Show STRONG BUT OLE OLD IN YEARS history replete with records record of men man who have done great things beyond their allotted space there are some lome old men who are not to be despised some are apt to think that none but oung boung men can do much some indeed shoot up like v n rocket and go out like one others rise slowly like ilk fixed axed stars star and as they are slow to rise they are flow blow to set i cromwell was waa only a captain when lie nas MAS forty one and his hi greatest deeds were performed between forty eight and fifty six when he b died young was an old man when he wrote tome some of his beat poetry and he was sixty when he began hla hie night thoughts thomas scott wrote as a much at seventy as at any period of his lite life talleyrand at the age of eighty stood st at the head of affairs affair in france under napoleon and then under the bourbons when the russians were determined to make a stand and fight the french before the walls valls of moscow they put old kutsop at the tha head of the army in place of barclay do de tolly general blucher was seventy when he be was defeated at agny ligny I and fell I 1 under hla his horse and the tha french cavalry rode over him yet a day or two after he be led on his bis prussians against napoleon at waterloo after many years of warfare those old men well ington and soult stood tit til the head of their respective cabinets one ona in ID england and the other in france preserving by their talents the peace pe 0 ol of europe and the world |