Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-02
TALES OF ROME

ROME, Italy, April Is, l90l.-When
you come to Rome, come with the in
ten'ion of believing all you are told {;
but don't eat any llsh for at least six
months before you arrive for when
you get here they'll dish mp to you
some of the real thing. In fact sorne
Of 1t Will be so 'fishy" 1T may make
you sea-sick But | believe it all.
have become so used to being s'c0nned"
that it is easy for me l have bongh,
at least DOZEN d tfarent gold br cks
in at least q d'Zen different states. ]
have had it all but the Green goods"
In fact can think of nothing hetteI
than Daniel D.ly's famous Saying of,
IL am easy. I've had them all from
the golt brick to the short change If
I've missed anything, beg its pardon. .
So you see it's easy for me. But for q
worldly man like DIR. Warren or Mr.
Amen or some of those, l suppose it
would be little hard. but, oh we'll, j
was born IN Iowa 80 I've got my repu-
tation to uphold. Here is an easy one
to start on:
When st. Paul was beheaded out
side of the city walls where now stands
the famous st. Paul's church; sthey'
say that when his head fell from the
body it bounced like q foot ball and
each time it struck the ground it
cried "Jesus." AS soon as the words
were out of his mouth spring of
boiling hot water rushed up through
The earth. 1t bounced second time
and spring of cold water sprang
forth. 1t bounced the third time and
q spring of ice cold water came out. 1t
only had three springs. 1 often won
der if it had sprung the fourth time
what kind Of water it would have
been. Today only one spring remains
and that is the cold one-I do not
know what ever became of the other
two. Really, l don't see any need of
finishing up wonderful cause like st.
Paul's was with story of that kind.
Butch we'll, l believe it, only, as
before said, some person not filled with
the same deep plety as might have q
hard time to stand for three springs.
The average man can stand one; but
three. oh we'll, believe it.
Here is a real easy one. We are told
that Gregory the Great once presented
to some foreign ambassadors hand.
full of earth taken from the arena OF
the old Coliseum, q relic of great
worth, that they might take home tc
their soyereigns. Butt ambassadors
were "long on" dirt at that time SC
with great hsughtiness they refused
the land, when to their surprise Greg.
DRY began to close his hand and
squeeze the dirt and sure enough drop
after drop of blood began to fall from
between his fingers. Twas the holy
blood of the martyrs. The harder he
squeezed the more the blood began to
flow until. Well, I'll quit. That
may be hard for the worldly but she's
easy for me. / don't remember Just
how long the cruel game of the arena
had been stopped before Gregory be
came the Pope but it must have been
some time because he didn't die until
after 600.
Let rae see. l think it was the
Bishop Liberius who had dream, OF
rather vision in which the Virgin
Mary came to him and told him that
he was to build q church to her men,
DRY ard it was 70 be built on the place
on which ON the morrow would be
covered with snow. 1t was the month
of August and red hot one at that
but. we'll, it showed the next day. and
that's where the Sante Maria Maggiore
now stands. Really that isn't half as
hard to stand for as some of them, YET
we'll, l believe it.
In the Sspte Maria Msggtore IL kept