The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-08

Maurier might as well never have lived for the average reader of the average successful book. Ten books of the year have lived and died since the last of these, and are alike forgotten
 Robert Louis Stevenson. with a mem ory still green. with personality ten given him in far of Samoa and fighting the hopeless fight with death. His inl- perishable imprint upon English liter ature will not be obliterated for for tunately he did more than to write a mere book of the year"
 Oscar Wilde. dilettante that he was, had made mark In literature long be- fore tho thought that "Ballade of Reading Goal" ever was to be. In Lon don club life he was a world figure just ten years ago.
 Kings of Finance Lost.
 In American finance a decade has left it's marks not only in the disappearance of the figures of ten years ago, but in the production of new lights in the financial world Charles T. Yerkes and stephen B. Elkins were powers in their particular field of operations then. One of them grasped Chicago and the other Philadelphia in clutches of steel. Elkins went to the United States Senate and Yerkes is dead.
 Philip D. Armour in Chicago was a
 
 oils and character around which the racontear could circle and find mate rial for his stories. John W. Gates was q financier whom the city looked to for financial inspiration. George NJ. Pull man and his model town were entities that attracted even a world interest and attention. Joseph Greenhut of the whisky trust was manipulator in the industrial world. Lyman J. Gage stood for the capitalistic point of view in Chicago. s---s --- -t5es-- t-.ss.ss s g
 Collis Huntington represented all or more than Hill and Hartman are credited with today. George Gould, the Vanderbilts, and the Astors were sym onymous with the wealth of New York. Chauncey M. Depews orbit described around the Vanderbilt solar center drop him into the echoless cavern of the United States Senate and into a silence of his own, from which only recently he has come into unwilling voice.
 Great Politicians Forgotten.
 Politics has suffered the obliteration of names by death and by forgetful- ness. Thomas B. Reed ten years ago was the brightest figure in national politics Grover Cleveland. having ex- hausted the possibilities of the office of President Of the United States, na- turally has graVitated to political soli- tude. David B. Hill is the one most striking example of the politician miss ing the ambition of his life and drop ping out of political sight. George Graham Vest. Senator from Missouri and one of the most brilliant of his time, retired in time to leave the bril- liancy of his work in memory rather than the utterances of his dotage. Ju- lius c. Burrows of Michigan has pass ed from Senatorial remembrance, John Peter Altgeld of Illinois is doubly dead. Hazen F. Pingree of Michigan has gone the way of all flesh.
 Where is Gen" J. S. coxey of the Army of the Commonweal? Even Ma jor General Nelson A. Miles of the United States Army has disappeared from his pedestal with no remnant of his former rank left him. Eugene V. Debs of cucumber and railway strike fame finds few who will do him rever- ence. Ward MeAllister, the dictator of the pace for the fast set" of New