The Portland daily press., 1893-03-20
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IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Continued from Fourth Page.

JeCIluS 1OfCn. w omen screamed DIS uuoii
faces pressed against it and called to the
guard who always mistake the injured
for the injuring and threaten the wrong
party with dire consequences for too
much haste. 1t became q scene illus
trating the theory of the Survival of the
Fittest for in reality, every man, woman
and child at that hour risked his life,
The crowd became surging mob. 1t
was like q horned beast which rushes
furious on, as nothing can be more cruel
than a heartless mob, the handspring of
whose action is the handspring of self-in-
terest. How every one tears and jostles,
climbing up over and hosting from be
meath. wedging in under and pushing
from behind, how it surges and boils and
Kisses and takes mean advantage of every
one within reach, how it pushes forward
as in the storming of fort. A crowd
bent on a selfish purpose is no better
than horde of savages with a war cry
bounding on. Even the Swiss guard
turn pale and try to reason with the mob,
but only few scores of people at the
top of the stairs are within the sound of
their voice and they are powerless to
battle with the multitude pushing up
from below. Each moment the soldiers
of the guard look more terrified as the
foremost ones come screaming, and some
fainting are borne ahead. But with all
their might they brace against the throng
and form barricade, making a loop in
the centre and draw one after another
f1attened through. With what life there
is left in their bodies dripping with per-
spiration and head gear awry or gone the
people proceed more quietly to the
chapel above, those arriving first of
course having the best chance.
L |. n Coo,
the nuns in their ardor climbing up on
the benches, rudely pushing those be-
meath aside, while on the other side the
young priests wedge themselves in.
It is now two o'clock and after an
hours waiting, the important person
ages Of the church come it, the ushers
being young men Of wealth elegantly
dressed in costumes suitable to the
august occasion. All who passed up
the broad aisle were people Of aonse-
auence connected with the church either
from Rome or guests from other cities,
for even then people from afar were as
sembling in the city for the jubilee day
which was not far away. Most beauti-'
full women were conducted past and men
who looked like princes gased up, as
| they went along, at the illuminated por-
trait Of the saint above.
AlL0T StuOLucI uCuI VI WdllluS LILO
crowd grew tremulous and its vibrations
showed that an unusual event was near
at hand. It was like the approach of a
great whirlwind when all nature is
moved and rent. "Vird IL papa s'ViuG
IL pepa'' Viva Leo XIII, "Viua IL papale
'.Vi0a IL re di Roma'' (meaning also the
pope) The shock was SO sudden that
even the strongest ssnerves could scarce
stand the strain. Young devotees clap
and roar with swollen blood vessels, they
exercise every limb and every muscle in
the desire to reach the highest possible
point of enthusiasm which occasion the
CAM demand.
Then the spiritual looking old man
comes trembling Sin followed and sur
rounded by a guard of cardinals who
keep close at his side, since on another
occasion, the week before in their excite
ment they had seized his hand kissing it
and almost lifting him sloft, so that to-
multitude, SO capable of anything is
human nature under the control of an ex-
citing force.
He blesses the people on either hand
as he passes along and all are greatly
touched by the blessing from his hand
and feel themselves advancing one step
nearer God.
He wears brocaded white gown with
a red plush cape extending down to his
waist bordered with the softest of elder
down, ard on his head in place of
crown, he has bound the simplest of
white caps.
One sees in all, that the Pope is
heavenly man and one who walks with
God. A wise ruler, no doubt, and a..
shrewd politician as far as the interest of
the church concerned, but withal a good
man.
He kneels while the ceremony of an
hours length goes on and then he passes
feebly out, blessing the multitudes as
when he came in.
The two attendants place him in his
chair enclosed with glass and take him
down the stairs through still another
crowd in the ante-room, who had failed
to fulfil the requirements of the evening
dress.
The people of the slowly moving
throng dispense, the soldiers of the Swiss
Guard come in, the sun goes down and
leaves us wondering what this full
fedged saint standing above, perhaps at
the segl of st. Peters gate, is thinking
of when the angels bring the news of his
late emolument. A. Fl. G.