The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-08
PERSONALITY OF Plus K.
New Pope Of Humble Origin,
Scholarly and Kind.
BELOVED BY THE RICH AND POOR,

sick and the Amicted Know His
MiniStering Hand, and He Is the
Friend Of ItaIy's King and queen.
now He was Honored by victor
Emmanuel--His Political Attitude
said to he Unknown.
copyright. 1908, by the Press Publishing
company. New York World.l
The Venice correspondent Of the New
York World writes that the mental,
spiritual and physical attributes Of
Pope Plus x. win assure, it Is asserted,
ain ideal sovereignty Of the Roman
church. A man Of large, well hlled
figure, his head massive and fine, his
countenanee and kindly eye bespeaking
gentleness, intelligence and humility.
he bears himself nobly and with all the
graciousness Of a good king.
One ADLER or more widely loved
could not well have been chosen for the
| high Office. Sarto sits in the chair Of
Peter because Of his splendid worth.
Politics, either of state or church, had
naught to do with his elevation. OF
Ian tile cardinals Of the sacred college
sarto knew least Of political intrigue
and hatreds. A pure soul, above world
| IL things, he wears with peculiar pro
priety the title Of holy father"
sarto spent half Of his life in teach
ing the young, For many years he was
the priest Of a humble parish, with
slender income, upon which there were
many claims. He was past the merid-
ian Of life when honors sought him out,
and then he rose to a bishopric Pro
motion came fast after that, although
sarto made not the least effort to seiz3
the prizes above him. His works
brought the rewards
Pope Plus X Is absolutely adverse to
the church pugnacious. AS patriarch
Of Venice Sarto had most pleasant re-
lations with the king and queen Of
Italy, showing to them that the spirit
of peace was strong within him and
that there was in his heart no atom
even of bitterness toward his temporal
soyereigns. Indicating fully his idea
Of the whole duty of the clergy, he
reformed the abuses in the diocese of
Mantua. of which he was bishop, in
sisting upon the clergy attending to
their religious exercises to the poor
and sick. He also held most modern
views upon education, and brings TO
the Vatican a breadth OF mind that
cannot fail to still further eXalt the
papa1 influence throughout the world.
AS an indication Of the extent to
which his character and views are
known in this country 1t is most evil
dent that the liberal Italians are de-
lighted with him, regarding him as
neither politician nor a zealot, who
will prove to be simply a religious
pope, which has been the desire of the
Catholic world for thirty years
The fact Is commented on that Sarto
was nine years a priest, nine years a
vicar general nine years bishop and
nine years cardinal Il is also point
ed out again that humble extraction
has never been d hindrance Ia aspira
tions for cartlinaIate or the pontifi-
cate Tie new pope Is absolutely a
self made man lie Is descended from
a family Of very small people IN the
Venetian market town Of Riase. do
cese Of Treviso, near Venice He was
Of brood Of eight. six daughters and
two sons. lie was born in 1885. and
IS therefore sixty eight years old.
Although patriarch Sarto allowed
his family to continue ia the modest
line Of life to which they were born
4 Three OF his sisters are spinsters. One
Of the others Antonio, is married to a
man SO poor that she must support
the family BY dressmalzlng Lucia Is
the wife OF a sexton, who is occasion.
ally d hawker, and the husband Of the
third sister keeps a little tobacco shop
One Of the maiden sisters is house
keeper at the patriarch's palace IN
Venice
| The popes mother now dead. oceu-
pied a small peasants house, having
in her humility always refused to live
with her son Giuseppe. as even his
modest establishment was considered
by her to be too luxurious In com
parison with what she was accustomed
TO- The elder brother Of the pope, An-
CELLO, lives in the village of Dellegrazie,
province Of Mantua, being the post
man of the district and receiving $50
year for his duties. He adds to his
income by keeping a shop in which he
sells tobacco and pork He has two
pretty daughters
When Plus Y was bishop Of Mantua
his brother Angelo used often TO go
there for reasons connected with his
postal service The other clerks would
ask him iokingly why his brother did
| not find him a better position. Angelo
with sturdy independence, answered
that he preferred only to be what he
could make himself. STILL following
papal precedents, the tobacconist and
postman Of DeIlegrazie should become
a Roman count.
sarto IN English IS tailor" and
Plus X when a young seminarist. be-
Ing rather elegant in his priestly
robes, his companions used to joke with
him, saying be evidently Knew the bust.
ness He began his education at the
diocesan seminary at Treviso, where