WHEN A POPE DIES. The Curious Ceremonies That Follow His Decease and the Way a Successor is Elected. CONCLAVE OF CARDINALS IN SISTINE CHAPEL. Once again the occupant of the Vat ican at Borne has beoome an object of acute interest to the civilized world. When the news of Leo XIII.'s sud den illness was circulated recently, it was believed that his great age and feebleness would make it extremely doubtful whether he could undergo the operation which his physicians de cided to be necessary. His illness re sulted from a tumor on the thigh, of thirty years' growth, the excision of which he bore with much fortitude. His physical condition, however, was such that the slightest indisposition could only have a serious result, and the princes of the Roman Church realized the fact that the day was not far distant when another Pontiff must be chosen to the throne of the Papacy. This is the story of the death of a Pope, of the Conclave which follows and of the election of a new Pope, as told by the New York World and il lustrated by pictures taken from Harper's Weekly: When he is in his agony his nephews and his servants will remove what fur niture they choose from the palace of the Vatican. When the doctors certify His Holi ness to have ceased to live in this world the Cardinal Camerlengo, robed in violet, and the Clerks of the Cham ber, robed in black, will approach the corpse and, tapping him three times on the forehead with a silver mallet, they will invoke the dead Pope by the THE CARDINAL CAMERLENGO VERIFYING THE DEATH OF THE POPE. name by which his mother called him in his boyhood: "Oioacchino! Gioac chino! Gioacchino!" If no sign of life be given after this strange summons the Apostolic Pro thonotaries draw up the Act of Death. From the lifeless finger the Chamber lain draws the Fisherman's Ring of massive gold, worth a hundred golden crowns, and, having broken it up, divides the fragments among the six Masters of Ceremonies. The Apostolic Datary and his secre taries carry all the other seals to the Cardinal Camerlengo, who breaks them also in the presence of the Audi tor, the Treasurer and the Apostolic Clerks. No other Cardinals may as sist at this ftinction. THE POPE IN THE EVENING OF HIS DAYS. (Scene in the private garden at the Vatican devoted to the use of Pontiffs alone.) The pontifical nephews and the Cardinal Patron must quit the Palace now. The Cardinal Camerlengo takes possession in the name of the Apos tolic Chamber, making an inventory of what furniture has survived the spoliation. Twelve penitentiaries of St. Peter's Church with chaplains see the body shaved and embalmed with new per fumes. They vest it in the pontifical habits, crown it with a mitre and place a ohalioe in the hands. The great bell of the Capitol, which only sounds when tho Pope is dead, knells unceasingly. After four and twenty hours the penitentiaries and the chaplains bear the corpse upon an open bier to St. Peter's Church. Canons meet them. The ordinary prayers for one dead are chanted. The dead Pope lies instate on a lofty catafalque, where many tapers burn in the Chapel of the Holy Trinity. After three days the corpse is lapped in lead. Two and fifty Cardinals of TINE CHAPEL. the dead Pope's creation will putin gold and silver medals, having the effigy of their benefactor on one side and some notable act of his upon the other. The leadeu coffin is placed inside a casket covered with cypress wood and walled up in some part of the Basilica. If the Holy Father shall have chosen his place of sepulchre, either when living or by his will, the translation of his remains must not take place until at least one year shall have -'apsed, except a vast sum of money ->aid to the Chapter of St. Peter's Church. During the vacancy of the Holy See affairs are administered by the Car dinal Camerlengo, assisted by the Lord Louis Oreglia di Santo Stefano, First Cardinal Bishop, Dean of the Sacred College and Bishop of Ostia and Valletri; by the Lord Miccislas Ledochowski, First Cardinal Priest, and by the Lord Theodolphus Mertel, First Cardinal Deacon. The conclave must assemble ten days after the death of the Pope. The cardinals go in procession, two and two, according to their rank, sur rounded by the Swiss Guard and singing "Veni Creator Spiritus," to take possession of the cells assigned to each by lot. These cells are erected in a hall of the Vatican communicating with the Sistine Chapel. They are mere frame works of wood hung with fringed cur tains. Five are green in hue, because their occupants were created by Pius IX. The drapery of fifty-two will be of violet, because their occupants are creations of Leo XIII. On one side of each cell is a cur tained doorway over which the car dinal's armorials are shown, and higher still is a little swinging win dow. Each cardinal has a bed, a table and a chair. Having viewed their quarters, the cardinals goto the Pauline Chapel, where bulls concerning the eleotion of a Pope are read. To these the Car dinal Dean exhorts the conolave to conform. Then all may go and dine at borne in comfort for tue last time • new Pope begins to reign, but their Eminences are bound to return to the Vatican before 9 p. m.on pain of en trance being barred. Three hours after sunset doors are shut and walled up on the inside with masonry. Guards on the outside watch every avenue. One door is not walled up, in case some cardinal or conclavist must needs retire because of illness. Such may not return. There is a lock on each side of this door. The outside key is with the Prince Savelli. Heredi tary Marshal of the Church. The Cardinal Camevlengo holds the inside key. The Sistine Chapel has been furn ished for the conclave. On both sides thrones are set, having canopies which can be let down by pulling on a cord. On a long table before the altar are silver basins full of voting papers. These are blank. On the altar are two great chalices of gold with patens. Here is also tho oath which every Cardinal must sweat before he records his vote. Blank voting papers are handed to the Cardinals. Encli voting paper is a palm in length aud half a palm in breadth. Their Eminences take great care that none shall overlook them while 1 they write and seal their vote. Each Cardinal in turn takes his , s |j IKTfrfnr?, o>_ _ " CHIMNEY OF ANNOUNCEMENT. [As the election of a Pope draws near, crowds gather without the Vatican aud watch a tall chimney oh its southwestern front, fl'he issue of a cloud of smoke sig nals the election of a Supreme Pontiff. Tiie chimney Is never used at any other time.] folded voting paper between the thumb and index finger of his ringed right hand, holding it aloft in view of all. So, and alone, he goes to the altar, makes his genuflexion on the lowest step; on the highest step he swears his oath aloud tbat his vote is free. On the pateu which covers one "of the great golden chalices he lays his voting paper. He tilts the paten till the paper slides from it into the chal lice. He replaces the pateu as a cover and returns unattended to his throne. When at last a Pope hah been elected three Apostolic Protlionotaries record the act of conclave aud all the Cardi nal's sign aud seal it. The Cardinal Dean demands the new Pope's con sent to bis own election and the new name by which he wishes to be known. Each Cardinal releases the cord of the canopy of his throne, which folds down. No one may remain covered in the presence of the Pope. A new riug—the King of the Fisherman—is given to the Sovereign Pontiff. The first and second Cardinal Deacons—Lord Cardinal Theodolphus Mertel and Lord Cardinal Louis Macchi—conduct His Holiness to the rear of the altar with the masters of ceremonies and the Augustiuian Sac ristan; they take away his cardi nalitial scarlet aud vest him in a cas sock of white tafleta with cincture, a fair white linen rochet and the papel stole, a crimson almuoe, aud shoes of crimson cloth embroidered in gold. The servants of the conclave proceed to pillage the cell lately occupied by His Holiness. The new Pope sits upon a chair be fore the altar of the Sistine Chapel and the Cardinal Dean, the Lord Louis Oreglia di Santo Stefano, who is Ostia's and Velletri's Bishop, fol lowed by other [Eminences in their order, kneels to adore His Holiness, kissing the cross upon his shoe, the ring upon his hand, whereat the Sovereign Pontiff makes the kneeler rise and accords the Kiss of Peace on both cheeks. Then thejmaster mason breaks open the walled-up door. The First Cardi nal Deacon, the Lord Theodolphus Mertel, goes to the balcony of St. Peter's and to the city and the world proclaims "I announce to you great joy. We have a Pope." The papal benediction is imparted and the Pope is borne away by the twelve porters, clad in scarlet, to his private chamber. Boston has a municipal telsphons exchange. CROWING MENACERIE PLANTS. A Specimen Japanese Ilex, or Larch, Trained Into a Fantastic Shape. Several fine specimens of the Japan ese ilex plant, which have been on ex hibition in front of a wholesale florist's shop in Dey street, New York City, have met with great admiration. The ilex, or larch, plant is peculiarly pliable when young, and the native Japanese have twisted the plants into quaint figures, chiefly of birds and beasts. As a result of their handiwork pedestrians in Dey street are confronted with huge cranes, roosters bearing on their backs broods of young chickens, turtles, frogs, storks and a multitude of snakes twisting about in shapes weird and fantastic. The plant has a thick, strong root, from which thousands of shoots of green covered with small white petals grow. The Japanese gardener takes charge of it when the plant is young, and by bending and b'ndu g the stems with wire gradually forms it into any shape desired. As t'.je stems ,grow stronger the forms which they were trained to assume when young remain perfect, and when the plant is full grown and ready to transplant the gar- JAPANESE ILEX WITH LEAVES AND FLOWERS. dener has a collection of birds and ani mals which lends to bis garden the ap pearance of a small menagerie. The bird and beast plants in the Dey street collection were raised near Yo kohama, Japan, and were shipped to this country as an experiment. The plant is almost unknown in this coun try. Forest Life. Most of the fiercest carnivora. such as the tiger and the leopard, inhabit the forests, which are also infested with the most venomous reptiles and the most noxious insects. The cause Df the difference is found in the abun dance of vegetable food supplied in wooded regions. The fruits and roots attract large numbers of herbivorous animals, and these, in their turn, are sought for food by flesh-eatiug crea tures. A keen competition arises amongst the latter, and in the struggle for existeuce, the strongest and most ferocious survive. lu the course of time, new and still fiercer species re sult from the law of struggle. Tropi cal forests, under the influences of heat aud moisture, produce more luxu i riant vegetation than those of tem perate countries, anil, consequently, | they are tenanted by a more numerous j and a more ferocious animal popula \ tion. The vegetable products of open districts :ire more scanty, they are not so attractive to animals, and the com petition for food is not severe enough to develop the fiercer forms of life. Unique Monument to Cuban Heroes. The city of Buffalo is about to erect i unique memorial to the gallant men of the Thirteenth Infantry who did such noble work during our recent war with Spain. The monument will celebrate more specifically the good work done by this regiment at San Juan Hill aud before Santiago. It will be merely a huge bowlder suitably A MEMORIAL ROWLDER. engraved, aud has already been taken from the hillside of the Lewiston mountain, on the lower Niagara. This bowlder monument will be erected on a low foundation at Fort Porter, ii> the city of Buft'alo. The illustration represents the huge stone which has been selected and quarried for this purpose. It is egg shaped, and is of red granite, ten and one-half feet long and seven feet high. Paderewnki'a Kelici. Paderewski lives in a house that is a veritable museum of musical relics. Articles that have belonged to all the great composers are everywhere; aud the faces of their departed owners gaze upon you from the walls. Flow ers there are in profusion, for admir ers send to the famous pianist great bunches daily. The whole of the wall in one room is occupied by the enor mous laurel wreath presented to him at Leipsic. DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVIME. Subject: "Hold Fast to the Hlble"—Les sons Drawn Prom the Sword of Kleaznr _Aa He Grasped His Weapon So Should We Cleave to the Old Gospel. TEXT: "And his hand clave unto the sword." —llSamuel xxlll., 10. What a glorious thing to preach the Gospel! Some suppose that because I have resigned a llxed pastorate I will cease to preach. No, no. I expect to preaoh more than I ever have. If the Lord will, four times as much, t"-.„agh in manifold places. I would not dare to halt with such opportunity to declare the truth through the ear to audiences and to the eye through the printing press. And here we have u stirring theme put before us by the prophet. A*, great general of King David was Eleazar, the hero of the text. The Philis tines opened battle against him, and his troops retreated. The cowards fled. Eleazar and three of his comrades went into the battle and swept the field, for four men with God on their side are strooger than a whole regiment with God against them. "Fall back!" shouted the commander of the Philistine army. The cry ran along the host, "Fall back!" Eleazar, having swept the field, throws himself on the ground to rust, but the mus cles and sinews of his hand had been so long bent around the hilt of his sword that thenllt was imbedded in the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the hand, and he could not drop this sword Whloh he had so gallantly wielded. "His hand clave unto the sword." That is what I call magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel. And we want more of it. I propose to show you how Eleazar took hold of Mhe sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's hand, and I come to the conclusion that ho took the sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled had no trouble in drop ping their Bwords. As tbeyj fly over the rocks I hear their swords clanging in every dlreotion. It is easy enough for them to drop their swords, but Elenzar's hand clave unto the sword. In this Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the Gospel weap ons, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the truth. It makes me sick to see these Christian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the rest of the truth go, HO that the Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whole sword away from them. The onlv safe thing for us to do Is to put ourlthumbon the book of Genesis and sweep our hand around the book until the New Testament comes into the palm and keep on sweeping our hand around the boot until the tips of the fingers clutch at the words "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I like an iull del a great deal better than I do OIIH of these namby pamby Christians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest go. Jiy miracle God preserved this Bible just as It is, nnd It is a Damascus blade. The sever est test to which a sword can be putin a sword factory is to wind the blade arouud a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when the sword is let loose it flies back to its own shape. So the sword of God's truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way and that way and wound this way and that way, but it always comes baok to its own shape. Think of It! A book written nearly nineteen centuries ago, and some of It thousands of years ago, and yet in our time the average sale of this book Is more than 20,000 copies every week and more than 1,000,000 copies a year! I say i now that a book whtcO. Is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is . a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Coleuso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of Moses, and Strauss will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, and Renan will come along and try to ' wrench out of your hand the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your associates In the office or the factory or the banking ! house will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, but In the strength of the Lord Ood of Israol and with Eleuzajr's grip j hold onto it. Vou give up the ISible, you ; give up any pnrt of It, and you give up par don and peace and life In heaven. Do not be ashamed, young man, to have ! the world know that you are a friend of the I Btble. This book is the friend of all that is i i<ood, ami It is the sworn enemy of all that 1 is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives an incident of a very bail man who stood In a cell of a Western prison. This crimi nal had gone through all styles of crime, ! nnd he was there waiting for the gallows. The convict standing there at tho window I of the cell, this writer says, "looked out ind declured, 'I ain an Infidel.' He said ; that to all the men and women and chil dren who happened to be gathered there, ; 'I am an infidel.' " And the eloquent writer •ays, "Every man and woman there be lieved him." And the writer goes onto 1 say, "If he had stood there saying, 'I am a Christian," every man and woman would ; have said, 'He is a liar!' " i This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that ! is wrong, and it Is tho friend of all that Is I sood. Oh, hold on It! Do not take part of It and throw the rest away. Hold onto all of it. There are so many people now who do not know. You ask them if the soul is immortal, and they say: "I guess it Is; I don't know. Perhaps It Is; perhaps it isn't." Is the Bible true? "Well, perhaps it I*, and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it may not be at all." Tbey despise what they call the apostolic creed, but if their own creed were written out it would read like this: "I.believe in nothing, tho maker of heaven and earth, and in nothing which it hath sent, which nothing was born of nothing and which nothing was dead and buried and descend ed into nothing and rose from nothing and ascended to nothing and now sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from which It will come tojudge nothing. I be lieve in the holy ngnostlo church and In the communion of nothingarians and in the forgiveness of nothing and the resur rection of nothing and in the life that never Bhall be. Amen!" That is the creed of tens of thousands of people lu this day. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory, I will not. "I believe in God, the Father' A lmighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ and in the holy catholio ohurch and in tho communion of saints and in the life everlasting. Amen!" Oh, when I see Eleazar taking euch a stout grip of tho sword in tho battle agnlnst sin ana for righteousness, I come to the con clusion that we ought to take a stouter grip of God's eternal truth—the sword of rlgn eousness. As I look at Elenzar's hand I also notice his spirit of self forgetfulness. He did not notice that the hilt of the sword was eating through the palm of his hand. He did not know it hurt him. As he went out Into the oonflict he was so anxious for the victory he forgot himself, and that hilt might go never so deeply into the palm of his hand. It could not disturb him. "His hand clave unto the sword." Oh, my brothers and 9lsters, let us go Into the Christian conflict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises us or de nounces us? What do we care for misrep resentation or abuse or persecution lu a oonflict like this? Let us forget ourselves. That man who Is atVald of getting his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not if you get the victory? Oh. how many Christians there are who are all the time worrying about the way the world treats them! They are so tired, and they are so abused, and they are so tempted, when Eleazar did not think whether he had a hand or nn arm or a foot. All he wanted was victory. We see how men forget themselves In worldly achievement. We have often seeu men who. In order to aohleve worldly suc cess, will forget all physio*! fatigue and •11 annoyance and all olMtaole. Jhst after the battle ot lo*fcto*m In tht American Revolution a musician, wounded, was told be must have Ills limbs amputated, and tbey were about to fasten him to the surgeon's table, for It was long before the merciful discovery of anaesthetics. He said: "No; don't fasten me to that table. Get me a violin." , A violin was brought to him, and he said, "Now, go to work as I begin to play," and for forty minutes, during the awful pangs of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor dropped a note, while he played some sweet tune. Oh, is It not strange that with tbe music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and with this grand of the church militant on the way to become the church triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves nnd forget all pang and all sorrow and all persecution and all perturbation? We know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Meu do not shrink back for antagonism or for hardship. Yoli have admired Pre-cott's "Conquest of Mexico," as brilliant and beautiful a history as was ever written, but some of you may not know under what disadvantages it was written—that "Conquest of Mexico"—for l'rescott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fast ened, and totally blind, with his pen be tween those pieces of wood, he wrote the stroke against one piece of wood telling how far the pen must go in one way, the stroke against the other piece of wood tell, ing how far the pen must go the other way. Oh, how much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for wordlv success, and yet how little wo endure for Jesus Christ! How many Christians there are that go around saying, "Oh, my hand; oh, my hand, my hurt hand! Don't you sa« there is blood on the sword?" while Eleanar, with the hilt im bedded in the flesh ot his right hand, doer not know it. Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize Or sailed through bloody sous? What have we suffered in comparison with those who expired with suffocation or were burned or were chopped to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There is just as much per secution going on now in various ways. In 1849, in Madagascar, eighteen men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were to be hurled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order tc make their death the more dreadful in an ticipation, they were putin baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in these baskets over the rocks they sang: Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to Thy bosom fly. While the billows near mo roil. While the tempest still Is high. Then they were dashed down to death. Oh, how much others have endured for Christ, and how little wo endure for Christ! We want to ride to heaven in a l'ullman sleeping car. our feet on soft plush, tho bod made up earl>, so we can sleep all the way, the black porter of death to wako us up only in timo to enter the goldon city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them bring on all tho lint and all the bandages and all the salve, for our hand Is hurt, while Eleazar does not know his hand is hurt. "His hand clave unto the sword." As I look at Eleazar's hand I come toth« conclusion that he has done a great deal ol hard hitting. lam not surprised when I see that these four men—Eleazar and his three companions drove back the army ol Philistinos—that Eleazar's sword clave to his hand, for every time hestruck an enemy with one end oT the sword the other end ol the sword wounded him. When he took hold of the sword, the sword took hold ol him. Oh, wo have found an enemy who cannot be conquered by rosowater and sofl speeches. It must be sharp stroke anil straight thrust. There is Intemperance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are 10,000 bat talions of iniquity, armed I'hilistino in iquity. How are t'uey to be captured and overthrown? Soft sermons in moroccc cases laid down in front of an exquisite au dience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right name. You have got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacrement on Sunday and devout widow's houses all the week. We have got to stop our indignation against the llittites and the Jebusites and the Gir gashites and let those poor wretches go and apply our indignation to tbe mod ern transgressions which need to be dragged out and slain. Ahabs here, Herods here, Jozebels here, the massacre of the infants here. Strike for God so hard that while you slay tho sin the sword will adhere to your own hand. I toll you, my friends, wo want a few John linoxes and John Wesloys in the Christian church to day. The whole tendeucy is to rellue on Christian work. We keep on refining on it until wo send apologetic word to iniquity wo are about to capture it. And we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the ladies, and we must ride oil white palfrey under embroidered hous ing, putting the spurs in only just enough to make the charger dance gracefully, and then wo must send a missive, delicate as a wedding card, to ask the old black giant of sin if ho will not surrender. Women saved by the grace ot God and on glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath classes be cause their now hat is not done. Churches that shook our cities with grent revivals sending around to ask some demonstrative worshiper if he will not please to sav "Amen" ami "halleluiah" a littlo softer. It seems as if in our churches we wanted a baptism of cologne and balm of a thousand Mowers whou we actually need A baptism of lire from the Lord God of Pentecost. But we are so afraid somebody will criti cise our sermons cr criticise our prayers or criticise our religious work that our auxiety for the world's redemption is lost in the fear we will get our baud hurt while Eleazar wont into the conflct, "and his hand clave unto the sword." But I see in the next place what a hard thing It was for Eleazar to get his hand anil his sword parted. The muscles and the sinews had been so long grasped around the sword he could not drop it when he proposed to drop it, and his three com rades, I suppose, came up and tried to help him, aud they bathed the back purt ot his hand, hoping the sinews and muscles would relax. But no. "His hand clave unto the sword." Then they tried to pull open the lingers aud to pull back the thumb, but no sooner were they pulled back than they closed again, "and his baud clave unto the sword." But after awhile they were suc cessful, and then they noticed that the curve in the palm of the hand corresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt. "His hand clave unto the sword." You and I have seen it many a time. There are in the United States to-day many aged ministers of the Gospel. They are too feeble now to preach. In the church records the word standing opposite their name is "emeritus," or the words are "a minister without charge." They were a heroic race. They had small salaries and but few books, and they swam spring freshets to meet their appointments, but they did In their day a mighty work for God. They took off more ot the heads of Philistine Iniquity than you oould count from noon to sundown. You put that old minister of the Gospel now Into a prayer meeting ot occasional pulpit or a sick room where there is some one to be comforted, and it is the same old ring to his voice and tbe same old story of pardon and peace and Christ and beaven. His hand has so long clutched the sword in Christian conflict he cannot drop It. "His hand clave unto the sword." _ The Czar and TwJ Zmptrsri to Meet. will be a meeting of the Czar, the Geruxtn Emperor and Emperor Francit Joseph at Sclernevlce, Russia, upon the oc casion of a great hunting party next au tumn. .
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