The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-24

around watering places for many years,
had John.
At last she came. A simultaneous
cry arose.
,.;Why. what ever has kept you so
longp"
Suddenly Helen exclaimed: "Well,
declares! II that girl hasn't gone and
changed her dress"
Eyes, and fixed her hair!'
"And put on II clean pair Of gloves"
"And changed her boots!"
IL was all true. Miss Bella had en-
deavored to shroud these treasons in
her buster and hat, but it was useI ess.
She was indeed pretty sight, as she
stood there, with one dainty foot upon
the step. Even John was moved. He
rehectively spat ON the nigh side, and
mado room for her TO sit by him. Miss
Bella sprang into the seat John was
better than nothing, And as they spun
along the road, she laughed at his we'll
worn stories, admired his skill as u
driver, and when he turned to look at
her would drop her eyes. And John?
Well, he chewed tobacco. lis Won
derfully soothing, in any form, is tSe
maligned weed.
At last the little town was reached.
and John dashed M to the college gate.
in style. The ladies descended, crossed
the wide and dreary-looking campus,
and applied for permission to see the
old mission church and the college
buildings 1t was granted them, and
an olive-skinned Italian priest was de-
tailed to show them over Che place. He
was gentle and courteous in manner,
handsome in face, and there was u GER
tain dignity about him which impressed
even tie giddy Bella at first. But not
for long.
They passed into the old mission
church, with its quaint statues and Gu
rious paintings. The peculiar realism
which seemed to impress the latin
mind only revolted them, and the inn
age Of the Saviour upon the cross, the
blood trickling from the crown OF
thorns and from the wound in his sida
only made them turn away in disgust.
The strange frescoing over the altar,
too,did not impress them; they laughed
at the four-and-twenty elders seated
around the Great White Throne, wl,h
"Sancto, Sancto, Sanco" coming from
their mouths, while the monkisb art
lists attempt to represent the Deity
shocked them. Then they went into
the college, and saw the laboratory.
and the philosophical apparatus, with
its strange electrical machines, globes,
aud what not. From there to the Ii
brary, where Father Augustine showed
them the quaint old books from which
dead and gone monks had chanted ves-
per and matin song. Huge volumes
were they, Of parchment leaf and
leathcrn cover, with giant clasp and
hinge; odd-looking notes in red and
black, squatty and square, flor they
were Gregorian.) climbed over curious
staff-lines. TIE girls tried to make out
the words, but the lettering was strange
to them, and had it not been so, the
language would have been. So Father
Augustine read out some Of the lines,
the Latin sounding less harsh in the
mellow Italian way than they had
| thought. And then they looked at the
shelves, where imposing tones held be-
tween their covers the writings of the
early fathers of the church-those ear
" fathers who were so early that they
Fave had e. father all later creeds. -
Many were tho strange characters,
many the tongues Ia which these books
were written.
"And can you read all those dread
full languages, fatherP" asked Miss
Bella.
mo, not all, he replied, "but many;
and Brotl or Ansem, who is the librar-
ian, can lead them all"
Can he read that, Father" said Car
RE Bunner, with wide-open eyes, turn
ing over a curious looking volume,
III ''Yes, my daughter" said the monk,
smiling, that is only Hebrew. Even |
can read that"
The library exhausted Father Au-
gustine asked them if they would like
10 ascend to the observatory, where
there was fine view of the surround
ing valley. Miss Bella was the first to
speak:
"Oh, girls" said she, "fm tired. l
don't think care to 90. But since the
Father has been SO kind, some Of you
GO
But the other girls we're tired, too
And 80 Miss Bella, with an appearance
of great self-abnegation, declared that
she would go, although Father Angus
tine politely protested that the climb
was fatiguing, and, if tired. she should
not attempt it, But opposition only
made her moro determined, so they
went together.
"Oh, what lovely viewm cried Miss
Bella, as they gazed over the fertile
valley "Oh, Father, I'm ever so much
obliged to you for inducing me to
come"
at is indeed we'll worth the trouble"
replied the priest.
Father" said Miss Bella, fixing her
brown eyes upon him, what is the
reason you say my daughter to Miss
Bunncr, and not 10 the rest of usp"
Because" replied the priest, grave
ly, "she is Catholic, and the Others
are heretics."
"How do you know she is Cath
olicp"
Because she bowed 10 the Host when
in the church, which none Of the Others
did,"
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