White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-23
DEATH OF POPE PIUx X.

Pope Plus X died at Rome. at 1:2t
o'clock Thursday morning. He had
been i'll for several days. but alarm
ing symptoms did not develop until
Wednesday morning. Throughout
the day Drs. M~archiafara and Amici
devoted thir utmost energies to
stimulating their patient and keep
ing him alive. The cardinals were
notified of the Pope's grave condition
and some of them who entered the
sick room describe the c~ompressive
and heart rending scenes. especially
when the Pontiff, rousing himself
from time to time. spoke. Once he
said:
I'm ancient times the Popes by a
word might have stayed the slaughter
but now he is impotent."
Prayers were said by thousands
and the bells of the churches sound
ed when the sacrament was exposed
upon all the alters. When the court
learned of the Pope's condition there
vas the deepest concern.
The dying Pope. In a moment of
lucidity, said: Now / begin to
think as the end is approaching that
the Almighty in his inexhaustible
goodness wishes Z o spare me the
horrors Europe is undergoing"
The Pope had been ailing for many
years and he found the weight of 70
years. added to the worry W re-
sen happenings in the Old World too
great for his feeble strength when he
suffered a return attack of his old
ailment, equity catarrh. Although his
physicians did everything that lay
within their power to ease his condi-
ton and produce artificial strength,
they could do nothing to relieve his
state of mind, and the Pontiff sank
steadily until it became apparent that
the end could not be stayed.
Plus Y was born on June 2. 1885,
at REESE. in the province of Venice.
the first of ten children of Clan
Battista and Margherita Sarto. He
vas christened Giuseppe Melehiorre
Sarto. The father was a postman,
and died in 1852, but his wife Mar
gherita lived to see her eldest son a
Cardinal.
The village priest took a liking o
little Giuseppe and not only taught
him to read and write but instructed
him in Latin. When IL years old the
hoy entered the seminary at Castela
franco, not far from his native viii
lage. Every day for four years he
tramped back and forth to school,
barefoot on the road and carrying in
his hand the shoes that he put on
at the outskirts of the village to keep
up appearances.
In 1850 he received the tonsure
from the Bishop of Treyiso and was
given a scholarship of the diocese of
Treviso in the seminary of Padua,
where he finished his studies with
distinction. In 1858 he was ordain-
ed a priest, and for nine years was
chaplain at Tombolo. where he had
10 exercise most of the functions OF
parish priest. as the pastor was old
and an invalid.
At the same time Father Sarto
studied assiduously. established a
night school for adult students, and
ministered as a preacher in other
towns to which he was called. In
1867 he was named arch priest OF
Salzano. in the diocese of Treyiso
Here he restored the church, and by
his own means provided for the en-.
iargement and maintenance of thu
hospital, at the same time doing
much for the religious instruction o
children and adults.
Father Sartc's next advancement
came as we'll for the gift of elo
quence as in recognition of mis- earn
est work. He was made chancello
Of the diocese. as we'll as spiritua
director and rector of the seminary
and vicar general of the c~athedra
chapter. Nine years later, in 1884
he was named Bishop of Mantua.
When Leo XIII died a strong par
~ put forward as his successor Car
dinal Rampolla, the papal secretar
Of state. But Austria, which inner
its weighty rights in the church. in
terposed a veto on his election. TIL
College of Cardinals then turned Z
the simple patriarch of Venice an
elected him TO the sacred Office by
vote of 55 out of a possible sc
Cardinal Sarto thus succeeded Z
the throne of st. Peter on August 4