Connecticut western news., 1903-07-23


 Irish and one American (McCloskey), the latter being on his way.
 Papal elections in the remote past had often been interfered with by the house of Bourbon and others. On this occasion there was no interference.
 The second day the door of the con clave's improvised chamber was locked on the Inside and the outside and every portion of the tnclosure examined to see that there was no communication with the world.
 Cardinal Pecci had a kitchen within the incloSure and cooks and servants ready. Each cardinal sat under can
 opy, with small square table and
 writing materials before him. Then
 with folded paper the ballots were
 dropped Into a consecrated chalice. From this chalice they were counted into another one.
 On the first ballot there were twenty three votes for the viceroy. Cardinal JoG chin Pecci.
 The bGllotinS papers were burned. and at rhe sign of the smoke issuing from the stovepipe in q window the | crowd outside knew that no pope had yet been chosen. Cardinal Pecci re- ! tired to his cell
 Then came an afternoon session. The cardinal himself voted secretly, i like the rest. He sat In great distress and responsibility. Persons present say that great tears rolled down his i cheeks and that when he undertook to Igs -l,y -Nz, lently tliat the pen fell to the ground. This time he had thirty eight votes, 1 but not enough.
 Everything pointed to the probability | of his election on the next day, l Wednesday.
 That day Cardinal Pecci undertook to check the movement toward him, but the third ballot came on, and forty-four votes were recorded in his favor, more than two-thirds.
 The master of ceremonies went up to his seat and asked him. Do you ac- cept the election as supreme pontiff of the Catholic churchT' He arose and affirmed his unworthiness. At length, | however, he bowed.
 Then at a clapplng of hands all the l cardinals rose and stood in homage, and the canopies above all their seats were lowered except that above the pope elect.
 By what name do you wish to be called?"
 1 By tine name of Leo XIII"
 The pope elect was now taken aside I and clad in white cassock, cincture, | rocket, hood and berretta and even 1 stockings. His shoes. however, were scarlet. with d golden cross upon them. l He advanced from behind the altar to l his throne.
 1 The fisherman's ring is put upon his ! hand. Tl.e cardinals come up and kiss ! his feet and receive his kiss upon their 1 checks. This is called the "adoration."
 An aged cardinal advances upon the
 piazza and declares to the multitude: i "I announce to you tidings of great | joy. We have a pope, the most emil nent and most reverend Joachim Pee
 ci, cardinal priest of the title of St. Chrysogonus, who hath given himself for name Leo NIL" Tie bells of tie churches rang, but
 uo cannon thundered as aforetime, and i there was no o.illumination, though some Individuals illuminated their palaces. Pelugia was in delight
 l The pope's term has been unusually active, as might be supposed from the I diminution of his temporal or prince ! powers He has given his active head l to corresponding wiih the churches in
 all nations. AS the Italians preferred ! their national policy to the pope's in- 1 terestS. he has not been as provincial l an Italian as his predecessors. His | friendly and reciprocal hand has been l felt in distant countries. Teaching the
 necessity of Christianity, which lie
 considered to be his, or the church to l human society. he said:
 l Let every member of Christian sO- l ciety reform his own conduct and out ward manner of living" He made Car dinaI Franchi his state secretary, the | chief of the propaganda, and sent him to Ireland to keep the National party there loyal. peaceful and orderly. Fran 1 chi died suddenly. and Cardinal Nina succeeded him. The pope spoke of be- i ing "compelled to see beneath our eyes i in this Rome, the center of the Catho ! lie religion, the progress made by here l sy, heterodox temples and schools built
 freely and in great number" | The pope addressed himself to the good will of Bismarck. who really held Italy up. The Italian government sold ! the property of the propaganda and put : the church catechism out of the prima- " schools. Many pilgrims, however, came to Rome bringing gifts. Leo made 1 a peace, rather recklessly broken by his i predecessor, with the emperor of Rus i sia, and some of the grand dukes came 1 to see him. He sent crosses to Asiatic | rulers and softened their natures. De | prived of some barren mountains and miasmatic plains. he cultivated far ] abroad the amenities of society and the
 human heart not all depraved. He
 made a hierarchy for Scotland, shrewd- 1 iy saying in the tone of Walter Scott .'The remains still eXtant of church ed iaces, monasteries and other religious l structures bear splendid testimony to the piety of the ancient Scots" He stopned the silly feuds between various ! kinds of ruffian Christians in the Turk ish rarts and gnve this confidence to Cardinal pr. Walsh in 1885, and MT l ParneIl was unable to lead the Irish
 cause after his social slip.
 In Germany eminent Catholics like | pr. pollinger and Prince Hohenlohe,
 both of Bavaria. attacked the papal | doctrine of infallibility as encouraging
 rebellion against the civil rulers under l Jesuit Interpretation. Italy was then l the ally of Germany. What was called
 "the old Catholic church." or Jansen
 ists. was built up to neutralize the ! Jesulits. The word "kultur kampf," or | learnings conflict against sixteenth
 century Catholicism, was invented
 Bruno the priest philosopher and | friend of Galilei, was given a statue in l Rome. where he had been burned. In
 1873 the Jesuits had been driven out of