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 become an object of acute interest to the civilized world. When the news of Leo XIII.'b sud den illness was circulated recently, it was bslieved 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 ouly 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 Btory 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 .ustrated 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: "Gioacchino! 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 King 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 presetce of the Audi tor, the Treasurer and the Apostolic Clerks. No other Cardinals may as sist at this function. THE POPE IN THE EVENING OF HIS DAYS. (Soene in the private garden at the Vatican devoted to the use o' 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 phaved and embalmed with new per fumes. They vest it in the pontifical habits, crown it with a mitre and place a chalice in the hands. The great bell of the Capitol, which only sounds when the 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 ou 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 THE ELECTION OF THE POPE—CONCLAVE OF CAEDINALS VOTING IN 318- TIN"E CHAPEL. the dead Pope's creation -will put m gold and silver medals, having the effigy of their benefactor on one side and some notable act of his upon the other. The leaden coffin is placed inside a casket covered with cypress wood and walled up in some part of the Basilica. If the Holy Father shall bavechosen 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 elapsed, except a vast sum of money be paid 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 Yalletri; 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 "Yeni 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 election of • Pope are read. To these the Car dinal Dean exhorts the conclave to conform. Then all may go and dine at home in comfort for tne last time a-™ a 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 iuside 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 Camerlengo holds the inside key. The Sistine Chapel has been furn ished for the conclave. On both sides thrones are set, having canopies which cau 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 the oath which every Cardinal must sweat before he records his rote. Blank voting papers are handed to the Cardinals. Each voting paper is a palm in length and half a palm in breadth. Their Eminences take great care that none shall overlook them while they write and seal their vote. Each Cardinal in turn takes his CHIMNET OF ANNOUNCEMENT. [As the election of a Pope draw* üßar,u B ar, crowds gather without the Vatican und watch a tall chimney ou its southwestern front. |Xhe i«.<ue of a cloud of ™otc si«- Dals the election of a Supreme Fontifl'. The chimney is never used at anv other time.] folded voting paper between the thumb and index linger of his ringed right hand, holding it aloft in view of all. So, and alone, he goes to the aitar, makes his genuflexion on the lowest step; ou the highest step he swears his oath aloud that his vote is free. On the paten 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 paten as a cover and returns unattended to his throne. When at last a Pope hat. been elected three Apostolic Prothonotaries record the act of conclave and all the Cardi nal's sign and seal it. The Cardinal Dean demands the new Pope's con sent to his own election aud the new name by which he wishes to be known. Each Cardinal releases the cord of the canopy of his throne, which folds down. sso one may remain covered in the presence oi the Pope. A new ring—the Ring 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 Augustiuiau Sac ristan; they take away hiR cardi nalitial scarlet and vest him in a cas sock of white tafleta with cincture, a fair white linen rochet and the papel stole, a crimson almuce. and 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 Cardiual Dean, the Lord Louis Oreglia di Santo Stefano, -who is Ostia's and Yelletri's Bishop, fol lowed by other 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 knealer 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 iB borne away by the twelve porters, clad in scarlet, to his private chamber. Boston has a municipal tel?phon» I 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 yonng, 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 shapeß 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 joung, and by bending and b'ndti g the Btems with wire gradually forms it into any shape desired. As t'je stems <gro\v stronger the forms which they were trained to assume when young remain perfect, and when the plant is full grown and reauy to transplant the gar- JAPANESE ILEX WITH LEAVES AND FLOWERS. dener has a collection of birds and ani mals which lends to his 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 •ry- Forest Life Most of tbe 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 insect?. The cause oi the difference isfound in the abun lance of vegetable food supplied in wooded regions. The fruits aud roots attract large numbers of herbivorous animals, and these, in their turn, are sought for food by flesh-eating crea tures. A keen competition arises amongst the lutter, and in the struggle for existence, the strongest and most ferocious survive. In the course of time, new and still fiercer species re sult from the law of struggle. Tropi cal forests, under the influaLces of heat and moisture, produce more luxu riant vegetation than those of tem perate countrits, and, consequently, they are tenanted by a more numerous and a more ferocious animal popula tion. The vegetable products of open districts are 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 BOWLDEB. engraved, and 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, 'r the city of Buffalo. 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. Paderewskl's llelies. 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 ai Leipsic. DB. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVIHE. Subject: "Hold Fast to the Bible"—Les loni Drawn From the Sword of £)eaxar —Ai He Grasped His Weapon So Should We Cleave to the Old Gospel. TEXT: "And his hand clave unto the sword."—ll Samuel xxiii., 10. What a glorious thing to preach the Gospel! Some suppose that because I have resigned a fixed pastorate I will i.-flue to preach. No, no. I expect to preach more than I ever have. If the Lord will, four times as much, though in manifold places. I would not dare to halt with such opportunity to deulare the truth through the ear to audiences and to the eya through the printing press. And here we have a 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 bis 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 stronger than a wbcle 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 rest, but the mus cles and sinews of his hand had been so long bent around the hllt'of his sword tbat the hilt 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 thiß sword which he bad 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 the sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's band, and I come to the conclusion tbat he took the sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled bad no trouble in drop ping tbeir swords. As tbeyi fly over the rocks I hear tbeir swords clanging in every direction. It is eaßy enough for them lo drop their swords, but Eleazar's hand clave unto the sword. In this Christian conflict wo 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 tbe truth and let the rest of the truth go, so that the Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench tbe whole sword away from them. Tbe only safe thing for us to do is to put our|thumbon the book of Genesis and -weep our band around the book until the New Testament comes into the palm and keep on sweeping our hand around tbe book until the tips of tbe fingers clutch at ihe words "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I like an inll del a great deal better than I do one of these namby pamby Christians who hold a part of tbe truth and let the rest go. liy miracle God preserved this Bible just as it is, and it is a Damascus blade. The sever est test to which a sword can be putin a sword factory is to wind the blade around 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 tbat way, but It always comes back to its own lhape. Think of it! A book written nearly nineteen centuries ago, and some of it thousands of years ago, and yet in tur time the average sale of this book * more than 20,000 copies every week and more than 1,000,000 copies a year! I suy now tbat a book whicl' is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five book* of Moses, and Strauss will come along and try to wrench out of your band tbe miracles, anl Kenan will come along and try to wrench out of your band the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your associates In the office or the factory or the banking bouse will try to wrench out of your band tbe entire Bible, but in tbe strength of the Lord God of Israel and with Eleazar's grip bold onto it. l'ou give up tbe Bible, you give up any part 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 tbat you are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend of ail tbat is good, and it is tbe sworn enemy of all tbat is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives an incident of a very bad man who stood In a fell of a Western prison. This crimi nal had gone through all styles of crime, and be was there waiting for tbe gallows. The convict standing there at tbe window of tbe cell, this writer says, "looked out &nd declared, 'I am an infidel.' He said tbat to all tbe men and womejj and chil dren who happened to be gathered there, 'I am an infidel." " And tbe eloquent writer •ays, "Every man and woman tbere be lieved him." And tbe writer goes onto say, "If be had stood there saying. 'I am » Christian.' every man and woman would have said, 'He is a liar!' " This Bible Is the sworn enemy of all that is wrong, and It is tbe friend of all tbat Is ?ood. Ob. bold on it! Do not take part of it and throw the rest away. Hold onto all of it. Tbere 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; perbaps it isn't." Is the Bible truer "Well, perbaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly. and perhaps it may not be at all." They despise what they call the apostolic creed, but if their own creed were written out it would read like this: "I.belleve in nothing, the maker of heaven and eartb, 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 sjttetb at the right bund of nothing, from which it wiil come tojudge nothing. I be lieve in the holy agnostic church and in the communion of nothingarians and in tbe forgiveness of nothing and tbe resur rection of nothing and in the life that never shall tie. Amen!' That is tbe creed of tens of thousands of people in this dav. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory, I will not. "I believe in God, the Father Al mighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ and in the holy catholic church and in the communion of saints and in the life everlasting. Amen!" Ob, when I see Eleazar taking such a stout grip of tbe sword in tbe battle against sin and for righteousness, I come to tbe con clusion that we ought to take a stouter grip of God's eternal truth—the sword of rtgh teousness. As I look at Eleazar's hand I also notice his spirit of self forgetfulness. He did not notice tbat the hilt of the sword was eating through the palm of his band. He did not know it hurt him. An be went out into the conflict he was so anxious for the victory be forgot himself, and tbat hilt might go never so deeply into tbe palm of his band. It could not disturb him. "His band clave unto the sword." Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us go into the Christian conflict with tbe spirit of s?lf abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises us or de nounces usi' What do we care for misrep resentation or abuse or persecution in a conflict like tbis'r Let us forget ourselves. That man who is af.-ald of getting his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not if you get the victory? Ob, how many Christians there are who are ail 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 be nad a band or an arm or a foot. AU be wanted was victory. We tee bow men forget themselves in worldly achievement. We have often seen men who, in order to achieve worldly suc cess, will forget all physical fatieue and all annoyance and all obstacle. Just alter the battle of I<j»Monn In tht African Revolution a musician, wounded, was told lie must have liis limbs amputated, and they were about to fasten him to the surgeon's table, for it was long before the merciful discovery of ana-stbetlcs. He said: "No; don't fasten me to that table. Get me a violin." A violin was brought to him, and lie said, "Now, goto work as I begin to play," una for forty minutes, during the awful pangs of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor dropped a note, while lie played some sweet tune. Oh, is it not strange that with the music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and with this grand m-rch of the church militant on the way to become the church triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves and forget all jang arid all sorrow and ull persecution and all perturbation? We know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Men do not shrink back ior antagonism or for hardship. You have admired Pre-cott's "Conquest of Mexico," a* 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 Prescott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fast ened, and totally blind, with bis 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 wnrdly success, and yet how little we 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 sen there is blood on the sword?" while Eleazar, wiih t he hilt Im bedded in the flesh ot his right hand, doe? not know it. Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the priz<s Or sailed through bloody seas? 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 me 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 we endure for Christ! We want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping car. our feet on soft plush, the bed made up early, so we can sieep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only in time to enter the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them bring on all the lint and all the bandages and all the salve, for our hand is hurt, while Eleazar Hoes not know his hand is hurt. "His hand clave unto the sword." As 1 look at Eleazar's hand I come totli* conclusion that he has done a great deal of hard hitting. lam not surprised when I see that these four men—Eleazar and his three companions drove back the army of Philistines—that Eleazar's sword clave tc his hand, for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other end ol the sword wounded him. When he took hold of the sword, the sword took hold ol him. Oh, we have found an enemy who cannot be conquered by rosewater and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and straight thrust. There is iutemperauce, ana there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are 10.000 bat talions of iniquity, armed Philistine in iquity. How are taey 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 cal things bv their right name. You have got to expel from our churches Christians whc eat the sacrement on Sunday and devour widow's houses all the week. We bav< got to stop our judignation against tbt Hittltes und the Jebusites and the Gir gashites und let those poor wretches go and apply our indignation to the mod ern transgressions which need to be dragged out and slain. Ababs here, Herods here, Jezebels here, the massacre of the infants here. Strike for God so hard that while you slay the sin the -word will adhere to your own hand. I tell you, my friends, we want a few John Knoxes aud John Wesleys in the Christian church to day. The whole tendency is to refine on Christian work. We keep on refining on it until we send apologetic word to iniquity we are abjut to capture it. And we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the ladies, and we must ride ot white palfrey under embroidered hous ing, putting the spurs in only just enough to make the charger dance gracefully, aud then we must send a missive, delicate as a wedding card, to ask the old black giant of sin if he wil not surrender. Women saved by the gr-ice of God and on glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath classes be cause their new hat is not done. Churches that shook our cities with great revivals sending around to ask some demonstrative worshiper if he will not please to sa\ ' Amen" and "halleluiah" a little softer. It seems as if in our churches we wanted a baptism of cologne and balm of a thousand flowers when we actually need A baptism of lire from the Lord God of Penteeo-t. But we are so afraid somebody will criti cise our sermons cr criticise our prayer* or criticise our religious work that our anxiety for the world's redemption is lost in the' fear we will get our hand hurt while Eleazar went into the con (let,'and his band clave unto the sword." But I see in the next place what a hard thing it was for Eleazar to get his hand au<! his sword parted. The muscles aud the sinews had been so long grasped around the sword he could not drop it when he proposed to drop it. und his three com rades, I suppose, came up and tried to belj him, aud they bathed the back par; of lib hand, hoping the sinews and muscles would relax. But no. "His hand clave unto tht sword." Then they tried to pull open the fingers and to pull back the thumb, but nc sooner were they pulled back than tbey closed again, "and bis haud clave uuto the sword.' But after awhile they were suc cessful, and then they noticed that tht curve in the palm of the haud corresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt. "His hand clave unto the sword You and I have s«wu it many a time. There are in the Cnited States to-day many aged ministers of the Gospel. Tbey are too feeble now to preach. Iu 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 tbev did iuttieir day a mighty work for God. They took off more of the head* of Puilistlue iniquity than you could count froja noon to sundown. You put that old minister of the Gosj>el now into a prayer meeting 01 occasional pulpit or a sick room where there is some one to be comforted, and It is the same old ring to *iis voice and the same oid story of pardon and peace and Christ and heaven. His hand ha* BO long clutched the sword in Christian conflict he cannot drop it. "His hand clave unto the sword." Tli* Ctar and T«j Zmpprori to Meet. There will be • m set Ing of the Czar, the German Emperor und Emperor Francis Joseph at Seiernevioe, Itussia. upon the oc casion o: a great hunting party next au t tuain.
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