The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-10

or the occupancy of Peters. chair by Plus
TX, and those later years when the pater-
nal rule Of the Pope Appeared in marked
contrast to the reactionary policy of Carii-
nal Antonelli a prelate, by the way. whom
the lecturer did not hesitate to brand as
strong but INSCRIPTIONS" The differ
ence between the unidcation of Italy under
julius Caesar and Augustus and the unfit
cation under Victor Emmanuel was thus
described: Under the first Caesars Rome
conquered the Italians, under the House
of Savoy, the Italians conquered Rome
They took 1t by seige, after bombarding it,
One of the bombs fell in the library in our
house in Rome. 1t burst there, in the heart
of the city, and have preserved the frag-
ments of it, and some of the books injured
by the explosion, as an argument against
the common assertion that Rome was oc-
cupied almost without a struggle"
When Leo XIII succeeded Plus TX the
atheistic spirit was strong in nearly every
country in Europe, and the leaders of the
new Italian movement. Cavour Garibaldi
ana others were all atheists who sought
to found an anti-Cathoic power On the
other hand the whole Italian people below
the artificial and scientific level We're as
they now are, profoundly and even super
stitiously religious.
OF the present Pope he said: His Holt
ness strongly resembles both his parents
brow and his mothers wide mouth with
its thin, smiling lips and firm chin. From
MS early portraits he appears to have
been dark He has the long, lean, straight
broad shouldered frame of the true noun
ta1neer, the marvellously bright eye the
eagle features, the well knit growth of
strength, traceable even in extreme old
age; and in character there Is in him the
wen balanced combination of a steady eau
ton, with an unerring, unhestating de
clsion, which appears in those great mo-
ments when history will not wait for lit
tie mems long pauses, when the peudu-
lum world is swinging its full stroke and
when it is either glory or death to lay
strong hands upon its weight
physically, there is indeed a resem-
blance between Leo XIII, President Lin
com ana Mr.. Gladstone, long sinewy men,
| all three, of a bOny constitution and in
| domhable vitality, with large skulls. high
| cheek bones and energetic Jaws; all three
| men OF great physical strength, of pro-
| found capacity for study, of melancholic
| disposition and unusual eloduence. 1t
| might also be said that these three repre-
sent three distinct stages of one type-the
| real, or material, the intellectual and the
| spiritual From earliest youth each of the
| three was, by force of circumstances,
| turned to the direction which he was ulti-
mately to follow Lincoln was thrown
| upon facts for his education; Gladstone
| received the existing form of education in
| its highest development, while Leo XIII
was brought up under the domination of
| spiritual thoughts at a time when they
| had triumphanty survived the French
| revolution.
LEO XIII ranks high among the schol-
| arly poets of our day, and is certainly
conspicuous for the liberality of his views.
| AS long as he was in Perugia, it is well
| known a tha off Of
| Italian garrison and any government Off
| Gals of rank who CHANGED to be present in
| the city, not merely now and then, or in
| a formal way, but constantly, and with a
! cordially which showed how he appreci-
| ated their converse ton
| A description of the clear and wonderful
| ly ringing voice of the Pope having been
given and some of his charms of manner
| having been referred to, the lecturer drew
| a comparison between the decision of his
| character and the hesitancy and desire
| to please of his predecessors. Other par
| ticulars regarding the Pope's abstemious
| habits and his method of spending the day,
| many of which are already known, having
| been given, an anecdote illustrating the
peculiarities of the two pontiffs was re-
| lated TT is the CUSTOM" said Mr.. Craw-
ford, 'when the Pope holds a semi-pubic
! reception to from five to thirty persons In
one of the ante-rooms of the vatican
| chambers, for those who attend to kneel
| in two rows and for his holiness to pass
| down the center, blessing those present
and saying a few words to each. At one
of the receptions held by Plus TX a young
| Englishman had the bad taste to stand up
at the end of the line. Etiquette, not re-
| ligion, demands that all should kneel.
| When Plus came to this young man,
he said: "Will you not yield,
young man, and receive an old man s
| blessing" The young man was SO touch
ed by the Pope's kindly manner that he
| knelt at once.