Show tor the BORGIA AN few women in history hayo fcker c bcd guch a deep impression on the ot and posterity pot erity a this young and beautiful woman AnnaU iti chroniclers modern historians have with novelist and authors of dramas in rep lucrina borgia a the reprobate acx as the heroine of the cup and the assassinating dagger the figure of this daughter of a pope poised between ft horrible father and a brother partly exciting commiseration as their victim partly airm finally a magdalen has in former days fascinated and still fascinates the imagination through the ies which surrounded her in whose chiaro beauty guilt and mister tune caime ami passion struggle together with abo vatican at rome as a gloomy background for the lucid picture it was in alie year 1192 that rodi rigo lenzuolo ascended the chair of st peter successor of the apostle under the name of alexander VI with a beautiful figure he combined an ardently sensual nature which attracted the women magnetically but he himself was chained fast by the charms then by the astuteness of a woman so firmly that be has ro those fetters as ft matrimonial bond this woman who ruled the vicegerent of god was za de Cata neis from a family of small noblemen of rome the name van ozza is a diminutive of gioranna Gio yanna her conditions of life are enveloped with somo obscurity and only the ages of her children give us a clue to surmise that her relation with alexander VI must have commenced as early is 1470 sho was 50 years old and still married when her paramour became pope and she acknowledged hencly the mother of hi four living children casare juan jofre ond lucreda Luc reua she assumed the family name of roderigo borgia only after the death of him choso whoso passion had been extinguished but whose attach ment bad continued when he was crowned with the tiara prudent and intelligent she was contented with the happiness of her children she retired into the tranquillity of private life to that her name has not been implicated even by the bitter enemies of the borgias into the criminal distora of this hauie the historian knew her personally so called her even a virtuous a designation which ap koars justifiable only when we con sidar that throes did not tako tak o in sensual delinquencies aind forgot end forgave sexual scandals it wa in general ft demoralized epoch in which alexander became pope hence wo must ask our readers to indulge us patiently in a few rough outlines of the ie ond of alexander liim self and his to his eldest son cesare the life of lucreia BO full of vicia situ drs will only then be ted in its true light in those days dissolution and decay abo doctrine of had completely christianity and the avidity for power and pleasure was the anly spring of action rome resembled a moral swamp in which the bandits went around in broad day light in ahe streets nourishing nouri ahing their poisoned daggers and bloody swords cora and depravity had td into fad highest circles of society forgeries and embezzlements embezzle ments were n ibo order of the alay in the pipal chancellors chanc ellory thus florans Flo rUns bishop of cosenza secretary of dispenses forged such dispenses for sain to bucit a degree that the king of spain was enraged by his interference flo rians was arrested and sentenced to perpetual in liis trial the ghastly mysterious interior of the tomb of hadrian the present castlo of san anceto began to play its gloomy sanguinary role leep down in dungeon in the bowels of the castle was A dark damp chamber called san marco with a well in ake centre into which the victims of statecraft or other noted prisoners were thrown Flo waa not hurled down there they av him duly a pitcher with oh bread and water and oban donad him to solitude and destiny until two atara after death released leini two other bously hanged liy judges no better but only more successful tin n they and as is always the case in its train cruelty ruled ex every distinguished person of that age in this immoral it was only alio question to utilize and wear out men and bilings aaen st ft ambition coupled with a strong will this tendency to self aggrandizement led to murder that ace perpetrated alio moitt criminal outrages as calmly and ancon ns if it were all natural we of hit cannot con cavo of aliis dismal disputing condition the borgias represented lie as the hideous of tiberius fand claudius had hardly witnessed they poss wed the boldest audacity to il perpetration but under their baad crime became o work of fuller to understand th meaning of strange but truo and terms compare tho eloquent eulogies of niccolo lluc chiavelli the anatomist of that on cesare bor gia one of th roost odious monsters ever wore a purple robe and still alexander VI had one great and moment in his life in the year 1403 christopher j landed in lisbon out of the misty depth ol 01 tho hitherto mi traveled ocean rose america Am erict it entered into history out of the dark shadow of the and this new worlie showed to the european people which had plunged no the sandy and contemplation of classical antiquity that had wider circles to do crib than only choso whose leatrea had been kom fand athena gitl and were at one relis nd contesting about the boun diris of thir newly discovered lands and to the of tha pope alexander drew a bold arroka across tho globe ielne fall the lands discovered OT stall to w one hundred miles west and the azores to the spaniard by this act now considered a an unmitigated usurpation but then as a perfectly justifiable act of tho papal jurisdiction ris alexander rose to a cle of ideal is aadla con trailed by hi mner abl domestic policy that pen stroke tra the bat feeble of the cominio author ity of but alexanders soul and mind wa not capable to comprehend compre hand the gigantic moment A high and aspiring mind wound have seen stimulated to A contemplation of b duty and inspired with berand Ideas but alexander only thought of hia ephemeral ph emeral joys and the aggrandizement of his baa tard the cupidity after money ruled him completely because it was for him the sole means to secure pleasure and power to tins came the ever gnawing con of his election by bribery which haunted him ilko it dismal hott by day and night every moment seemed lost to him in which his treasures were not in created or his authority expanded moreover the attachment to hia family degenerated into a foible which became disastrous for himself and jor all italy this weakness for hia family impelled him to crimes of which he might probably have been innocent otherwise these crimes as well as tho complications abroad and the muddled unsettled condition of in the interior of the papal dominions gave him into the hands of his own son cesare who was endowed with sharp reason restless activity unscrupulous ambition cold determination decision of will and who shirked no perfidy perjury nor sanguinary deed when ever tho attainment of bis political intentions or the satisfaction ot his lusts and revenge were in question the mutual relation of alexander and his eon can tho fairest be shown by an extract from a report of a venetian diplomatist paolo campello alio writes the following in 1500 enst returned from germany the pope counts 70 years but apac ars to prow younger every day lie i of a lively sanguine temper disagreeable thoughts never last over night with him in all ho under taken he looks only alter hv own interest and all his ideas are only directed to the promotion of hia family other things ha cares not for ui son cesare he lears as much as ha loves him the latter is 27 years old large well built a fine man he is lavish incurring thereby the popes displeasure the holy father himself is not secure from his violence under his own cloak the son stabbed tho father fH ther most intimate servant deroso the blood be sputtered the popes visage all home trembles before cesara all those things took place daily and hourly inn aimo when already amm all lands there waa arising a loud cry of indignation over the cor r option of the court everywhere they began shaking iho old structure which had been tho course of centuries received ti r final touches in the middle ages and which was called tho roman catho lie or commonly the papal church german princes who oa ne to rome as saxony and erich of brunski k shrank back in abasse ment before what they saw gal and fippin exhorted the pope by special mMa angers that nil the vices rampant in tho court that rome was i hell of flagrant ott engas against flod and ninn into tho frantic dance bounded savona rolas barnin and rebuking voice in tho churches of florence but the soul stirring fiery words of ahr flor en tine fra did not penetrate in oli durate egotistical bosom of ali aim der far less did they soften tin peta rifled heart of his bloodstained blood stained xon with cool and calm steps they stepped from outrage to outrange from crime to crime uncil even heir measure was full and the diro hour of retribution came ane NEW YORK by all odds the most persistent anti grant p iper in the united states argaez that if we elat ulyeses S grant of the united states and thereby in the army and navy who is the man in whom we repose so great a trust II 11 is a successful soldier for thai is his oaly the qualities in which he excels are those which would enable him to his trust lie is animated by an inordinate love of power he longs for an office with a life tenure this is curlain for when his lection to the presidency was first proposed ho of giving up an office for life that of general for tho dancy na an unparalleled I then we know tliatha is destitute of regard for ants which lins his from jefferson docu ho is also a man of greed lie tiling he can get the carlli hardly contains presents enough to satisfy liiro diio power of alio carrying mill it thit th it of of tho arroy and navys a i to place in such hands dm wo ewt glasl chome and alien hie dread hour comes behold what down from thi fence and partaking cf a crow diet there will bo on he part of the truly loyal |