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Show INTERVIEWED THE POPE. An American Lad Who Was Recently Received By His Holiness. Harry Steele Morrison, an American boy, has interviewed Pope Leo XIII. for the New York Journal. He visited Home with a letter of introduction to the Papal secretary, who, after learning learn-ing that Morrison had interviewed Queen Victoria, , the president of France and several other dignitaries of Europe, presented him to His Holiness. "So you are an American boy," said the Pope in pure English. "I am very glad to see you. I do not believe I have had an American boy to call on me for a long, long time, and I am very fond of boys and of America. I suppose you are from New York?" I bowed and said "Yes," writes young Morrison. "That must be a great city," continued con-tinued the Pope. "Have you seen the cathedral there?" I told him that I had visited the cathedral many times. "It must surely be very beautiful," said the Pope. Then, continuing, he said: "I have had many Americans to see me this spring and summer. Many hundreds of them came over on one ship, and they were all in St. Peter's one day. It was a great compliment to me that they had come so far, and it is a compliment to me that you have come so far. "You have seen many things that I have never seen," he said. "It is a good thing for a young man to travel. f It gives him broad ideas anil a wonderful won-derful knowledge of the world. I advise ad-vise all my young friends to see as much of the world as they can while they are young, because they will later be obliged to rest in one place. Do you not feel that your travel is an education educa-tion for you?" "O, yes, indeed," T said, "I am sure it is the best education I could have." "But you must have another kind of education with it," said the Pope. "You must know something of books. Can you write Latin?" I had to confess that I could not. "You should study it, then. It is a wonderful training for a young man's mind." His Holiness then asked me to tell him something of the people whom I have interviewed, and of the ways in which I succeeded in seeing them. He seemed vastly amused at some things that I said, and was much interested in all. "You American boys have great perseverance," per-severance," was all that he said when I finished. "What do you expect to follow as a career?" was the next question. "I hope to be a newspaper man," I said. His Holiness hesitated before replying, re-plying, g "That is a good career if you follow it properly," he said. "But a writer for the press has nowadays great responsibility. re-sponsibility. The press is a powerful agency for god or evil in the world, and every person connected with it should be careful that his influence is on the right side. New-spa pers can make wars, and they can destroy character, char-acter, but they can also prevent wars and bring about justice. It is a wonderful won-derful thing to. think of the power of the press." "There are many wars just now," said I, hoping he would have something some-thing to say in regard to them. The Pope sighed. "Yes," he said, in a low voice, "very, very many. It is very unfortunate." And that was all he had to say on the subject. He turned to his table and began to examine some of the papers there, so I looked at the secretary to see whether it wasn't time I was leaving. He nlded, so I turned to go. "Now you must be going, must you?" said the Pope, speaking more brightly than at any previous moment of the interview. "Yes, sir," I said. "Well. Iam very glad you came," j he continued, "and I know you will never forget what ,1 have said to you. It isn't likely that we will see each other again in Rome, but you must do your, best to live a good man. When I can feel that I hp.vo helped any young man I am happy.". |