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Show Dr. Lliot Was Absentminded. Onco when there was a vacancy In the Massachusetts bishopric Dr. Phillips Prooks was the most llk.v candidate The dean of the theological school In Cambridge. Dr. Lawrence, during the course of B .ilk With Dr. Eliot of Harvard, Har-vard, began a discussion of the situation 'Don't yo i think Brooks win be t--d'.'" nskee he. "Well, no." said Dr. Eliot; "a second or third rate man would do Just as well We need BrOOka ilk'l.t le re In Boston " Phillips Brooks was elected, ami a short tlmo thereafter Dr. Eliot and Dr Law-' Law-' '' e v.. ,. again i ilklng of the matter An-n't you glad Brooks was elected''' said the d. Ul "Y.s. 1 suppose so." replied the absent-mlnderi absent-mlnderi Eliot, "If he wanted It; but lo tell tho truth. Lawrence, you were my man " Woman's Homo Companion. |