Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-06
MORE OF MEXICO.
Her Women and Babies, Castles and
Bull Fights, Religion and Deviltry.
OK TRAIN. Sunday Night. May

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miles an hour away from the City OF
Mexico in the direction of the Pacific, {
thousand miles south of New Orleans, Oh
a parallel with Guatemala, another ram
bling scribble is attempted. The Gay
has been one of rush and racket, fun
fear and frolic. For four days and
nights we have been SO persistently do
ing this ancient metropolis and its envi,
ronments that we are convinced we have
not missed seeing to exceed a dozen of al
her three hundred thousand inhabitants
nor failed OF any of her supposed pleas
ures or excitements, from that OF toss
ing a kiss to the dark-eyed senorita who
dished out the pulque or that Of the gor-
geously gilded, legally conducted gam
bling hell down to the bull arena, with
| its believing, ferocious beasts, its gaily
comparisoned metadors and pecadors en-
circled by a screaming bowling mob OF
standard Mexican responsibility who
pay the bills for fun in which dead
bulls, gored horses, murdered capidors,
dust and music, blood and laughter are
all strangely commingied until the cur
rent of ones life rushes back upon its
fountain and he turns heart-sickened
away. But no description of this last
delightful C9 sport viii be essayed for
! the eyes Of the readers of the EAGLE
! further than to say that our particular
| bull fight-one of four occurring at the
same hour within as many rings, within
a stones thrOw-was a SnOrdng success,
five bulls being dragged from the ring
dead, one horse ditto, two more led out
with their bowels protruding, one man
pronounced ''done for" and another with
his abdomen ripped open. There We're
10 flies On our bulls" who rushed into
the ring with heads aloft, eyes afame
and tails flashing their sides in their rage,
as with low gutterai cry of excruciating
agony under the tortuous workings Of
the gaily fiuttering banderillos. with
lowered necks they plunged their
heads beneath some uniucky horse
elevating him and his rider
high into the air aud then rolling
them mangled into promiscuous heap
into the dust. But we said we wouldn't
describe these things.
OF course we scaled the frowning brow
of Chapultapec, and rested beneath the
shadows of its famous castle which has
successfully sheltered such a train Of
varied rulers; Of course walked the great
elevated causeway, lined with SO many
triumphal arches and shrines, which
leads to the cathedral OF 'our Lady
Guadaloupe, d" and up the hill to her
memorial chapel, over the stones of
whose sinuous road have gone the weary
feet of the millions of SO many ages who
in their blind zeal saw themselves and
kissed the spot Of the peasants beautiful
vision, the very stones of which road are
worn smooth by the bare and sandaled
feet of the pilgrims of two continents
OF course we were poled up the Canal
Viga which runs under the old gates of
the city and beneath the causeway and
viaduct which admitted the ruthless
Cortez and his minions of murder to this
land of flowers: strolled by night meath
the lights and shadows of MaximilIlan's
emerald Alemeda, where flock the wo-
men and children in countless numbers
TO catch breath OF air as they listen to
the music Of the governments great
bands; and, of course, we stroled about
the great plaza, where swarm the
high and low when the sun has
gone, by moonlight looked up and upon
the great cathedral which, with its grace
full carvings, master chiselings and mas
sive columns and pilasters, face it.
listened to the din of its hundred mon
ster bells and beheld its thousands of
kneeling worshippers. while rolled the
solemn strains of its lofty organ and
swung its censors whose incense ladened
all the air, all conspiring to burthen the
senses with an indeScribable realization
of that which was, of the present now.
and of the presence of the undefnabIe
mysterious spirit of the yet to be, which
and whom can only be worshipped in
in spirit and in truth.
Then again was the national museum
taken in, its great calendar stone of the
Aztecs, looked upon its sacrificial altar. /
which had held its thousands upon
thousands of human victims whose hearts |
were torn out by the officiating priests. |
was touched, and all or at least many of /
the unaCcOuntable works of the Toltecs. /
Aztecs, Spanish-Mexicans gazed upon. /
After this came the academy of fine arts. |
which contains hundreds of paintings. |
OF Of
old masters, and some of them the finest |
that we ever saw, not excepting the gal |
leries of the centennial at PHILADELPHIA. |
Speaking Of these rounds, we lost one
very valuable and intelligent guide at
Chapultepec through remark of Mrs.
NJ, who accompanied us everywhere.
As we were entering the portals of that
noted castle she. being no doubt a little
observed to the communicative
descendent of Gautamoczin: Anyhow,
this is where we licked you" This
leads us to the observation that the cos
mopolite of the city of the Montezumas
has little use for citizen of the United
States. OF the gardens, squares. plazas.
churches, drives, etc, of this city. which
are almost innumerable. we shall not
touch upon in this letter.
\ strange country with O strange
people is this republic of Mexico.
which is republic only in
name. The bayonet and the priest rule
only and rule everywhere. 1t is an I'M
explained imprisonment and even. some
times, mysterious death to harshlv
crltlc'se the president. Castles and lines