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Show BY PATH AND TKAIL. 149 mous the world over. Indeed, they are famous yet. No body wEo is anybody visits this queenly city of the royal harbor without calling at the old mission so redolent of pathetic incident and romantic enterprise. The friend ly citizens of San Diego are proud of the historic mis sion of " Our Lady of Sorrows," and of their beautiful harbor. One of these days, in the extensive park whicn they are now improving and beautifying, they will place on native granite pedestals, two statues one of Viz caino, who entered and named their splendid harbor, and another to Padre Junipero Serra, who first planted the cross of Christianity in Southern California. The history of the colonization and civilization of the California coast by these brave, faithful and zealous priests, is in striking contrast with what happened in New England and Virginia, where the Indians were civ ilized off the face of the earth. After establishing the San Diego mission, Father Serra pushed northward and planted a chain of Chris tian pueblos one day's march apart. He and his priest ly companions taught their converts to cultivate and irrigate the land, raise grain, fruits and vegetables, and make their labor profitable. " I do not know," writes Mr. W. E. Curtis in the Chicago Record- Herald, " any missionary on any part of the earth Catholic or Pro testant who accomplished more good for his fellow creatures. The heroism of Padre Junipero Serra, his usefulness, his self- sacrifice, his piety and his public services for the church and humanity entitle him to canonization. ' ' The Franciscans, in time, established fifteen missions, baptized 60,640 Indians before the expulsion of the order, introduced horses, cattle and sheep; planted |