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EsUblished 1884. 

 THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 



ed girls in black lace mantillas over 

 pink dresses, others wear Parisian 

 hats and shoes, and the children are' as 

 pretty and as prettily dressed as the 

 average in the United States. 



But this trip into Mexico is far more 

 comfortable than the real thing can be. 

 In that are many trials to be met and 

 conquered or endured. There is the 

 dust. It is very trying at this season 

 of the year, just before the rains set in. 

 One night the train encountered a sand 

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were covered with dust and the car 

 was full of it. Not less trying than the 

 dust is the heat. Activity of any sort 

 must be suspended and the time' of the 

 greatest heat spent in the shade of 

 trees and houses or within doors. Our 

 Scientist, in a fit of absent-mindedness, 

 one day, laid two plants and a snail in 

 the sun, while with true scientific zeal 

 he went for something else. When he 

 returned he found them literally baked. 

 The condition of the people of Mex- 

 ico is pitiful. Many of them are both 

 poor and extremely ignorant. One In- 

 dian brought his little boy one evening,- 

 as bright a child as need be found, and 

 the pride of his father's heart. A box 

 with a dime in it was given to him. H.e 

 shook the box as he went and was as 

 happy in the music of that coin as if 

 the home he was going to was a palace 

 instead of a hut of mud and brush. 

 What a future is before him! His fa- 

 ther had worked all day for about 

 thirty cents. He spoke in poor Span- 

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 postoffice. He was looking wistfully 

 toward the United States, but with 

 neither energy nor knowledge will prob- 

 ably never reach it. It is pathetic to 

 see the burdens these men will carry, a 

 hundred pounds a mile at a time. And 

 still more pathetic is their patience and 

 their plaintive voices which are re- 

 minders of the middle ages. 



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