Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-14
Appearance and Daily Life OF the Pope.

One of orr correspondents. has had a
CONVERSATION with Rev: Philip Barry,
Canon Of the Cashel Cathedral. The
Canon spoke as follows: LEO XIII. is
now seventy-four years of age. He is
tall, thin and bony: His face is of an
ivory tint, and HE eyes and lips are
very expressive and smiling. He looks
very firm. Simeon says he resembles
Voltaire, but Leo XIII. s smile is totally
different to V0ltaire's smile. The Pope
wears his age we'll aid walks remark
ably straight. He has snow-white hair
and very finely marked eyebrows.
His eyes are wonderfully intelligent
looking, and his voice is extremely har-
monious. He speaks several languages
as well as any professor of languages.
He neyer says 4 foolish thing NOT does
foolish thing, like po0r Pits TX,
whose policy was fatal to the Pope's
temporal power. He rises very early.
and spends the first hours of the day in
prayer, and generally in his bedroom.
AT six o clock he says mass: At eight
O'clock he breaks his fast with a cup OF
chocolate, reading his correspondence
all the time. At nine O'Clock he re-
celVes Jacobitii and the chiefs of re-
ligious societies. At loon he receives
those Roman patriarchs who have re-
manned true to him and the Embassa-
dors;
AT one o'clock he dimes, his dinner
rarely costing more than two francs, or
half dollar" "And he keeps so
many cooks!' said the correspondent.
"He is obliged to keep up appearances,
answered the canoni "6nce upon a
time Popes were great eaters and
drinkers, and were given to every kind
of extravaganza; but Leo Kill is
nothing of all this. After dinner he
takes little walk in the Vatican
grounds, or he visits the museums, gal
lefies. etc: Sometimes be Is carried in
chair quilted with white satin: He
is very fond of the garden, and likes to
play the gardener at times. He fire.
quently receives visitors in the garden,
and talks. of flowers to them to avoid
other lsubjects. The first ord second
times l saw him he was in the garden.
When l went with the pilgrims he was
preceded by three noble guards, and at
his side was Monsignor Macchi, his
secret chamberlain. He wore a wide
brimmed hat and large red cloak.
We we're presented to him one by one:
He looked at us and scftitinized us well;
1 saw he recognized me, but he treated
me like the Others-aS if he saw me
also for the first time. Are you all
Irish? he said; Il am happy to receive
the faithful of that nationr He then
looked again at us as if he would
have read into cur, souls. Your
Bishop he continued; brought tie
offerings from a people pressed with
poverty Then seeing me still on my
knees, he offered me his hand to rise
me. 4 had thodght,' he continued;
that the offerings would have decreased!
but it was not so. We live on charity
! (snd here he smiled sadly for all we
I had has been taken from MS. Oh! these
prosecutions" he cried with a loud
voice. They purify us even when the
leaven IS pure and imrtiaeulate;' -
seem to see him now," said the canon.
''His head looked like relief in blue
| sky. The sun was setting, and he looked
up to the sky as if seeking an inspira-
ton there, Il have heard, he then said,
that notwithstanding the general state
Of aBguich IN ireland the churches are
full of people. May the Lord be prs sed
and blessed, and may my prayers bring
peace on the peoplel Lord, hear our
prayers and judge u.s.
''He then blessed us, and the audience
was finished. have never seen so
much POWER ti1ited to. SO. much sim
plicity. At fozt o'clock the Pope res
sumes his official audiences in the Vat
lean. At seven o'clock only he takes a
little rest, but at eight o clock he returns
to work in his private rooms, where he
remains until ten o'clock, when he re-
tirss for the night. III Captain Fra
cdsSd.