Tombstone epitaph., 1892-03-06
GUADALAJARA.
Another Day Spent in the Charming Environs of a Beautiful MeXi-
 can City.
GUApALAJARA, Feb. Is, 1892.

ED fROSPECToR :-If any or your readers should ever visit Guadalaiara, they should not fail to see its many pleasant and interesting resorts. At 9:lO a. m. you step into palace car, and as the city fades in the distance behind you, you aIe whirling through great fields of barley and wheat, and at the end of an hour you suddenly stop at the little station, Castillo, where you take the horse cars for the Salto, or what is called the Niagara of Mexico" which you reach in anoth- CT half hour, the round trip from the city and return costing only one dol- lar
 The great Lerno river comes quietly crawling down the beautiful valley, with its immsnee mountains on either side, and all of sudden it rushes wildly in an unbroEen sheet over precipice of sixty feet, where it seethes and foams for a moment, then rushes on through the winding gorge below whose sides are picturesque with wild flowers and gardens of bananas A lunch is prepared for us at 1. p. m. and at 3 we are on our return to the city.
 The following day we take the stree cars for three miles to the Fabrica Atemaja, situated in the midst green fields and shade trees. Here they manufacture thread, cotton goods and paper. From here you are taken on the backs of donkeys to the Barancas, and an hours ride brings you to a wild and rough declivity. On your left, half'a mile away, streamlet pours over 8 steep bluff like a silver thread. Opposite you another per- pendicular wall of over one hundred feet is scaled by the Rio San Juan de Dios, and still further to your right many rills gush forth from the steep walls and pour down the cliffs brown, perpendicular sides. Along these steep bluffs ditches are cut in some places in the solid rock, These con- vey those cool mountain streams along the gorge to banana, plantain and cof- ice fields and orange and lime groves, growing on the sides of the cafion at an angle of from 45s to 6Oe. Two thousand feet below you flows a swift mountain stream that makes one dizzy to watch as it crawls through rocks and heavy growths of trees, then suddenly appears to view and dashes headlong over some steep cliff and it's spray falls like torrents of rain on the tender vines and flowers beneath.
 NOW you turn your eye northward and within rife shot the Rio San Juan de Dios forms its confluence with that of the Lerno, our point of destination. We start down the declivity on 8 winding macadamized trail some eight feet wide, cut into the steep mountain side, forming thirty-fve loops in going down, which occnpies an hour and half. We pass little groups of Indian traders, and now and then an old beggar woman or man who doffs his hat and offers a prayer. and we place a copper in his hand and proceed on our way.
 Suddenly in the midst of orange and coffee trees we come upon a concave shrine formed upon an immense stone at the foot of which stands jug of sacred water and in the shrine verse supplicating the thirsty traveller to drink of the water and be blessed. In the corner of the shrine were placed the pictures of the Virgin and Christ. at the foot of which stood a broken goblet answering the place of con- tribution hox. No native who travels this beautiful mountain trail could be induced to pilier from this contribu- ton box.
 When you come here also visit the puoilc institutions, Its hospitals, House of Mercy, penitentiary, and library and the Theatre Degollado, the largest in Spanish America, with it's l50 cleo sric lights. Then pass along the streets and view the many palatial private residences, whose open doors bring plainly to your vIew, Tn many places, beautiful fountains in the patios surrounded by marble statuettes and singing birds, among which are the mocking bird ani nightingale. And while you admire aii this and inhale the odors Of the most fragrant flowers in the world, do not fai! 70 eay "Buenos tardes" to the seioritas who may bestanding at the grated win lows for you will be met with erscjous and welcome smile.