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MR. BILLY SANDERS VISITS 
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THE PRESIDENT 
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The story of this trip of the Sage of Shady Dale to 
the White House is told in the inimitable fashion of 
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Mr. Sanders, who is in reality a character through 
which the Editor of Uncle Remus’s Magazine exploits 
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his views on general affairs. 
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P. S. (Here’s an extract from Mr. Sanders’ story of his 
trip.) “No sooner had I shuck the President’s hand than 
the dinner bell rung we call it the supper bell at my house 
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—an’ then a lovely lady came to’rds me, wi’ the sweetest 
lookin’ young gal you ever laid your eyes on; an’ right then 
an’ thar I know’d whar the home feelin’ come from.’’ 
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of food among the Indians. The bean 
is produced in pods which are seveTto 
nine inches long and of a buff color. 
They^begin to ripen in midsummer, and 
have the quality of preventing thirst as 
well as of satisfying hunger. They are 
often of the greatest value to travel¬ 
lers through that desert country. The 
Indians, who know their value, do not 
hesitate to go a long distance away from 
water if they are sure of a supply 
of mesquit beans along their route. 
Among certain of the less civilized of the 
southern tribes of Indians—the Cucu- 
pahs, who live along the Colorado River 
in Lower California—mesquit beans 
form an important part of the winter food 
supply. The Indian women also make 
rope and twine of the hark of the tree and 
weave it into baskets. Horses and 
cattle also feed upon the beans. There 
are few regions of the earth so utterly 
sterile as to be without the means of sup¬ 
porting human life.— Invention. 
LABOR IN MEXICO 
^ I 'HE most senseless thing that any 
newspaper can he guilty of, is 
the comparison of the condition 
of Mexican labor with that of the 
United States. Our labor is not, as a 
rule, as efficient. We do not pretend 
that it is. Even in cotton-picking the 
negro will do four times as much in a 
day as the Mexican. Agricultural labor 
here is slow and ineffective. In the 
mechanical arts the same indolence is 
noted. So if the laborer or mechanic 
is not as well rew arded as the American 
artisan or laborer, it is because he is not 
w^orth it. In some industries cheap labor 
is an advantage. There are mechanical 
arts, grades of factory labor, where the 
native labor is as good as foreign, and 
so, being on a silver basis of compensa¬ 
tion, is profitable for the employers. 
The Mexican laborer and mechanic has 
not the wants of his counterpart in the 
United States. He has not inherited 
those traditions of comfort and physical 
well-being which are natural in a race 
accustomed to providing for hard win¬ 
ters and enduring a variable climate. 
The climatic environment of the work¬ 
ingman here tends to make him easy¬ 
going. It is not easy to starve. And, 
when you think of it, men in Northern 
lands work because they fear hunger and 
discomfort. When it is easy to get food, 
and there is no peril from a rigorous 
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