The Ancient City Of Santa Fe

The city of Santa Fe., N. M., was founded by the SpanJards in 1598 under the mame of Sant-a Fe, on the site of Tigeui-a or Tigua, ome of the celebrated "Seven Oiitiies" at the foundimg of the Aztec Confederacy, in 1426. lts streets, museums, and private oollections of curios absolutely teem wifih relies wnd reoords oí a Btlrrlng hitetory, and include famious pietures of saiioi't and shrine, painted on elk and puma Bkius, sabré tbrasta wliere tthiey had been used as baaners during flbe niarch of Coronado in 1541, othears ■n-litih arrow holes from attacks by Indilans on tibe line of niarch up the Malley of the Rio Grande. There are quatoït maps in Latín and Frencli, showing tüiree cities of note on the oontdtnent, and giiving California as an islaad of thie Pacific. Th palace has become tlie home oí the cïuoicest collection of Mexicam and Spamish pictures in the southwest, and in lts historiaal rooms ara priceless treasures of reeord and relie. Around it, too, lingera mucli of the romance of the city. For 300 y e ars it hias been the home oí its miers, 76 Mexican and Spanish and 17 Anerician governors ha ving held sway wrthin its walls. In its early days it lay unidw the ehadow oí the dread inquisitiioin, and Wtbhln its walls, in later times, "Ben Hur" first saw tlie light under the pen of Greneral Lew Walllace. i ÍPnoim its Windows could be neard the ring oí steel and the din oí warrio'rs in the pLaza when Onate set up hós oamp in 1662, aind when the Pueblo Indiaas oonqiiered the city ia 1680, buTning the archives and saed vessels, "ïvhile twelve years later, in 1692, the same plaza ■witnessed tlhe triumphal entry oí Diego de Vargas, after bis totv and the victory whLch folio-wed it, which again placed the city under Spanish rule. Here General Kearney elevated the stars amd strlpes ia 1846, and here, also, suiTounded by living memories and fond regrets, amid beautiful foliage, is a monument to the soildiers who feil at 'duty's cali at Valverde and Apache Canyan. In Santa Fe are the military heaüqual-ters for New Mexico, it being also the olidest ni'llijtary establishment in America, created by the Spaniards Ia 1602, and in almost contimious occupiation ever eince. Here-, too, is the oldest house in the United States, in which Ooronado is eaid to hare iodged in 1540, and, perhaps, even more iöterestkig, here is the oidest churcb, San Miguel, built afoout 1543, piartially destroyed Ia 1680, wiiolly restored In 1710, the restorers leavllng intact all thiat was possible oí Mie oM roof hewn by Indians under the guldaince of the fathers. In tihis church is the great bell, almiost solid, cast in 1356, and haviing ain inscription in Spanisih round it as a bamd, the letters and figures being still well ralsed in the eoaü casting. This bell was brought over from Spaiin and hung in the töwer, but ïlinally being thought too heavy lor th tower, it was removed to a fcubstantial tinxber supp'OTt in the entrance to the church. In the cathedral and other churches are remarkalile reredöses, paimtings and vestmients, many of them oí considerable antiiq-uity, all iaviting the visitor to ltager in thls home of the past But the city is als a city of the present, and a very pteasant present rt is. An equable climate and deUghtful sunshine hover over streeti tn which the houses have enough oí the sanctïty oí age to infuse a restful spirit in the air. Fruitful orchards and fertdlie lands lie round about the city, which Is at oince a monument to the spirit of the past and the activity, beauty and progrese of the ent