Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09

dation, kindness. and politeness, and due con-
sideration or the opposite, for the COM
fort of ladies. or the aged and imfrm, will al
ways be made conspicuous. Good manners
always evince good heart
NEVER too old to learn. Socrates at ex-
treme old age learned to play on musical in
struments. Cato at eighty years of age learned
the Greek language. Plutarch when between
seventy and eighty years OF age began to
study the Latin language. Boccacio was
thirty-five years old when he commenced
his studies in polite literature, yet he became
one of the three great masters of the Tuscan
dialect, Dante and Petrarch being the other
two. Sir Henry Spelman commenced the
study of the sciences when he was between so
and 90 years old, and became a most
learned antiquarian lawyer. Colbert,
the famous French minister, at 60
years OF age returned to his Latin and
law studies. DR.. Johnson applied himself to
the Dutch language, but few years
before his death. Ludovico Monaldesco at
the great age of lis years wrote,the memoirs of
his own times. Ogilby, the translator of
Homer and Virgil was unacquainted with Latin
and Greek till he has fifty
years old. DR.. Benjamin Franklin
I'LL he was fifty years old. Dryden in his
| sixty eighth year commenced the translation
of the Had. Accorso, great lawyer, said he
began the study of the law late, indeed, but he
should therefore master it the sooner. It is a
theory of some that a healthy old age gives a
man the power of accomplishing a difficult
study in much less time than would be neces-
essary to one of half his years. None but the
sick and indolent will ever say, an too old
to study.
In speaking of good manners, their lacA is
held as natural vice. This lack is not dis
tinctively American, it is broader, it is Anglo
Saxon, as distinct from the Latin races. The
softness, quietness, ease of manners which
pertain to France and Italy are not found in
Germany, Britain or America. Rev. Petroleum
V. Nasty q. R. Eocke), travelling in France,
writes the Toledo, CO., Black, thus: 81 was
in compartment [of the rail carl with lit
tie French boy Of 10, the precise age at which
American children, as rule, deserve killing
for their rudeness and general disagreeable-
ness. He was dressed faultlessiy, but his
clothes were not the chief charm. I sat be-
tween him and the open window, and he was
eating pears. Now, All American boy of that
age would either have dropped the cores on
the floor or tossed them out of the window
without regard TO anybody. But this small
gentleman every time, with Permit me,
monsieur said in the most pleasant way,
rose and came to the window and dropped
them out, and then 'Merci, monsieur thank
you. sir], as he quietly took his seat. 1t was
delight. am sorry to say that such small
boys do not travel on American railroads to
any alarming extent. Would they were more
frequent. And this boy was no exception. He
was not show-boy cut posing before the
great American republic, or such of it as
happened to be in France at thas time; but he
was a sample, type of the regulation
French child.' We readily en-
dorse the remark that boy of
that pattern would never be met with in
England or New England, in Britain or Amer
lea. They are not raised in any of these
kingdoms Or republics. The fathers and
mothers were brought up as they bring up
their sons and daughters. Children are what
they are taught to be.
The death of John Quincy Adams, stricken
down as he was in his seat in the house of
representatives was a startling event This
occurred Feb. 81, 1913. He had partially
risen, as if to speak, clutched his desk con-
yulsively, and would have fallen, had not a
member of the house nearest to
him, clasped him in his arms.
All was confusion as members
clustered around him, and there were cries of
'stand back" "give him air. "carry him to
window ETC." Nearly all were panic
stricken. Mr.. Winthrop, of Massachusetts,
the speaker, Immediately adjourned the house.
A settee was brought, and the unconscious
form was placed upon it, and conveyed to the
speakers room, where he was placed
upon bed. Physicians were summoned, and
his wife and some female friends soon
arrived. During the day he opened his eyes
and said to his family physician, DR.. Peyton:
"This is the last of earth. I am content"
These were his last words. He again
relapsed into Inconsistencies, and never
again revived. He fingered through
hat day and the two following days, when
his spirit peacefully took It's flight on the
afternoon of February %. He had remained
up to the hour of his death, in the speaker
room. His. son, Charles Francis Adams, was
summoned from Quincy, but when he arrived
his father was dead. When he entered the
speakers room, then the chamber Of
death, Wall retired, and for one
hour the mourning son was left alone, by the
side of the inanimate form of his venerable
and venerated father, who had closed SO sud.
denly, and almost tragically, a long, useful
well spent life, calling forth the sor-
row and mourning OF a whole nation.
AS he lay dying, statesmen of all parties,
Eincluding Henry Clay, called to look upon his
unconscious form. This was one of the most
noted death scenes in our history of one of our
greatest historic characters.
"His history closing as life seldom ends,
"He had outlived all foes, till the world
were his friends
TO-DAY is Easter Sunday, April 9, which
maj Ks the anniversary of the Resurrection of
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