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Show Pope Dwells Upon Death. The French journalist, M. Mouthon, whose alleged interviews with dignitaries digni-taries in Rome have been so severely discredited, asserted of Pope Leo XIII, among other things, that His Holiness had an abnormal desire to live. A lady admitted to audience told the Pope that she was praying he might attain his j 100th birthday. Whereto the latter, "Why limit the mercy of God, my sister?" sis-ter?" How different the truth about the aged Pontiff? In the farewell audience audi-ence which he accorded a fortnight ago to Cardinal Mo ran, he said: "Cardinal,. I advise you to leave immediately for the good of your diocese, where you are so loved, but at the same time I would wish you to remain." "Why, Holy Father?" asked the cardinal. "To I spare you the trouble to return soon I from Australia for the next conclave," was the reply. His attending prelates notice that as the twenty-fifth yeax of his pontificate draws near its end, His Holiness alludes of tener and oftener to his near-at-hand death. Pilot,- Boston. |