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Letter From Mexico...
City of Mexico, March 6, 1897.
Editor Brunswick Times—The sea
sons in Mexico are perplexing: to one
accustomed to gauge the weather by
latitudes. When I returned from
tropical Cuantla three weeks ago, I
found tlie short Mexican winter had
quite left the valley and given place
to a delicious combination of spring
and summer, that I know not how to
describe. It is the warmth of the
tropical sun baptized iu the cool air
of the mountain snows, a perfection
of atmospheric cock-tail that warms
while it invigorates, and Mexico lias
the exclusive right to its production.
Revelling in this now perfect clim
ate, I feel I owe Mexico an apology
for my January scoldings. One
should be able to put up with one
month of cold rooms for the privilege
of imbibing such a combination of
sun and ozone as we are now enjoying.
My last letter trom Mexico city was
written in the trying month ot Jan
uary, from the heart of the city and
the haunts of the poor and vicious.
For more than a month past we have
had rooms in the palatial home of
General Carillo, on the beautiful
Paseo, the grand boulevard of Mexico
city, and our vista now embraces only
handsome homes, avenues of trees,
(lowers, statues, gaily dressed people
in line carriages, the castle of Gha
pultepec, and, beyond all, the blue en
circling mountains.
It was Maximillian and Carlotta,
who, in their short and brilliant reign
in Mexico, conceived and created the
Paseo de la Reforma, as a fitting road
to the residence of royalty. The
driveway is one hundred and fifty feet
wide, with a thirty foot promenade for
pedestrians on either side, and both
are smoothly paved and shaded by
close avenues of trees that grow to
great heights. At intervals the Paseo
broadens into circles three hundred
feet wide, and here in grass and
llower plats are colossal statues of
Mexico’s heroes and the really mar
vellous Mexican art. The castle of
Chapultepec, the home of the president
of Mexico, the objective point and rai
son d’etre of this royal road, is in full
view down the three mile vista of
trees, and it looks very grand and im
pregnable on its rocky heights. We
are located about midway of the Paseo,
in the circle of Christopher Columbus,
and it is here that the Sunday after
noon concerts are given to this music
loving people. Artistic seats of
dressed stone extend around the cir
cle, on which the poorer people of the
city seat themselves very early
ill the afternoon. Hundreds of chairs
are placed on the pavement at a rental
of t velve cents each'.for the afternoon,
and when these are taken the curb
stones are appropriated, while the un
provided for content themselves on
their feet. The carriages of the aris
tocracy till in the space around the
statue, arid the vast and varied crowd
remains quiet arid happy until seven
o’clock in the evening, absorbed in the
music of one of the national bands.
During the intervals between the
musical selections, small vendors of
sugared fruits, toys, ice cream and
cooling drinks, go about -with their
wares on their heads seeking custom
ers.
Oil every afternoon except Sunday
the Paseo is given over to the car
riages of the rich for their daily out
ing. It is veritably three miles of
handsome, rapidly-moving turnouts.
Mounted soldiers stand like statues
in the middle of the road to prevent
any irregularities in driving that
would lead to accidents. Three teams
abreast, they start down the right
side of the Paseo, out to and around
Ohapultepec and back on the other
side of the driveway, and by 6 o’clock
a pedesirian has no hope of being able
to cross the street at any point until
darkness begins to send the gay pro
“ Cesxirm -cO'&ome and dijo.ner.
Through the courtesy ot American
friends In the city, I have been au in
vited and a delighted guest at a num
ber of public functions, the first of
which was the celebration of the tenth
anniversary of the founding of the
National Normal schools. All insu
tutions of learning in Mexico are en
couraged and fostered by President
Diaz, but especially tbe non-religious
national schools, and every public
school pupil in Mexico city who earns
a prize or a diploma can be sure of re
ceiving it direct from the band of tbe
president of Mexico. All commence
ment and graduating exercises are
made brilliant social and governmen
tal affairs. My introduction to this
feature of Mexican life was from the
box of the diplomatic corps in tbe ball
of congress. On alighting from our
carriage, I passed, on tbe arm of a
gentleman of our party, through a line
of soldiers, the advance guard of the
president, to the door of the senate
chamber, where stood the reception
committee in evening dress and white
kid gloves. Each usher advanced
with a bow and offered his arm to a
lady, and thus escorted, our Ameri
can gentlemen following in our wake,
we were conveyed to our seats. In
the balconies about us were the aris
tocracy of the liberal party; in the
body of tbe house were tbe pupils in
evening dress, even the smallest boys
being arrayed in white vests and
white kids, and on the platform were
the non-professional musical celebri
ties of the capital. A band outside
the building struck up the beautiful
national air that always announces the
coming of the president, and instant
ly we were all on our feet, and 1 was
taking my first curious look at the
man of Indian ancestry who has
moulded a nation and a people to his
will.
He is a handsome man with Indian
features and strength in every linea
ment. He has the almost saturnine
repose that marks his race, and during
the several evenings I have been in
his presence I have not seen him
smile.
This extreme quietness of the Mex
ican people saddens and op'presses me.
Is there fire underneath?
Although an intensely patriotic peo
ple, they receive their president and
their national anthem in perfect si
lence, standing with uncovered beads.
They are a decorous as well as a mu
sical race, meeting any discordant or
discourteous noise during an enter
tainment with a low, sibilant hissing
that warns the transgressor into si
lence.
This morning 1 sat in a box in the
Conservatory Of Music, which has
wonderfully line acoustic properties,
listening to snch melody as I have
n'ver before heard any where. Diplo
mas were to he awarded in the schools
of law, of mines and engineering, of
music and of commerce.
The line of soldiers at the entrance
and down the street told us of the ex
pected presence of President Diaz.
As the tirst note of the national air was
heard in the distance, the audience
rose to its feet, the music grew louder,
every eye was fixed on the door, and at
the instant Diaz appear and the great
orchestra of forty pieces inside tbe
conservatory, took up the hymn, and
the air thrilled with such a swell of
martial strains as made my blood tin
gle to my linger tips. Then followed
the work of pupils, graduates, profes
sors, all of a high grade. Tbe nation
that excels in music and art, as do
the Mexicans, must surely be under
tbe inspiration of a former civilization
that history has lost sight of.
A few days ago Mexico lost by death
her aged and beloved poet and patriot,
Guillermo Priesto. Asa soldier and
statesman of the liberal party, he had
fought relentlessly through a long
life for the disenthrallment of his
country from the fettersof the church.
In a beautiful casket on a catafalque
in congress hall his body was laid
atnsng a wealth of lloral offerings and
draped with the national colors. All
the architectural beauties of the sen
ate chamber were shrouded in black
draperies, relieved only by wreaths of
green everlasting.
Green lights burned in the urns
among the plants around the balcony
circle, and a hundred wax caTTifllis r Tnr
the chandelier served to reveal tier
after tier of faces that tilled the hall to
the topmost gallery. In the black
draped chair of state sat the president
of the republic, with his cabinet about
him, and without priest or Bible, with
out hymn or prayer, tticsb stern pa
triots bade adieu, in soul-stirringeulo
giums, to the mortal remains of their
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA., MARCH 14, 1896.
friend and countryman. When they
had recounted his works and bravery,
they tenderly took the casket on their
shoulders and carried it to the magni
ficent funeral car in waiting. Fifty
street oars with black portierres at the
doors and with windows curtained in
white, stood on the track to convey
the friends to the cemetery six miles
out of the oity.
Mexican families never attend the
funeral of their dead, nor do any but
the male friends accompany tbe body
to the grave, but as American guests,
our party of ladies was tendered a car
to the cemetery, and we accepted.
It was a long, slow ride through the
city whose streets were lined with a
quiet, respectful multitude.
At the grave were more words of
love and patriotism, and although
from beginning to end there were no
forms of the church, it was a most im
pressive burial, and preached a strong
sermon to the intelligence of men.
What must these people have suffered
from the church of their conquerors
when they will not permit its clergy
to come near their dying or their
dead?
The priestly octopus that once held
in its clutches all the wealth of Mex
ico and strangled the liberties of her
people, is surely dead, and the power
that holds it in its grave is wisely sow
ing seeds of education and intelli
gence to supplant those of supersti
tion and ignorance, for on Mexico will
yet dawn the light of true religion,
the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man, that never quite
dies out of the hearts of men.
Emma L. Rked.
A Point to Remember.
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DID IT
Weakened One Man’s Constitution
Until It Brought Him to
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Mr. James S. Harrison, a well-known
and highly respected citizen of Cleve
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dyspepsia and general debility, and in
his weakened condition, resulting from
the above causes, he had the additional
ill-luck to fall a victim to malaria from
this complication of disorders. Mr.
Harrison’s condition was becoming very
serious, when he commenced to take P.
P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy. Its
effects were marked and immediate.
Read his letter to us. Its earnestness
is apparent:
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suffering from dyspepsia and general
debility I beg to submit my testimonial
as to the efficacy of your P. P. P., Lipp
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cure for all the distressing complaints
from which I suffered.
My system was also full of Malarfa
and my condition was growing very
serious; I had no appetite, was losing
strength and was completely broken
down in health, but now my health is
completely restored, and I can catlike
a field laborer, without the slightest
fear of any serious results.
I take great pleasure in telling tbe
world that P. P. P. did the grand work
of restoring me to my accustomed
health. Yours truly,
JAMES S. HARRISON,
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STORIES OF THE DAY.
Interesting Notes on Mutters That Are
Talked of In Europe.
Venice is about to celebrate the nine
hundredth anniversary of the first in
troduction of the forkful- table use. The
merit of its adoption belongs to the
doge Orsolo, who at the wedding of his
son produced a silver fork and a golden
spoon. It was not nutii 300 years later
that the fork reached France, while it
was only in the year 1008 that it was
first adopted for table service iu Eng
land.
To those who imagine that the very
namo of Siberia is calculated to send a
cold chill into the heart of a Russian,
by reason of its association with ideas
of exile in its most harsh and cruel
form, the announcement that the Mus
covite government lias been compelled
to stop summarily the emigration from
Russia in Europe to Siberia v. il come
in the nature of a surprise. It seems
that the exodus iu the direction of Sibe
ria has assumed such vast proportions
that tlio authorities began to fear that
north and east Russia would be com
plex 3ly depopulated, the falling off in
revenue from the thus deserted portions
of the empire having been very marked.
The peasantry have now been ordered
to remain at home and not to emigrate.
This may bo regarded as equivalent to
a revival of the old law which compels
serfs to remain on the lands on which
they were bom unless they received
special permission to emigrate. The on
ly difference is that, whereas in olden
times the power of retention w r as exer
cised by tho landowning nobility, it is
now monopolized by the government.
Austria has just celebrated with be
fitting ceremony tho centenary of her
national aitftrmi. Tho principal feature
of the celebration was a state perform
ance of the drama entitled “Joseph
Haydn, ’ ’ who was tho composer of tho
grand song. The performance took the
form of a series of biographical pictures
at tho court theater in tho presence of
the emperor, and every one of the scenes
represented a phase of the great mu
sician’s life.
To convey an idea of tho terrorism
which has been inaugurated at Vienna
by tbe enormously powerful and fanatic
anti-Semite party it may bo mentioned
that the management of the Carl thea
ter, which is achieving so great a suc
cess with “Trilby,” has not dared to
make Svengali a Jew, but has concert
ed him into a Hungarian bandmaster.
The greatest pains are taken by the emi
nent actor who plays tho part to lead
the audience to forget tho Jew in the
gypsy-
Herr Krupp, the so called cannon
king of Essen, having acquired the Ger
mania company’s dockyards at Kiel, is
now negotiating with the municipality
of that city for the purchase of an im
mense tract of adjoining land. Herr
Krupp proposes not only to move to
Kiel his great engine works at Tegol,
near Berlin, hut to improve the present
dockyard accommodation at Kiel to such
an extent as to meet all modern require
ments. Herr Krupp’s object is to make
his Kiel establishment tho foremost in
Germany for the building of German
warships as well as to be able to com
pete successfully with any British ship
yard as far as the merchant marine is
concerned. The German government
has already given Herr Krupp an order
for anew and fine cruiser.
Russia’s government has just dis
patched one of its shrewdest diplomats
to Cabul for the purpose of securing the
co-operation and sanction of the emir
of Afghanistan for the construction of
a branch railroad from the capital of
Afghanistan to a point where it would
tap the great Transsiberian line. Rus
sia looks forward to extending eventual
ly this branch road farther south until
it finally reaches the British Indian
railroad system. When that is com
pleted, people will be able to go all the
way by rail from Paris to Calcutta
without leaving the railroad carriages.
Tho construction of a trolley car lino
from Cairo to the pyramids has now
been followed by the placing of a steam
boat on the river Jordan, which makes
the journey from Jericho to Tiberias—
that is to say, from the Dead sea to the
lake of Galilee—in about seven hours.
If matters go on at this rate -e shall
before long witness tho instu U.tion of
electric light in the mysterious caves
beneath the mosque of Hebron and
Roentgen rays applied to the mummies
of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the other
patriarchs who are supposed to repose
there.
The Turkish colony at Paris, which
is both large and influential, has just
laid at the feet of Emperor William a
fulsome address of gratitude for the
sympathy which he has manifested in
favor of the sublime porte in its conflict
with Greece. That Emperor William
should have accepted it is surprising,
and even his best friends are of the opin
ion that he has made a political mis
take in thus demonstrating to tho world
that lie has more good will for Moham
medans than for Christians.
The most remarkable feature of the
report just presented to the Engilsh
parliament with regard to the condition
of Egypt during the last 12 months is
the description by the British resident,
Lord Cromer, of the success that has at
tended the new experiment of state ad
vances to the natives on the security of
their crops. Until now the only people
to whom the peasantry could apply for
loans of this character were the Greek,
Syrian and Hebrew money lenders, who
invariably exacted from 30 to 40 per
cent interest. The government lias now
inaugurated the practice of making ad
vances at 6 per cent interest and is able
to show a profit to itself, as well as a
vast economy of cost to the natives.
This n< w scheme is but one of the many
benefits conferred upon the land of the
Nile by its British protectors.—New
York Tribune.
The Wise Grocer says:
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me “Pei-wise ond Pin
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It is not true. He bought the something else for a little less than GOOD LUCK.
His customers decline his substitute and go where they can get GOOD LUCK. For. the
snke of 25 cents be loses dollars. Other manufacturers have reduced the price of their
powder to merchants. They have also reduced the size of their cans, fheir 5 cent
can holds 1 oz less than a 5 cent can of GOOD LUCK- their 10 cent can 2 ozs less than
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