POPE A GREAT FAVORITE.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 503, 10 January 1906, Page 8

POPE A GREAT FAVORITE.

Has Been a Pulpit Orator of Benown from Very Outset of His Priestly Career.

One recalls, writes William J. D. Croke, in Century, those moving 'speeehestT-rwTiich, as cardinal, he delivered weeping in the conclave, Betting forth all his imperfections (his Bins, even), and the disadvantages of his career from barefooted boyhood up, but which really secured him thr* throne, and the stories, of him Which every one knows in Lonibardy and Venetia. For no eccle siastic can have heen more widely known than he. A pulpit orator of renown from the very outset of his priestly career, the sought after panegyrist of great occasions when bishop and patriarch, no wonder that he was hailed by a voice iu Koine when he took pos session of his title as cardinal: "Xo one has spoken so well as this cardinal'." As country assistant, then parish priest, then professor in the seminary of Treviso, canon, chancellor of the diocese, great hierarch of Mantua, the successor of St. Mark, everyone seems to know him, and no one has any memory that is not pleasant.

Developed by Nature. When the petals of the great laurel magnolia are touched, however lightly, the result is a brown spot, which develops in a few hours. The fact is taken ad vantage of by the South American lover, who pulls a magnolia flower, and on one of its punwhite petals writes a motto or message with a sharp-poiuted pencil. Then he sends the flower, the young lady puts it in a vase of water, and in three or four hours the message written on the leaf becomes perfectly visible, and remains so. - —«»..

Charity. There is too much charity in this world—for wo?t bless people.— Chicago Daily News.