The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-28

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had no heart for his attractions. She
had suffered so much that she had be-
come Indifferent to life and It's objects.
she accepted his fayors as relief from
consuming sorrow. H. proposed. To
forever prevent her becoming nun, she
was urged to accept and did so. The
gay AFTER the mournful marriage her
husbands father died and she found her
legal pr tector penniless.
STEALING CHANCE TO WORSHIP.
Again was this woman's face turned
nomeWard. Her financial condition
forced her once more to become an in
mate OF her fathers home. Religious
conventions were renewed, and she wrote
frankly about them to her Father Con-
lessor. She was broken In spirit and
health, and could no longer resist.
While deprived of religious consolation
In her own city she managed occasionally
10 Visit the sanctuaries Of the churches
OF surrounding villages, whittier she
went ostensibly to visit friends.
CRUEL CHARGES.
Meantime the war between her father
and her spiritual adviser broke forth
with renewed fury. The Bishop was
charged with religious intolerance and
curtaillng the liberties OF the parish
toner's. The editor offered the prelate
his paper to defend himself. He wrote
perhaps the most caustic document of
the whole controversy. The editor
refused to publish it, as promised.
Father Houck, the Bishops pri-
yate secretary, was forcibly assailed and
rudely elected from the building when he
went to inquire why. The Bishops re-
ply subsequently appeared in the Penny
Press and Catholic Untoerse 1t was cruel
as 1t was crushing. Editor Cowles was
arraigned as a hypocrite, In that he de-
MED his own daughter Helen her relig-
ious Liberties, and by his prosecutions
had ruined her health. 1t was even in
timated that he would be responsible for
her death did it occur from mental pros
tration.
SICK ROOM SCENE.
Editor Cowles was frantic. He fairly
rained libel suits, civil and criminal, on
the rival editors and the bishop. Under
the Intense excitement Mrs. Cowle Pom
eroy's condition became critical. 1t was
decided to take her auti-mortem state
ment The mental weakness of her hus-
band left her In some respects widow.
Her father and the attorneys gathered in
her sick room. Her physician sat by her
bed, his fingers on her pulse. She had
admitted writing the letters to her spirit
ual adviser. "Were their statements cor
rectr" This was the vital question.
She hesltited Did she deny she con-
demned herself, DETAINED her priest, and
did her church an injustice. Did she af-
firm she not ouly condemned but crushed
her father; she looked at him and he at
her for full minute. Her pulse beat
quick and fast, her slight and emaclated
frame trembed, aud slight tint came to
her pallid face. She refused to answer.
The Bishops lawyer threatened contempt
of court proceedings. The father sprang
TO his feet In rage aud shook his fist
urder the attorneys nose. 1t was ter
rible scene, and the doc or only brought
quiet by insisting that Mrs. Pomeroy's
life depended upon 1t. A kind Judge
subsequently protected her in her silence.
DEATH AT LAST BRINGS PEACE.
n sflSHl recovery enaDieu Her 10 go
again to Europe, VIII re her husband had
received consuship appointment, but
the germs of consumption were fatally
at work. Within year she breathed her
last at Florence, Italy. The news of her
death was terrible blow to her II W
broken-down father. The oil bishops
eyes were wet with tears when he learn d
the sad news.
Her body now rests in consecrate soil
at Cleveland, the Catholic emblem of the
cross marking its sepulchre. The mis-
guided father and the undlnching bishop
have, for time at least Git is to be
hoped forever,) buried their enmity to
mingle their tears over their child-by
blood of one, by the church of the other.
IT'S fit time for mutual repentance.