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Show A company of about thirty refugees from Mexico arrived in Saliaa and Aurora all of whom have relatives here. The are pretty travel worn and heart sick and have some harrof-. iug tales to tell. They'ie glad to get here but their spirits droop as their eyea turn toward the land where nestle nes-tle their happy homes, their fair fields aud their earthly all, and from which they were driven so cruelly. All that years of toil had brought to them, all that they had earned in the long haid struggle seem but a memory. mem-ory. Here is the story of one of them ; John W. Prowse, wife and five children, had a beautiful new aeven-rooomed, aeven-rooomed, well furnished home, good orchard laden with fruit, a farm with heavy crops, animals, etc., and was superintendent of a big store. With a few hours uotice he was compelled to leave all. Tho rebels demolished the iuterior of the home, broke his musical instruments, took horses, grain, provisions etc., all in his presence pres-ence and he and his family had to flee for their lives. Such was the experience ex-perience of all. Surely the human heart goes out in sympathy to these poor exiles. Salina Call |