Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — A Philosophic Mexican. [ARTICLE]

A Philosophic Mexican.

I heard of a Mexican living near Socorro, New Mexico, whose thrift has amassed him a fortune, all in bullion, which he is said to keep under the floor of his house. He demands invariably thirty days’ time in which to pay for purchases, however small, ana, promptly on the day that payment becomes due, he turns up with bullion to the amount of the bill exactly weighed out. But even what he has did not come from trade, but from a silver mine that he has worked for years with only occasional help. His adobe hut is little better than the common run of mud hovels that are called houses hereabouts. His family has been raised on the staple diet of beans and jerked beef, with two or three mixtures of corn, and he expects to go to the grave with as little comfort os surrounds him now.' Some one asked him not long since why he did not take his family traveling and avail himself as well as them of the means at his command to see something of the world. “I am happy where I am,” he replied. “HI see more I shall want more, and my savings might slip away, while by staying here and knowing of nothing beyond I shall be qnre of taking care of myself. When what I have falls to my children they may judge for themselves how to take care of it. My way &to keep it at home.” —Santa Fe letter. To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books. They presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kind ness.— Thomas Fuller.