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The Ariel ...l- 'CIO G8lifO Villa O California, home of birds and flowers, Thou art of all the world most richly blestg Thy summer days are sun-kissed and caressed, And winter only comes in gentle showers. From southern gulf to where the redwood towers, Thy land is one vast paradise of rest, As peaceful as the waves on ocean's breast, And swift on happy wing flit by the hours. Thy valleys rich are green with field and farmg Thy sloping hills with yellow poppies blaze, Where spring time zephyrs wander fresh and free. Thy smiling skies seem warding off all harmg And distant mountains, hid in purple haze, Keep guard, together with the shining sea. LURA SHEATS, '05 A. l
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THE ARIEL 581113 Hllax Wonderful men were the Franciscan priests who founded the Mis- sions on the Pacific Coast of America. Of high rank or low, rich or poor, princes or peasants, idle men of fashion or brilliant statesmen, from all the Catholic nations of Europe, they came to this new world, turning in sorrow or remorse, with the zeal of fanaticism to forget the old life, the old love, or old crimes in carrying civilization and Christianity to the heathen of the west. It was one of these who, in the early spring of the year 1775, set out from the newly founded mission of San Diego to travel to the north in search of a favorable location for another home of the church. The Father Antonio, as he was known to the priests, was a handsome man, who had scarcely reached the middle of life, yet a man who had known the world, as was shown by the marks of sorrow on his high, intellectual forehead and earnest face, and by the expression of a hopeless faith in his sad, dark eyes. He was attended by an Indian, Pedro, a convert to the church, who reverenced him and followed him as faithfully as a dog. They went north some hundred miles, the padre and the Indian, then turned from the coast straight toward the mountains. On the morning of one clear, perfect day they left their camping place on the bank of a creek, a tributary of the river which drained the valley, and resumed their journey toward the first low foothills, now scarce two leagues away. ' Beyond these hills were the mountains, tall and stately. and beautiful as only California mountains can be, still crowned with the blue of the cloudless sky. They reminded the padre of the moun- tains of his home in old Spain, of his boyhood home where he had lived before he went to the capital and mixed in the intrigues of political life. Before he went to the capital-ah, that was a happy time, but oh, so long ago! He was the son of a nobleman living in a lonely castle and had had but one playmate, the daughter of one of his father's friends. They had grown up together, riding and climbing, hunting and fishing, for she knew no other amusements, being a true daughter of the hills. They were scarcely more than children, yet the warm blood of the south flowed in their veins, and they loved each other, so he had promised to return soon that they might be happy again. But when, after four years. he had revisited his home, everything was changed. How well he re- 'This story look first prize in contest.
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