The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-26

Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canter-
bury and cardinal, who led the barons
when they wrested from King John the
Magma Charta, or charter of England s
| freedom from royal tyranny. In his
! own day Langton was chiefly famed as
Scriptural commentator, and during
one of his periods of exile at Paris he
"coted the Bible at Parys and marked
| the chapitres. as one commentator
SAYS. in the same division of paragraphs
which has ever since been in use,
Another great founder of the name
was Stephen Dushan, born in 1908, M
tional hero of the Servians. He took
advantage of the disorder and corrup,
rion of the Byzantine empire, gained
control of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania
and parts of Greece, and IN l546 had
himself crowned car of the Servians
and Greeks His kingdom was short
lived-it fell asunder when he dice
| but his fame as wise lawmaker, Just
ruler and a brave soldier still lives
among patriotic Servians.
Stephen Girard, tnc Philadelphia phil.
anthropist. who gained part of his vast
fortune by peddling raislns, buns and
sweetmeats to the British soldiers and
Quaker children IN the City of Brother
" love at the time of the Revolution
and who spent part of 1T endowInG
Girard college; Stephen Van Rensselaer,
born in 1856, of good old New Amster
dam Dutch stock, member Of congress
J, fighter in the war of 1912, who aidcC
De Witt Clinton in opening UP the Erie
, canal, and who founded the Rensselaer,
Polytechnic institute at Troy, y, Y.
Stephen +. Austin. born in 1893, who IN
5 herited grant of western land from hl
: father, and with 800 families from th'
east established, on the present site o
Austin. the state of Texas; stephen y
EIllins who, among other things, found
ed the town Of Elkins, w. Va, ant
Stephen Crane, who before his death tel
wears ago, at the age Of 30, had de
veloped an almost new, realistic nm
striking sort of short story. writing
are some American Stephens who are re
membered because OF the things the,
founded.
Two other famous Americans Of th
name arc Stephen A. Douglas, who ra
for president against Lincoln IN 1861
and Stephen Decatur naval officer i
the war with Tripoh and the War o
1912
Most notable among kings of tn
name besides the Servian czar, ar
stephen, king of England, and Salu
Stephen, king of Hungary, There wer
four other Hungarian kings OF the name
the last of whom died in 1872, and ther
was a King Stephen Bauthori of POLAND
in 1911, but none of them was OF gres
IMPORTANCE -, :
ll05, was n grandson of William tn
Conoueror, and the last of the Norma
kings. One old chronicler says of hi
that Hhe was mild man. soft and goo'
and did no Justice. His reign W.
filed with bitter warfare for over II
teen years, and in that time more tina
a thousand castles, strongly fortune
gprang up in England;
Saint Stephen of Hungary, king
o97, is as much national hero as,
Car Stephen of Servia. HIS warlif
bravery, his farseeing legislation. II
deeu pety and his success in converur
his heather subjects endearcd HIM TO
his people. -,
Sfephanie. the feminine form Of IN
name. has never been popular But I
Il day it has gained some fame as q
\ name of the second daughter OF u
u late King Leopold of Belgium She wi
\ irst The wife of the late crown prln
/ of Austria Hungary, who, commltt'
I suicide, and since 1000 she mas Kept n n
! name pretty constantly IN the Pupl
| eve as the wife of Count Lonyay,
| Stephanie countess of Genlis, born
| France in l7A6, Is another famous woI
| an of the name. She was poor. b
She was beautiful and clever, and
1 skillful harpist and she gained gre
( favor in the French court. She maTri
\ tho Count de Gcnls who fell in lo
4 With her because he read letter S
hnd written, But the marriage was N