Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-16

great names In the worlds work. Nd
mirai Kcppel in England still survives
"a hale old sailor. stiil infused with
much of the fire which made his youth
So notable In America Col Richard
w. Thompson OF Indiana, born in that
same year, watches the rapid current
of times activities which he knew In a
calmcr, earlier day. Lawyer, soldier,
cabinet member, he has helped in the
solution of those questions which puz-
zled government when Clay and Web
ster and Calhoun and Benton were
here.
The great names in that 'ciass of
1909" are quite astonishing. Mr.. Glad
stone. among the foremost-elther liv-
ing or dead-awaits his reward with the
serene poisc of man who has known
all the heights of honor and has never
been crushed by defeat.
Abraham Lincoln, born to poverty,
achieved greatness and died at the
pinnacle of most deserved fame. Han
nlbal Hamlin, his Vice President
through the trying period OF war. came
OF the same year; as did Hugh McCul-
loch. a power when Lewis Cass was n
national figure. when the almost for
gotten Wabash canal was begun, and n
power still--a secretary of the treasury,
indeed az late as 1885.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in
the same year. and lived to sing to the
end of four score years the genuine
music OF his soul.
Tennyson laureate indeed and by
patent from a source far higher than
his queen, was another of the great
men of the class. So was Professor
Blacl<ie, the Scotchman--a scholar, a
lover of Burns. an essayist and a foe to
agnosticism. THE class of 1909 is rap
idly thinning" he said to Gladstone
when Haussmann died. still. you and
Tennyson and / are left" "Tennyson
would not thank you for including U.S.
replied the statesman with twinkle in
his eye. I'VE are too noisy for him."
Haussmann himself was great man.
He made new Paris of a city grown
old and unlovely, and the gnyest capital
in Europe arose. a flnancier. a master
of engineers and of architects. a favor
lite of the emperor and deputy of the
republic. he knew royal and imperial
and democratic France. Beside him
from the same birth year was Marshal
Canrobert, perhaps the most distingu-
lshed soldier in the class. He conquered
the Arabs in 1SiS and 1859, he fought
like n tiger at lnlSerman. he led the
Zouaves at Magenta, and won imper-
ishable fame ut Solferino.
| There was Charles Darwin: and mod
ern science dates from him. There was
George X. Gliddon, theAmerican Egyp-
toogist: Henry Dawson Rogers. the
geologist; Benjamin Pierce, the mathe-
matlcian; Karl Heinrich Koch, the Ger
man naturalist: Adolph Francke, the
French philosophical writer; Francisque
| Michel, the Archaeological, and James
David Forbes, the Scottish physicist.
| There was Felix Mendessohn, the com
poser; Edgar Allen Poe, Mrs. Browning
and Richard Monckton Mines in the
| English tongue, and Frederick Muller
| Palludan, poet of Denmark. Names OF
| that famous class" crowd upon one.
There was Cyrus Mccormick. the inven-
| tor; Shelton Mackenzie. the journalist
| Adolps Frederic, the organst. Frederic
| otto, the chemist: Baron Manteuffel
| Prussian field marshal: o. S. Fowler the
mann and Philippe Auguste Jeauron, a
| German and French painter.
| Among the women OF that far yeat
| was Mrs. Mary Cowden- Clarke so re-
| Gently passed away-the friend of Laml
| and of Keats and of Shelly.of Hazlitt
and Leigh Hunt, but above all the com
piler of that complete Concordance
which had added n charm even in the
study of Shakespeare. She wrote novels
and poems and essays almost To the daS
| of her death. Fanny Kemblc was an.
other. She made her debut at Convent
| Garden Theater In 1929. married Mr.
Pierce Butler. n South Carolina planter
In 1884, secured n divorce and resumed
her maiden name In 1893. She was AZ
actress of the very first rank, an authol
and an honor to her race.
Space does not suffice to name then
ALL the list Is so long but no year--n,
five years--has produced so many grea
and eminent meneISut time has brough
them low, and all save three or fou
have passed away. The class, however
will be forever famous.