The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-02
ANECDOTES
OF DEAD LEO
His inscription on a Portrait
Painted by an Amateur.
FRANCO.GERMAN FEELING
French Veteran Foully Murdered by a
German Through National Hatred.
Pierre Lott a Naval Officer-A
Deadly Duel With Acid.
By PAUL vlLLIERs.

By PAUL vlLLlERS.
Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch
Copyright, Ieo3)
PARIS, August Flew people know
that the late Pope Leo In his youth
was an enthusiastic mountain climber.
Joachim Pecci, as was Ills Holiness
name before he was elected Pope, as a
young student spent all his vacations at
Carpinetto, and from there made fire.
quent excursions into the noighboring
mountains
Accompanied by q guide. Ludovico Sal
vagni who has now been dead for many
years, ne ascended the Pozzo della Neve
and later conducted party Of peasants
to the top Of another mountain, Ire
croc where three crosses were then
erected under his supervision.
Until Pope Leo was known to be dying
| It was never realized how great was his
power and influence in France, In spite
| of all government persecution OF the
Catholic religion, and now that he Is
dead you hear anecdotes without num-
Der which throw an interesting sideiight
|
| He was always very friendly to news
paper men. and very easily accessible to
photographers, sculptors and painters.
! who wanted to immortalize his features.
| Ono day an unknown Italian painter
asked Leo to sit for his portrait IN on,
! and the Pope, who was in an affable
mood sat down right then and there, but
as he watched his likeness grow under the
| artists brush tho lines in the Pope's face
I! deepened and he seemed very Ill at ease.
The painting was really anything but
flatterlng, and the likeness extremely
poor. .,,,,,
nleas with the result of his efforts,
and when the picture was finished asked
His Holiness to inscribe upon 1t some
+, quotation from the Holy Writ and afilN
his signature.
| tation Pope Leo wrote across the oot-
tom of the portrait:
Vatican, q. 70. ".
20 'o' Dc : . ''Se'' LEO XIII.
German Hatred of French.
Two reoen+ events on the frontier OF
! a1sace- lorraine have brought the old
hatred against Germany to break out with
all tho bitterness of the years just after
tho Franco-Prusslan war.
In the little village of Paguy-sur-Mo-
/ ellie an old French soldier, nero OF
mnny battles, was recently assassinated
lin n most cruel manner by a German,
lwho had evidently no other motive than
the notoriety he would gain by killing
a man who had fought valiantly against
/ Germany.
The murderer, whose name Is Barazz',
Ia German subject. who for some tlmo
has been doing odd Jobs In nllocal fac
ory. met Captain Pauot, formerly ad1u,
ant in a cavalry regiment and adecoratcd
with the cross Of the Legion of Honor,
outside the village, and without tho
slightest provocatlon knocked the veteran
4 down and plunged a knife into his heart
4. Then he calmly submitted to being ar
rested and insisted that he was perfectly
soma and happy to have killed man
who had in time of the war shed German
blood. ss37
The other incident took place near Bel
mort In the town OF Maguy. where q Ger
man customs official, schelper, shot aila
4 killed one young Frenchman ana wounded
Three of the young men, Menehez
schoett and Muir, were quietly chatting
near the German Customs Bureau When I
little dog which was with them STARTED
barking Mt Scheiber, who wore a German
uniform. ).
Fnraged at what he called an Insult &c
the uniform he wore Scheiber told tho
young men to stop the dog from barking
and when they snilingly declared thai
the animal meant no harm. the German
l,pockcd them down with the butt OF his
rifle. .,., cat
tried to interfere. but was shot down or
he spot by the furious German and g
blow of the gun shattered his brain.
Al the sight of the blood the murderer
fed across the frontier, but was imme-
diately arrested and narrowly escaped a
lynchng,
Pierre Lott. the famous novelist. and
member of the French Academy, Is, as
viii be remembered an officer IN the
French navy, under MS real 'le'''e'
tain Julien Viaud.
ia has now been promoted to the COM
mand of the hrst-class cruiser Vantour'
which Is stationed at Constantlnople. ;,
Friends and admirers hope that this Will
giye tho author the impulse to write q
book about the city OF the sultan IN hls
inlmitable style, when nus won MN ia'''
all over the world.
Scraps From an Old History.
have Just come across an old BOOK
published in England In 1853 under the
title "The Reign of George VI from i'V>
to 1884 Prophecy
In the light of recent events, the book
Is extremely interesting, though the pro
phet has made few mistakes.
This might. however. happen to any
prophet, of course =.
Here is how Europe is described at the
beginning OF the twentieth century:
Russia has annexed not only FINLAND
and Crlmea, but the whole Scandinavian
She has formed an alliance with France
which is still under the rule of the Bour-
bons,
Revolution.
The power in Germany has passed from
the Iapsburgs to the Hohcnzollerns. and
the country is In 1908 ruled by "T'rled-
erich TX, a weakllng, who Is absolutely
dominated by his wife,
italy has becomn nnited Gnder one
king, and the Pope has been deprived OF
all temporal power ,a
and her colonies In America have, In 1920