The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-20

that his desires be executed. In one of these intervals he asked for Mon signor Rosa, recently appointed sec letary of the consistorial congrega. ton. MonsignOr Rosa had been an intimate friend of the pope since the Pontift was bishop of Treyiso. As soon as he was notified he rushed - the vatican and was admitted imme. diately to the apartment where the pope was lying. MonsignOr Rosa le- mained alone with the pope. The in cident was considered significant as ewing to his present position Monsig- nor Rosa would be secretary of the conclave on the death of the pope. lt is though that ths pope confided in him his last wishes.
 Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal secretary, telegraphed to all the car dinals notifying them of the grave condition from which the pope was suffering.
 Later the ringing of church bells announced to the faithful the exposi- ton of the holy sacrament and called them to prayer for the restoration ot the pontiff to health. This gave rise to rGmors of the pope's death which the vatican denied owing 60 the many inquiries from all quarters.
 Those close to the pope believe that grief over the war situation brought on the final crisis and so overwhelmed him that he was unable in his eightieth year to witl<N,nd still an other attack of his old enemy. gouty Catarrh.
 III health has been the pontiff's lot for many years, and intermittently the attacks have been so serious that the world has prepared severai times to hear of his passing. During the summer there had been numerous de- nals from the vatican that his indis- position was serious. As late as Aa- gust 10 last, upon the occasion Of the eleventh anniversary of his corona ton. Pope Plus granted numerous aI. diences.
 Two days later it became known that he had canceled virtually all en- gagements. His atteh>Gnts reported he was unable to work and that 1e| sat listiess and silent for hours, evi- dently breeding over the great clash of arms in Europe.
 His physician ordered his holiness to bed on August l6, when 1t was an nounced that the war and the intense heat in Rome had combined to depress him
 In bed he continued to dream of the conflict by night and to discuss it by| day.
 q shall not cease to implore God to| put a stop to this inhuman butchery' v he declared. His physicians had to| deal with this mental condition as well as physical suffering. Arrange ments were made by which Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal secretary of state. would render his holiness d daily report of the war situation. The pope desired to see some way Tn hich he might exert his influence to check the bloodshed and he was the more affected because any action seemed useless.
 At the commencement of the Euro bean crisis he had addressed an eX- ortation to all Catholics of the world he called on the clergy to offer public asking them to lift their souls toward Christ who alone was able to aid, an1 prayer.
 Tho break between Austria and Seryia from the first became source of great grief to him, for the vatican was most friendly toward both na- lions. He was inexpressibly shocked, he said, at the assassination of Arch duke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, who, like all the Hapsburgs, was an ardent CathoAc, and was sympathetic toward little Servia. with which the vatican but recently had concluded d friendly con cordat.
 The pope's views on peace, em- bodied in an allocution delivered at the consistory at which he created thirteen new cardinals last May, con stituted such a remarkable document that the Carnegie peace union founded