The record-union., 1896-09-06

prophecy was more explicit and was
widely noised abroad before the event.
These are facts; explain them as you
may.
rs it any wonder, then, that the peo-
pie of Alacuspana say: And now we
know she is saint and a propetess IN
know she is saint and a prophecies IN
The girl has been seen and described
by several educated men.
When the curate of Talpa came back
from Macuspana he said:
Dolores Luiz is not beautiful as men
call women beautiful. but the beauty
o1 holiness rests upon her. l have
never felt such a charm as hers. When
she speaks she holds one. in rapt fas-
cination One feels te grace of God
flowing in her.
The correspondent who procured the
photograph of the girl testifies to her
strange charm no less emphatically
Her eyes, he writes, glow with the
fire Of the enthusiast, and on her face
is the strange half-meek, half-wild ex-
preston of the fanatic
1.-The power she exercises over the
simple natives is extraordinary. They
look to her not only as the chosen SER
want of the mother of Christ, but as
particularly the saint of the Indian
people, The centuries of oppression have
not crushed the ancient race enmity
which the descendants of the conquered
Aztecs cherish towards their Spanish
conquerors.
"A word from her and the embers of
this dying hate would be famed into a
flame again, with consequences too hor-
rible to contemplate. Should she raise
a standard and declare holy war not
only all the Department of Chantalpa
would rally to her, but the Indians of
the neighboring States as well, for her
fame and authority is spreading fast"
1t appears that already pilgrims from
the whole southern part of Mexico are
beginning to sojourn to Macuspana to
make their vows at the great tree in the
forest where the Virgin first appeared
to the saint and to lay offerings on the
shrine.
They come away thrilled with the wild
eloquence of her preaching and COM
pletely under the spell of her striking
doctrines Of reward for repentance, of
punishment for sin.
Dolores is l-blooded Indian. Her
features are straight and regular, but
her figure is awkward, her hands and
feet coarse. In repOSe her face is plain,
but her expression as she speaks seems
to shine with soft beauty difficult to
define.
She still lives with her parents, but is
much Of the time alone in the grand
tropical forest of teak and mahogany
This is her church and here she spends
days and nights in prayer and fasting
and communion.
Pilgrims to the shrine at the Holy
Tree have come upon her on her knees,
holding the posture Of prayer for hours
as If in a trance.
On coming to herself after such ex-
periences she appears exhausted and
requires food and sleep. On recovering
from what she calls her spiritual weari-
ness, she will recount the wonderful
vision that. had been vouchsafed her.
She asserts that the judgments upon
the wicked which it has been revealed
to her to announce will be heralded by
babies speaking as grown men,
What will be the end of the Santa
Dolores 1t is difficult to foreshadow,
but 1t is likely to be sad one. II she
raises the banner of war of religion
and race there can only be failure and
tragedy in store for her. 1t is in
evitable that this later Joan of Arc.