The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
REACH FAME IN THEIR YOUTH.
Men of Mark Nowadays Succeed Before
They Are Thirty.

AHtS are AhiItS.
The recent death of r. ]. Byrnes,
premier Of Queensland, at the early
of 49, draws attention to the remark
able number of young men who reach
high places at an age when in more
deliberate eDochs a man had scarcely
settled down to his career.
Although William Pitt, the boy pre-
mier. has no rival even in these days
of rapid careers, there are hundreds
who achieve fame and position within
20 years now leaving their books ct
school or college. Cecil Rhodes was
treasurer general of Cape Colony at p,
and premier at 81, and Sir Alfred Mil
ner, one of the most brilliant of
younger Englishmen, was chairman of
the board of inland revenue at 3S. and
at a few years over 40 holds one of the
most responsible posts in our empire.
The new vceroy of $50 100000 in India
was a minister of the crown at 80. Mr..
Asquth. in spite of his brilliant gifts,
started the race for fame slowly: still
he was queens counsel at SO and
reached high cabinet rank at 40 Lord
ROsebery owes little to his rank that
he was in the ministry at "a. and
prime minister at Al, and Arnold Nor
ley, still on the hopeful side of so, was
chief liberal whip and secretary to
the treasury at 81
Among artists there are many men
who have made themselves famous in
the ''thirties." Alfred Gilbert. the
queens favorite sculptor. became an
ARA. at SO and a full flown acale-
mician five years later. Professor
Herkomer was an associate at 80 and
an academican al Al. Solomon Solo
mon painted his magnificent picture
"Cassandra," at %; Onslow Ford. RIA.
IaqnaH n ha CO r,op
age. Luke Fields painted his grand
and pathetic Casual Ward at 30;
Frank Dicksee became an r. A. at 80,
thus equaling Alfred Gilbert's and
Hamo Thornycroft's records.
In music Pietro Mascagni was 81
when he woke to find that his "Caval-
leria' had made him famous; Hamish
McCunn. the clever young Scotch COM
poser of over 100 songs and operas,
overtures and cantatas without num-
Der, is still young man of 30, and
Sir Arthur Sullivan did some of his
best work while in the twenties.
Marconi, the inventor of wireless
telegraphy, is only %, and Edison was
little more than a boy when his name
was first known in two continents.
But it is the field of letters that
youth claims the richest harvest 1t
is the Paradise of Youth" and a man
VINO Is not crowned before he enters
the thirties is in danger of going un-
crowned for the rest of his life. Mr.
Anstey (Guthrie) was 26 when he wrote
Vice Versa" Mr.. jerome was three
years older When Three Men in
Boat appeared. Mr.. Barrie was IS
when Aud LIGHT Idyls" pointed the
way to fortune. Rider Haggard wrote
King Solomon's Mines" at 30. Rud-
yard kipling was barely of age when
he wrote Departmental Ditties,' and
his plain Tales From the Hills APP
peared at %. Israel ZangWill did his
best work in the "Children of Ghetto"
when he was IS. II. G. Wells wrote
the Time Machine" the pioneer of Lis
popular novels, when he was 90. Mr..
Crockett was, three years over the 80
limit when The Stickit Minister in
spired him to try fiction. CUTLER Couch
wrote Dead Mans Rock at "a. and
Morley Roberts had been through a
world of adventure before he closed his
"tWenties.'