The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-01
Cav (engineer), Professor Won Richtho-
fen (geographer).
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Zen tgeographer).
Art-2o.
George II. Boushton. r. Swain clifford.
Louis Ernest Barreas. Oswald Achenbach
Jean Baptiste Meunier. Jean Jacques Hen.
ner. William Bougeurcau. Alfred Water.
house, Rudolph lehman, Albert Edel.
field. Rudolph Siemering. Lemuel NJ.
Wiles. Adolf Won Mcneil. Eugene Gull
laumc, Sol Eytlnge. Paul Dubois. II. w.
McVickar Frank Beard w T. Richards,
GUSTAV Fuchs.
Literature-2o.
Gilbert Rosslter. Guy Boothby, Sir
Wemyss Reid. Sarah woolsey. ("susan
CoolIdge") Albion w. Tourgee. Charles
Henry Webb, (''John Paul., DR. VIII
liam r. Alger. Mary Mapcs Dodge.
Frederic Lawrence Knowles Jose Maria
de Heredia. w. c. Prime. Lew Wallace.
Jules Verne. Juan Valera. Emerson II.
Bennett, DR.. John William streeter.
Walter K.t.redge. Hazeklah Butterworth.
George Mcdonald. Rudolf Baumbach.
Iournalism-18
EIbridge G. Dunnell. W. F, G.. Shanks.
John Augustus O'Shea, Major w. w.
Armstrong, Sir John Archibald Willox,
General II. van n. Boynton. Ber!ah VIII
kins. Albert u. Lancaster. Colonel Finley
Anderson, Sylvester Scovel. w. c. Bryant,
III. III. s. Pearsc. W. f. Cramer. Walter
Neef. p. j. Hanway. Evan r. Howell.
l.. +. Austin. John Edward Taylor.
The Stage-14.
Bc.tina Girard. William "a Meeker.
Maurice Barrymore Jessie Bartlett Davis.
Edward j. t"Bob') Murray, Daniel L.
Bandmann. sir Henry Irving, Ben Ring
gold. A. VI Palmer. Hedwig Raabe JOS
eph Jefferson. Francesca Zocchi. Kirk
Iashelle, William j. LeMoyne.
Music-I2.
Madame Belle Cole, Fanny Moran
olden. Thomas b. Bishop, DR. Charles
Stegeaii. William Seymour Smith.
Francesca Tamagno. Theodore Thomas.
William Hollingsworth, julius Kniese.
Minton Pyne. Leon Achard, Carl Gaert-
rer.
Miscellaneous-8.
+. A. IaRoche tautoiso. Louise Michel
pan" Mills (roulcttc plunger'o Cicero
j. Hamlin. G. E. Smith (ePittsburg
Phil"), A F. Mackenzie Chess MASTERY.
Tippoo RIB (save tarder and friend
OF Stanley. Thomas Curtis c'the father
OF American bowllng').
AS to Months and Ages.
February and September stand as the
most fatal OF the months OF 1908. forty
two of those whom the world has most
watched or hardened to dying In each,
with January a close third, showing forty
deaths November. with but an even
dozen written opposite Its name, seems
to have been safest.
The Oldest of those who now have
passed over to the silent majority was
Hiram Cronk, sole surviving participant
in tho war OF 1872 who had passed his
century five years ago. David Wark.
Canada's veteran Eegis!atot, was lol,
Within few months of the hundredth
milestone was the Rev Thomas YUM.
the last of those scotchnen who had
played their parts in the church disr,lp-
Zion OF nsi3. while francesca Zocchi.
1talys venerable actor. and de Thygeson.
the Father of the Swedish Rissdas.
were each of them nnety-eight. Those
two financial experts. Sir Edward Blount.
the Englishman. and Henry v. Poor. tho
American. were respectively ninety-six
and ninety-three, and Dr. James Shrlg-
lev. the Grand Old Man of the Univer-
salist Church, was ninety-two. Five
others were ninety-George Edward Day.
the Hebrew scholar: Won Mcneil. Ger
mnny's famous painter; Lord Norton. that
pioneer OF colonial self-government: Sir
Ambrose Shea, once governor of the
Bahamas, and F. r. Lubbock, ex-Gover-
nor of Texas.
There were two grand old women"
too, in the years list-the Dowager
Duchess of Abercorn and the Dowager
Countess Of Clancarty. Born in the same
year CSl1) and married in the same year
,QS42) they left the world together. pass
ing on. the one at the close of March and
the other in the opening days of May.
At the other end of the roll fall two
names. each honored with the dignity
which is lent to title-the Grand Duchess
Of SaXe-Weimar was barely twenty whom
her broken heart refused longer to beat
against unloving surroundings, while the
tiny Infanta Ferdinand was not yet two
or 1.-The ages between these extremes.
orly six Of those on the roll We're in
their thrties, twenty-five We're in their
fories, thirty-four in their fifties, and
ninety-two in their sixties, Che hundred
and sixty-seven had passed the three-
sore and ten-the fifteen already enumer>
ated who had left ninety behind, sixty
six who were in their eighties, and
eighty-siX in their seventies. The aver
ag ago (of alD at death was sixty-eight
years seven months.
The work OF this great world Will never
lack for men to take 1t in hand. Now 1t
is veteran hitherto unnotced, and now
q raw recruit with whole heart In his
labor, who springs forth to fill the va
cant place in the line. hut those vacan-
cies are always filled. This is the cer-
tain comfort which comes with every
sense of loss in those good men and
great who have ceased to labor here. but
in recalling them 1t, none the less, Ia
true that one realizes anew that ancient
truth:
'What We have we prize not to the
worth.
Whites we enjoy it. but being lacked and
lost,
Why then we rack the value, then we
The virtue that possession would not
show us
Whites 1t was ours.
WARWICK JAMES PRICE