| Show TITIAN FOUND IN MEXICO indian indians of ruined city hetal for a e from the mexican diebald here Is a story about a picture which hangs in the ruined church of mexico and which it Is asserted Is a genuine titian which though the average traveler knowe knows nothing about haa has been visited by artists artiste from all parta parts of the globe globie who have made the visit to mexico solely for the purpose of seeing the canvas and they have all declared that the picture was well worth the trip the famous p hangs in one of the old ruined churches the padre himself will ill point out the way say and stay with you while you are there the entrance to the auditorium of the church Is through a long dark corridor that leads up to a great greit door barrea hatred and chained and padlocked that seemed to arry tarry t e back fo to the old feudal days and d make one think that the doors of some old castle were bean being opened to him the door opens into an inner room as dark as night the padre un fastens a grated window and lind a flood of ot golden sunlight comes from over the western hills beyond the lake and falls full upon the picture such coloring such composition such feeling as could only corny from the band hand of a master tradition says it was painted by titian and presented to philip of spain eminent men authors and atil painters agree ath with this torsion an effort baa has been made to buy the painting and 50 was offered by the bishop of at mexico but the faithful demoted indians refused the picture Is an entombment blitgen feet long ion by seven feet high surrounding the dead christ wrapped in a winding stands the virgin magdalen 31 john aad rd nine other figures all life size the pictures state of preservation la Is mary marvelous elous more than rears vears have elapsed since the great meter master touched it ani yet one Is in deluded wo au the belief thit it was as tinted painted but yea yes berday bo fresh pure and rich la in its color Is easily reached by the mexican Nati national oual railroad it Is at the end of at morella morelia branch ot or this road which branches bran chee off the main maln line I 1 pt ot Ac ambaro I lye hours horn abam baro the indian town of oa on the like lake of at the same name the end of the branch la to reached is almost directly across the lake from F diclaro it can be reached by a horseback hor ride of to tv a boars and a halt abou arou around nil the lake lale or more easily by taking one of the indian canoes an ani being paddled across |
