The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-07
POPE SINKS RAPIDLY.
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have also been injected, to produce
more rapid effect.
1.-The disease, as announced in the
first bulletin, is senile pneumonia in a
torpid form, which is now at it's maxi
mum intensity, but which may have
been unobserved before the Pope COM
planned of any feeling of Illness"
POOe's Simple Tastes.
The Pope was always a man of ex-
tremely simple tastes. which ne
brought from his childhood home at
Carpineto and possibly his cautious
temperament, curiously combined with
power and unhesitating decision, was
inherited from his mountaineer ances-
tors. For his personal use he select
ed, instead of one of the numerous
magnificent suites of the Vatican, a
few simple rooms containing little be-
yond absolutely necessary articles.
His bed stands in an alcove, separ-
ated from a larger room by a curtain
hanging gracefully over marble col
umns. Above the bed is a picture of
the Madonna and child. Beside 1t is
a prayer table surmounted by a cru
cifix. A wardrobe against the wall
faces the bed, and between the latter
and the wall is a couch. The rest of
the room is used as a study and con-
tains a writing table, with a crucifix,
a chair on a carpeted platform, chairs
and tables for the Pope's secretaries,
writing materials and few books,
among which are the works of Dante,
Virgil and Horace. besides a Bible.
One Last Poem.
The Pope has just given striking
proof of his weIl-known taste for clas-
sizes. He has partly composed and
partly corrected a new Latin poem,
which he has entrusted to Monsignor
Angel, one of his private secretaries,
directing him to have it printed for
publication and adding:
at shall die happier in thinking that
something will remain of me that
have done at the very last moment"
The Pope, even when In good health.
only sleeps four or five hours each
night, and often in the morning his
bed is undisturbed and he is found
asleep in the very chair before his
writing table, in which he now re-
clines.
The only window of the combined
bedroom and study of the Pontiff over
looks the colonnade of the piazza of
st. Peters, and the door of the room
opens into a tiny private chapel Adj
joining is a small room, furnished only
with an armchair and lounge, where
the Pope sometimes takes an after
noon nap. The rooms are all on the
same level as the famous loggia of
Raphael.
Cardinals Pulling Wires.
Great activity reigns among the
cardinals now that it is sure that a
conclave cannot be far off. 1t is even
said that there has been an exchange
of kilograms in cipher between the
members of the Sacred College in Rome
and those in the provinces or abroad.
Innumerable rumors are circulating
and scarcely any cardinal is deprived
of the fiattery of being considered a
candidate. However besides those men
toned in the Associated Press dispatch
yesterday, the only other candidates
who are regarded as having a fair
chance are Cardinal Svampa, arch
bishop of Bologna, and Cardinal
Richelmy, archbishop of Turin.
Cardinal Rampolla is thought by
many to have the best chances of be-
ing elected. According to the most ac-
credited Vatican gossip, however,
Cardinal Rampolla has entered into an
agreement with Cardinal Gotti, project
of the congregation of the propaganda,
to support the election of the latter on
condition that he himself be appoint
ed Gotti's successor as project of the
propaganda, the holder of which post
is called the RED Pope