Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-03
FOR DEATH
The Pope Said to Believe That
His Death Will Occur
Soon.
Has Made All Arrangements for
His Funeral-Tomb Is
Prepared.
The Pope Will Leave Fortune
Valued at $50. 900 900 to
the Church.

Rome. Feb. S.-The recent revival OF
the publication of reports oil the iiliiiii-
hence of the pope.s death has led to IN
opiries being made of the Chevalier
Contra valet de chambre to his holt
ness. The chevalier declared mat tne
~pope's health is excellent. But he
added. my master for some lime past
has spoken almost solely of his mortal
end as tho 1T were near. The pope con-
Germs himself daily with the questions
of his death and successor. He has set
tied all arrangements for MS funerai
down to the minutest details. He says
thai the members of his family and not
the papal government u ask the
Italian government for the necessary
permission for interment in the basilica
of ST. John Lateran. a monumental
tomb is ready for fixing in Its place. 1t
Is the work of the famous sculptor Giu-
seppe Luchetti and has cost 100000 lire
| 10000, which has all been paid"
The tomb is a beautiful work of art.
The sarcophagus is surmounted by the
recu1nbent figure of Leo XIII. in full
pontifical robes. Guarding the tomb are
IUfe-size statues of St. Thomas and st.
Francis. and also a statue of the virgin
and two angels, all in white Carrara
marble.
The interment will take place In the
early morning with an entire absence
| of ceremony. BY the pope's express or
der the actual casket in which the body
will rest will be of plain white wood.
The pope leaves scarcely anything to
his relatives in his will. He quite re-
Gently divided among them his purely
personal estate so that his requests are
mere gifts of remembrance. All the
money he now possesses, about 500, 00O,-
600 lire $500 900, O0), he has bequeathed
to the treasury of the holy see.
All these things are perfectly familiar
to the inmate of the vatican, for II is
the pope himself who constantly talks
about them. He speaks quite as freely
and as often of his successor on the pa
pal throne. His consuming fear is that
his political work so persistently and
patiently performed and so fruitful OF
practical benefit to the church should
be nullified by some rash inheritor. He
would like to have the assurance that
he will be succeeded by Cardinal Ram
polla, but he knows that to be almost
impossible, and failing 1t he would pre-
fer Cardinal Gotti or Cardinal Wives y
Tuto. He disapproves in particular the
~candidatures of Cardinals Vanuteli.
Svampa and Oreglia. Yet n OF THESE
three will probably be the next pope.
His holiness regards Cardinals Oreglla
and Vanutelli as violent n dangerous
and Cardinal Svampa as too mucn OIL a
priest and too little of a diplomat.
Nearly every day the aged pontfr re-
ceives groups of three or four cardinals
and paternally talks to them of the sue
cession, and exhorts them to put aside
personal ambitions and work for the
good of the church. He warns them al
ways that the church is passing thru a
critical period and that any act of im-
prudence might have terrible conse-
q%uences.
Leo Kills bette noir is Cardinal Ore
elia. who is perhaps the most likely to
be pope of all the members of the sa-
cred college. He has frequent disputes
with Cardinal Oreglia, and the story Is
told in the vatican that a short time
ago when Leo r~eproached the cardinal
for the public use of politically intern
perate language Cardinal Oreglia tore
off his cardinals robe and threw 1t at
the pope's feet.