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LOng-Lived Great Men.

The death of the ex-President of the
French Republic at the advanced age of
so years suggests the thought that the
civilized nations of the earth are for the
most part governed or guided by old
men. On the 22d of March last the En-
peror of Germany completed his
eightieth year. This mightiest of the
rulers of the world has known adversely
as great as his present prosperity is ex-
allied. A boy of 10 he fled with his
mother to escape the victorious armies
of Napoleon the Great. Forty years
later he had to fly a second time from
Berlin, and sought refuge in London
from the resentment of his countrymen.
Marshal MacMahon, Duke of Magenta,
and President of the French Republic,
is nearly 60. His life has been one of
steady progress, but he stands to-day
for the first time in his career in an I'M
certain position. Alexander H., En-
peror and Autoerat of all the Russians,
has not yet lived three score of years,
but his life has been a most eventful one.
In 1861 he performed one of if not the
greatest act in history, namely, the
emancipation of 100000 human be-
ings from the bondage of serfdom.
The Russian Prime Minister, Prince
Gortschakoff, is now in his 10Th year.
Prince Bismarck, who was born
on All Fools Day, is over 62.
The Earl of Beaconsfield Oisraeli)
is in his I'D year; the ex-British Pre-
mier, Mr.. Gladstone, is 6S, while Count
Andrassy, the. Hungarian statesman
and leader of public opinion in Austria,
is no older than 81 years. Admiral
Constantine Canaris at 81 is President
of the Cabinet and the hope of Greece.
1t is 81 years ago since he avenged the
devastation of Scio by fastening fire
ship to the Turkish flagship and blow
ing her up with many hundreds of men
who were celebrating the Ramadan.
Victor Hugo is just midway between
the three-score and ten and the four
score years of the Psalmist. Earl Rus
sell, the great Wing leader, is So; NJ.
Grevy, who has been chosen as Gam
betta's lieutenant, is GA; Jules Simon is
63, and Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, bet
ter known as Sir Stratford Canning, is
no less than 80. Of venerable politi-
clans and statesmen in our own country
it would be easy to multiply names.
Simon Cameron, the great Republican
leader in Pennsylvania, is 7Si Caleb
Cushing, of Massachusetts, is a; Alex
ander II. Stephens, a representative
Southern Democrat, is 65; Gen. John
A. Dix, of this city, has now turned 10.
E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, is 81, and
Horatio Seymour is g.. Secretary of
State Evarts, who is both lawyer and
statesman, is in his sixty-first year.
Turning from those who govern to
those who educate, we find numerous
old men who exercise wide influence
throughout the world. Thomas Car
lyle, the English essayist and historian,
is 81; Alfred Tennyson, the poet, is 67;
Prof. Charles Robert Darwin is G8; and
these are the great lights in English lit
erature and science. Of Americans,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has just
turned Il; John G.. Whittier is 20;
Ralph Waldo Emerson is "A; George
Bancroft is Il; William Cullen Bryant,
the poet and journalist, nearly IS; Will
liam Lloyd Garrison is 10; Theodore
Dwight Woolsey is 76, and Peter Coop
err is sc. Legal jurisprudence at home
and abroad is represented by Charles
O'Connor, of this State, who is 80; by
Isaac Adolph CremieuX, French law
yer and legislator, who is 10; by VIII
liam Ballantine, an English Sergeant-at-
law, who is 6S, and by Firmin-Agosto
Cabellero, a Spanish lawyer, journalist
and statesman, who IS Il. Chief-Jus-
tice Waite is 61; the Lord Chief Justice
of England is 10, and the Lord Chief
Baron is over 80. OF eccleSiastics high
in authority or position, Plus
TX. is So; the Primate of all England is
67; Bishop Ames is Il, and DR.. Dol
linger, the German theolOgian and his
torian, is IS. Among leaders in reli-
gious thought are Bishop Dupanloup, OF
France, who is 76; Dean Stanley, OF
Westminster Abbey, who is 81; DR..
Newman, who is ca; Cardinal Nc
Closkey, who is Il; DR.. ThOs. Worces-
ter, who is over IS; Henry Ward Beech
er, who is GA; DR.. Chaplin, who is 90 /;
DR.. McCosh, who is So, and Rev.
Stephen H. Tying, Sr., who is a. In
the science of war the chiefs are Count
Won Moltke, who was born in 1870;
Gen. w. T. Sherman, who was born in
1920, and Gen. Garibaldi, the most pop
ular man in Italy, who is fast approach
ing his list year.
Thus the peoples of the world seem
to be governed and educated by old
men, though the average length OF hui
man life has been so extended that now
adays we scarcely call men old at 60.
And as old is relative term, it might
be more correct to say that power is to
be found in the hands of older men than
of yore.-NelU York Times.