Show THE FOURTH IN MEXICO T TilE THE TELEGRAM is in receipt of a beautiful card from the tho City of fex 1 Mexico eo which card has has' upon it a folded American merican flag above which is tho the picture picture pic plc- ture of Y Washington and the printing on the card is isa a request that we join the American colony in the City of Mexico exico in its annual Fourth of July celebration celebration cele cole bration to be held Monday l July of this year I Ion on the thc Cafe Chapultepee grounds and we notice the executive committee has bas for a chairman General General Gen Gen- eral C. C H. H M. M I. I y Considering affairs at home lome and the disturbed condition of affairs on the border Dorder we arc afraid that no representative of THE TELEGRAM I will be able to be present but we hope the boys and girls of the American colony will have bave a great time notwithstanding that civil war var vicar is threatening in northern Mexico 1 Those Chapultepec grounds recall the fact that right there in the taking of that city some three score and three years ears ago a great many Americans died and it was there that General Grant and Stonewall Jackson and Tecumseh h Sherman and Albert Sydney Syd ney ncy and Joe Johnston and plenty more were learning their first lessons in war and did not know snow that tI that at w was s but a preliminary school to the mightiest war of modern modern times in which they were to o be great actors It would be of exceeding interest interest interest inter inter- est to be there and attend the exercises on the Fourth because if in masses American residents can celebrate the Fourth of July and have with them ill n friendly company compan a host o of native born Mexicans exi exic c cans to carry the old flag and the picture of Wash Wash- ington and have hare their deep Hurrahs echoed b bythe by th he the Vivas of the southland people its it's another proof that the world is drawing closer together and that aft after r awhile the angel of peace which has hasso so long been driven from the world will vill come back and build a throne throna somewhere on this old planet and reign serenely while the centuries ebb and flow |