| Show AN ANCIENT MEXICAN CITY A Curious ISoe nellor 1poror 1s1IIIn Queretaro was n town before the bpuuish conquest nnd mil inndo H cltY in iSH A legend of Qucrctno Is that nil Otomlto chief Fernando do fnpla If name undertook to convert tho city to Christianity in It way that meant novel to us but was common enough to Ids day Hu came from lulu with a challenge to thu people of Qnerotaro to u fair stand up light If Lo won tile people EimUiiiR vcro to bo baptizoi The challenge virus nfcq > tod but whllo tho Unlit un In piOijrrsi it dark cloud came up and the blessed Santiago Been In tho heavens with n fiery crows whereupon the people of Quercturo gave up aud wero baptized They t > f t up 0 slollu crops 10 commemornto tile CICUt en tho Kite of tho present church ot Santa Cruz There is scarcely n church in Mexico which ling not a legend of this klud nttuched to it Tho town to identified with tile history of Mexico Hero the treaty ft peace botwien the United state and Mulio wan ratiflw in 1SH Brad hero Muinnlijn 1 made Ills Inali stand in IbM was obllted to ur render stud was shot Lcrybody is lu 1 tcnwted in Maximilian mainly on an count of poor Carlotta Maximilian WO executed on the Cerro da las O mil > an and with him General Mlratniu and Media Tho place it in irked ly flare little CICJCH of stone Ibo two geD cull were killed at the first volley but Maximilian who had reqnuted that h 0 Lo 1 > thai t 1911b tto body Iteit Ills Bother might lookup U1ls Taro Vii only woundrd Dud n second firing wus required to kill him Tho emperor had been led to believe that Carlotta w as dead She became In Eano from grief and I was kept iu au asylum I I asy-lum for many years but sho Ftlll lives still tlll mourll for her dealt hobaml and tho los of her throne Tho United States government protested ngaliiftt the execution of Maximilian but iu vuln Juarez refusing to spurn him There are nil kinds of relics of Mail luillauiii Mexico tbo tnrbido then ter whtro how 11 tried and rondcmucd the table cu which the death warrant wa signed the wooden stools ou which the prisoners sat during tho trial and the coffin of Maximilian whose remains I wero subsequently to Austria and buried at Mlrmllr I eofs I do fiat share in allY sentiment rt pity for Max I I imilian vho was nn adventurer without with-out a shadow ot right lu Mexico nnd took tho Ounces of war Ho was it in I true n victim of Napoleon and of his awn amlttlon and was Cry scnrvily treated by thorn who had ludncul him to ret up I Ills throne iu Mexico but to have released him would tune been to tnblish a claimant for tho Mexican throne It was better that this man should die thin that thousands should bo vacrtflccd In tile wars bo would surely sure-ly ban fomented If ho had been allowed to live Philadelphia Ledger |
