is summer always; on the
terra templada eternal spring; on the
terra fra II is rarely cold enough for
snow or ice"
Go from your home to any other
part of the United States and you win
find people believing as you believe,
speaking as you speak, dressing as
you dress, dining as you dine. They
are voting for the same candidates,
discussing the same issues, damning
the same congress, watching the
same markets. reading the same news
papers. supporting the same kinds OF
schools, erecting the same kind of
churches, giving the same kind of
excuses for not attending them, sub.
hitting themselves TO the same dan.
gers. acquiring the same affections,
dying the same deaths. receiving the
same obituaries, passing into the same
darkness.
But In Mexico--No! Six thousand
French speaking their own language,
preserving their own customs. Five
thousand Germans, speaking their Ian
guage, preserving their customs. Five
thousand Britishers, clinging to theirs
Twenty thousand Spaniards true 20
theirs. Forty tribes of Indians faith
full to theirs. Thirty thousand Yankees
loyal to theirs.
And approximately 100000 Mex.
leans quietly and prosperously choos-
ing the advantageous of each. with
which to build upon the ruins of IL
centuries of despotism young repub.
lie more mobile. more prismatic, more
unique and more diverting vastly
more diverting-than any other ON
earth!
Until you have been here to wit.
ness this assimilating of cosmopoli.
tan ideas by this domain so long pro-
vincial you simply cannot conceive the
magnitude and multiplicity of the con.
trasts.
]. WELDON LITHGow,