The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-01-16

Hoosier schoolmaster famous among
his kind; Philip James Bailey. noted for
his "Festus,' which had q brilliant,
meteoric career and then became only
a name; William Butler Allen, also
known chiefly by a single poem, a sa-
tire, Nothing to Wear" Thomas Dunn
English, whose song Ben Bolt was
revealed to the present generation by
the author of .'Trilby;" George Doug
las Browne, who persisted in his pride
just as his House With the Green
Shutters was receiving praise on both
sides Of the Atlantic; Frank Norris,
just as he vas rounding out his career
into a Well-earned success, was forced
by death to give up his high hopes ana
Well-laid plans for future service; his
work was vital with life and full Of
promise; Frank Stockton, the jolly good
fellow; even to the last he kept his
secret and now no one will ever know
whether it was "the lady or the tiger
Bret Harte, who gave currency to the
peculiar dialect of western mining
camps and showed the hero!sm and code
of morals found among rough gold
hunters; Paul Leicester Fords death
was doomed to be even more tragic
than his life; he faced both with equal
| courage, leaving an enviable reputation
and three novels that will keep him in
the popular mind. Mary HartWeI
Catherwood's death was a surprise and
shock to those waiting for the book
about to succeed "Lazaree.'
Among the distinguished artists
numbered with the dead of 1902 are
Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Mast on
this side of the Atlantic, while on the
other side the number is not small.
! George Dalziel, the English engraver,
raised the artistic qualities of wood
engraving to it's present degree Of eX-
cellence; Millais, Burne-Jones, Rossetti
and Holman Hunt are popularlzed by
the exquisite engravings after their
original drawings by Dalziel; Tissot,
who illustrated 1.-The Life of Christ"
spending three years in the Holy Land
that his work might be accurate in ev-
cry detail; Mesdag, the greatest paint
er of the Dutch school; Vibert, the IA
nous French painter; Benjamin Con-
slant, the portrait painter, who wore
the cross Of the Legion of Honor;
Thomas Sidney Cooper, the Nestor OF
English artists and one of the best of
cattle painters.
Several distinguished educators have
obeyed the death during the
past year: DR.. Charles Kendall Adams,
ex-president Of the University Of Wis
%consin; DR.. John D. Runkle, president
Of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; John Henry Barrows,
president of Oberlin college n for
merly pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Chicago for fourteen years;
active in missionary and reform work
his interest in humanity seemed un-
limited; his activity in the parliament
Of religions during the worlds fair was
but one phase of his many-sided ma
ture; Francis w. Parker is missed from
educational circles; his sympathy witt
the child has made child life brighter
for all time to come; Alice Freeman
Parker, a noble type of woman as vel
as teacher.
Krupp is not the only name to BIZ
mentioned among the inventors. Mrs
Bridget French, who died in Rochester
is said to have had a genius for me.
chanical devices and the skill Of
trained artisan. She invented the frs
burglar-proof lock, an invention which
led to the more complicated safety loci
now in general use. Florence Cory, tn
first practical designer among women
founded the school Of industrial art an
technical design for women n was it.
president w to the time of her death