The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-02

irapUaLD Is ING SbEd" UGTEy G0"LI
Salamanca the ''straw hat" town, anc
CeIaya the candy" town. Lson i!
also a great manufacturing town ana
very thrifty. At nightfalI, we reach
S.lao, the centre of a splendid agricut
tural regions, whence a short branch
road carries Us to GuanajlaGo. 1t hap
pened to be a fiesta" (estivaD anC
the streets were crowded AL arouuC
the cathedral, tents and booths were
pitched IL the streets, and In these
every imaginable kind Of gambling
was g0iDS on, for the Mexican is espe
cipB!iy addicted to this vice. Men
freshlng with fountains and fJwera
The great city cemetery is surrounded
by high walls, wishin which rooted
p~orticCs run entirely around the en-
closure with rows of pillars, colored
and decorated. The appearance if
unique ard very striking. Within are
many handsome monuments to the
distinguished or wealthy, dead. The
climate il this state Jalieco) and in the
state of MichOacan, just south Of it, is
doubtless the best in Mexico, and
probably is unsurpassed on our little
planet. Returning to the main line at
Irapuato we again proceed southwark
over tie main line, passing through
a country that is like a garden, by
Salamanca, the straw hat" town,
though it also exports kaolin and white
clay and large quantities of leather
goods, and then to Celaya, the : andy
town." where Huyler would be
nowhere. The ''dulces" (caudies) here
are said to be made m ostly from eugar
and milk, and have been pronounced
by good judges the best in the world. "
The town was founded by the Span
iards il 1870, but for the matter Of that
the SpAniards hsd penetrated a thou
sand miles further north than this and
founded Santa F6 in New Mexico, and
over five hundred miles further than
that and found d Monterey in Califor
MIA, before the Elglish had established
their feeble fret colony at jamestown
in Virginia.
The next town to stop over to see is
Q leretaro, founded by the Osomite In
dams in 140O, captured by q lieutenant
of Cortez in 1881, and beseiged IN the
Mexican Evolution OF 1910, when it
stood for the cause of freedom and
suffered for it. MANY a tempeet's
breath ana battles rage has passed
over" QIecetaro. The latest was in
1867 when the i'll fsted Meximilian was
Ocseiged here by G~scombedo. One
afternoon, when taking his siasta, one
Of his followers, Lopez whom the en-
peror had recently created q general,
betrayed him by opening the gates to
the enemy. Surprised, the emperor es
capped to that hill over there northeast
Of the city CerrO de! las C0nlpaaa8
Chill IF the 6eIls'), but on May 10 ne
had to surrender. He was tried by
court martial and vas shot thirty days
on Ju3e 10, on the Very spot Of
his surrender, together with his two
leading generals, Miran0n (.vno was
an ex pSesidenO ard Majia. Throo
square stones mark tue spot VIII re
they stood, but these are said to be the
third set, relic hunters having totally
destIoy ed two former sets. Il the
museum in the state capital at Q lere.
faro are many M ementoes of the siege
and the execution, among other por
traits Of the leading eff ;ers on both
sides. That Of Maxlmilian is carefully
labelled "Dlnde de H8bsburgo, Achi
duque de Austria, " not "Enperador de
Mexico" as he was once styled. His
counteaance indicates an amiable,
weak man not born to rule the Storm"
In the room, inexscrable taste, is
also preserved the rude cofha in which
his remains were brought back to the
town 20 be embalmed before being
sent to Austria, the blond still showing
in the b0ttc m, and on the side is the
full print Of TIE back Of his hand when
in lifting it struck against the side of
the G. fla. His remains now rest in
lovevy caatIo of NJ .ramar, by the sound
ing Adriatic, which he LIFT in his vain
quest for imperial honors. Had he been
content ID wait for them, ne would be
the heir of his brother, the now child
less Emperor Of Austria and King OF
Hungary. The bodies of Mej!a and
Miramon we're carried to Mexico and
buried, beneath stately monument. in
the mausoioum Of illustrious dead, in
the Pantheon close by the church Of
San Fernando, ard near them under
a still handsomer moDunons, lie the re