The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-17

death and requested to attend the services
| at the vatican chapel. The funeral of
| pope usually lasts nine days. the body,
| after being embalmed and robed in pom
| tihcal vestments lying in state three days
| in the private chapel of the pope, three
! days in the Sistine and three in the Ca
| thedral of ST. Peter.
| One of the most peculiar things about
| the election is the precautionary measures
| taken to secure absolute secrecy in re-
gard to the ballot until after the election
! is over. and as it lasts often for several
days the cardinals and their attendants
are obliged to live in their apartments
in the vatican. After the funeral the ear
dinals gather in the vatican masses are
said, a sermon relating to their duties is
delivered by one of their own number or
by some distinguished prelate chosen for
the occasion, and the cardinals retire to
a private wing of the vatican To hold The
election. Formerly none but cardinals
were admitted to this conclaVc. but of late
years the rule has been greatly relaxed.
The cardinals are mostly old men. some
OF them very aged in some cases unable
to help themselves to the extent desired.
so that within the wing of the vatican
set apart for their use there are now ad-
mitted BARRIERS. walters, Wallets doctors
and other attendants all of whom take
the same oath as the cardinals to divu!ge
nothing of what passes within they con-
tldNt- After all VINO SnDnlu ne tneIs nave
entered the apartments every entrance
but one Is walled up: briCklayeIs with ma
ferlal ana tools being in readiness One
door, however small private entrance,
is not included, for ii has happened that
a cardinal died during a ConuIaVe and
some means of access to the apartments
is deemed desirable. in view 81 AN extra
ordinary contingency. The little door is
locked within and without. and an attend
ant waits on each side. no one being al
cat s4saI
permission from both the cardinals ana
the papal chamberlain.
Formerly all the cardinals lived and
slept in a common dormitorS, but now Il !
private cell Is set apart for each. With the |
plainest furnishings. these little apart !
mentS more closely resemble the cell of n !
monk than II habtation tit for Il prince /
of the church. The cells are draped. those |
Tor the cardinals created by the last pope |
in red, all others in green. so that the
distinction between red cardinal and Il I
green cardinal is marked at the election /
II AT no other time.
There is little change In the routine
life of the cardinals during these DAYS
they are confined here waiting the final
vote. An official wakes each cardinal at
O'Clock every morning and the college
Immediately assemblies at mass before a
temporary altar. After mass a ballot is
taken and If there is no choice they re-
tire for breakfast In discussion, possibly
electionecrng, exercise and other ways
they pass the time until o'clock in the
afternoon. when another ballot is taken. !
and II without result they dine and pass
the afternoon as best they can. all retir-
ing at dark To await the next days
events
There are four acknowledged methods Z
of eleeting pope. First. by inspiration;
second. by compromise: third by scrutiny /
or ballot. and fourth. by access. Popes
have often been elected by inspiration, t
nc ono
Is obviously the choice either
of the entire body or Of Il majority some
one, viva voce. proposes his name the
other cardinals accept, and the inspira-
ton OF the act is recognized. by the com
promise method the cardinals, finding ii
impossible TO agree upon II choice, leave
TO one Of their own number the task OF
pope.
The system of balloting which has been
IN vogue in the conclave for several hum
dreds of years is IA curious prcmonition
OF the Australian system Sheets of pa
per are carefully folded SO that when
opened by the tellers the latter see moth
ing but the name of the candidate WHO
has been voted for, while in one of the
folds Is recorded also the name of tn.
cardinal voting. When a ballot is To b.
taken these sheets are distributed by the
attendants among the princes OF the
church. each records his vote and i'm the
folded corner, his name or initials the
latter being done for the sake of identi-
lying the ballot in case any controversy
should arise as 10 the number of votes
or their validity, then advances to the
altar kneels. repeats PRAYER and in The
sacred chalice deposits his ballot All
must vote, otherwise there is no election
and there is a tradition that on one occa-
SION III the last century cardinal wise
IN MS generation prevented the election
OF a rival by concealinH his ballot i'm his
sleeve instead of depositing IL in the chat
ice When the ballots were counted. of
course. there was one short and no cleo
ton and before another ballot was taken
the tricky cardinal had won over enough
votes to his own side to insure success
After the ballots have all been deposited
IN the chalice three cardinals are ap-
pointed teliers who open the sheets
read ana record the nnmes of the candt-
dates voted for and announce the result.
II no election has been attained the bal
lots are burned, together with the record
Oh the vote made by the teliers This part
oi the procedure is so well understood
III Rome that as soon as the cardinals
are locked up in conclave n particular
'himneN in the vatican palace Is watched
ana when smoke is seen ascending from
I everybody knows that an unsuccessful
ballot has been taken.
When a ballot is successful the new
pope Is attired in the vestments of his
office and escorted to the vatican where
he occupies the apartments Just vacated
~ his predecessor. His name is chosen
md a cardinal selected for the burmese
1astens TO a balcony facing the public
square outside the vatican and there an
lounces to the great assemblagc in wait
ng the name of the new pope.