St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-11


ample of the triumph of mind over mat
ter-the spiritual over the material.
Holding the most responsible position
on earth, the busiest man in the whole
world, it is not easy t. see how the
ever-aerive mental fires nave not long
ago consumed the frail body in which
they are grated. The fragile figure and
the ascetic face suggest the mystic
rather than the man of the world: but
the bump of the philosopher is upon his
brow, and the strength of the statesman
is in his chin. The sweetness of the
Assyrian is in his smile; there is no
repression in his look; his luminous eyes
gaze upon one IN that full and clear
fashion characteristic of honest and un-
troubled souls. His diaphanous form
forces people TO philosophize about the
Inhabitants of other and less worthy
worlds. He has been we'll described as
reminding one of the presence OF
naked soul.
1t were not surprising if at the age of
eighty-three his smile were merely
ceremonial and his fnesse only formal.
but such is not the case, and perpetual
youth seems to light up his every
act. have seen him descend from his
gestatorial chair with the jauntness OF
man of forty; have seen him say
mass with as much attention to the
vericst details as though he did nothing
but teach rubrics all his life. And,
though his shrinking, carew0rn, rehned
face is like transparent wax When III
conversation about subjects dear 10
nlm; his eyes light up with the luster OF
that of an Italian maiden, and sparkle
with all the clearneSS of the laplS lazull.
Those who amuSe themselves by spec
ulating about the probable successor or
Pope Leo may have many day 10 con-
tinued their harmless paStime. His
rich, rotund voice gives no evidence OF
old age; his marvellous mental activity
does not betoken that the end is near.
Far as human eye can see. there is no
reason why Pope Leo should not con-
tinue to adOrn the tiara until the
twentieth century will have seen the
close of its first decade. Those jour
naIists and magazine writer's who have
seriously discoursed about the likell-
hood of some other than an Italian sue
ceeding the present pontlff, have been
laughed at for their pains. 1t is mid
summer madness to talk OF
An English Speaking Pope.
and my friend, Mr.. Stead. will live and
die outside the church Of Augustine
and Jerome, of Thomas A'Becket and
Sir Thomas More should he continue to
live on in the expectancy OF such all
event. Counting Cardinal Tascherean,o of
Quelose, there are five English-speaking
cardinals in the sacred college. When
ali election comes off it is not likely that
the one Australian and two American
cardinals will be able to reach Rome i'll
time to take any part whatever iii 1t.
Cardinal Logue will not be heard OF
outside his mountain fastnesS in the
north of Ireland. and Cardinal Vaughan
will merely cast his vote and hold a
reception.
Even if Leo had been outlived by
Manning or LaVigerie-the only two
thinkable candidates outside Of Italy
it is not likely that any other than an
Italian would rule from the Vatican.
The college of cardinals, composed of
seventy members, is never complete;
Italians are always in majority over
all the other cardinals together. And
even if they were not, the French car
dinals would never consent to make
common cause with the Germans and
the Austrians and vice versa; nor is it
likely that the hOt-blooded SpaniardS
would unite with either. Perhaps, after
all, an Italian understands best the vast
and intricate mac hinery of the Catholic
church, and it is likely also that his ap-
pointment would be attended with less
political complications. If an Am erican
were elected there would be no compli-
cations, for all we expect Of other ma
tiOns is that they copy us, or at least
keep quiet.
Leo and America.
The people of the United States follow
Leo'S career with atfectiOnate interest.
He has won their respect by the broad
ness of his policy; he has gained their
affection by his practical appreciation OF
institutions. Other European
exhibitors at the worlds fair asked the
United States to guarantee them against
damage or destruction; the Vatican
made no such demand, but put the
fullest confidence in the hospitable care
fulneSs of the nation. American visitors
at the Vatican are always received with
a special warmth. Nor did his holiness
forget this country on the occasion OF
his jubilee. On the morning Of the 10Th
of last February he sent through Car
dinal Ramp0lla message OF greeting
to the Uuited States.
c. Ii. MetZer, the distinguished cor
of the New York Herald,
has sent many remarkable cablegrams
in his day, but | think he never felt so
proud of his profession as when he was
about to send to this country Pope Leo'S
as received from Cardinal Ram
pOlla. Pope Leo has paid the highest
United States by proposing it as
model for France.
The nations Of the earth were rep
resented in st. Peters on the day of
Pope Leo's episcopal jubilee. The 10000
people who were admitted by ticket into
that masterpiece of ecclesiastical archi-
lecture must have made merry the soul
of Michael Angelo as we'll as gladdened
the ever youthful heart of the aged Leo.
We in the United States, VINO, in few
build whole town accommo-
dating 10000 inhabitants, as does the
White city Of the worlds fair, are in
clined to smile quietly at the idea of
spending hundreds of years in building
one church, even though that church be
the largest and most imposing in the
world, and even though the cathedrals
of Milan and Cologne, the Church OF st.
Paul at London and of st. Sophia at
are poor by comparison.
But we have intellectual sense enough
to respect the maSterful ease of those
Southern people VINO are so powerful in
repose; and we are esthetical enough 70
admire the fascinating work of.their fas
tidious hands. Last February was called
The Pope's Month
because of the happenings in the Eter-
nal City and because of the the throngs
who went there to pay their homage to
Leo on the occasion Of his having spent
fifty years in the episcopate. Even the
occurrence i'll the same month of the
silver jubilee of the wedding of King
Humbert with the popular and beauti.
full Queen Margherita could not divide
the honors with. or divert attention
from, the great event Of the month.
The crowds of pilgrims from many
lands heightened interest i'll the cele-
bration.
A pilgrimage to Rome nowadays is
more or less of luxury, at least, by
comparison with the time when pill
grims trudged thither on foot, and de-
pended for their SuStenance upon the
charity of the people. Ma
turally enough, the largest number of
pilgrims came from the Italian prov
inces. and whose thinks that Pope Leo
is unpopular in Italy hugs huge de-