. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. ll see the very same merchandise you see in the storesof New York, London, or Paris. All fine goods of everysort except raw pearls and opals, are brought across thesea. There is a good market here for agricultural imple-ments, Imt they need pushing. Tlie people are inclinedto stick to their old habits. In some States they still reaptheir wheat with a little hooked clasp-knife, the blade ofwhich is about an inch and a half long a good manyfarmers in Nuevo Leon, adjoining Texas, plo\\ two inchesdeej) with a forked stick. So let it he understood that
. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. ll see the very same merchandise you see in the storesof New York, London, or Paris. All fine goods of everysort except raw pearls and opals, are brought across thesea. There is a good market here for agricultural imple-ments, Imt they need pushing. Tlie people are inclinedto stick to their old habits. In some States they still reaptheir wheat with a little hooked clasp-knife, the blade ofwhich is about an inch and a half long a good manyfarmers in Nuevo Leon, adjoining Texas, plo\\ two inchesdeej) with a forked stick. So let it he understood that this is no place for untrainedlaborers to come. It is also no place for men who wishto get land for a farm unless they are prepared to buy5,000 acres or upward and begin on a gigantic are no small farms in ]\lexico farmed by white men,and even if a settler could get one or two or three hundredacres somewhere (which is doubtful), he would have nosociety, no schools, no neighbors, no market, and he wouldbe bankrupt before he 260 FOLKS NEXT DOOK. ORIGIN OF THE MEXICANS. BEFORE COLUMBUS AND LEIF ERICSSON.—EDEK AT THENORTH POLE.—DISCOVERIES BY ACCIDENT.—THE VOY-AGE OF HWUI SHAN.—THE EMPEROR OF CHINA HEARSHIS STORY.—KING ASOKA SENDS MISSIONARIES TO FUSANG.—CURIOUS COINCIDENCES. XoBODY can walk through the silent streets of theruined cities of the Toltecs at San Juan and other places,or even look upon the great images of their gods which theAztecs left in this city, without asking over and over againwhence came those old civilizations. The prohlem stillbaffles us but it is not quite so inscrutable as it once waswhen it was supposed that the torrid zone was the cradleof the race and that Leif Ericsson or Columbus was thefirst European discoverer of this continent. Science throws light upon the question. The classifi-cation of the little knowledge we ])0ss(>ss concerniiig theearths evolution, makes it probable that the human raceoriginated at the poles
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