The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-12-28

The Rssaasse and Advent u~svs Career al
PorArso DSas.

The Remaasse and AdveWs ursvs Career a.
PsrArso Dias.
The new President OF Mexico Ia now fifty
five years old-tall. dark. half-Indian In type
his muscular figure impressing ono IA the very
incarnation OF health and endurance. He has
q military yet nonchalant air. his brown eyes
meet you sduarely with the glance OF one born
to command. and his voice is peculiarly pleas
ant A. in deep tones he rolls of the m usicAl
dialect OF his mother tongue
His career. like that OF oil Mexican leaders,
In full OF romantic adventure. He WAS born in
the rich State OF Oaxaca-which was also tho
birthplace Of Benito Jaurez. Ignacio Meiis
Mariscal. and others famed In politics and
literature. Don PorArios parents designed
him for the law and sent him TO the COlegio
Caroline. in Puebla. the City OF the Angels,
which celebrated institution has graduated
Diaz took to, soldering Ms naturally as dnck
to. water, and at the aye OF twenty-fonr enlist
the &C Oppressive Government OF Santa Anna;
AGain, IN the so-calied war OF reiorm.n 1858
wa. convused By the French invasion Of 1862
tho struggle. Once during those wars. when q
prisoner ~ Paeb!a. he ESCAPED by l9ttina him
slothins. Another Of his nSmsIou. halt
iss TI time. Having c"pt%r,d Mstamoro. bs
sdarrSsstS Il. and
Only BY leaning into the sen assisted by the
aiterwsrd made Consul at Saint NaSnirs. =.
In is7l Gen; Diaz was one q the three ssndi;;
By JIaroz be issued his cslebraisd manifesto,
known ~ the Plan, OF Norin repudiating AL
Bsns
the Indian President, after more than years
lives. tho General was banished from Mexico.
10 81 hs ss .eSw
Sebastian I,erdo ds Tejadn. recalled all poliu-
Ga! eEes By issuing general amnesty which
again 70 arms and speedily deposinG his rival
To- 40. Diaz procssded to Issue plan from Pslo
BneG state ,n OF the
thorities; and. At tho head OF the Constitution:
n tsSs OF TIVE s LAM ana
full Incumbent into exile and holding his p0-
by 81 ar% rF h. Is
subsidized Mexican press, now. singing the
r ,Ss in
called 70 rule by the voice IT the people"
se b % wc n fG
to ian' the lay w he had so streGnnonaiy ad-
se about OF sa1 n t. wy to
sSnceess by placniing all ourposinG factions.
gs ne 1a d any rss,sss gh9s ct Les
CORY nfSs in n, he future by marrying In tho
9 ssd We is ss
Romero Ruhio, who was President I.erdos right
hand man; his bosom friend and co,npanion in
exile. Senior ltuhio has since been President Ol
the Senate tho official cmpow by law to call
and control new election in cas-. OF vacancy
no means, al dead yet in Mexico. and President
suffered me- GrHa.y irI hg old wound
made Dla. President for tho first time: there
Mn or tine Mexican
HIS wife. who is not ye; 25 Is highly &C.
n Z.
lie. and that r!enses another powerful element.
Which epes ro Ssr Influences Wh
tha husband whom she dsvoindiy loves, the
ssaE vii IF the ,hs rrg y
now Mrs. Dia1 as on" Of the most charmins,o OF
ID hs q 94 GaS e %h
the Aztec capital in honor Of Gsn; Grant
to s D az sorIsSy n umhSrsans how 1s
levcs in IL" n,n,to Let me make mo songs OF
s Ga sgnS nS' at We SANTA afss 1hS am
village in tho suburbs of the capital on the ro-
man!ie canal that leads to the far-iamed Font
ing Gardens. where the poppy wruathed p0uu-
lace swarm on Sundays to drink puIuo aud
d ,,iast, fanaansoGs. carol many a !on2;dlawn
D-i-i-i,-Xs white the tedscations OF their
bm s, Wsn p " ,a are about eqny dy.asd
GhGia. And; not to snoi the romance OF IN.
Sss'G 4ss s ea ha fact .h
"r snrr ro P 9rn rosTy and that Mros
Notwithstanding that the summit Of his am
b.ion is attained. aud that, with lovely vile
dent is ySasr mi s HnT q sa
CANT apartments prepared for them at CLapu
tsnee' M position is By no means an envlahIe
ono. N!th more enemies than disinfcrostcd
friends; barren treasury. little credit and
heavy debt banging over nn eNpensive but i'm
picking problem how to make both ends
msss to me s,IsiaSi"n Of armed foss and
Gle could accomplish this .hereuleen, task.
ne bring t. j. a ,S T Vi. S
organs of those boasts described in Revelations
shss s snoa ana wo.nn,,on
n and therefore everybody has seen the ccle-
you that tho historic hiil itself il Substantially
correct as compared to the picture but one must
ssntation. Porcied upon It's rocky emil ence.
me ancisnt castle seems TO brood in solemn
rounding n.rI.h it. i heavy with memori.s Of de-
9rds are lost in oblivion tho Toliecs lived here.
l Long Hrtsr their exodus and the coming OF the
Ing from point to point around the salt lagoon.
finally ina made q stand at the mountain on its
tepec. From their ancient picture histories.
p PANT upon the woven fibre OF tho century
because those rionssrs wsrs at rst c "I,
which were found in great numbers upon tho
mountain: Centuries Inter this place BECAME
can kings: and 600 years thereafter a decisive
DaVia was fought upon ii betwrsn tho soldiers
OF Mexico and the United Stat.s! On its
pofphYrytic summit once stood MuntcZuua'i
OF his thousand wives werc sheltered: and
under those wonderful expresses that monarch
Eeid MS harbariE court with more than Persian
splendor. Prescott tells us thar Montozumn's
gardens stretched for miles around tho base
OF Chapu'topec, and that tho grove AZ gigantic
oylreasH sos, many Of which arn over flity icot IN
circumference. were centuries old NJ thn time
o Il NO c"npu'St Il Is u popular superstition
.hat ,unior th.se stately trees, now gray
bearded WITH moss like venerable Druids, mys-
leIlnuS nSurcS are seen littin. about in the
shNnpw-, wher" once tho Indian monarch held
NJ, cnurtly r.vfl s-the ghosts o! Guatemotzin
h.d Donna Marina,
mo mn II not preclpitously high, though OF
EOnN c.nNItInll and ~ ~. Y LIZ