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Show AT THE LAST MOMENT. Thoughts of Great Men Immediately Preceding Dissolution. There are few sayings of great men half so interesting as the words they utter before the curtain Is rung down for the last time. What, for instance, could be sweeter sweet-er than this picture, of the last mo- monta of John Richard Green, the historian? his-torian? Ho had spoken tho last sentences sen-tences of tender farewell and gratitude grati-tude to those around his bed, and then, placing his forefinger on his P'se, ho looked up r' the doctor stooping over him and with a smile uttered tho ono word, "Stopped." Phelps' clcing words wero tho most dramatic ho had spoken on any stage. He was playing AVolsey in "Henry VIII," and had just spoken tho line "Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness," when ho staggered and was led off the boarda which ho was never to tread again. Jr Many of the kings of the earth have never been robler than in the concluding con-cluding moment of their lives. Richard Rich-ard I, Just as ho was breathing his la t, said to Bertrand do Gourdon, whoso arrow had killed him, "Youth, I forgive you," and then turning to his attendants ho said, "Take off his chains, give him a hundred shillings and let him go." |