The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-21
SOME FREAKS OF FATE.
lnglOriOus findings OF IlIustrious
Careers and Of Many OF Worlds
Celebrated Men.
By Ex-.Attache,

Ky Ex-Attache.
lnvoluntarily the death of Professor
Cur1c, who was killed by being run
over the other day by a heavy draw
IN the streets of Paris recalls to mind
the familiar lines of johnson on the
equally inglorious ending of the life of
Charles XIII, the most heroic figure in
the history of Sweden, who lost his life
through well-aimed musket shot.
while besieging the little Norwegian
fortress OF Frederickshaw:
His fall was destined for a foreign
strand,
>, A pretty fortress and dubious hand
He left a name at which the world grew
pale
10 point moral or adorn a tale.
so elaborate have been the obituaries
printed OF Professor Curie during the
last week or ten days that it would he
superhous to say anything more of his
career further than to express the
opinion that he was undoubtedly the
greatest scientist of the age man
VINO could i'll be spared by humanity
on OF those master minds that have
Drought light into the world Some
papers. and American ones at that. do
not hesitate even to declare that his
death was greater misfortune to man
kind than the recent calamity at San
francisco, for the reason that the DO
tenIai AID OF radium in combating can
Ger, alone compensates, from the broad
human viewpoint the tragedy of any
war, earthquake or fire. Yet radium
was put one of Curie's discoveries,
ana engaged as he was at the time of
his death in further exhaustive re-
searches. there is no knowing what
other hidden elements of nature he
would have been able to reveal to us.
had he not been run over by the
brewers dray.
Yet such fates as that by which he
has been Overtaken are by no means
rare among men who have made for
themselves name in history. Indeed,
fate seems sometimes to delight in
reserving the most inglorious endings
for the most brilliant of careers. Who
can forget the case of that German
scientist and explorer, DR.. Schnitzler,
who was so infinitely better known
by his Turkish name of Emin Pasha?
When both England and Egypt with
drew from the Soudan in 1883, rather
than attempt to hold 1t against the
Mahdi, Emin, who was governor of one
of the most important provinces, de-
clined to withdraw on the ground that
he could not bring himself to abandon
to the savagery of the dervishes all
those natives who had remained faith
full to his rule people whom he had
learned to love and admire. and who
were far too numerous to be sent out
of the country. For several years
Emin was cut of from all intercourse
with the outer world. The idea of
this white man fighting all alone in
Central Africa for the cause of civil
izatiOn against barbar!sm. without any
support or encouragement from with
out, ended by appealing not only to
his cOuntrymen but to all Europe and
America. Popular sentiment demanded
that he should no longer be left to his
fate. A costly expedition was equipped
and Sir Henry Stanley after a march
from the west coast of Africa lasting
nearly year, came up with Emin on
the banks of the Nile near Lado. hard
pressed by the Mahdi but still able to
hold his own. AS Emin absolutely re-
fused to be rescued, or to desert his
post, Stanley resorted to the heroic
measure of taking him away against
his will at the same time encoura sing
all the natives who hal remained loyal
to follow him In his march to the east
coast OF the dark continent.
The rescue expedition ultimately
reached .lombaSa. the English seaport
on the African shore Of the Indian
ocean. where Emin was overwhelmed
wan banquets and dinners. It was on
one Of these festive occasions that
Emin. cropping his way along dark
corridor, walked out Of second
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