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Show 1 THE "SKILLED" MEXICAN. Was Sounding the Car Wheels, but Didn't Know Why ,i: Was Doing It. The Inefficiency of "Mexican labor was under discussion by a group of mining promoters. "On my last trip to Mexico," said one, "while our train halted at Jim-tileo, Jim-tileo, a dinner station on the Mexican Ctntral, I alighted and watched the mechanic who went from car to cat sounding the wheels with a hammer, presumably to test tholr condition. Ho was a fair typo, of the natlvo 'skilled workman. Just to draw him out a little, I inquired. " 'Why do you rap tho wheels ' "Setting down his torch, ho stared at mo In amazement. 'Because the master mechanic tells mn to,' he ro-piled ro-piled 'But vhy' I persisted. 'What good does it do?' 'I do not know, senor.' said he 'Tho master mechanic tells me to strike each wjeel, and I do so That Is enough for mo.' "'How long have you been working at this Job?" I asked. "'Two j ears.' ho replied. For two ears ho had been going through the form of sounding tho car wheels without with-out the slightest knowledso of the object ob-ject of tho tost or tho slightest curiosity curi-osity concerning It." |