River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
Hard Work and Longevity.

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The news comes over the sea that
one day last week Mr.. Gladstone,
Premier of England, in addition to his
recreation of falling tree and trans
lating several pages from the Greek,
walked a few miles, made speech,
and then attended to those diplomtic
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 seen that
the responsibility and work put upon
the shoulders of the Premier
is enough for the strongest and
most active of men. Mr. Glad
stone is nearly rs, and apparently good
for many long years of service yet. His
predecessors have, as rule, been long
lived. Beaconsfeld 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 20; Theirs was 80 when he
guided France. Grevy, who is presi-
dent to-day, is II. Gortschakoff was
in command of Russia's affairs at "a. 1t
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 man is sup
posed to lag superfuous. 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 rs,
Horatio Seymour IA, Samuel j. TIlden
20. 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 10 years. In the church,
at the bar, in business, and even on 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 So, 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 adj
ministered the affairs of the great Jes-
nit Order at "a. Dollinger, the head of
the once formidable Old Catholic move
ment, is So, and Father Curci, the lib
eral ex-Jesuit, theologian, 84. The Wig
orous Arch Denison still lives" we be-
heve, at79. Cardinal Manning is rs, and
Cardinal Newman SO. Very near to the
church are phiIanthropists and we find
that one of them, the venerable Sir
Moses Montetiore, attained his cent
ury of useful life on the oath of last
month. Lord Shaftesbury is 50. Gar
rison died at rs, and Wendell Philips at
70, while John b. Cough is living at 81.
Robert Dale Owen reached the age of
rs. and George Peabody that of IA.
At the bar we have David Dudley Field
a comparatively young man at Sc, and
Judge Parker, of this city, is on his way
to four score, having just celebrated his
golden wedding. In fact, the list OF
brain workers shows many instances OF
great longevity, especially among liter
arv men. George Bancroft IS 81, Ben
son J. Losing II. James Russell Low
ell is So, Whittier is ", Oliver Wen
dell Holmes 70. Richard Henry Dana
died at 80, Bryant at 81, Motley at 81,
Geo. P. Marsh at 81. George Tici1nor at
so, LongfelIow at rs, Halleck at n.
In England, Tennyson is 60 and Brown
ing r.; Lord Houghton, better known
as Mr.. Monk in Mines, is 75, Samuel
Smiles is SO, and Froude so Injour-
nalism, longevity is also remarkable.
Parke Goodwin, editor of the New York
Commercial, is on the threshold of 10.
Dana Yields the briskest pen in the
metropolis at the good old age of sc.
Thurlow Weed lived to be nearly 50.
James Watson Webb to be 81, Bryant
to "a, Bennett to be II. George Daw-
son was past 70, and wrote with the
vigor of youth when he died, in harness.
And what vast amount of work these
men accomplished in their lives