Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-07-16
A WEEK OF ANXIETY.
The End of 1t Found the Pope But
the Shadow of a Man.

the Shadow of a Man.
Rome, July 12.-Saturday brought
to close a full week since Pope Leo
was stricken with illness, and 1t
found him still battling against death.
DR.. Lapponi remained near the pope
throughout the night, but there was
little occasion for his services. When
DIR. Mazzoni joined him in the sick
chamber at $3.50 o'clock Saturday
morning they found that their pa
tent had not suffered any serious de-
preston during the night, although
the same terrible weakness was still
manifest.
An affecting interview has occurred
between the pontiff, Cardinal Satolli
and three other cardinals represent
ing various degrees of the sacred col
lege. Cardinal Satoli and his compon-
Ions were admitted to the presence OF
the pope as a special favor, following
his earnest ertreaties. In the gentlest
manner Cardinal Macchi, speaking for
all, told the pontif of the universal
interest taken in his condition, add
ing: prayers are going up every
where that the lord may preserve for
the benefit Of the church, the precious
life OF your holiness"
Il thank your eminence,' replied
the pope. "It win be as God wishes.
We must submit to HIS holy will" So
saying the sufferer pressed the hard
of each of the cardinals as they with
drew.
One of the cardinals present at the
interview, spoke afterwards of the re-
markable changes that had been
wrought since he had last seen the
pontiff only last Sunday night, when
extreme JUNCTION was administered to
his holiness. The cardinal said: THE
appearance of the Holy father is in
tensely painful. He maintains mental
acumen, but his brave spirit is terri
| bly broken. This was especially ap-
parent to me, while l am used to see
him often. l have observed a great
change in his physical condition dur
| ing the last five days. His words are
now uttered with difficulty and he
raises his hand only after an effort.
His face is excessively emaciated and
his eyes are deeply sunken. His ex-
treme weakness is evident at the first
glance; there remains only a shadow
of the man."
Cardinal Satolli, in conversation,
said that life was only kept in the
tired body of the pontiff by the con-
1f o,-f, CT, Iar. fc nd
other persons equally reliable who
saw the pope Sunday and who had
seen him ON previous days OF his ill
ness, agree with Cardinal Satolli in
saving that death has made all his
ravages save separation of the soul
and body. And yet doctors announce
to the public that the pope's general
condition is satisfactory. An ex-
planation of the apparent contradic-
ton lies in the fact that the doctors
expected his holiness to die long be-
fore this and now are exercising in
their bulletins an excess of caution
and a comparative method of express
sion which is incomprehensible to
the lay mind. Moreover, the extraor-
binary vitality of their patient has,
SO to speak, annihiliated every medi-
cal theory held by doctors in Italy
so that it is scarcely surprising that
Doctors Ressoni, Mazzoni and lap
poni content themselves with daily
recording the symptoms of progress
sion and retrogression which succeed
each other with such battling irregu-
larity as to forbid the risk of maxi
ing definite representation for the
| public