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Show THE PONTIFF STILL LIVES No Hope of Recovery is Entertained Increasing Weak ness and Gradual Failure of His Strong Mental Powers Foretell the End is Near. The pope still lives, despite disease and the infirmity of age. His hold on life is truly miraculous. All preparations prepara-tions have been made for the final end, and the pontiff calmly awaits the summons. Each day's news is punctuated with hope for his recovery along with later I bulletins bidding the Catholic world to expect sudden dissolution. All we dare base credence upon is the report of his physicians. Below it is presented, along with the latest intelligence from the sick man s chamber. 0 Rome, July 16. Dr. Mazzoni, in reply re-ply to the question, "Can the pope recover?" re-cover?" gave the Associated Press corresDondent tonia-M the folliiwi.vr signed statement: "Rome, via Conditti, July 15. At the present moment the disease of his Holiness has lost its character of absolute ab-solute gravity which it had at its acute period. It might be considered to have entered the period of a possible possi-ble solution. This might occur in a man of strong fiber and youn, but it is impossible to entertain such a hope in the case of a man in his 94th. year. With him the physical energy absolutely abso-lutely indispensable for recovery is lacking. Pope Leo's organism is perfect per-fect and as such maintains itself after aft-er ninety-three years of never interrupted inter-rupted work, but his motor force is no longer sufficient for the complex functions essential to life. In other words, the ninety-three years of Pope Leo XIII bring him into that category of extraordinary longevity when life is destined to flicker out independent of the action of anv natholosical com plications. The only service that science and affection can render is that of struggling to have this precious pre-cious existence preserved to us as long as possible. (Signed.) "GAETANO MAZZONI." n |