Show I POPE IS BETTER DISTINCT SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT SHOWN t Docters Take a More Hopeful Hope-ful View of Case 1 I LAPPONI MAKES STATEMENT I Pontiff Participatos In the I Celebration of Mass During Sunday Afternoon the Popc Felt Strong Enough to Get Up 1 and Dress Himself Home July 13Gt5 a mTho condition con-dition of the Pope was statIonary durIng dur-Ing the night lIe slept at intervals tbut was not entirely tranquil Rome July lPope Loo has lived 1 to see another Sunday and with the tSnbbath rjuleL which fell upon Homo Rcime also peace and even progress to tthC Pontiff Beginning this morning VyIth distinct signs of Improvement he maintained this throughout the day I Tonight Dr Lapponl I nnulc the following follow-ing Important statement to the question ques-tion It he believed the Popes Improved condition could continue I believe If the Pope lasts until July 21 we may not perhaps achieve an absolute it ab-solute curi but we will secure such a I good state of health In the patient as t will allay our anxiety MASS IS CELEBRATED During the morning the Pontiff participated par-ticipated In the celebration of mass The ceremony was held In the chapel adjoining the sick chamber Monsignor Mnrsonl being the celebrant The door Connecting the sick room with the chnpfl was opined to that his Holiness might follow the nervlccs He Insisted 1 that Dr apponl nod his valet Contra fhoitld leave hits side and enter the chapel In order to better hear the mass DAY UNEVENTFUL ONE The history of the day has been comparatively com-paratively uneventful The Pontiff had rcvornl hours repose Dr Lupponl restIng rest-Ing near him throughout the night The Ihyslclnn I twice administered Ingredients Ingre-dients to him once of digitalis to strengthen the heart and once of Amphor caffeine to overcome the patients pa-tients growing depression This mornInG morn-InG found the Pontiff with spirits > bright and the conditions generally Improved ENCOURAGING BULLETIN Dr Mazzonl Joined his assistant at S20 a in and after a brief conference confer-ence issued I the most encouraging oin clnl bulletin thus far given Besides summarizing the satisfactory pathological patholog-ical I I conditions th doctor gave the ihTlng tidIngs that the Pontiffs condition t con-dition had manifestly > Improved The piilse hlrh wont down yesterday to S3 Imil ilflen to K while the tempera lure and respiration showed no abnormal abnor-mal characteristics LAPPONI LEAVES VATICAN Pope Leo look his usual light break fnat and Dr Lapponl who has re nialned unceasing vigil I since the pa tlcnlH cafe bccnme desperate felL suCH clcnlly neturod to leave the Vatican for the first limp going to his home I i where his daughter lies stricken with I fever When thf physician left the elck room ho vas almost mobbed by hlch dignitaries Including several car dlnnlF who rejoiced at seeing the phy Mrlrtn tranquil enough to leave the patient pa-tient POPE IS BETTER Dr Lapponl addressed them all by fOlng Yes the Pope is hotter but T hg you riot to exaggerate In optimism In order to avoid a disillusion later Dr Mazzonl wan alfio absent from the Popes side which In Itself gave thn clearest evidence that the doctors thr > msclven were relieved of Immediate apprhenalon Dr Rossonl hns been taken Hllk with fever and wan pre Vented from visiting the Pope this evening as ho Intended PONTIFF DRESSES HIMSELF During the afternoon the Pope felt Ktrong enough lo get up HP rose dresi d hlmfelf In white and went to I fclt In his usual armchair where he re nmlned for noine time Then the win dows were opened for a changu of air the sun streaming In together with a light refreshing breeze from the Medi terranean Late In the afternoon he re ceived Cardinals I Math Ieu Stclnhuber I Agllardi and Pasall The Pope showed nls uoual brluhtnesH and lucidity of mInd 1 and spoke to each without show leg any perceptible fatigue TALK WITH MAT1IIEU To Cardinal Muthlcu his hoilnesB Fld I have not cons < > d for one mop mo-p ment to pray God to protect Franco Liflhlhave tho men now governing her r pent I ana stop the persecution of the church ll then Bent the apostolic nltsMne to Cardinal Mathleua sister t rho Is a nun I THANKS STEIN HUll En li ° heartily thanked Cardinal Steln huber U5 ho told him that lt whole Jcsult order was dally praying for his 1 rOery and Preservation and he Lked Cardinal Agllardl I how he llket the P05lllon of vlcochanccllor of the ehurch to which he WaR Appointed at a Ih < s lost consistory rth and how the card nnt njoec1 his now residence the JUl1ul and historic palace of the thanccflr Hearing that the cardinal I 4d not yet moved there Pope Leo I a1d You must ClUB yourself before r c Continued on PaCe 11 i POPE GETTING BETTER Continued from Page L leaving for the country as though the removal was a remote possibility He thanked Cardinal Caalll for the warm interest he had taken In his Illness ness and then cave all the cardinals his hand to shake I MESSAGE TO SPANISH RULER As the King of Spain had telegraphed to inquire about the Popes health and had asked for the papal benediction his holiness directed Cardinal Rampolla to telegraph back granting the request Later the pontiff took a short nap and slept tranquilly enough although he seemed to have somewhat more difficulty dif-ficulty In breathing CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE The doctors returned at 730 p m and their evening bulletins gave negative encouragement simply showing that the favorable conditions of the morn Inc had been maintained Throughout the day St Peters was surrounded by the usual Sunday worshipers wor-shipers and stead lines of Inquirers visited the Vatican courtyard whore the bulletins arc Issued Unusual rigor was adopted to prevent unseemly gatherings gath-erings One notable Instance of Vatican Vati-can etcrncss was the arrest of Capt Smith commanding the Swiss guard for press having given Information to tho STRIKING SCENE There was I striking scene within St Peters tonight In the midst of the vespers the German students all In scarlet cassocks entered tho cathedral Behind them came German friars in rough haircloth cassocks and then German Ger-man nuns In conventional black and white These formed a procession and kneeling llrst at one altar and then at another prayed aloud and In silence for Pope Leo The congregation Joined In the procession until the basilica was half circled by a moving mans of color and when SL Peters tomb was reached many hundreds followed the picture of the Savior held aloft by I statuesque monk monkPRAYERS PRAYERS FOR THE POPE On one Bide of the brass rally which guard the entrance to the tomb knelt the nuns Opposlto three deep were the shorn heads of the friars while In the center knelt the young students their scarlet cassocks making n blaze of color which stretched far down the I dimlylighted nave For nearly an hour I no move or sound came from these supplicants sup-plicants for divine Interposition save every few second the hoarse monotonous monoto-nous cry Ora Pro Nobis The dirge like cadence or the gutteral German voices quite drowned the Italian choir which atlll sang the vespers from n neighboring altar The rosary over the Germans filed out their heads still bent In prayer |