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com 1N THE VATICAN

KLDNDIKE RICHES NOT COM PARABLE
WITH THE POPE’S WEALT H.

 

Jubilee Gifts 3 Fortune—Keeper of the
House of the Oldest Dynasty in Christ-
cndum, \Vho Has No Thought instep:

for the Poor and Sllfl'tsl'ilig.

There is one place in the world-
where more gold is to be‘found than
has so far come out of the Klondike.-
And, stranger still, in the same place
there are more diamonds and other
gems than the total output of the South
African diamond fields. This spot, rich
as the mythical wealth of Aladdin's
palace, is the home of a childless old
man, Pope Leo, whose feeble life is
creeping daily to its imminent close.

It would be difficult to estimate pre-
cisely the total weighth of gold in the
Vatican, but it is safe to say that there
are at least thirty tons of it, worth in
the neighborhood of $20,000,000 at the
present market price of the unerught
metal.
there is probably not a single pound of
the metal that remains in its virgin
state. Nearly every ounce of it has
passed through the hands of skilled ar-
tisans, who have worked it into count-
less forms, thus adding perhaps a third
or a quarter more to its value. Nor
does the alloy that is usually employed
by the goldsmith to give a durable
quality to objects made of the precious
metal enter at all into the composition
of the treasures of the Vatican, which,
being almost entirely native offerings
to the Sovereign Pontiff, are literally
of solid gold.

The Vatican treasures may be prac—
tically considered as the personal es-
tate of the Pope. He inherited many
of them when he was elected to the
Holy See. He is required to give an

aceount of his stewards-hip at his pleas- ’

ure. To a large proportion of these
treasures his personal right is indis-
putable, for to him, Leo XML, were
presented at various times, and more
particularly on the occasion of his ju-
bilee in 1888, enough gifts of pure gold
to ransom a kingdom.

The Pontificate of the present vener-
able Prelate has added inestirnably to
the treasures of the Vatican:
1888, Leo recited the Mass in St. Pe-
ter’s in Rome, in celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of his ordination
as a priest. The preliminary ceremo-
nies of his Golden Jubilee began about
a week earlier, and continued for more
than a month in the new year, during
which time an exposition was opened
in the vast Pontifical palace for the
display of the presents that had been
sent to the head of the Christian
:Church from every corner of the werld.

Before the exposition was opened

tons upon tons of gold poured
rinto the Vatican, beginning ear-
.ly in December, of 1897, and con-

djnuing without . intermission _ un-

Of this huge amount of gold, .

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til after the ’ér—(positio‘n’ had been éloséd
in March of the following year.

At the Jubilee Mass alone $3,000,000
in gold, the most part in coined money,
were presented to His Holiness. There
were audiences of pilgrims from the
various countries, and those from
France alone presented to the Pope
$100,000 in gold coin, besides many oth-
er objects in wrought gold.

The Duke of Norfolk, Envoy Extra-
ordinary from Queen Victoria, present-
ed to His Holiness on behalf of the
Catholics of England, a massive basin
and. ewer of solid gold. Her British
Majesty personally presented an altar
ornament of gold worth many thous-
ands of dollars. The Emperor of Rus-
sia sent a. mammoth crozier of solid
gold, inlaid with precious stones, and
the Emperor William of Germany a
gold mitre that blazed with diamonds
and rubies.

One set of vestments alone was said

to have cost $20,000. The total value

of the Golden Jubilee gifts to the Pepe
was estimated at $14,800,000, of which
$2,800,000 were in gold coin.

Leo XIII is said to have distributed
the bulk of the money gifts sent to

him on his jubilee‘fn fostering the for-

eign missions of his church, in aiding
poor dioceses at home and abroad, in
improving the condition of the poor
throughout the world, and in general
for the benefit of humanity, but he did
not, of course, dispose of the wrought
gifts that were sent to him by the va-
rious nations, nor convert the value of
such gifts into cmh in promotion of
his charitable intentions. These thmgs
are still treasured in the Vatican——and
this is why the palace of the oldes:
dynasty in Christendom is still richer
than the frozen gold fields of the
North, to which men are rushing in
swarms these days in a quest for th;
yellow metal.»New York World.

President of Twenty Banks.

Most men find that acquiring one
bank to manage is as much as they
can accomplish, but W. S. \Vitham, 0;:
Atlanta, Ga., holds twenty in the
palm of his hand, so to speak, and
runs them successfully. His banks are.
in the country towns of Georgia, and
their principal business is making
small loans to farmers. None of them
is capitalized beyond $00,000, and all
of their cashiers have to be bonded
for more money than they have access
to. The institutions are so successful-
ly managed that one of them once
paid a dividend of 40 per cent, and
all of them pay from 8 to 15 per cent.
regularly.—New York Journal.

 

~ A-‘Faatal Defect.

Editor—No, young man, I’m afraid
your story wont do.

Author—Why, what’s the trouble
with it?

Editor—You’ve got the Chicago
lovers marrying and living together
for the rest of their lives—New York
Tournal. -

 

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PEfiNva'v'ANIA's ALIEN TAX.

The How Law I: Driving the "wit Clone.
of Foreigners to Citizenship

The so-called “alien tax law" went
into effect in Pennsylvania on July 1.
Its chief requirement is that every em-
ployer of an unnaturaltzed ratio for-
eigner upward of twenty-one years of
age must report the number of aliens
he employs and be acountablc for the
tax, which is three cents per .day each.
This tax is paid to the County Treas-
urer. Failure to so report aliens is
made a misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine of not less than $200 or more than
$31,000.

The enactment of the new law is jus-
tified on the ground that the unnatur-
alized aliens contribute more than
their just share to the police expenses
in several districts of the State. As
the Philadelphia Times ”puts the case,
“the law is intended to make some
small measure of restitution to the peo-
ple of the county where such popula-
tions exist for the enormously in-
creased expenses, imposed upon them
to maintain their courts, prisons and
olmshouses.” The tax is designed al-
so to establisha discrimination between
citizen and alien mechanics for the
benefit of the former, and to impose a
penalty upon employers for utilizing
the labor which the Harrisburg Legis-
lature regarded as the cheapest avail-
able. Theoretically the purpose of the
Allen Tax law is to preclude employers,
by a. prscribed penalty, from getting
the aid of such aliens, to establish a
bar to their immigration. into Pennsyl-
vania, and to add to the demand for na-
tive born and naturalized labor.

The unnaturalized foreign born who
are eligible to citizenship, and who
before had neglected to take out their
naturalization papers, have been be-
stlrring themselves to escape payment

 

. of the three-cent tax by becoming nat-

having the power

uralized. The courts in Pennsylvania.
of naturalization

’ have been crowded with illiterate and

 

.Wish to acquire citizenship.

' the ticket . ”

uncouth applicants for the boon of
American citizenship. In one branch
of the court in Philadelphia as many
as 172 new citizens were “made” in
one day. “

Some of the applicants had been res-
ident in the State for ten or fifteen
years without having had before the

swered with difficulty the queries pro-
pounded by the judges. In Lehigh
county, for instance, a Hungarian ap-
plicant, on being questioned by the
Judge as to his qualifications for cit—
izenship and his ability to prepare a
ticket for voting, replied very confi—
dently that “he could vote all right
Judges with a strictly
conscientious regard for the responsi-
bilities of citizenship rejected some of
the most objectionable applicants; but
many additions were made to the al-
ready too great horde of depraved, cor-
rupt, and irresponsible Pennsylvania
electors, citizens unfamiliar with the
political institutions, of the republic,

 

i lay for months.
; making big money smuggling dia-
krme an- !

 

Indifferent to the obligations of citi-
zenship, and totally ignorant of the
language in which the laws they swear
to observe are written.

The consequence of the new Alien
Tax law has been an abnormal and
dangerous increase in the number of
undesirable citizens, to the great in-
Iury of communities where before these
Lliens, having no political power, had
been incapable of doing political harm;
and the benefits which were expected
to be reaped by means of the tax are
being evaded through the device of a.
naturalization, which is not spontan-
eous, but compulsory. Thus a grave
evil has been engendered to destroy a
minor disadvantage.

 

One Way of Smuggling Diamonds.

"All this talk about smuggling re-
:alls some of the things I learned when
l was in the service,” announced a. re-
tired crook catcher the other day.
“New ways of beating the Government
are being devised right along, and
many of the tricks I discovered are old
now. There used to be more trouble
with the diamond smugglers than
there appears to be at present. I have
found the sparklers in women’s back
hair, hat ornaments, hollowed shoe
heels, and sewed up in various articles
of wear; in dog collars, in h’orses‘
boots, in fruits and vegetables, in
trunks with false bottoms, in pipes and
cigars, in canes, on the necks of carrier
pigeons, and even buried in men’s flesh
Liter the manner of the Kafllr diamond
thieves.

”But the man who did the slickest
business, without ever being suspected,
:old me about it afterwards. He was a
retired detective, who had served with
great credit. Shortly before resign-
-.ng he claimed to have received a. boaur
liful diamond ring with three very
large stones from a New Yorker for
whom he had been able to save a. good
lea] of money. It was certainly a. mag-
nificent ring, and the matter was duly
exploited in the papers. He professed
:o be doing a private business that took
trim across the river frequently, and
he would often use the ferry three or
four times a. day. He always wore the
iazzling ring, and I looked at it every
Yet that fellow was

monds.

“How? Why he had a paste ring
made exactly like the genuine one. He
would wear the paste one over, leave
it to be set with diamonds, wear them
back, have them replaced with paste,
and thus carry on the game right be—
lore our admiring eyes. We never sus-
pected the rasca .”——Detrolt Free‘ Press.

 

The Least of Two Evils.
lie—How the baby cries! It’s terri-
bly distracting. ,
She—I guess I’ll have to sing it to
sleep.
He (hurriedlfi—No, no; let it cry.“
New York. J 911111.81:

 

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DANCING TO CURE AILMENTS.

Curious Medians! Custom In a Little
Town in Luxembourg. '

Modern civilization is fast improving
ancient customs off the face of tho
earth, yet a unique ceremony mu
takes place in the little old world town
of Echiternach, in the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg. Every Whit Tuesday a
vast multitude of persons from far and
near assembles and forms the proces-
sion of dancing saints (Springmdo
Helligen) in order to induce heaven to
curve all their ailments. Rich and
poor, young and old, weak and strong,
halt and maimed, take their stand up
on the Pursian side of the Sure bridge
at 8 o’clock, and after listening to a.
sermon dance to the abbey and thrice
around ,the tomb of St. Willibrod, the
patron saint. The procession is head-
ed by the town beadle, dressed in red
and surrounded by small boys; next
come choristers, chanting litanies;
then a large body of clergy, 700 strong,
and last the rank and file. There are
placed in rows of seven, kept in line
by handkerchiefs, sticks and umbrel-
las, and interspersed with the motley
crew are musicians playing dance
music upo nevery conceivable instru-
ment, while the dancers sing the clas-
sic tune as they perform a pol-lea. step,
three steps forward and two back.

More than 1;000 years ago, when
Willibrod, the hero saint of Luxem-
bourg, died at Echternach, a terrible
affliction smote all cattle; they were
seized with a. dancing madness , a.
frenzy destructive alike to themselves
and their owners. The people danced
in order to prevent their animals do-
ing so. The effect was marvelous; the
cattle regained their sanity, and, see-
ing this, the people continued to dance
on their own account for all kinds of
illness, but especially for hysteria and-
St. Vitus’ dance. - Everybody canced
and the old and infirm unable to foot
it themselves, performed the pilgrim-
age by proxy, with an equally good re-
sult. From time to time efiorts were
made to stop the ceremony, but this
resulted in a return of the c;ttle
plague, showing that the saint was not
to be defrauded of his annual homage,
so that it had to be resumed, and the
number of pilgrims increases yearly.
——From Gentleman.

 

Had No Alnerican l-ush.

“We were shocked,” says a Georgia.
editor Who has just been visiting Rome
“to see a city in such a state of de-
cay. They doubtless had a big fire
there years ago, and many of the finest
buildings are still in ruins. Here at
home we w0uld have replaced those
buildings in short order. Give us
America for push and enterprise!”

The Dancer’s Promise.

"Did. that young ballet dancer prom-
lse to be a sister to Jack?"

“No; she said she’d be a mother-in-
law to him if her youngest daughter
would have him.”—-Philadelphia North
American. .

 

 

COLLEGE sovs IN GERMANY. l

 

Vastly Difleront Conditions Under Which
They Study in That Country.

Student life in Germany is very. dif-
feren-t from what it is in the United
States. The Faculty‘ot the universaty
assumes no responsibility for tho
punctuality or the studiousn‘ess of the
pupils. When a boy enrolls his name,
passes hisfientrance examinations and
pays his fee he is his own master, and
can do whatever he likes until the
time arrives forfianother examination,
when he must present himself and en-
dure the ordeal. If he succeeds he
goes on with his class. If he fails his
name is dropped from the rolls and
he goes home in disgrace or makes
another trial at a different university.
He is not compelled to attend lec~
tures, he is never called upon to re-
cite, as the students in American col-
leges are, two or three times a day in.
the classroom. His professors never
ask *him questions until he becomes a.
member of what is called a “seminar,"
which is a selected class for original
research under the direction of a mem-
ber of the Faculty.

At some of the lectures you will find
only a dozen students, where there are
perhaps 200 or 300 pursuing the course
of which it is a part. At other lec-
tures you will find the room crowd-ed
with attentive listeners numbering
twice as many as are on the profes-
sor's roll. The attendance is govern-
ed by the interest of the students in
any particular line of inquiry and the
ability of the professor to make him-
self interesting.

 

WILLIAM TELL OUTDONE.

A Dangerous and Daring Feat of a Kansas
Rifleman.

TOm Smith, the famous Kansas rifle-
man, has again been giving exhibi-
tions of his skill at Wichita. The
shunting so far outdid anything at-
tempted by the late William Tell, sr.,
that musical Kansas is daily expect-
ing that the opera named in honor of
the Swiss 1;;1..io-t will be changed to
that of “Tc-m Smith.” Smith stood in
position with an apple on his head
and a gun ;,:..;uted over his shoulder.

Carefully s:ghting the gun, he pulled
be trigger. The bullet struck
he trig; er of another gun
.laeell thirty feet behind him; the sec-
.nd weapon having been fired in this
novel fashion, discharged its bullet at
he trigger of a third gun thirty feet in
.ront (.f the marksman. The shot
from the third rifle struck the trigger
of a fourth gun at the back, and a little
higher than the second; and, finally,
the shot from the fourth gun went
:‘nrt . ,‘h the apple on Mr. Smith’s head,
—..e\.' Yorl: World.

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