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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 115 " your excellency is perfectly right, they are the great est rogues unhung. But they are not so bad as to steal from God. ' ' I put my things on the steps and after the lapse of an hour I found them, and along with them some eight or ten baskets of fruit and vegetables, which the market people had left there while they went in to say their prayers, all of which though looking very tempting, though entirely unguarded, except by the unseen pres ence of God, were as safe as if they had been under lock and key. Is there a church in any city of America whose sanctity would protect day and night articles left ex posed before its door? If not, why not? WONDERFUL CRUCIFIX. Very much to my surprise I discovered in the sacristy of the quaint little church of this primitive village a du plicate of Julian Garces' famous copy on glass of " The Dead Christ. " Garces painting from the original'hangs in the baptistry of an ancient church on the Calle San Pablo, Mexico City, and is never exhibited to visitors save on request. It is a wonderful painting on glass, thrilling in its awful realism and impossible, once seen, ever to be forgotten. It was copied many years ago by the Dominican painter, Julian Garces, from the original painting on wood, carried to Spain, when the religious orders were suppressed by the Mexican government in 1829. This wonderful painting on wood is now preserved in the con vent of the discalced Order of St. Francis, Bilboa, Spain. It is known as the crucifix of the devil, and intimately associated with it is a curious and touching legend. Early in the seventeenth century Mexico City was the Paris of the Latin- American world. It possessed great |