Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — “The Yankceismo.” [ARTICLE]

“The Yankceismo.”

It is commonly and rightly believed that citizens of the United States are not popular in Mexico, though nearly all are wrong in regard to the cause of the supposed dislike. It is supposed that the Mexicans dislike us because some years ago we took part of their territory. A Frenchman is, however, in high favor in Mexico, in spite of the fact that France but twenty years ago tried to take the whole of the country. The Frenchman is liked by rich and poor, by educated and ignorant alike, while the average American isr liked by none. The reason is that the Frenchman there is always a gentleman. Like the German, the Italian, and the Engliakinan, all of whom are also liked, he enters the country thoroughly impressed with the idea that the country belongs to the Mexicans; that they have a right to be just as slow, as ignorant, and as peculiar as they please. The Mexican papers often talk of Yankeeismo. It is useless to deny the existence of such a thing in Mexico. The American bristles with it at every turn. It consists in a feeling of infinite superiority which is never at a loss for a way to show itself. Its milder manifestations are a supercilious, arrogant air, impatience with the native’s slowness and lack of familiarity with our business methods, and general contempt for every thing that is not up to our ideas of progress. In its grosser form Yankeeismo is a feeling that the whole country really belongs to the United States, and that it is only a matter of a few years at most until we shall possess it, and that in the meantime it is in the temporary possession of a set of barbarians who are entitled to no consideration from the real own-, ers. —CorrespondenceNew York Evening Post. v VSi In relation to the question of the at-, mospliere as a source of nitrogen to growing plants, Prof. Atwater, Middletown, Conn., offers these general conclusions: “The plants, peas, grown in nutritive solutions exposed to the air, but protected from rain and dew, contained at maturity much more nitrogen than was supplied them in nutritive solution and seed. Such were the results of a first series of trials, confirmed even more strikingly by a second series the succeeding year. For this excess of nitrogen there was but one possible source—namely, the atmosphere.” It is as true to-day as ever that the riling passion is strong in death. Dan Mace, the famous driver, is reported to have given utterance to this metaphor when he found he was nearing the find: “I have turned into the home stretch for the last heat of my race, and I am close to the line.” Similar was the remark of the California stage driver who had embarked for the last journey with death holding the reins: “Bill,” said he, in a hoarse whisper, to a sympathizing comrade, “I’m on the down j grade, and—l can’t rea h the brake.” VIBTtE alone outbids the pjTamids; her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.— E. Young.