The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-07-26

| by the Porta Pia and took possession of the
city in the name of the Italian government,
the pope had no choice but to remain Il
voluntary prisoner in the Vatican, or, by
his appearance outside the palace and in
the streets. seemingly sanction or cOunte-
nance the right of the government to tenn
poral power This he has never done by
word or act-hence his eighteen or twenty
years of seclusion. "'The people of Rome
were invited to choose whether they would
be ruled by the pope or by the king" and
they chose the king. Thereupon the gov
ernment guaranteed the pope, us the head
of Il great spiritual power, an income of
something like 100000 and the palace of
the Vatican, with its priceless treasures of
art, as his residence
The pope cannot touch this sum Of mon
cy without compromising his dignity and
what he considers his rights, and doubt
less he would also refuse to inhabt the
Vatican palace were it not for the fact that
for hundreds of years it had been the
dwelling place of the popes, and belonged
to them rather than to the king or the peo-
pie. The pope" said Crisp, has for
twenty years been living in the Vatican,
surrounded by the cardinals, by the func-
tiOnarieS of the church, inviolable and in
violate, Il constant and incorrigible con-
sprator." And Crispi himself was form
crly priest Although the grounds con-
nected with the Vatican are not large, still
they afford very respectable breathing
place for the one infallible man in the uni
verse. Here the sovereign pontitf goes
forth-when the weather and his health
| permit,-for his daily walks and drives.
Generally no profane eye of stranger with
in the gates is supposed to behold the min
iature pageant. But one noon just before
the great celebration of his jubilee, we
| Glanced to be in the !Sdlta della Bigd, Just
as the pope was about to go out for his
constitutional. The custodian was yerv
amiable, and imtimated in quiet way to
the few who still fingered in the room
| for it was lunch hour in Rome-that they
might see Ibis holiness" if they cared to
90 behind the heavy curtains that hid an
immense window commanding view of
| splendid avenues of the Vatican gardens.
We had not to wait long ere the apostol-
ic successor of St Peter, with his retinue.
emerged from one of the courts of the pal
ace. First came the pope, walking with a
quick, energetic step, accompanied by a
priest on his left, and tall soldier from
his bodyguard on his right. The pope wore
Il white wooden gown, hanging in soft folds
to his feet, and Il wide-brimmed red hat
The priest wore a violet or purple gown,
and held cream -colored sunshade, lined
with scarlet, overthe head of his ilustrious
superior. The body-guard was in splen-
did uniform. Behind them followed one
or two priests, and valet with Il scarlet
cloak over his arm. Then came closed
carnage with coachman and footman in
livery, AMI they were followed by mount
ed guard of two. Several of the celebra-
ted Swiss guards, in their butterfly uni
form of black, yellow, and red,-said to
have been designed by Michel Angelo
sauntered out into the broad drive, and
watched the little cortege. As if all this
color was not enough to drive any artist
frantic with ambition to transfer it to can
vas, there came three or four others-high
officials of the "houschold''-i crimson
| brocadc to their knees, and crimson stock
ings. Their long-wasted coats, knee
breeches, and padded stockings left moth
ing to wish for,-unless it were powdered
wigs,-to make the picture radiant one
as they stood there in the winter sunshine
under the Roman sky, with the soft green
of the lex trees for background
The pope walked briskly for a man of
his age He, naturally, looks small and
fragile by the side of the men who COM
pose his guard men of six feet and over
He has been constantly in Rome and in
his palace and gardens now for eighteen
years, with no change and no recreation
except that which Il change of works brings
him. He belongs to long-lived family;
one brother having died at eighty-four,
and another at ninety-one. He has been
compared to Gladstone in his ability to do
IA vast amount of work, and to find rest
merely by change of action.
We watched the little party out of sight
as they turned down an alice of the gar
dens, and then we returned to the gods
and goddesses of antiquity.-HomeJ Jour
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