The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-28
YEARS WORK OF GRIM REAPER Many Persons of Note Summoned.
  TOUCHED EVERY WALK OF LIFE Ranks of Royalty Thinned by Death
 of Rulers. ss n. usn+a ss.te. Lost ssysra' Of Its rrom,pens stats.men, Dur'as The Year which Is
 Closing.

washsnxton. D. c. Dec. s7--Mortaii- sv has been unusually great among the distinguished men and women oI the world during the year just draw inr to close. Death loves shining n,syk it ia said. and during the clos inx twelve months he has, indeed, reaped a deplorably bounttful narvest among the great workers Tn an branches of auman activity througnout the world. He has respected nei.nsa Hi,s,. rank nor stItion, neither nationality nor sex. neither profession, nor merit
 Nearly every country has had to pay a heavy tribute to the stern reaper and in many cases the great men taken OFT ceuId iil be spared as they were in the midst of important work when the call came and they were compelled to leave the crowning work of stbetr lie untin- ished.a Many of them had reached the nigh tide of their usefulness and the world had right to expect even greater things from Ehem than those they had already contribufed to the progress and betterment af the human
 The ranks of royalty and. nobility were thinned by the death of several crowned rulers of nations. ne most important loss was that caused by tne recent death of Tsi-An. the powager
  greatest woman of her time. In com pafisor, the death about the same time of Teai-Tien. the nominal Emperor or China. was an event of but nttie significance.
 Less important. though more shock fux was the death by. assassination ol Charles II, King of Portugal and or Crown Prince Luiz of Portugal. Among other members of royalty or nobility yvIIo died during the year may be neu- tfcned Prince Ernest of Sake Aiten- burg. Prince Gustave Ernst of Shoens herm Duke MaFl of MecklenburE, Duchess Elizabeth of Brunswick rFsnee Poniatowsxi. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of HaFcourt. the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Rosse. the Marquess or IinlHhrow, Prince Yamashima of Japan. Prince stephen of Montenegro Prince David of Hawaii the Due de Chaulnes, Count Leopold of Lippe, WIS., count Chelsea and Lady Ichijo.
 Lomg List of statesmen.
 The list of statesmen and diplomats whose thread of life was severed dur inr the year just ending, included not less than five former presidents or Arnerfcan republics, chief among them Grover Cleveland. former President of the United States. The other ex -presi- aefts were Estrada Palma of Cuba; U.
 safarroaufns of coIombia; Isnace Veiatilnflla of Ecuador. and Marco A. Soto, of Honduras F. Guachaita. Presi- len. .eiee. of Bolivia. died before he mad taken his seat in the capital of his country
 This country deplores the death ef four United States Senators. W. B. AL lison, Redfield Proctor. W. F. Whyte ana P. W. Carmack; Belgium the death of Senator de MeFoJe. England suffer ed serious loss by the death of Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman. Sir Drum raond Wolff. Sir Howard Vincent and Sir NichoIas O'Connor. Belgium was deprived of the valuable services oi its Premier M. de Troos. To this iisi may be added Marquis Arnijo. ex- Premier of Spain, Marquis al Rudtnl ex-Prenlier of Italy, Baron von Sterfi- berg, Ignez won Piener. the Austrian salesman, Count Ignatieff and M D PokoGiIeff two distinguished Russian leaders, Count ToFnielIi and Count Pffnetti, distinguished Italian states nsn. E. Fl. Strobel, adviser to siam D. ". Stevens adviser to Korea Hamel PAsila, the Egyptian patriot and politt- cal leader. MAriano Quinones of Porto Rico, Sayid Mohammed. the Persian statesInan and the two English lead ers Sir Henry Puleston and Lionel saekvilIe- West.
 Governor John Sparks of Nevada was the only state executive in this country who died during the year, but the list of former governors was de. cirnated by the death of Miller of North Dakota. Murphey of Arizona, Budd oi CafIfornia. and Sawyer of New Han1p. shire.
 Loss of the Church.
 The church. in this country as vel as in other countries, has sustained equally great losses by the death oi distinguished dfgnftarfes. The Prot. estant Episcopal Church in the United States l. lost four great men, Bishops IT. C., Potter. H. Y. SatterIee. Edward Knight aud Ellison Capers; tine Prot, estant Episcopal. Edward Wilson; the Meth odist Church, Bishop H. c. Fowl. er:., the Moravian Church. J. NJ. Lev. ering, and the Roman Catholic Church Bishops Curtis, Horstmann and Tier