The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13

"PiccaIili'' appeared in 1862. the other
having filled ten huge volumes OF his
Souvenirs Entomoogipues' with that in
innate lore of the Tiny dcnizcns Of turf
and mold and upper air which has
| earned for him the name (bestowcd by
Maeterlinck) OF "srhc Homer OF the Iu-
sccls, Here in America we know little
OF the life work OF this quiet scientist
OF Scrisuan province-and scarcely more
OF the Inoefatigablc book writer whose
address IS The Edge" footing Common
Londou-but both arc well worthy Of the
honors which their sunset years have
brought them.
Alfred Russell Wallace. LID. Del,
FRS, and so forth and so on, is no
truer scientist than the recluse Fabrc,
but his fame has spread the world over
because he was fellow worker with the
great Darwin, preparing jointly with
him. Indeed, that famous paper, read be-
fore the Linnean society. which rnade
public thcr discovery OF the theory OF
natural selection. Yet, not go long ago.
DR.. Wallace was scarcely what could
be called celebrity in American eyes.
He was then visiting this country and,
In Washington. found himself one OF
gathering OF congressman, himself un-
recognized. fl had to shake hands with
some fifty people" he writes OF the hap
pening. land every one OF them seemed
puzzled. AT last / heard one say to an
other. y guess he's some westerner, but
I've never heard OF him. No said the
other. he's All Engllshman lecturing on
biology and Darwin and such like. The
quotation comes from my Life; Record
OF Events and Opinions, which appeared
less than half "a dozen years ago, one
OF the seventeen works which this 81
years young Nestor has brought out since
his "Travels on the Amazon" was given
10 types in 1858
JIe Is something Of a spiritualist, an
ardent anti-vaccinationist believes firm
ly in phrenology. goes III heartily for
socialism OF an extreme sort and is un-
shalSingly convinced that this earth Is
q
inhabited globc-a theory which once
on-a time gave him great vogue with
certain 'old fashioned circle of scien-
lists who didn't like their preconceived
Apropos OF spiritualism, DR., Wallace
tells an amusing experience he once had
while ''ghost-hunting. Walking in a
country graveyard with sexton who
had claimed to have seen IA shadowy
FORM" he asked If the natives had any
Idea whose ghost II was. NO, L can't
rightly say that sr," was the reply.
s'But yon lies a man who'd had three
wives. On the stone of the first is My
Wife, on the second, MY Dear WIFE
an on the third, My Beloved WIFE An
so. sir I'm thinking II may be No. !
who's out stirrin' things up bit"
Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
The fourth of those who tally their
years at eighty~seyen divides his time
between "Glimpsewood near Dublin
N. H, and a quiet-looking red house on
Buckingham street, Cambridge. whose
son he Is-Thomas Wentworth BiGgin-
son. soldier and reformer. preacher and
lecturer poet and essayist See him on
one of the elm -fringed streets and you
His mien is every inch the soldier, and
there are six feet OF him, erect as pine
tree, with shoulders set back like West
Pointers. But stand before him and
wardly. Why, he's poet You'll see
II in the kindly somewhat sad. eycs: