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PAPE LEO Ml
His Most Remarkable Life.
(By F. Prescott-Bnllock. )
A few hoars ride from Boms, in the
heart of the Volsei or Lepini moun?
tains, with r.o railroad connection lies
the little village of Carpineto, a relict
of the middle ages, its inhabitants,
numbering only some five hundred,
being as it were dependents upon the
Pecci family, and with nothing to
call attention of the outside world to
the fact of their existence, except that
it is the birth place of Giacomo Vin
cenzo Rafaello Pecci, a no less person
- age than the Roman Catholic Pontiff,
Pope Leo XIII
Nino, (asjhe was called during the
. early years of his life) Pecci, was
born in the ancestral palace,-resemb?
ling in the eyes of the present genera?
tion an old fort with its small iron
grated windo ws and tower, more than
a palace,-or March % 1810. For
several years service in the army of
Italy, his father, Ludivico Pecci ?
gained distinction, and his mother,
Anna Prosperi Beozi, claimed lineal
descent from the last of her great tri?
bunes, the illustrious Cola, de Rienzi,
and through her no doubt was derived
all of the Pope's grand intellectual
. talents.
His youthful years were spent under
the roof of th9 palace, where "Father"
Salvag?i, tho last of his school mates
still resides ?ind delights in relating
how "Ser Nino," was"the most dar?
ing mountain climber and best rifle
shooter of that day, but that, "over
much study ruined.his aim and when
he visited Cs.rpineto the last time, in
September 1857. he could not hit a
sparrow on a tree."
Never of a robust frame, he showed
much- fondness for out-door sports
and spent much time on horseback,
making friends with-every one, and
early exhibiting that rare amiability
and strength of character which have
always been his distinguishing char?
acteristics trjrough nearly a century of
existence. At the age of eight years,
he was sent; to the Jesuit College at
Vitebc, and in 1824, he became a stu?
dent of tie college Romano, in Rome,
where his diligent habits and mental
accomplishments placed him in the
highest ranks, and secured for him
. the greatest premiums awarded by that
institution.
Notwithstanding his youth, owing to
his aptitude of thought, he was before
his graduation often cal led upon by
the faculty to assist them in instruct?
ing in the philosophical branches.
His fathers first views for his son
we're, that like himself, he should
carve a name with his sword,, but find?
ing that Niuo had fully resolved to
enter the priesthood, and that such
were his mother's fondest hopes, he
cheerfully consented in this decision.
In the year 1830, he matriculated at
the Gregorian university, and enter?
ed the college of Noble Ecclesiastics in
1832. Completing his educational
studies, Pope Gregory XVI, on Mardi
16, 1837, appointed him domestic
prelate and referendary of the Segna
tura. Cardinal Odescalchi conferred
the priestly order upon him December
23, 1837,- and he was apostolic delegate
at Perugia, Benevento and Spoletra
until 1841, when he became Governor
of Spolita, which office he held until
1843.
Pope Gregory next appointed him
archbishop of Damietta and nuncio to
Belgium, which compelled him to re?
main in Brussels for three years. He
was proclaimed cardinal by Pope Pius
IX on Dec. 19, 1853, and on Septem?
ber 1, 1877, he was appointed by the
same power, Cardinal Camerlengo on
the death of Cardinal de Angelus. On
the death of Pope Pius IX, February
7, 1878, he became the temporary
head of the church, and on the second
day balloting for a successor to the
deceased Pope, having received a ma?
jority of the votes cast by the sixty
two cardinals present at the assembly,
was declared Pope-elect, and on March
3. 1878, was crowned under the title
of Pope Leo XIII, at the age of 68
years. In the same month he revived
Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scot?
land, refused to accept the income
/ regularly bestowed upon the Pontiff
by the Italian Parliament, secluded
himself within the Vatican and issued
manifestoes demanding the restoration
of the temporal power of the church.
In December, 187S, he issued an Ency?
clical condemning communists, social?
ism and nihilism, which was followed
by another in November, 18S2, adding
heresy to the list.
In April, 1894, he issued an appeal
to England for the reunion of Chris?
tendom which met with no response.
He celebrated his sixtieth anniversary
of his first mass on February 13, 189S,
and in May, 1899, set the year 1900,
as one of nmversal jubi?e3. On March
% 1900, he celebrated his ninetieth
birthday.
In taking the measure of Pope Leo
XIII, he will rank in history, as
scholar, diplomat, statesman, author
and Pontiff, among the most illus?
trious occupants of the chair of St.
Peter, and it may truthfully be said
that the church of Rome never enjoy?
ed the administration of one in au?
thority more thoroughly remarkable
in every sense of the word.
The college of cardinals numbers
seventy when there are no vacancies.
Of these twenty-five reside in Rome,
and thirty-two cardinals are of Italian
birth, one of whom will be
the next Pope without much
doubt. There are six cardinals
spoken of in connection with
the sueession: Rampolla, Poroc
chi Oreglia, Vannutelli, Svampa and
Capaeelatro, all of whom are Italians,
anet Rampolla at present seems to be
the favorite. The youngest of these
cardinals, Svampa, is fifty-two years
old, while the oldest, Oreglia, is
seventy-five, Rampolla being sixty.
Cardinal Rampolla is the present
government Secretary of State, has a
majority among the Italian cardinals
and may coant upon the votes of the
French cardinals. His chief weakness
is that he openly denounces the "triple
alliance," and therefore is not accept,
able to Germany, or Austria.
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the foundation for health. Nature does
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disorders of the stomach and digestive or?
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THE POPE'S CH
Statement Made from the Sick
Room Wednesday Night
Kepr Alive by Stimuients.
Rome, July 9.-1.15 a. m.-The life
of Pope Leo continues to hang by a
thread, with the expectation that any
moment may bring the final catastro?
phe. Yet the wonderful vitality of the
remarkable old man is combating a
complication of diseases which would
endanger a strong man in the prime
of life. It Would appear that everyone
in the Vatican is obliged to give way
to overpowering fatigue, so much more
tranquil is it in the palace than out
side, people being still congregated
on the plaza of St. Peter's as this dis?
patch was filed. The corner of the
palace which remained lighted the
longest was the apartment of Cardinal
Rampolla, where the lights were ex?
tinguished only a short time after
those in the room where Mgre Vol
poni, one of the Pontiff's most inti?
mate friends, is lying in a serious con?
dition as a result of the attack of syn?
cope that he suffered today. Pope Leo,
as though he had second sight, has
asked several times why Mgre Volponi
has not been to see him. Naturally
the condition of Mgre Volponi has
been kept from the Pope.
Throughout yesterday the reports
from the sick room alternated with
fears and hopes. At times rumors of
the gravest character gained currency.
Out of the mass of contradictory re?
ports the essential features of the
Pope's actual condition are indicated
in the bulletins issued at 9.45 yester?
day morning and at 8.15 last evening,
bearing the signatures of thVtwo at
teding physicians. Their offical bul?
letin was supplemented in the course
of personal conversation in which
they showed that they enertained
scarcely any hopes of recovery. Set
they always qualified their statements,
setting forth the remarkable constitu?
tional strength and indomitable energy
of the patient as the most striking
evidence of his almost superhuman
will. They instanced the dying man's
leaving his bed during the morning
and taking several steps, unaided save
by a cane, to an arm chair. When
this became known, many were dis?
posed to criticise the doctors for per?
mitting such an exhausting effort, but
it was explained that the entire ab?
sence of .fever, the temperature being
even below normal, eliminated the
danger of syncope from this exertion.
Moreover, the attending physicians
recognized that they were battling
with a man of iron will, who does not
know the meaning of restraint. For?
tunately, all the climatic conditions
in Koine for the time being are favor?
able to the sufferer. The encouraging j
conditions are further augmented by
the constant use of artificial means of
exhilaration, including a steady sup?
ply of oxygen.
Except for the brief time he passed
in the arm chair, the Pope lay in bed'
throughout the day, shiftig his posi?
tion frequently without assistance,
and occasionally taking a small
draught of diluted wine with the yolks
of eggs. The only solid food he has
taken is calves' brains and meat broth.
The later official bulletin, following
a consultation between Drs. Lapponi
and Mazzoni, completely contradicted
the alarmist report, and gave a most
favorable statement. This was dis?
closed in the improved pulse, better
respiration and ameliorated general
condition. Dr. Mazzoni said ina con?
versation following the issuance of the
8.15 p. m., bulletin that, while the
Pope's condition still continued des?
perate, recovery was not entirely im?
possible.
Rome, July 9.-Since his illness the |
Pope has not begun a day so satisfac- j
torily as this. Indeed, hopes of his |
recovery reached such a point as to
make the general public believe that
the Pontiff might soon be out of dan?
ger. No better synthesis of this view
could be given than in the words of
Dr. Lapponi, uttered on leaving the
sick room at about noon, that although
he did not yet dare to hope, he had
perhaps ceased to despair. This prom?
ising outlook, however, was followed
by the startling announcement that
the Pope had been attacked with diar?
rhoea, apparently caused by the large
quantity of food he had taken, and
that a consulting physician had been
sent for.
The patient, when he began the day,
showed once more his iron mountain?
eer fibre by raising and dressing al?
most without assistance, walbing
across the room to his arm chair, and
having his toilet fully performed, even
to the detail of being shaved. Through?
out this procedure the Pope showed no
sign of being exhausted. Indeed., he
jokingly alluded to the amount of
nourishment which was being imposed
upon him and said : "I ought to grow
fat, as I never had in my life as much
as I get now." This buoyancy of
spirit was considered to be one of the
principal coefficients in the struggle
with death which this admirable old
man has made in the last seven days.
The doctors, previous to the alarming
attack of this afternoon, said there
was not the slightest diminution in
the acuteness of the Pontiff's mental
faculties, ss shown in the remarkable
manner when the Pope insisted on go?
ing ever some of the larger questions
of Church policy laid before him by
Cardinal Rampolla, the Papal secre?
tary of State.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, al?
though no worse, the Pope was not
reported to be any better, and then
came the news of the Pontiff's sudden
relapse and of the sending for a con?
sulting physician.
After a long conference in the night
it had been decided that in case the
Pope grew worse there should be a
consultation at which at least one
doctor should be present. Both Dr.
Mazzoni and Dr. Lapponi decided that
under such conditions a physician
whom tliey would prefer was Prof.
Rossoni, a pupil of Dr. Baccelli, and
his successor in the general clinic at
Rome. Dr. Rossoni arrived at the
Vaticna about 5 o'clock, when a long
consultation was held.
Dr. Lapponi remained at the Vatican
after the consultation of the physicians
was ended, but he came from the sick
chamber long enough to say a few
words. The hopeful appearance which
he had shown early in the day had en?
tirely disappeared. He said:
"I fear there is no hope, no hope
whatever, and yet the end may not
come tonight. Although the patient's
i conidtion is very grave, the disease
seems to be developing through slow
but sure processes. ' '
One of the most remarkable features
in the serious turn which affairs have
taken is that the Pope ?continues
dressed and partially sitting up. His
mind is still perfectlfy clear and appa?
rently the only cause for alarm is
that "the doctors have declared a re?
newal of dangerous internal complica?
tions.
Prof. Rossoni went through the
most careful examination of the illus?
trious patient, employing what is
known as the Baccelli system. The ?
consultation lasted over two hours.
The patient, as one feature of the in?
vestigation, was made to. pronounce
the Italian word "thirty-three,"
(trenta-tre), which, in a case where
there was indicated the presence of a
badly acting heart, a vitiated circula?
tion and serum in the pleura, to any
one listening at the patient's side pre?
sents a sound as if the consonants in
the word had been dropped.
DEATH OF MGRE. VOLPONI.
Rome, July 9.-Monsignor Volponi,
who was stricken with syncope yester?
day, died early this morning, shortly
after the doctors in attendance had
announced that all hope of saving his
life had been abandoned. Although
the condition of the Pope is still the
center of interest, the case of Monsig?
nor Volponi, has' attracted much at?
tention, not only because of his office
of secretary of Consistorial Congrega
tion, to which he had just been ap?
pointed by Pope Leo, but also on ac?
count of the manurer in which he was
siezed by his fatal illness, and it is
hardly possible to describe the sensa?
tion and emotion which prevailed at
the Vatican when his death was an?
nounced.
From the moment he was stricken
and fell to the floor, Monsignor Vol?
poni lost entirely the power of speech
and the use of the entire right side of
his body, and he was apparently un?
conscious when he died. The cause
of death was cerebral congestion.
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GREELEY'S REVENGE.
Outcome of 1he Editor's Tiff Wit*
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The late Elizabeth Cady Stanton was
particularly apt at retort, and one of
her swift parries of a thrust delivered
by Horace Greeley against h>r favorite
doctrine of woman suffrage is historic
"Madam," said Horace one day dur?
ing the civil war, "the ballot and the
bullet go together. If you want to
vote, are you ready to fight?"
"Certainly, sir," she responded. "J
am ready to fight, just as you are fight?
ing, through a substitute."
Notwithstanding their* differences 'of
opinion, Mrs. Stanton and Greeley
were personally friendly until the New
York constitutional convention of 1S6S.
A woman suffrage clause was strenu
I onsly pressed upon that body and as
vigorously opposed by Mr. Greeley.
One day, after the Tribune editor had
made some particularly rasping re- j
marks upon the subject, George WU- !
liam Curtis rose and said:
? "I have the honor, Mr. Chairman, to J
present a petition in favor of the worn? I
an suffrage amendment signed by Mrs
Horace Greeley and 300 other ladies."
Greeley was furious and rightly as?
cribed the appearance of the memorial
at that moment to Mrs. Stanton.
"Why did you not put my wife's
maiden name on that petition and catt
her Mary Cheney Greeley?" he de?
manded the next time they met
"Because," said Mrs. Stanton, "I
wanted all the world to know that
Horace Greeley's wife protested against
her husband's report on the suffrage
amendment"
"All right" retorted the editor. "Here?
after you shall always be spoken of in
the Tribune as Mrs. Henry B. Stan?
ton." And so it was to the time of her
death, although the name of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton was known to hundreds
of thousands who could not identify
the woman by the appellation under
which the Tribune, for revenge, tried
to obscure her fame.-Pilgrim.
The Most Abi dins' Language.
Latin is the language that has most
enriched modern tongues, for its clear
echoes are heard to this day in every
quarter of the world. It entered large?
ly, after their conquest by Rome, into
the dialects of Spain and Gaul, coun?
tries thoroughly permeated by Roman
life and civilization, and has since
played a great part in the history of
modern languages.
The Roman tongues are practically
Latin in a new dress. Italian may be
called the Latin of today; French and
Spanish are based on a similar ground?
work, and English has borrowed large?
ly from the language of Rome, either
directly or through foreign channels.
In very early times Latin colonists in?
troduced into Britain names for places*
and in the seventh century many eccle?
siastical words of Latin origin, such as
altar, priest, candle, were adopted by
our forefathers.
Although it may not be so flexible
and pliant as some languages with
which it has been thus incorporated,
Latin reflects admirably the practical
character of its people, who felt and
used their power so that it has been
well called the "voice of empire and
law-"
Not One.
"Just one," said the lover as he stood
upon the stoop with his girl; "just
one."
"Just 1," said the mother, putting hex
head out of the bedroom window above.
"Well, I guess it ain't so late as that
but it's pretty near 12, and you'd better
be going or her father will be down."
And the lover took his leave with a
sad pain at his heart
The~TTnraty~~Elm.
It has been computed that if the
leaves of an elm tree sixty feet high
were spread out on the ground edge to
edge they would cover five acres of
land. These leaves, averaging 7,000.
000 to a tail grown tree, will absorb
water to the amount of seven tons dur?
ing tbe normal summer day. Were it
not for the ingathering by the stoniat.-i
during the night a few elms woul?
soon draw off all the water from a dis?
trict.
TROOPS TO LEAVE GOBA.
Four Companies of Coast Artil?
lery Ordered to the United
States.
Washintgon, July 9.-The Secretary
of War has ordered the withdrawal
from Cuba of four companies of coast
artillery, the Eighteenth and Twenty
first, now stationed at Cienfuegos,
and the Twenty-third and Twenty
fourth, now at Havana; the Eight?
eenth company to take station at Fort
Schuyler, New York ; the Twenty-first
at Fort Mott, New Jersey, and the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth at
Fort McKinley, Maine. This discon?
tinues the present post at Cienfuegos,
and leaves in Cuba the Seventeenth
and the Nineteenth companies at San?
tiago and the Twentieth and the
Twenty-second at Havana, which lat?
ter companies will ultimately garrison
the two projected coaling stations at
Bahia Honda and Guantanamo.
Col. W. L. Haskin, artillery corps,
who has had command of these troops
will return to the United States for
assignment to other duty. The
senior officer of the* troops remaining
in Cuba will succeed to the command.
Louisville and Nashville.
. New York, July 9.-At a meeting of
the board of directors of the Louis?
ville and Nashville Railroad Company
held today, August Belmont resigned
his position as chairman of the board.
Henry Walters was unanimously elect?
ed in his stead. The directors declar?
ed the regular semi-annual dividend of
224 Per cent. The report of the year
ending June 30 showed a surplus after
charges and dividends have been de
ducted'of $3,126,459 an increase of 81,
276,152 over the previous year. The
gross earnings were $35,415,389 an in?
crease of $4,1031,332; operating expen?
ses, $23,950,565, increase $3,08,127;
net income $11,464,824, increase $1,
655,005. Mr. Belmont announced some
time ago his intention to sever active
connection with the Louisville and
Nashville, pleading outside affairs.
Venezuela Bullied.
Washington, July 9.-The navy de?
partment, at the instance of the state
department, has taken steps to prevent
further interference with American
shipping in the Orinoco, by either
government or rebel forces. This ac?
tion was taken upon the advice of Mr.
Russell, United States charge at Ca?
racas, dated on the 6th instant, to the
effect that the government forces had
detained two ships belonging to the
Orinoco Steam Navigation Company,
at San Fernando, and the insurgents
had detained and were likely to de?
stroy three other ships, belonging to
the same company at Ciudad Bolivar.
Orders were cabled yesterday to the
Unite States ship Bancroft,- at Port
of Spain, to proceed at once up the
Orinoco and release the detained ves?
sels. No resistance is expected.
Gov. Heyward has received a blank
petition from the B'nai B'rith, the
great Jewish society, asking that he
sign it with tbe other State officers.
The petition, which is condemnatory
of the Kischineff massacres and ad?
dressed to the czar of Russia, was for?
warded to the governor by Mr. T.
Moultrie Mordecai of Charleston. All
of theState officers will sign the peti?
tion.
s> -caw
ir. t!u* i:-T.';-i<!:- ?-.i Australia all ?
men drink ion. Tiny drills it nil <".
tong a nd in quantities;:nd at a streng
that would s<*em to be poisonous: G:.
Sunday morning the tea maker starts
with n clean pot and a clean record
The pot is hung over the fire with
sufficiency of water in it fer the day'a
brew, a.nd when this has boiled he
pours into it enough of the fragrant
herb to produce a deep, coffee colored
liquid.
On Monday, without removing yes?
terday's tea leaves, he repeats the proc?
ess; on Tuesday da capo and on Wed?
nesday fla capo, and so on through the
week. Toward the close of it the great
pot is filled with an acrid mash of tea
leaves, out of which the . liquor is
squeezed by the pressure of a tin cup.
By this time the tea is of the color of
rusty iron, incredibly bitter and disa?
greeable to the uneducated palate. The
native calls it "real good old post and
rails," the simile being obviously drawn
from a stiff and dangerous jump, and
regards it as having been brought to
perfection. ^
Story of a Top Hat.
A lady who lives in a fashionable
suburb js of a saving turn of mind and
manages to combine her love of econ?
omy with a due regard for her hus?
band's appearance by turning his old
top hats into waste paper baskets. The
other day she saw on the hall table a
prehistoric hat, venerable with age.
..she seized it in triumph and had just
removed the brim, covered the body
with light blue silk and was finishing
it off with a tasteful arrangement of
lace and bows when she was interrupt?
ed by the servant: "Please, mum, the
piano tuner says he can't find his top
hat nowheres. He left it In the hall,
he says." Ten minutes later that tuner
left the house with a cap on his head
and a sovereign in his pocket Waste
paper baskets are now scarce in that
house.-London Answers.
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