Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-31
THE FALLEN FRoNT-RANkERs.

The year 1910 marks the decease oi an unusual number of the worlds greatest and most eminent men, which the statistics disclose to be 249 Among those of the highest achieve ment may be mentioned:
 Edward VII. king emperor of Great Britain. Died May, aetat 69.
 Count Leo Tolstoi, philosopher and novelist; died November. aetat S2.
 Florence Nightingale, "The Angel of the Crimea" died August, aetat 90.
 Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, poet, novel, ist, patriot; died April, aetat S7.
 John LeFarge. artist and author; died November, aetat 75.
 Robert Koch, physician and bacteri- ologist; died March. aetat 67.
 Julia Ward Howe. philanthropist and writer; died April, aetat 91.
 Samuel Lsnghorne Clemens, humor- ist and literature; died April, aetat IT,
 Darius ogden Mills, fnancier and philanthro pist; died January, aetat s4.
 Jonathan Prentiss Deliver, states man: died October, aetat 52
 William James, philosopher and scholar; died August, aetat 6S.
 William Holman Hunt, artist: died September, aetat S3.
 William Vaughn Moody. poet and dramatist; died October, aetat 41
 The entries on the 1910 necrology made by violent death are four times the usual number, owing to the fatali- ties which accompanied the years de- velopment of aeronautics. Beginning with the fall of Leon Delagrange at Bordeaux, France on January 4, and ending with JUhnstones dreadful mis- hap at Denver in mid November, just an even score of those daring fellows who have begun the conquest of the upper air have given up their lives, which grim list does not include the name of Oscar ErbslOch and his four companions, who met death in an ac- cident to their dirigible. near Opladen Prussia. July 13. The called heavier than air machines have taken a toll of 2S lives. in being brought to their present state of de- velopmsnt. all but eight of these dis asters occurring in the present twelve month. The death of C. $. Rolls. just after the young man had successfully flown over the channel and back. and of the Peruvian. Chavez, after he had so splendidly surmounted the Alps themselves, were especially tragic hap penings.
 Of the haIt-dozen other entries of this dark sort. the two most strikingIy sensational has been the suicide of Admiral Reis of Portugal. in October when that revolutionary leader believ- ed the movement had failed, and the assassination in February of Boutros Pashs. premier of Egypt. Praised by Lord Cromer in the London house of lords as "a patriot in the truest sense of the word" he embodied, as it were, the experiment Of placing the Nile valley natives in posts of importance, and his killing by 8 frantic home ruler" brands more clearly than ever the present hopelessness of the high sounding cause" which really serves only to screen self seeking incompe- tence.
 Africa has also seen sacrificed the able lives of Lieut.. Boyd Alexander the English explorer, killed by the Tama natives in late April, and of the French General de Beyle, drowned while on an archaeological expedition. Alfred Mutt, the London scholar, who had won a well-nigh international reputation as an authority on Celtic folklore and letters, was drowned in July. while Barrett Eastman, the Am erlcan dramatic critic, took his own life in the opening days of the year.
 The year in it's general averages was not so much different from any other year. The death tolls and all other tolls bear evidence of the seri- ousness of life and the cost of prog ress along new and periIous lines.