Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-04-24

never pay them to satisfaction though
you pay twice the legal price, which
is seventy-five cents an hour for the
red and 81 for the blue hack.
Up the steep hill we climb, the pre-
sident has d tunnel running into the
hill aud d Shaft WITH elevator that de-
livers him at the door. We reach the
military school, the guard passes u.s..
we enter the palace grounds. Who
would not live in this delightful
place, from here you can see the en-
tire city and all the surrounding val
ley, yet with all this beautiful home
the president lives im a common
cement house in the Mexican portion
OF the city two blocks from our hotel
during the winter months, only using
this as his summer home. We enter
the palace and at every turn see the
refined taste of Carlotta who planned
| the palace. Tho dining room, smok-
ing room, billiard, card, and recep-
tion-rooms, each fitted exactly for
what they were intended. The beauti-
full porches with their expensive fres-
coed ceilings-I cannot describe it-go
visit it,
Take a trip with me to Guadalupe:
this is the place where the treaty with
Mexico was made by General Scott,
called the Hidalgo treaty.
This is the place where all the SUI.
perstition as to Our Lady of Guada.
lupe originated. Space will not per-
nit me TO give but an imperfect de-
scription A pious Indian, Juan Die
go, as he went to mass on the morn
ing of December 9th, 1881, heard sweet
singing He looked up and behold, a
lady appeared; she told him to go to
| the bishop and tell him that it was
her wish that temple in her honor
should be built on the hill Three
times this mysterious sweet-voiced
lady appeared to Juan Diego and each
time he carried her demand to the bis
hop that church be built. Finally
the bishop demanded some token that
what he said was true. On December
18th, 1881, when passing near the
same spot the lady again met him,
told him to gather flowers which grew
on rock and as fast as he picked
them more sprung mp. She told him
to take these to the bishop. He put
the flowers in his tilma Ga cloak made
of maguey fiber) and as he departed a
spring of cold water gushed up. When
he arrived at the bishops he poured
out the flowers and behold on the
cloak was picture of the Virgin
Mary. This painting on the tilma or
cloak is TO be seen above the altar,
built as by the mythical order before
spoken Of Where the springs sprung
forth is still an immense mineral
spring i'll taste resembling Saratoga
water. Over it has been built yerv
pretty chapel. We took glass of the
water. Don't take the second, its
0ntut 10 luttSiCdi WE Walk up tie
broad stairway reaching to the chapel,
and about half way up is an immense
stone sail planted there by some
mariners who in storm promised the
goddess if they were saved to plant
sail there that should always endure.
Surrounding the chapel at the top of
the hill is the graveyard of the rich
Its beautiful kept grounds and fine
tombs show the Mexican has respect
for the dead.
Right here let me visit the burial of
the poor peon; coffin is rented and
with the remains is borne on the
heads of two men to the place of
burial The remains are placed in
the grave and the coffin returned.
Rent has TO be paid on the ground
where buried, and when it is not paid
the remains are dug up. placed in the
bone yard and the grave is again for
rent. We are still at Guadalupe; at
the foot of the hill is the finest church
| saw in Mexico. This is the church
where the tilma is displayed / can