The Washington herald., 1908-05-03

So has Sir Charles Tupper; while Francis
Joseph. weary though ne undoubtedly is
OF the cares OF state is in such a position
that he can retire only when death comes
IN al the door. AZ ninety, Sir Joseph
Hooker is very feeble.
On the other hand. Florence Nightin-
gale. invalid though she has been pTac-
! tically ever since her return from the
Crimea, was only lately deeply interested
in promoting district nursing among the
London poor. Edward Everett Hale is
chaplain of the United States Senate, still
breaches and still directs the work Of the
Lend-s-Hand clubs. which ne originated.
John BigelOw, in his ninety-frst year, Is
engaged in important literary work. Toll
stOi, 10 the constant regret of the Rus
sion government, Is very active, indeed
with both pen and voice. Goodwin Smith
recently undertook a trip 10 the mother
country, and his writings are continually
appearing in newspapers and magazines
ON both sides of the water Dr. Angel
shows no diminution OF energy as head
of the University Of Michigan. Since the
beginning Of the present century Thomas
I Wentworth HigginSOn has placed five
books in his publishers hands. and his
shorter writings have been numerous,
For a man who Is supposed 10 have re-
/ tired George Meredith was extremely
active mentally on his eightieth anniver-
saTy. and only two or three years ago ne
made the world sit Up and take notice by
/ his advocacy Of limited marriages. And
they'll come in time, too" he declared,
''but first there'n be devil OF a row."
Since the beginning of the present cen
d an 4
worthy PLAYS, one a failure and one a
success. The voice Of Julia Ward Howe
/ is still raised, when occasion demands II,
! in behalf of rights of woman and other
features of her long lifes work Though
he is now emeritus professor of the his
tory of art at Harvard, Charles Eliot
Norton proves through his magazine arti-
eles and other literary activities that he is
not vet wholly on the retired list. News
paper dispatches from Europe at rather
| frequent intervals offer similar evidence
regarding tender-heaTted and modest
Lord Lister. who baked when he learned
of q newspapers plan TO name him as
one OF the sixteen most famous men of
/ England.
Deeds of Far-reaching Results.
Either during the days Of our grand
fathers power or later, nearly every
one Of these links performed works of
| far-reaching results. Julia Ward Howe
stirred the world with her Battle Hymn
! of the Republic" As a powerful inf1u-
ence over her husband, Eugene caused
the invasion of Mexico by the French
and the subsequent death Of Maximil-
ian; and a few years later she had much
| to do with bringing about a change in
the map of Europe, 10 Frances dis
comfture and Germany's gain.
Kansas was saved from slavery by the
work Of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
and those associated with him in populat-
| Ing that territory with abolitonists and
other opponents of slavery. Sir Charles
Tupper helped TO bring the Canadian fed
GRAFTON into being, and during the 70s.
SOS, and SOS held one high and response
BILE Office after another in the ship OF
state. at one time being premier. The
mere mention of the fact that Lord
| Strathcona is the head of the Hudson
| Bay Company is sufficient evidence of his
! far-reaching work; but in Canada he also
IS known as one of the men who made
| possible the Canadian Pacific, binding
| the two shores of the Dominion with the
steel bands Of commerce.
Timothy Dwight found Yale a college
when he became president. and when he
stepped down from that post Yale was a
university of worldwide fame. The Uni
versity of Michigan of to-day is largely
the result Of the Ideas of James b.
Angel, and for years it has been the
model for other State educational institu-
| tions to go by. Goodwin Smith, as already
mentioned. helped to reform educational
methods at oxford in the 60's, and since
then thousands of students have been
trained along the lines laid down by him
/ and his associates on the reform COM
mittee.
Edward Everett Haie's Lend-a- Hand
/ clubs have gone round the world. to The
amelioration of the burdens of no one
knows how many people. He too, was
one Of the first promoters of the wide
| spread Chautauqua movement. All this Is
! in addition to mis- most famous novel
which gave the world the phrase, "a man
without a country"
It was John Bigelow who discovered
Ben Franklin's autobiography in a rub
bish heap in France. when ne was minis
ter to that country. and. after editing It,
gave it TO the world Without this auto
biography the world would lack its pres