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Show "OOM PAUL" IS DYING. Old Age aM Bitter Memories Cut Short Hla Year3. Oom Paul Krugor is dying, snys a dispatch from Tho Hague. His mom-ory mom-ory gone, his SO years pressing heavily heav-ily on his whitened head, hl3 s.ops ecblo, his passion for outdoor llfo gone, tnc man who brought Great Urltaln to her knees and staggered mankind In South Africa cannot llvo longer. Ills friends aro fearing and prepared for tbo worst nud would not be surprised sur-prised at any moment to hear that tho man who was four times president of tho Sou'h Atilcan republic hod gono to Join nls fallen companions and his wife. Tho cnango In his condition began about a week ago. Ills friends and phystclacB, howover, fearing tao effect that tho nows might havo on certain enterprises, kept quiet. He becamb worso so rapidly that tho nows leaked out. Ho cannot talk of tho outcome of tho war with anything but bitterness. Tho Impossibility of the Transvaal assuming as-suming over again anything Hko Its old placo It the world has plurged him Into tho blackest melancholy. |