The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

act. After each act the theatre is
cleared, and if you wish to return you
must buy another ticket.
The way men greet each other is cor
diality itself They hug and then pat
each other on the back. Their way
of bowling is also delightful, waving
| of the right hand at the hat
If you must go to bull fight only
80 once, and then don't look when
the poor horses are being gored and
perforated into drawn work. by the
bull. More blood! More bloodn' the
people cry when there is not enough
suffering and sacrificing of horses. 1t
is horrible and the man who enjoys it
should live in slaughter pen and at
tend vivisection lectures "Greater
Mexico" which is dawning will have
done away with bull fights, chicken
fights and public gambling, and her
young girls will cease to be common
prey.
The metric system is in general use
The traveller should make several ex-
cursions out of the city, and none will
be more enjoyed than that to Cordova
and Vera Cruz. The scenery here
equals anything in Colorado, the grade
in many places being 220 feet to the
mile. The fall from this high plateau
to the coast is going from the temper
ate to the torrid zone. The plateau
is left with beautiful clear skies, and
maybe from Orizaba to the coast one
will be in clouds and rain. Orchids
flourish on the trees. Coffee, banana
and fruit plantations are seen. Many
rushing mountain torrents are passed.
furnishing power to immense cotton
mills. Here one sees the peak of ORR
Zaba, snow covered and very beautiful
1t is the highest peak on the North
American continent, being 1890 feet
high. Alas that Popocatepetl must
be outclassed, after being looked up
to all these years in our school books.
Poor Popo is only 17,700 feet high, but
he has the consolation of having next
to him IXtaccihuatel, the white
women who is but a few hundred
feet lower than he. He should be
happy, for who could live in her pre-
sence and be unhappy? She could
almost stretch out her arms and touch
him. Is the white woman beauti-
full? What a question! If all the
mountains over the earth could come
here and see her they would crumble
to earth at her feet. She is divine;
she is Gods own creations; she is the
altogether lovely among mountains
From her there emanates a spirit, a
peace, a life, that must bewitch all
who look long upon her. Her outline
cannot be interpreted well from the
city, but best on the Vera Cruz road,
and especially at Apizaco Different
from Colorado or Switzerland, where
giant peak is piled upon peak, here
we have Popo and IXtacci, two glorious
and perfect creations, snow covered
and glistening almost to the timber
line. Titans among comparative hills.
Oh, most dazzling white woman, you
have surely bewitched me, for with
my eyes opened or closed there is ever
before me your most glorious beati-
tude. She lies in state, her beautiful
white head resting in a crown of green
timber. You can almost see the heav-
ing of her bosom. Her arms rest on
her body. Her knees are clearly de-
fined and the slope to her feet, ending
in Turkish sandals turned up little
The proportion is perfect, although
the distance from head to feet is sew
eral miles. Who could not worship at
such a shrine now and for all time to
come? A pure women in constant
white, raised above the world in q
bier of green. Oh, Guadalupe, the
Virgin shrine breathing of man and
art, surely the Virgin can not have
appeared on your rocky sides. Surely
the Indian, Juan Diego, looking across
the valley, must have seen the beau
tiful white woman" AS the world
grows wiser and science tears away the
veil of simple faith from our eyes, alas,
but jeweled Guadalupe, flashing with
silver and gold, with its bubbling
springs, its incense of flowers, ITS Ma
donna by a master hand, and its price
less crown of jewels, must fall from a
thing of worship to a thing of beauty.
Tradition had preceded Juan, and
had made the mountain IXtaccihuatel
sacred to the sleeping one in white. -
Beside the Titan Pope rests her sanity
outlines, the 'white woman" the i'm
maculate Virgin, pure and lasting, a
worthy shrine to worship at for all
time and by all peoples, PopOcatepetl
tall and massive at her side, her guar
dian forever, even as Christ willed it
stands the beloved disciple. The TEN
pie at Guadalupe may be consumed