The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-02

mothers shoulder smiling through her.
tears at thejudge.
.tMamma's deaf and dumb, sir" she
finally said. 2"She's asking God to bless
you for giving me back to her
THE DEAD OF 1893.
Il1ustrious Mon who Died During tho
Year Just Closed.
Chicago Tribune.
The death roll of 1898 contains fewer
illustrious names than that OF 1892, but
amongthese are names that will live
long in the history of the times as lead.
ers Of thouehta and action in the great
forces of civilization. In religion, sci
ence, craftsmanship, literature, philan-
thropy and business death struck at
those who were recognized as the lead
ers of men. In science Professor Iyn-
dali stood as one of the foremost men of
the times; in religion Bishop Phillips
Brooks influence was confined to no de-
nomination of the Christian church; IN
statesmanship James G. Blaine and eX-
President Hayes had taken rank clear
above the lines OF ~partisanship atlhome
and were recognized as among our
foremost public men abroad; in iitera-
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ing light; in philanthropy General
Samuel G. Armstrong, Lucy Stone and
Colonel Auchmuty were the leaders in
three great advances of educational IN
huence.
These names were among the most
distinguished in the spheres with
which they were identified and they
are nov on the death roll of 1898. There
| are other good names to make the list q
I1orr ora-E h,,t thn.Ep losses to
science after Tyndall were Drs. Charcot
and Clark, the foremost physicians OF
France and England; Dir. Green, presi-
dent OF the Western Union telegraph
company; Craven, inventor of II sub
marine telegraph Captain Anderson,
who commanded tho Great Eastern
when laying the first Atlantic cable;
Orange Judd. founder and for a long
time editor of the American AgricuHuriSt:
Decandolle, the French botanist; Chies-
breght, the Belgian naturalist; Oswald,
the African explorer who was with Llv-
Iingstone; Rae, the great Arctic ex-
plorer; Joseph Francis, the inventor OF
the lie boat; Harvey. the inventor OF
armor plate.
Religion lost not only Phillips
Brooks, but Bishops Kip and Blssell
and Prof. Buel, of the Episcopal
church Prof. Worcester and Dr.. Gun
! tIttII, I'll II !
Frederick Evans, the Shaker loader;
DR., Peabody, of the Unitarian" church,
and Philip Schaff, the authority on
church history.
From the sphere OF public affairs
were taken Blaine and Hayes, Benjamin
+. Butler, Chief Justices Lamar and
Blatchford, Hamilton Fish, the great
secretary of state under President
Grant; ex-Secretary Jeremiah Rusk, OF
| D,oo;IIor t&LJo rricop'c on hinat. Tpnpr1lS
Beauregard and Kirby Smith, noted
Confederate commanders, and Rufus In
gals, who was adjutant general OF the
Army of the Potomac; Senator Kenna,
of West Virginia; Milton Hay, OF lii
nois; Ex-Governor Stone, of Iowa; Gen
eral Doubleday; Elliott r.. Shepard,
editor. of the New York Nail and Er-
press, and Senator Stanford, of Califor-
mia. In foreign countries were the
deaths of Duke Ernst, of S~axe-Coburg-
Gotha; Ali bin Sayyid, sultan of Ianzi-
bar; Prince Alexander, once prince OF
Bulgaria; Captain Kerckhoven, OF the
Congo Free State; the earlsof Derby, in
England; Gonzales, ex-president OF
Mexico; MacMahon,4 eX-presldent OF
France; Jules Ferry, the leading states
man of France; Sir William McKinnon,
who founded the East Africa Company;
Sir John Abbot, ex-premier of Canada;
Lords Lorier and Vivian, two of the
distinguished English ambassadors;
Tirard, a former prime minister Of
France, and Admiral Trycn, of tho Eng
lish navy.
literature lost Taino, the French
critic; Parkman, the American mis-.
]torian; Mrs. Lamb, founder OF the
Magazine of Americdn History; Delpit.
the French novelist; De Maupassant,
the brilliant French$novelits De Mile,
| +ho ~ oUuvriph : r. Mimic the EppliSh
critic; Lucy Larcom, American poet and
story writer; Symonds, the yEnglish5li lit
terateur; Dr.. William Smith, the lex
icographer and compiler; Collier, the
English critic and poet, and Ward
Lamon, the biographer Of Lincoln.
The cause of philanthropy lost Gen
eraI. Armstrong, the founder of the
great negro and Indian school, lamp
tonInstitute; Mrs. LucyStone, Anthony
EDrexel, and Colonel Auchmuty, whoies-
tablished the trade schools for DOR
boys IN New York.
The commercial world lost Rufus
Hatch, Allen Marvel, w. S. Mellen
and Chauncey I. Andrews.
The fine arts lost Edwin Booth, Mrs.
Kemble, Mrs. Allen, James d. Murdoch,
Annie Pixley, and MIR. Lester, OF the
composers; Petite, the English painter,
and Birch, the sulptor.
Many other names might be added to
this list as men OF distinction who
closed their earthly careers, but these
suffice to show that, while this roll of
the dead contains fewer names that
were household words than that OF
1892. Death reaped q rich harvest OF
greatness.
MA wants but little here below,
But wants that little good.
Nine out OF ten men when asking for
a drink, will simply askfor Something
good, p and out Of the nine there are not