The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-06
f7S5-fS01.

his home near this city Wednesday night,
was born, GEORGE III was king of En-
gland. LOUIS XVI and MARIE ANToI-
NETrE still had their heads on their
shoulders, and carried the aforesaid heads
very high at Versailles and the Elysee.
The declaration of independence was
only nine years old; the French revolu-
ton was still in the womb OF the future
The thirteen feeble commonwealth
which had but Just wrested independence
from GEORGE III were loosely bound by the
rope Of sand known as the ARTICLES Of
Confederation" TIE Continental con-
gress, rapidly becoming an object of popu.
lar contempt and derision, was making, at
long intervals, impotent DEGREES at New
York. Indiana was q practically I'M
known and unexplored part of the vast
territory of Virginia. The organization
OF the Northwest territory was two years
distant. Four years were to pass before
the constitution of the United States
would be framed. GEORGE WASHINGTON
was living the life of Virginia planter at
Mt. Vernon. PTTT and Fox were the rul-
ing spirits in England. EDMUND BURKE
had but just completed his great paria-
mentary career. Ireland had a parliament
OF her own and FLOOD and GRATrAN were
making College Green classic with their
wit and their eloquencs. NAPOLEON BONA
PARrE was young lieutenant of artillery
at Nalence. ANDREW JACKSON was sowing
wild oats in North Carolina. NoN MoLTKE
and WILHELM were not yet born.
1t was wonderful century which was
spanned by JAMES HUBBARrr's life. He
saw the rise and fall of dynastIes; the
dawn OF republcanism in the western
world and it's extension over large share
OF the fairest part OF the earth surface;
he saw bali dozen reconstructions OF tho
map of Europe; he saw the downfall OF the
ancient regime in France, the great revo-
luton, the advent of the man on horse
back in the person OF NAPOLEON. n CONT
neut drenched in blood TO quench his
ambition, Waterloo. ST. Helena, LOUIS
XNlII, CHARLES y, LoUIs PHILIPPE, 1913,
the republic, LOUIS NAPOLEON, the empire,
Sedan, the commune, the republic. He
saw England transformed by peaceful
revolution from government by kings
into government by the people. lie saw
the Irish parliament wiped out and al
most a hundred years OF futile struggle for
its restoration. He was ten years old
| when WARREN HASTINGS was acquitted OF
high crimes and misdemeanors, and
twenty years old when NELSON fell ut Traf-
Agar He saw the extinction of Poland,
the ancient Chinese wall partly battered
down by the western powers, the admis-
sion Of Japan into the great family
Of civilized nations. the recreation OF
| Italy, the unifcation OF Germany, the dis.
memberment of Turkey, Spain a republic
for n day--and once again the despair OF
| Europe. He was three years old when
the first permanent English settlement
was made in Australia, and he lived to see
the commonwealths OF that great CONT
nent united in federation destined to
play an important part in the drama of
humanity. He saw one after another of
the Spanish American states throw off
their allegiance to the parent country. and
when he died there was not crowned
head sz all the western hemisphere.
I'M this country what marvellous trans
formations did he witness When he was
born there were four millions of people in
the United States; he died leaving sixty
| five millions. lie found thirteen states;
he left forty-two. The largest town in the
country had less than 10000 inhabitants
when he first opened mis- eyes when he
finally closed them there were twenty
| iUbf ~ III
! each, and three OF over a million. lie
was eighteen when JEFFERSON added the
magnificent domain of Louisiana to
the national territory; he was thirty when
JACKSON prevailed at New Orleans and
WELLINGTON ut Waterloo. He was n
middle aged man when ANDREW JACKSON
suppressed the nullifiers; he was six
years beyond the allotted three score and
ten when Fl. Sumter was fired upon; he
was four score when GRANT received
LEES sword at Appomattox
But JAMES HUBBARTT saw more wonder
full things during his lifetime than the
birth OF nations, the creation OF dynasties,
the fall OF thrones. He saw the whole
face of civilization changed. He saw a
/ EtNOlullOu III the industrial eyS-
tens OF the world. He saw the passing
away OF an old social order and the birth
of a new one. He saw the application to
a myriad OF practical uses OF great natural
forces whose potentialities had been un-
suspected by all the generations OF man
from the beginning The lucifer match,
ii Eliminating gas, the sewing machine, the
reaper and mower, the cotton gin, the
steamship, the railway, the telegraph, the
printing press, the telephone, the electric
light, the phonograph-indeed almost all
OF the most familiar and useful agencies
OF our modern civilization had not been
dreamed of when JAMES HUBBARrr was
born, and he was approaching the century
limit when come OF the most important
among them were introduced. The world
which this old man left the other day diff
fered more widely in all the features of
material civilization from the world as he
found 1t than did th,1t world from tile
| world OF CESAR and ALEXANDER. Indeed.