The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-14
POPE RALLIES
ONCE MORE.
Got Ont of Bed and Received
Four Cardinals.
Talked With Perfect Lucidity
This Afternoon.
DELIRIUM HAD SET IN.
Ailment Seemed to Have Reach
ed His Brain.
His Mind Wandered and He Nut
tered IncOherently.
DELIRIUM HAD SET IN

Rome, July 14.-The pope showed
such a revival this afternoon that four
cardinals, Caviochoni, the titular arch
bishop of Nazianza; NOcella, patriarch
of Antioch; Tripepi, the prefect of the
Congregation of Indulgences. and
Cavagnis. were permitted to enter the
sick room.
At p. m. by the greatest physical
and mental effort the pope raised him
self to sitting posture and insisted
upon getting out of bed, returning
thereto in a few momeEts.
At Z D. m. the revival of the pope is
m8intained. There has been no recur-
renee Of the delirium. Late this after
noon he talked with perfect lucidity.
Rome July 1.-THE pope's condition
today developed features which the doc
tors regarded as the most alarming
since his illness began. Their judgment
was based upon the patients brief but
frequent recurring spells of delirium.
Yesterdays hallucination was not con-
sidered as one of the same character,
that delirium being clearly the effect Of
nerve prostration. Today's alterations,
however. convinced the doctors that the
disease had advanced beyond the nerves
and had affected the brain.
During the periods of delrium the
patients mind wandered and he NUT
tered incoherently. He insisted that
shadows were fitting about the room.
In his lucid moments the pope, for the
first time. showed a complete realiza-
tion of the gravity of his condition. He
asked for the Franciscan benediction,
which was given by Cardinal Wives y
Tuto. He especially asked to see Car
dinal RampOlla, to whom he gave what
II was thought might be his final word.
The gravity of the situation becoming
generally known, the vatican was be-
sieged during the morning by anxious
visitors, comprising practically all of
the leading figures in the ecclesiastical
and diplomatic world OF Rome
Towards noon no marked change was
reported but Dr. Lapponi made brief
visit to his sick daughter. This led to
the belief that the doctors did not ex-
pect immediate dissolution.
SORROW AND REGRET IN GER
Many.
Berlin, July 1.-THE imminent death
of the pope causes general regret
throughout Germany and sincere sor-
row among the Catholic population.
Leo XIII has maintained close relations
with German politics. He has exercised
power over the clerical party directing
& closer alliance with the government,
recOnCiling differences and increasing
the party's influence upon public
policy. Officials frankly say that Lee
ALL mas DteH one Oh the DeSL DODGs
ever known so far as his attitude
toward Germany is concerned. He al
ways showed comprehension of German
affairs; smOothed out difficulties be-
tween the center party and the govern
ment even exerting pressure upon the
clerical party to carry measures like
the septennate of 1887 in order to get
concessions and ecclesiastical legisla-
ton Although the center party was
opposed to the septennate the pope's
hint sufficed to induce the whole parts
to abstain from voting. thus making its
passage possible. The clerical party
also opposed the subsequent ecclesias-
tical bill, but Leo's orders caused its
members to change faith and vote for it
Officials further point out recent case
where the pope ordered Bishop Korum
at the Reeves to withdraw the circular
forbidding communion to persons pa,
tronizing the governments mixec
schools. Leo XIII was directly instru,
mental in settling the KuIturkampt
Uhe great Bismarckian struggle be.
tween Professionalism and Catholicism
in Germany, which he followed up with
steady policy Of reconciliation, there,
by giving the center party a dominant
political position. No expression
gained greater currency in latter daS
German politics than the center i:
trumus."