St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

writer has tenderly and touchingly said: Eff
we die to-day, the sun will shine as brightly,
and the birds will sing as sweetly tomorrow.
Business will not be suspended moment
and The great mass will not bestow thought
upon our memories. Is he deads' will be
the solemn enquiry of few, rs they pass to
their work. No one will miss Us except our
immediate connections. and in short time
they will forget and laugh as merriy as when
we sat beside them. Thus shall we all, now
active in life, pass away. Our children
crawl close behind US, and they will soon be
gone. In few years not living being can
say, 4 remember ~ We lived in another
age, and did business with those who SUM
Der in the tomb. This is life. How rapidly
it passes! All this is true of the masses, and
even of multitudes who have been promin-
ent in their day, have occupied high official
positions, have been governors, congress
men, judges and the like. Even their names
4 have persisted from the earth. A few only
have written their names high up on i'm per-
ishable records. All men cannot be great
though Long fellow draws from the Olives of
great men," stimulus to nerve the lasting
millions.
Lives of great men all remind Us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind US
Footprints on the sands of time"
Henry Kirke White INDUCED in sentiments
similar to those of the above quoted poetic
writer. He was born in 1885, just about a
century ago, and died in 1906, at the age of
twenty-one years and seven months. In
his short life he developed poetic genius of
high order and ranks, to-day, among Eng
lands distinguished poets, notwithstanding
his depending apprehension that his name
and memory would soon '!be heard no more
below" He was a victim of consumption,
and in the language of Lord Byron who. paid
a high tribute to his genius, he died early,
''In consequence of too much exertion in
the pursuit of studies.'
Twas thin own genius gave the fatal blow.
And helped to plant, the wound that laid
thee low
In saddened moment of dependency
Henry Kirke White wrote the following sou
net, full of melting pathos:
| Yes twill soon be over This sicky dream
or life will vanish from my feverish brain;
And death my wearied spirit will redeem
From this wild region of UNMARRIED pain.
Yon brook will glide softly before,
Yon landscape smile, yon golden harvest
Yon sprightly lark mounting wing will
! soar,
When Henrys name Is heard no more be-
low.
Sigh when all my youthful friends caress,
They laugh in health, and futur; evils
brave;
hen shall wife and Hing childran HESS
While am smouldering in my silent grave.
God of the just-Thou gavest the bitter cup;
bow to thy behest, aud drink it up
Though a century has passed since the
birth of the poet, and though landscapes
smile, and golden harvests grow, and che
song Of birds is heard in tie grove, ''Ht nry's
1 name," is still heard and cherished and will
continue to be, while the poetic muse of Al
bion is appreciated in all its genius and glory.
The millions may pass away and be forgot
ten, but his is zone of the few, the immortal
names that were not born to die.
THE value OF sunlight to human health
and life is too little appreciated. Too many
residences are EMPOWERED in the thick TO-
lage of trees, excluding the rays Of the great
health-giving luminary. The London O5SerT
err has some sound and practical remarks on
this subject 1t says: A prolonged absence
of sunlight is . very serious matter. Its eff
feets upon the health are direct and percept-
ible. We get no ozone, and we become dull
and listless, as If we had been sitting up all
night When thus out Of tone and below
par We are consequently deficient in that
vital energy which would MOI otherwise en-
able US to shake OF any ordinary aiIment.
Nor is this all. Absence Of sunlight for any
considerable period is almost invariably fol-
lowed by epidemic outbreaks. When there
is no Sunshine the filth collects, accummu-
lates in masses and ferments These fer
mented accommodations are source of posi-
tive danger as soon as the sun resumes its
activity. Decomposition under bright sun
is mparatively harmless. Slow decompo-
sition in the dark is especially hostile to
health. We need no chemist to tell US all
this, but at the same time it is well to bear
the chemistry Of common life in mind.
Children suffer more from the absence of
the suns rays than do adults. Adults have
only to keep alive; children have to keep
alive aud to grow, which entails a double
amount Of chemical work. Now, If there
be no sunshine, we can best supplement-
| its absence by exercise. And
yet, strange enough the SUBJ
stance of shunshine is regarded by most
mothers as a sufficient ground for keeping
/ children within doors. It is, on the contra
~, the very reason WHY they ahould be sent
out and kept out as much as possible.
Z
/ Mr. MooDT's campaign in London, which
was most protracted beyond the original
plan, has finally closed He says it has
| been eminently successful About four
/ hundred meetings have been held in eleven
| districts. Thirteen different meetings were
/ held everY week He was absent only one
/ day during tie whole season, and that was
owing 70 illuess- He estimates that over
l million and q half persons were present at
the services. All classes Of society have
been reached and Influenced The number
/ of persons converted viii reach into the thou
sands Among them were several pro-
nouneed skeptics- Six male choirs and
SIX Nizpah bands of reformed drunkards
have Teen organized Two large halls are
now in process OF building at Stratford and
| Wandsworth, to- continue the work begun
there The cost OF the mission has been
Els, 900 neariy the whole Of which has been
subscribed Messrs WhittIe, McGanahan.
Peutecost and Stebbfns have given Tery eff