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Show A SAD FOURTH OF JULY. Th Day on Which Two of America's Greatest Patriot Died. Tho Fourth of July. lKMJ, una the denth day of two of tho repuhllc's greatest muu, John Adnnis nnd Tliom-us Tliom-us Joffersou. On July 4. f8.'U. five yenrs later. James Monroe breathed his last. Sixty years) later, on Julv 4, 1S91. Unnnllinl UumJIn died Tho denth of Imtli Adams aud Jefferson Jef-ferson on the day nceepted as the un-tlon's un-tlon's lilrtliJay wax n strange coincidence. coinci-dence. The day was one neither for-Bot. for-Bot. for both were nin'oiiK the Honors of the Immortal doriiuicut which o:ll-daily o:ll-daily tlrst saw the light Just llfty yearn beforo their death, both remembered remem-bered tho date, nnd each was cognizant of the other's mortal Illness. Adams was past ninety. Jefferson' was about seven years younger. Vet he had lived thirteen years more thnu tho threcRcoro and ton years allotted by holy writ. At midnight eighty yearn ago, when Independence dny was just being ushered In, Jefferson, even then dying, but with memory uot yet altogether alto-gether Impaired, muttered, "This Is the Fourth of July." In tho morning Adams, Ad-ams, tho same thought apparently running run-ning through his mind, roused himself to ask, "Does Jefferson still live?" Adnms died n llttlo nfter midday, Jefferson Jef-ferson n few hours Inter. |