The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-20

XVI. Jan. 81, 1S43, and consecrated
Feb. Is, of the same year. Such a ju=
bilee is unique in history, and will be
made the occasion of great pomp
throughout the world.
Despite the recrudescence of reports
that the pope's health is bad, his pri-
vate physician, DR. Loize Lapponf, has
given out an interview stating that
such reports are without foundation.
He says the holy father is "stupen-
dously'' well, and has not been better
for the past ten years. He has with
stood the rigors of the winter we'll and
has even surprised himself by the pow
ers of his resistance. His pallor, which
is often remarked, is but natural, he
having always been pale and of frail
appearance. DR.. Lapponi has been the
private physician for the pope for the
last fourteen years. He attributes the
pope's 1ogevity to regular habits. He
comes of long-lived family, the Pee
els having been conStitutiOnally very
strong. During the winter he remains
in the Vatican exclusively, but in the
summer months sometimes takes a
half holiday in the gardens. He is a
well balanced man, not given to ex
cesses in word or deed. He inherited a
magnificent constitution which he fur
Their strengthened by exercise in his
youth.
Is Voluntary Prisoner.
For the past quarter of a century
Pope Leo has been one of the most
remarkable men of the world. He has
doomed big in the worlds eye along
side such men as Bismarck and Glad
stone and has outclassed them all.
Pope Leo. as man, not as church.
man, but as a plain, everyday man
if one can look upon him in that light
hoc ha a
aff1ict mortal men and has kept in
check his temper, his tongue and his
appetite-man's three tempters.
Twenty-Five years ago he came to
the Vatican, the successor of Pope Plus
TX. In the twenty-five years that have
passed, he has not gone outside its
walls. It's gates have never beheld him
as much as peering out through them.
He has regarded 1t as his workshop
and his world and has lived in it. Yet
in this quarter of century no one has
ever known as much as one harsh word
to cross his lips, or, as much as one
murmur escape him. He has lived in
his world as though it was a paradise.
The Vatican is a circumScribed place.
and though it affords abundant room
for exercise, it is much less spacious
and certainly less luxurious than many
a country place. To live in it continu-
ously would be intolerable for any
able-bodied man of the world, and
equally intolerable for any active wom-
an.
When the pope accepted the high Of
fee to which he was elected he did so
with constant prayer and with holy re-
joicing. There was none of that sud
den assumption of power which marks
so many upon rise to great worldly
attainment. From being a high stand
ing prelate of the Roman Catholic
church he passed into being that of
its highest power on earth.
His Great Frugality.
Never too indulgent in worldly fare,
he became now positively frugal He
ate little or nothing, and his long fasts
alarmed his physicians, who could not
prevail upon him to break them. In
despair at his apparent lack of fore
thought for himself they prepared foods
that contained the very essence of life
without the quantity and urged them
upon him DR.. Lapponi invented
drinks that were full of nourishment,
vet did not annoy the holy father with
fear that he was overindulging in this
worlds appetite. 1t is said that one Of
these drinks of a single cupful contain
ed egg enough to support the human