, 1888-11-08

And bear my scanty sheaf to offer Thee
or gaudy Weeds aud clinging blades o
grass
Too many mid the grain will twined be
But Thou--wilt Thou not say. with smile
divine,
"Poor how'rs.. poor weddings! they were
also Mine?" ARTHUR l.. SALMON.
A MAJESTIC THOUGH IN RUINS.
Cardinal Howard the Most Picturesque OF
Madmcn.
The latest news of Cardinal Howard ia
of his removal for the winter from the pri.
vate madhouse in st. Johns Wood, Lon
don, where he has been confined, to bet
ter asylum situated near Brighton. No
story of dementia is more affecting than
that of the distinguished churchnan. His
sad fate causes much sorrow, particularly
in Rome and London. The cardinal is a
magnificent looking man. As archpriest
and dean of st. Peters at Rome, he was
the most ma jestic figure of all the splen-
did ceremonies for which that Basilica is
famous. His stately mieu was wont to
draw forth the remark on the part of the
English present. that "if Italy was respon-
sible for the unrivalled architecture of the
cathedral. Great Britain, at any rate,
had furnished the only cardinal whose APP
pearance was in keeping with that OF the
edifce." The graciousness of his person
was fully in accord with his talents and
attainments. He was the most perfect
linguist of the Sacred College, speaking
French, Italian and Spanish with fuency.
He devoted much of his time to philoloei.
cal studies, in which he was an adept,
while next to Cardinal Prince Hohenohe,
he was the most intelligent and apprecia-
tive patron Of music. The disease which
has laid this splendid ediice in ruins first
appeared in December, 1887. Toward the
end of the next February he administered
terrible thrashing to his chaplain, who
was rescued more dead than alive from his
masters hands, and the Duke of Nor.
folk, who happened to be in Rome at the
time, was Immediately notified of his
cousin, the cardinals condition. which
continued very violent. With the great
est difficulty the duke succeeded in con-
veying his cousin to Paris. He was taken
to a famous private lunatic asylum at
Passy. Thence he was removed to Arun-
del Castle. Subsequent removals have
been rs above stated. The cardinal Ia
now hopelesslv demented, but he still
looks the picture Of health, save for wild
glance in his eyes. His mania almost
steadily is that he Is captain in the
British cavalry, and his language is re.
ported to be much better adapted to the
m Restroom than to q monastery. He is
very watchful about his clothes, and in.
sists on maintaining cardinals dress
throughout, even to the red stockings and
the red beretta, which he wears back on
the side of his head like an officer forage
cap.
Edward Howard was born in the year
1929. Like Pope Plus TX, who created
him cardinal in 1877. he began life as an
officer of crack cavalry regiment, and
for seven years held d commission in the
Second Life Guards at Windsor. The
cardinals youth previous to his joining
the church was very stormy one, and il
was owing to a romantic affair de occur
that he forsook the helmet for the tonsure
He quickly became a great favorite oil
Pope Paus TX. who, besides attaching
him TO his household sent him to win bis
spurs in various difficult missions of India
and elsewhere. Cardinal Howard, who il
the successor of the Cardinal of York, the
last of the Stuarts, as archbishop Of
Frascati. possesses handsome fortune
and is younger member of the great
English ducal house of Norfolk. The car
dinal it may be added, il the only mem
Der of the Sacred College who is member
of the Guards club in Pail Mall.--Courier
Journal.