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Show Nominating Cardinals. 1 The ceremony of nominating cardlt-nals, cardlt-nals, which takes place at Rome, ii not without its picturesque side. Thd consistory of the sacred college meets in secret though particulars of tha proceedings are afterwards given toj the press and, following upon a brleif address, the pope names the persons. ' he wishes to elevate to the purple,. His nomination is final, but in nccord-i-nnce with the old custom when the cardinals voted for the election o their comrades, he asks, "What is your desire?" The cardinals then silently lay down their red silk caps, rise, and bow. It is the formal assent, and the new cardinals are declared elected. England has cardinals other than; those created by the pope. At one time there were officials of that title-attached title-attached to a number of her cathedrals, cathe-drals, whose duty it was to visit the sick and relieve the needy, but St. Paul's is now alone in the possession of a senior and a junior cardinal, elected by the deans from among the minor canons. One of the holders of the title in recent times was the author au-thor of the "Jackdaw of Rheims." Youth in the Fighting Line. I have received a pathetic letter!-from letter!-from a mother who has lost her son.' She gave him to the cause of empire,' but there is a feeling In her breast,-that breast,-that at nineteen "he was too young fori sacrifice." f I daresay a hundred sympathizing1, friends haye consoled her with the words: "Those whom the gods lovei die young." And I would like to adtk that In this western world the sacrii flee of young life for "a cause" ts nc new thing. ; In the great Civil war In America 800.000 youths, seventeen years oldi J' r"Sted 10 the Norther army, and from 1SG1 to 1865 morel ban 2 m young mcni mo een to twenty-two. were fighting making three-fourths of the , tie Uncoin put in the field. The older men wore ,v,-Ui,1K nt lll(lust,.u,s backing up" ,he flKhtI , ) an had not then "f,nlml h,rgelf ...P in the nncouver World. Harsh Diet. Little Pltchersn you ,;e corrJ and gravel, Mra. 0aM7 "Ke cora vhy do you ask that? 'f L. P.-Because I heard ma snv vorj i to dir.n l ""Prosed he'd hav CM heKnsP CMckeQ f 'or th, .,. Mny Parties. "She's always hol(ilug a |
