The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-01

| two battalions of. the enemy into the
citadel. From this point they advanced
! to other parts of the city, where all
\ became at once terror and confusion
With his aideS-de-camp Naxlnillan
passed. unrestrained, and gained
little hill just outside the town Here
| he surrendered to a detachment of the
victorious army and delivered up his
sword. month later Macmillan
with two Of his generals, Miramon and
Mejia were all shot at the same mo
ment on that spot"
And so ended the episode ofe tn
French Intervention in Mexico. And
so was added one more precedent for
the successful carrying out of the
Monroe doctrine on this continent
Few travellers care to linger long in
the City of Mexico. Rumors Of its dire
| fore leaving America and, like all ru-
mors were found to be grossly exag-
gerated. Typhus fever and pneumonia
are by no means rare and yet, Scant
food, insufficient clothing and pruri-
ent lives are said to be largely instru-
mental in combining those dreadful
maladies more or less to the native and
to the poorer classes. Certain it is.
that temperate habits, cleanliness OF
person and ordinary precautions
against sudden changes in the climate
would render a residence in the Aztec
metropolis as safe as in that of most
other countries. But the Mexican cap
ital does not possess a single good
hotel. The most pretentious one and
the largest in the republic is the Hotel
Iturbide. gloomy, rambling old pal
ance belonging to the descendants OF
the emperor of that name, and notable
only as having been the residence OF
the hapless monarch during his very
brief reign. l found the city raw and
chilly. The hotels or other buildings
have no chimneys and no appliances
for heating their apartments, hence a
| travellers only alternative is to walk
the streets or SILVER in his room. For
! tuntely, however, few hours jour
ney by rail, east or south, will take
| tropical foliage where Towering May
and rosy June hold eternal sway;
where bees and butterflies swirl aloft
in the drowsy air, and thickets of wild
heliotrope, roses and pomegranates
run mad in furious splendor.
Before leaving the region of the CAPT
tai for the terra caliente or hot lands
near the coast, a call was made upon
our Lady of Guadalupe, the hottest
shrine in Mexico, to which pilgrimges
are made from all over the republic,
many poems Of the city traverse the
distance, two or three miles, on thier
| hands and knees, arriving at the sane
tuary bruised and bleeding. On the
day of the writer's visit, some prepare
lions going on in the church. barred
! admission to the shrine for the time
being, and he strolled among the side
shows in the plaza which always in
-, fest the neighborhood whenever q
holy festival or saints day occurs at
Guadalupe. There were gutter-restau-
rants which hawked not only fried
! liver, but lights and lungs as well,
drinking booths where pulque, the I'M
fermented juice of the century or
! Maguey plant and fiery arguadiente
went for a cent glass; in one tent
gaud1ly attired bag, each crevice of
time painted and plastered, was per-
forming a brazen dance of some kind,
admission fee 10c., but by far the
greater number of tents, awnings and
stands, were occupied by sure-thing
men with gambling devices, and these
were always crowded One enterpris-
ing Aztec had erected a shooting gall
lery in the open air, the targets com
prising pasteboard representatives of
nearly every animal beneath the sun.
and number which are not Laying
down three cents, the price of two
shots, some bystander drew a deadly
aim on blue-eyed lion which flour
ished a yellow rag tail-the shot was
fired and evidently struck vital spot
there was whirring sound of clock
work set in motion, the paSteboard
Jaws opened slowly in two immense
yawns and emitted howl of anguish
from his patent insides as threatened
TO awake our old-time enemy Santa
Anna, who sleeps in the cemetery on
the hill above
When your Mexican peon walks to
the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
on his hands and knees, fingers at the
gutter restaurant long enough to line
his interior with liberal portion of
fried lights seasoned with garlic and
green and red peppers, washed down
by a generous quantities of decayed
pulque, he is in a suitable frame of
mind to squander his remaining con-
pers on the nearest gambler, enter a
churcn and accept the miracle of the
else that is rendered him.
c. H SNETT