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Show BISHOP POTTER ENTERING VALLEY OF THE SHADOW COOPERSTOWX. Is. Y.. July 1. Bishop Henry G. Potter of tho Protestant Episcopal Epis-copal diocese of Now York. Is tonight near death's door. The bulletins Issued by his physicians during the day related hi brief tho agod clergyman's steady decreasing vitality. In no case did the doctors hold out hopo of a farorable termination of the bishop's illness and In their last statement of the night they Indicated that the end was slowly approaching. But the means taken to keep up the patient's strength have boon In a measure efficacious, and It was bollcvcd lalo tonight that the bishop had still sufficient vitality to carry him through the night. A factor In helping tho sick man to pass a fairly comfortable day was tho cooler weather which prevailed. Tho bishop has remalnod conscious throughout iho day and his communications communica-tions with thoso about him In tho sick room havo been Invariably cheerful. lie vomalns free from pain. To his cheerfulness cheerful-ness and courage his physicians attribute much of the remarkable resistance to tho course of the dlacnso which ho Is displaying. |