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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 375 ready. They go to all the surrounding country ; to Chi-huahua as well as up the country to Santa Fe and Ari-zona. There are three Jew stores and one Mexican store. Their business is small. " There are many small dealers of various kinds, and there are many people who seem to live on occa-sional small amounts ; but how they get their money deponent saith not. NON- PROGRESSIVE. " The people are slow to adopt improvements. Things look about the same as they did when I was here about thirty years ago, in ' 47. The town looks about the same. A very little has been done about the square and church hardly perceivable. They use wooden-wheeled carts, and everything seems as though it was but a short time since I was here and saw things just as they now are. HOSPITALITY. " This is natural to the people of this country. A kinder- hearted people, naturally, I do not believe can be found. They are polite and mannerly even the lowest of them. Their children are quiet and obedient, there being no ' hoodlums' here. Parents are affectionate to their children. Husbands are polite and affectionate. They have great reverence for Deity, their religion and old age. Get them once directed right and they will be the best people on earth. HEALTH AND MORALS. " The people are generally healthy, there being but little disease among them. There are a few Americans living here. |