Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-01-08
LAST YEARS
NEUROLOGY


has been remarkable for its death's
harvest of famous men and women in
every department of life and activity.
The enrolment of the years dead
the grim reaper, death, seems to have
been bent on capturing the rarest and
finest sheaves III the great field of hu-
man grain. Science, art, the pulpit
and the bar, the field of literature and
the domain of philanthropy and great
wealth, heroes and savants have been
called to their last accounts during
the twelve months past, from every
nation and of every tongue, until the
ist is appalling i'll its wealth of talent
buried in the grave, and the power
and influence that has been taken from
earthly fields of usefulness and activ
ity. England mourns the loss since
January last of Cecil Rhodes, Lord
Pauncefote, the Marquis of Dufferin,
Sir Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett and the
earl of Dufferin. Her pulpit lost
Joseph Parker, Hugh Price Hughes
and the archbishop of Canterbury, be-
sides many others of like fame in the
forum and on the rOstrum. The United
States has suffered even more in the
loss of her distinguished sons and
daughters. In public life such men as
Thomas B. Reed, Senator Mcmillan,
Ex-Gov. George Hoadley, of Ohio,
Congressman Amos Cummings, of New
York and Congressman r. X. Polk, of
Pennsylvania, have passed from earth
ly labors. The American pulpit has,
among hundreds of others, lost such
distinguished ornaments Is I. De-
Witt Talmage, Bishop White, George
II. Hepworth, Bishop Spaulding and
Archbishop Feehan of Chicago. The
ranks of the law have been dec
imated by the loss of such men as
Horace Gray, formerly associate justice
of the United States supreme court
r. S. Taft, Howe. the celebrated Grim
inal lawyer, and in Pennsylvania such
eminent names as H. c. Mccormick,
John G. Bullet, James a. Logan and
Daniel Agnew have been added to the
list of honored dead.
In literature the names of Emile
Zola, Canon Rawlinson, Frank r.
Stockton, Bret Harte, Paul Leister
Ford, Edward Eggleston and William
Allen Butler are among the fallen. In
medicine William Tod Helmuth. Leo
pold Schenck, LennoX Browne, Otis
Freeman and E. p. Munde are among
the distinguished vistims of death
W. A. Hemphill, and Tom Ochiltree
are some of the great journalists who
have passed over the silent river,
while Tissot, Constant, Thomas Nash
and Thomas Mowbray form group of
famous dead III the field of art In the
armies and navies of the world the
same long mOrtuary list appears.
Hughes, Hooper, Wade Hampton, Bell
Fornoy, Botha, Field Marshall Cham
berlain, Rear Admirals Sampson, Jou-
EFT, Selfridge, Kimberly, Watson and
Commodore Montgomery of the Eng
lish navy may be cited as representative
of deaths busy work in these fields of
activity. OF distinguished women Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Julia Dent
Grant and Mrs. John G. Fremont may
be named.
In whatever direction you turn the
list is equally fruitful in great names.
Death has, indeed, been busy, and the
world is the poorer in almost every
department of thought and service by
reason of the record of the closing
year The first reflection upon such
showing of distinguished dead for one
twelve-mo is one of dismay and
sadness. But it must be remembered
as we cover over the brilliant page Of
life's achievements, all scared by the
hand of death, that though the work
men may fall out of the ranks, one by
one, the work goes on, always recruit
ing new energies and new guiding
force. Sepulchred in the honor and
esteem of the world in which they
wrought so usefulIy, the dead of 1902
will live always as potent examples
for the future striving and endoavor
that ranains tO tho living