Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-06-18
MISS NETTIE GRACE
 IN OLD MEXICO

light burning before it. In most or the churches throughout the country there is an altar erected in honor Of Our Lady of Guadaloupe." The church itself is about 250 feet long and 50 feet wide. The main altar is built of white marble, with two col umns of rose-colored marble on each side. Between these columns are the images of General Santa Anna and San Joaquin and two others whom l cannot now remember. The small, but beautiful cemetery of Tepeyac ad- joins the church. The tombs are very massive and have inscriptions laid on in letters of solid silver, instead of being carved, as with us at home. General Santa Anna is buried here, as are also the first wife and two children of the president, General Porfirio Diaz.
 The funeral customs of this coun- try are source of constant interest to strangers. The burial of the dead is made the occasion of much cere- mony and great display; so much so that they send out invitations, and advertise the event in the newspa- pers and by street posters, just as they do bull fight or a play. The poor rent handsome collins for the trip to the grave and then transfer the body to cheap box just before it is inferred. They have regular street cars called funeral cars, in which the corpse is conveyed to the cemetery, and the family and friends follow in another with white linen curtains at the windows. I suppose I have said enough about church and corpses. so now I will tell you about
 The National Museum.
 implements used by the Aztecs at the time of the conquest of Cortez, such
 1o OO Vo ul oW D, CCS' w C SoW here an exceedingly curious kind of sword, it having a wooden handle about four or five feet long, and four blades about ten inches long on each side. These blades are made of a kind of glass used for making bot ties, and yet they say that one of these swords will cut off the head If horse at single blow eff you strike hard enough, suppose) We also saw the armor of Cortez and the great sacrificial stone upon which hu- man sacrifices were offered to the Aztec gods. It is round about four feet high and eight feet in diameter, and it is perfectly wonderful how they carved it so elaborately with the crude instruments which they must have had ill those days. four hundred or more years ago. There are a large number of portraits in oil, in- cluding that of Cortez, and some two historical manuscripts in diff ferent ancient languages of the coun- try. There are many statues of an cient native sculpture, besides va riety of small heads, busts, figures of and instruments of music and war. These latter were curiously en- sraved, and l suppose represent the different degrees of civilization of the several nations to which they be- onged. Of course. there are a vast number of other things that l cannot or cannot stop to describe. sor it would take weeks. Tomorrow we go out to La Vegia and the float ing gardens
 The Bull Fight.
 Last Sunday I saw a real bull fight. At tirst l felt some repugnance about going at all and a little guilty for go- ng on Sunday, but everyone else. nearly was going, so my curiosity finally got the better of me, and l l lecided /to go, but only to stay long enough to see the arena and the ,rowd. and the bulls and matadors come in; but once damned in the 'rowd of over ten thousand specta- ors, there was no getting away l | never saw such excitement in my ife and az fOr tho fight I mNSt say hat. while it was the most horrible fight ever saw, it was also very fas- mating. The aristocracy of the city vas there and many American ladies nd gentlemen. Lutie (Mrs. McCuenl ould not go. so l went with Miss Wilson, from Mississippi. four young aen from St Louis, with Mir. and :.