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Show rounded by ach conditions that it will often be. Said that it would hare been better for his fame if he could hare beea taken away two years sooner. DEATH OF PAKSELL, The announcement of the death of Charles Stewart Parxell will be a great surprise to the people of this and all other countries and it will be a fhock to the entire civilized world. It was not known that he was seriously ill, and the news of his death has fallen like a bolt from "a clear sky. Wherever the telegraph reaches, men will road the sad dispatch with sorrow, sor-row, for Mr. Tarxell was a man who was respected even by his most bitter enemies. In the United States this feeling of sorrow will be particu-JT particu-JT ' ' larly keen. The dead statesman was - universally admired by the American f people. Millions of them condemned his recent course, but it wa3 hoped and believed that he wou!d rise above the Influences that had pulled him down and again assume an exalted place among the leaders of the Irish cause. Much was expected of him. Men judged of his future by the record of his earlier years and they saw in him the greatest possibilities and the promise prom-ise of much more grand work for the cause that he so long led. Parnell was a remarkable man. lie was a born leader, and no contest was ever too severe for him to enter the lists and sustain himself with distinction distinc-tion in the fray. Loyalty to Ireland was his guiding motive, and the cause of home rule was advanced under his leadership further than it could have been with any other man at the helm. But there can be no doubt that he blundered in the end. He surrendered his judgment to the influence of a woman wo-man after having maintained a true course during all the years in the face of the bitterest opposition of the ablest men in England. He had so long held undisputed sway that he could-not brook th thought of surrendering his public position because of a social error, and, spurning the advice of his friends, he plunged into a single-handed contest against public sentiment and against his own most faithful colleagues. Defeat rewarded his rash Undertaking, and he died but- |