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t THE ROMAN PONTIFF.
Looks Forward to Living to the
Close of 1903.
WnntK to ltonnd Out a Quarter of n
Century of 1 1 1m l'ontllU'iito unci
Half h Ccnturr of IIIh
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Special Correspondence!
POPE LEO XIIL, according to n ca
ble message recently received
from Home, has expressed to his
Intinmtes the conviction that lie would
live until late in the year 1003, when,
on December 19, he proposes to ccle
grate the llftleth anniversary of his
elevation to the cardinalate in a man
ner befitting so rare and distinguished
an event. From time to time the news
papers spread the report that the
venerable pontiit is at death's door,
but from a church dignitary who has
seen him severnl times within the past
decade it is learned that he seems to
be about as robust now as he was ten
years ago.
Pope Leo Is one of the most remark
able if not the most remarkable
men of our age. His character Is a
rare combination of firmness and gen
tleness, and with these virtues is com
bined a brilliant mind, whose grand
thoughts have challenged the admira
tion of thinking men of every creed.
Contemporary critics have dealt gen
tly with the aged ruler of the church.
They have, almost without exception,
given him praise for honesty of pur
pose and sincerity of intent; the most
notable exception being Marie Corelli,
HIS HOLINESS,
who, in "The Master Christian," draws
a picture of his holiness which de
picts him as an old, old man governed
by senile prejudice and thu advice of
self-seeking sycophants. Miss Corelll's
delineation of Leo's character is ridi
culed by churchmen, who assert that
the pope is ruler of church in fact as
well as name, and that personal con
siderations never enter into his de
cisions; and until the talented woman
novelist furnishes more proof than
mere assertion the world will be in
clined to accept the estimate of the
pope's associates rather than hers.
The biography of the head of the
Itoman Catholic church demonstrates
that genuine merit, combined with an
understanding of the value and pow
er of organization, is the keystone of
success in the ecclesiastical as well
as the business world. Vincenzo Gio
acehino Pecci, the son of Count Ludo
vieo Pecci and his wife, Anna Prosper!,
was born March 2, 1810, at Carpineto,
in the Papal States. At the age of
eight he was placed in the Jesuit col
lege of Vitebo, where he remained six
years and distinguished himself for
ability and propriety of conduct. His
mother dying at the end of this time,
in 1824, his father took him to Home,
and in November of that year placed
him in the celebrated Itoman college.
Here his great talents and earnest ap
plication were strongly impressed
xipon his instructors, who were de
lighted when, at the age of J8, he took
the first pri.e in physloo-chcniistry.
Following this, he took a complete
course in philosophy, receiving the
laurea in 18,'tl. He then entered the
college of Noble Ecclesiastics and
learned canon and civil law in the
schools of the Koman university. After
becoming a doctor of laws, he was
appointed by Pope Gregory XVI. n do
mestic prelate and referendary of the
signature, March 10, 1837, his priest
hood being confirmed in the chapel of
the vicariate December 23, 1837. At
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this time, although but 27 years of
age, he was admitted to be one of the
first scholars of Home.
Pope Gregory speedily recognized
the young priest's executive ability by
making him apostoliu delegate at
Henevento, Perugia and Spolcto, in
each of which places his administra
tion was marked by great energy and
strong common sense. In the first
place he suppressed brigandage, which
had been the cause of endless disor
der, and thereby won the everlasting
gratitude of the law-abiding portion
of the community.
Designing him for the diplomatic
service, for which his great talents
and aristocratic bearing preeminent
ly fitted him, Gregory made him, on
January 17, 1843, titular archbishop
of Damiettca, in order that he might
be qualified for the office of nuncio to
Hclghim. He remained three years at
Brussels, discharging the duties per
taining to his delicate post with great
tact and to the highest satisfaction of
his master who then, in 1840, just n
few months before his own death, be
stowed on him the sec of Perugia.
Peecl's talents made a strong im
pression upon the success of Gregory,
Tins IX., and at the consistory held
December 19, 1853, he was, at the ago
of 43, created a cardinal. Twenty-four
years later, in which Interval he had
rendered the most faithful services to
the church, he was selected to fill the
most responsible position of enrdinal
eamerlengo of the Itoman hierarchy,
He was then a man of 07, yet he did not
hesitate when thus summoned to as
sume the weighty obligations resting
upon the pope's chief executive officer.
Five mouths later Plus IX. was gath
ered to his fathers, and the new earner-
POPE LEO XIII.
lengo was compelled to assume all the
temporal duties of the papal ollice.
Pius died February 7, 1878, and 21
days later Peeel succeeded him under
the name of Leo XIII. Sixty-two car
dinals were in attendance upon this
notable conclave, yet so universally
were the merits of Pecci recognized,
and so general was the demand that
he become head of the church, that not
a single vote was east against him.
In the matter of dress, the venerablo
pontiff is punctilious, his wardrobe
being one of great magnificence. For
ordinary wear he has a white robe,
made in winter of fine cloth, in sum
mer of moire silk. When he goes into
the garden he throws over this a long
mantle of red cloth, which lias a bor
der of gold embroidery. When dressed
for private ceremonies he wears a sur
plice made of costly lace, and a red
pelerine, of cloth in winter and of
satin in summer. For great festivals
he first puts on the "falda," a
wide seamless coat of white satin,
around which is tied a broad striped
sash of gold, red and white. Above this
is a beautiful garment covered with
jewels, and last comes a mantlo of
gold-embroidered velvet. On his feet
the pope always wears red velvet
shoes. In addition to his episcopal ring
the pope is fond of wearing other cost
ly rings, often composed of single
stones of great beauty. He seldom
dons the pontifical tiara, which is a
threefold golden crown, lined with
red, green and blue velvet, and cov
ered with priceless jewels. For great
ceremonies his eoslunio is so heavy
that it is impossible for him, at his
great age, to stand or walk, and he is
carried in a chair.
Like almost every other human be
ing the pope has a hobby the writing
of poetry. Most of his verses are
written in Latin, and eminent critics
have pronounced them among tho
finest specimens of modern poetry.
STOEY.OF AN INDIAN.
His Fate Was Far Worse Than
That of Capt. Dreyfus.
Apnclic Chief Who Win (lie Victim of
mi Arm)' Ofllcer' Ilntrnl
Wroiiireil '' tt'c Men He
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Special Washington Letter.
THIS is the stoiy of Es-kiin-lu-zln,
the Apache chief who suf
fered unmerited imprisonment,
and died in confinement.
It is a pathetic story of wrongs
never righted. The whole world
sympathized with Capt. Dreyfus, but
he lived to be restored to his family
and friends. Poor old Es-kiui-ln-zin
never received justice, ami was re
turned to his home and family, only
in a dying condition, within a month
of his decease.
One of the Btnnch friends of Es-kim-ln-zln
was John P. Chun, post of
fice Inspector. Formerly Mr. Chun
was Indian agent at the San Carlos
agency, in Arizona. His record there
was superb, and he was regarded as
the best Indian agent in the service.
His word alone ought to have been
sufllclent to secure the release of the
persecuted Apache, but It was not.
Gen. O. 0. Howard was also one of the
firm friends of Es-kini-in-zln, but even
his efforts to procure his release were
unavailing.
In the war department the state
ment of Es-kliii-in-.in is on file, under
date March, 1892. He says: "Seven
teen years ago 1 took up a ranch on
the San Pedro, cleared the brush, and
took out water in a ditch which 1
made. 1 plowed the land and made a
fence around it like the Mexicans.
When 1 started I had three horses
and 25 head of cattle. I was on the
San Pedro ten years. Then I had 17
horses, 38 cattle, a large yellow
wagon, for which I paid $10, and an
other wagon, which cost me $90. but
which I had given to some relatives.
I also had many tools. For about
three years I drew rations from the
agent. After that 1 did not draw any
more till I was sent to the agency by
Lieut. Watson. I bought all my fam
ily clothing and supplies with the
money I made. Tn 1888 Lieut. Wntstm
came to my ranch and gave me a pa
per from Capt. Pearce, the agent, and
told me that I had better go to the
San Carlos reservation, as citizens
would kill me if 1 did not that there
were about 150 citizens coining with
pistols.
"They came the next day after I
left 1113' ranch, and they shot at my
women, putting bullets through their
skirts, and drove them off. They
took 515 sacks of corn, wheat and
barley, destroyed 523 pumpkins and
took away 32 head of cattle. After
that I went to Washington, and when
I returned they asked me if J did not
wnnt to go back to my ranch on the
Sun Pedro. I said no, I would not
be safe there, and would feel like n
man sitting on a chair with some one
scratching the sand out from under
the legs. Then Capt. Pearce said that
I could select a farm on the reserva
tion, so I went with Lieut. Watson
and selected a piece of land on the
Gila just above the subagency. Lieut.
Watson surveyed It for me. I made a
ditch for irrigating, and had water
flowing in it, and had nearly finished
fencing the farm when 1 was arrest
ed. Since I have been away my
wife and some of my children have
looked after the farm fo. me."
Es-kiin-ln-ziii, in concluding his
final plea, says: "Since I put down a
THE WUONGED APACHE CHIEF,
stone with Gen. Howard many years
ago, and promised that I would never
do anything wrong, I have not broken
my promise. I nsk to be sent back to
my family at San Carles and given
the land surveyed by Lieut. Watson;
that it be given me forever, and I will
never ask for rations or anything else
for myself or my family, from the
government. 1 want to work like a
white man and support my family. I
can do it, and I will always be a good
man."
It was Maimed by those who inter
ested themselves In Es-kim-In-zin that
the order expelling him from Arizona
wan, at best, a military precaution,
and certainly could never have been
regarded as a military necessity.
Capt. Wothcrspoon, commandant at
Mount Vernon barracks, was also a
sympathizer with the imprisoned
chief. Vincent Colyer stated 10 the
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authorities that Es-klm-iu-zlu was the
first Indian chief who came into the
military post at old Camp Grant,
Ariz., in the spring of 1871, and asked
to be allowed to live in peace. It Is
nsscrtcd that while there under the
protection of the American Hag, and
assured by the army ofileers that he
a::d his people could sleep In their
camp hi as perfect security as tho
soldiers could in theirs, they were, in
the early dawn, set upon by a band
of nssasslns, under the leadership of
Americans, and 128 of his tribe, his
family, relatives and friends, old men,
women and children, were brutally
murdered and their bodies mutilated.
Es-klui-iu-ziu saved only one mem
ber of Ills family from the slaughter,
and this was a little girl, two and a
half years old, whom he caught in his
arms as lie fled. Es-klm-ln-zln, tho
day after t lie massacre, returned to
THE FLIGHT AT MIDNIGHT.
Camp Grant, where the commanding
ollleer assured him that no soldier
had any part in or sympathy with
tills brutal butchery. With tills as
surance he returned with the suvviv
ors of his band, and once more placed
himself under the protection of the
troops. Within six weeks his camp
was charged by a troop of white sol
diers, his people assaulted and driven
into the mountains. It was stated in
extenuation by the authorities that
"this was a very unfortunate
blunder." It appeared to Es-kiiu-In-.In
like trickery and he became en
raged. He was stirred to revenge,
and later, either he, or one of lib
friends, killed a white man.
His friends maintain that It way
wonderful that he stopped at the
deatli of only one of a race with which
lie had formerly maintained relations
of perpetual war, and who, since a
truce was declared, had exercised, as
he believed, and had reason to believe,
so much treachery and cruelty toward
him and his people.
The enemies of Es-klm-in-zin empha
sized his alleged crime by saying that
the man who was killed had befriended
him. Mis friends said that these peo
ple lost sight of the fact that all this
treachery, cruelty and murder toward
the Apaches was enacted after the
most solemn assurances of friendship
and protect ion had been made to the
Indians by the commissioned officers
of the American government.
One of the papers filed 111 behalf oi
Es-kini-in-ln contains the follwing
paragraph: "Is It not strange that wo
can pass lightly over the 128 treacher
ous and cowardly murders instigated
by white men, while we carefully treas
ure the memory of a single killing by
an Indian, and after the lapse of 2.1
years point to him and say: 'This man
murdered his friend,' without even giv
ing him the benefit of the circum
stances which instigated the crime."
Within the two years which followed
the mnssacre of old Camp Grant, Spe
cial Commissioner Colyer and Gen. O
O. Howard visited Arizona. Post Office
Inspector Clum says that these offi
cers did not find Es-kim-in-zin
"treacherous, cruel and bad," but
that, on the contrary, they had great
confidence in him, and tliatGeu. How
ard believed in the old chief. Mr.
Chun states that when he went to
Arizona in 1871 as the Indian agent at
Sail Carlos he found Es-kiin-in-zin a
prisoner of war at new Camp Grant
in irons, engaged in making adobe
for the soldiers, and that then, as
now, there were no specific charges
against him. Mr. Chun said that the
ofileers at the post told him the In
dian was confined because "a certain
major of the United States army did
not like him," and regarded him as a
bad Indian.
In 1874, In compliance with an offi
cial request from Indian Agent Clum,
Es-kiin-ln-zin was released, and up to
the time of the departure of Agent
Chun from that agency the old Indian
was faithful, and never found wanting
in action or advice. When the agent's
life 'was sometimes in danger, he re
lied upon Es-kiiii-iu-zin, and the old
chief always did his duly well. It was
in 1877, after Agent Chun went else
where, that the undeserved outrages
were heaped upon the old Indian, who
had done nothing wrong, but had done
everything to deserve a betetr fate.
Es-klin-ln-zin was confined for manj
years at Mount Vernon barracks, Ala
bama, and ultimately was sent to Fori
Sill, Oklahoma, where he remained un
til 1895 without seeing even a glim
mer of justice to cheer his pathway to
the happy hunting grounds.
SMITH D. FItV.
FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER.
O1I1I Illtn of Information Thnt Mny II
of Value In Her livcryilny
I.nliora,
Ono way to care for fine laces la to
keep them in envelopes of blue paper,
sprinkling them with a little powdered
magnesia boforo they aro folded away,
says the Host on Pudge t.
Soup of almost any kind la better
warmed over for the second day's din
ner than wheu newly mnde. If tho
warming over Is done too quickly,
however, the soup Is likely to bo
scorched. If it is left upon tho 11 ro
too long a timu after it has become
hot, it is likely to bo insipid. With
these two exceptions, soup Is better on
Its second appearance than upon Its
first.
Irish moss lemonade Is an esteemed
drink for a patient with a feverish
cold. Made according to a formula
in a nurse's course, it requires a half
cup of Irish moss, picked over careful
ly and snaked in enough cold water to
cover. Ilcmnvo tho moss, add two
cupfuls of cold water and cook 20
minutes in a double boiler. To half a
cupful of tho liquid, add the julca of
ono lemon and sugar to Bweetcn. '
A scientist now tells us ho has din
covered that mice havo a wonderful
antipathy to peppermint oil, and that
soino of it placed around their haunts
will successfully keep them away.
There aro 11 good many who aro con
tinually fighting these little pests, ami
tho suggestion may bo worth trying.
There are many objecttoun to tho uso
of poisonous articles for tho elimina
tion of mice, ami this discovery, it
proven to bo effectual, will no doubt
bo a boon to those who aro trouble!
in tliis way.
Itlco croquettes are extra good when
made by these directions: To two cup
fuls of cold boiled rlco add one table
spoonful of cream, or, if the cream in
not at hand, one tablespooiiful of but
ter. Add a little salt and one tea
spoonful of sugar. Grate in a nujro
suggestion of nutmeg. Spread thin
mixture out In thin pieces, and fill
each pleco with some jam or Jelly,
folding it up in croquette shape, tho
jelly inside. When all are ready, pro
ceed as in the case of any sort of cro
quette. '
Cream cheese mixed with equal por
tions of minced chives and parsley,
using perhaps two teaspoon fills each
for one small cheese, then made Into
small balls and served with le.ttuco
salad, Is very good. Or take one-half
pound of a rich dairy cheese and work
It to a cream with a tnhlcspoonful of
butter. Add a teaspooiiful each of
mustard, sugar and Worcestershiro
sauce. Dash in a little cayenne and
add one and one-half tablespoon fills oC
vinegar. Heat all together and servo
on crackers that have been placed in
the oven till crisp and hot,
SNARING THE SUBURBANITE.
An luntniit-e of IIIh Unit for Any Kind
of mi Old (Snme on the
Trill 11. 1
"I beg your pardon!" said the well
dressed young man, "but do you ever
play a friendly game on your short
runs?"
"Very seldom," responded the sub
urbanite, shortly and cautiously, suy:
tho New York Herald.
"Well, of course, eiicher and whist
nre too long, but 1 have a little gimio
that is perfection. I just stick plnn
in the back of the scat In this man
ner, and then you ring them with thltf
little brass circle. The center pfiui
pay ten dollars, and the nearest flvo
dollars; all the others pay one dol
lar, and it only costs one dollar a
toss. Just look. Sec, sir, J drop it on
the ten pin every time I toss.'
The suburbanite wns interested In
spite of himself.
"I'll just take one toss," he said,
fishing a crumpled note from a lower
pocket.
"Hlght ori the. five. You nre in luclr
sir. Take six tosses for five."
The suburbanite risked and lost.
"One morel" ho said, but again thai
little brass circle failed to ring.
"Twelve for ten?"
"Yes, but I hate to do it. If It
should ring every time 1 would liavo
to hand over a hundred and twenty.'
Hut It did not even ring once.
"I am broke."
"Make out a little check. Just for
six more. You cannot lose."
The final throws were no more suc
cessful than the previous.
"I nm done! Not another toss."
"It's about time. Hero is your
money."
"What do you mean?"
"Why, your club engaged me to
fleece you. Don't boast about being
unapproachable, and don't kid tho
members who have been up against
three-card monte. You are the big
gest fool yet."
To Soften the IIiumIm Quickly,
First wash them In tepid water till
every vestige of dirt is removed. Then,
before drying, well rub in glycerino
and lemon juice mixed in equal propor
tions. Thoroughly dry with a soft
towel, then quickly wash again with
cold water and any good soap, keeping
them In the water as short a time na.
possible. Again dry thoroughly and
powder with oatmeal. Washington
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