The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-12-19
Hard Work and Longevity.
> Albany IN. " Express

The news comes over the sea that
one day last week Mr.. Gladstone,
Premier of England, in addition to his
recreation of falling q tree and trans
lating several pages from the Greek,
walked o few miles, made q speech,
and then attended to those diplomtio
duties which must, in the nature OF
things, be enormous AS the Liberal
party in England is, at the present
time, going through one of its most criti-
cal campaigns, it is plain to be seer that
the responsibility ard work put upon
the shoulders of the Premier
is enough for the strongest and
most active of men. Mr.. Glad
stone is nearly 7G, and apparently good
for many long years of service yet. His
predecessors have, as q rule, been long
lived. Beaconsfie]d was 76 when death
removed him from the sphere of poll
tics, Lord Palmerston was 81, Earl Rus
sell 81, In continental Europe old men
guide the current of political affairs.
Bismarck is 70; Theirs was 80 when he
guided France. Grevy, who is presi-
dent to-day, is II. Gortschakof was
Ill Gull ituO VI lluSolu . dllttll III Oh. IL
would appear that on the other side OF
the Atlantic men are in their prime at
three score years and ten, but at that
age in American politics a man is sup
posed to lag s%uperfuous. Why is it?
The old men of America have accom-
plished their work and gone into retire
ment, while those of their age in Eu-
rope are in the thickest of the Tray. ST.
mon Cameron is So, Hamilton Fish 76,
Horatio Seymour IA, Samuel j. Tllden
70. They are all considered too old for
our American rush and go.
1t is only in politics that the Ameri-
can is considered useless after arriving
at the age of 70 years. In the church,
at the bar, in business, and ever o. the
stage, old men and women do glorious
service. Leonard Bacon is 80, and
Theodore Dwight Wooley SO. Mr.,
Beecher is 74-his father died at SS, and
his sister Catherine at rs. Cardinal
McCloskey is IA, James Freeman Clarke
IA, and DIR. McCosh, 70. Crossing the
ocean, we find the Pope actively per
forming his duties at IA. His prede,
cessor died at Sc. Father Beckx al.
ministered the affairs of the great Jes-
uit Order at 81. Dollinger, the head o
the once formidable Old Catholic move
ment, is IS, and Father Curci, the lib
eral ex-Jesuit, theologian, 81. The Wig
orous Arch Denison "still lives" we be
lieve, alto. Cardinal Manning is rs. anc
Cardinal Newman SO. Very near to the
church are philanthropists and We fine
that one of them, the venerable Sil
Moses Montefore, attained his cent,
ury of useful life on the oath of las
month. Lord Shaftesbury is SO. Gar
rison died at rs, and Wendell Philips a
70, while John B. Cough is living at 81
Robert Dale Owen reached the age OF
rs, and George Peabody that of "A
a comparatively young man at SO, ant
Judge Parker, Of this city, is or his way
to four score having Just celebrated hi
golden wedding. III fact, the list o
brain workers shows many instances o
great longevity, especially among liter.
airy men. George Bancroft Is "a, Ben
son J. LOSING II. James Russell Low
ell is 65, Whittier is II, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes rs. Richard Henry Dan,
died at 80, Bryant at 81, Motley at 60
Geo. P. Marsh at 50, George Ticknor a
80, Longfellow at 76, Halleck at II
In England, Tennyson is IS and Brown
ing n; Lord Houghton, better known
as Mr.. Monk in Mines, is rs, Samuc
Smiles is 6S, and Froude 60. In jour
nalism, longevity is also remarkable
Parke Goodwin, editor of the New Yorl
Commercial, is on the threshold of 70
Dana Yields the briskest pen in til,
metropolis at the good old age Of sc
Thurlow Weed lived to be nearly IS
James Watson Webb TO be SO, Bryan
to "a, Bennett to be II. George Daw
son was past 70, and wrote with til,
vigor of youth when he died, in harness
And what q vast amount of work thes.
men accomplished in their lives!