The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

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by two hundred wide. Quadruple pill
lars, each thirty five feet in circumfer
ence, suI port the roof, which is onC
hundred and seventy five feet from
the floor. The railing of the choir
made in China, cost, it is said, one
and a half million dollars. Much o
the former equipment of the chu, CT
has gone into the possession Of The
government, notably the solid golC
candlesticks, each heavier than one
man could lift, the statue of the AS
sumption, also of s0lid gold and inla'C
with diamonds and rubies, and many
other costly articles. A genuine Muril
10 and a Mic' 8' Angelo r among the
paintings on the walls. Here Maxi
milan and Charlotte we're crowned il
1864, and here behind bronze gates, ii
one of the side chapels, the soldier
emperor I;urbide sleeps the sleep thai
knows no waking"
From the summit of the towers a.
set of sun is one of the loveliest views
it was ever given to nan to see Be
meath us rolls along the c~easeless, NOV
ing, human tide of a city of four hun.
dred thousand people. Around US,
bordering the horizon, are the gigantic
purple hued range of mountains com
pletely ercircliDg the valley; to the
south are Popocatapetl and Ixtacci-
huatl, each thousands of feet higher
than Mont Blanc, their s~now-crowned
SUBMITS ~glis5ening like diamonds in
the rays of the departing orb Of day
between them lies the mountain pass
through which SpaniaId and Ameri
can, Cortez and Scott, marched to the
conquest of the city, while nearer US
are sunlit mirrors, the great lakes Of
Chalco, X0chomilco, and Texcoco. The
distant fields Of maguey, mathemati
cally regular as lines of soldiery on
parade, the verdant patches of alfalfa,
the luxuriant meadows, and the groups
of grazing cattle, give variety to the
scene. To the north rise the holy hill
and church of GIadeloupe, the Mecca
of Mexico. Around us in every direc
ton are the suburban towns which
dot the great valley, Tacubaya,
San Angel, Santa Anita, Castaneda,
and many another. There to the south
west lies Coyoacan, the home of Cortez,
and in the south and west Contreras,
Cherubusco, Casa Mata, Chapultepec,
Molino del Ray, Belen and San Cosme,
fields illustrated by American vaIor.
Due west, at the City's EXTREMIST verge,
towers the lofty hill of Chapultepec
crowned with the presidential mansion
and the Military Academy, the West
of Mexico, while lying darkly
between in the growing shadow is the
great Peseo with it's colossal statues,
and the Alameda, and the L.VIga
canal with its aower-crowned boats,
and the spires and domes of q hundred
churches. All these combined make a
panorama which Humboldt pronCun
ced the finest on which the human eye
has ever rested. Oace seen it can
never be forgotten. The rarefied at
mosphere causes each distant OH ct to
stand out with a distinctness and a
.2oloring unknown else where, and the
food Of the suns latest rays
7ncircles tie whole in a framing of
amethyst and amber.
$50 sinks. more lovely ere his race be lun,
Along MOIea's hills the Sc. ting sun.
Not. as in northern chimes, Obscur-ly bright
Blu one u clouded blaze of living light"
On the eastern side Of the Plaza
the National Palace, which covers
an entire square and has q frontage of
seven hundred feet on the Plaza. 1t is
occupied by the presidential offices
and the departments of State, treas
Try ard war. Many of the rooms are
magnificent, notably the Hall of Am
oassadors, which is over three hun
lred feet in length, with it's walls de
with portraits of the most dis
men of the Republic, Hi
morelos, Juarez, Diaz, and many
besides a striking portrait of
Washington. The National Library,
With over two hundred tn. usand vol
lmes, the National Museum, the School
If Fine Arts, the Mint-and in Mexico
Iome four thousand millions of the
money have been coined-and
many another building claims the at
and would justify a full de,
Jeription, but space forbids.
A visit to the La Viga canal and the
Jhinampas, or foating gardens, is ex-
5eedingly interesting. Here in mid
winter fourieh in tropical profusion