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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 137 wrought among them by the Jesuit and Franciscan fa thers, this consecrated plot of ground was full of con soling memories. Here and there a monument of Todos Santos marble lifted itself above a forest of unpreten tious crosses marking the graves of half- castes and In dians. These humble black crosses, with a ribbon of white paint bordering the black, bore unpronounceable names, the age and the day of the death of the deceased in Spanish. Some very few monuments had more elab orate inscriptions, but all, marble and wood, carried the Catholic and early Christian " Kequiescat in pace" May he or she rest in peace. Dominating all in magnitude and impressiveness was the great central cross of cedar, the crux sanctorum, in dicating that the enclosed ground was consecrated and exclusively reserved for the bodies of those who died in union with the Catholic church and sleep the sleep of peace. The transverse bar bore this inscription from the Book of Ecclesiastes : * ' Corpora sanctorum in pace sepulta sunt : et nomina Eorum vivent in generationem et generationem. ' ' ( The Bodies of the just are buried in peace and their names live from generation to generation.) Further down on the cross was a verse from the Psalms : " Qui seminant in lacrimis in gaudio metent." ( Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.) A few months before my visit to Loretto, the young daughter of the harbor- master a very charming and beautiful girl of seventeen was drowned in the bay. Her body was recovered almost immediately, but for a time it was feared her mother would lose her mind. The af fection and sorrow of her family are materialized in one of the most chaste and purest shafts of marble I have |