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Show The Dead of the Month. H The death roll so far this month has been r Bvery great and the summons has entered all Branks. The church, the state, literature, P16 learned professions, the army, the navy. a WDeath has hesitated no longer on the marble ' 1 Hpteps of palaces than before the doors of peasants. Bells have been tolling, taps cr Bounding every day, The Vatican has been ftraped for the great American Archbishop nd he is intensely mourned for all over Bm's country, for Archbishop Corrigan bore f mm'13 reat fficc as becomes one of his pro-1 pro-1 Mpsion; to the last he was an humble fol lower of his Master; to the last the thought of the learning that had been given him and, the honors bestowed upon him was seconded by the other thought that his responsibility to his people and his duties were correspondingly corres-pondingly measured, and he tried to balance his accounts every day with both God and man, in a way that they would bear transcribing tran-scribing on the pages of the great ledger of eternity. Bret Harte's death is most sorrowful, but not altogether deplorable, save to those closely bound to him by ties of blood or the ties of friendship, for he was no longer holding hold-ing his own as a great writer, his brilliant fancy and intellectual powers were both waning he was ready for his rest. The death of Admiral Sampson was inexpressibly inex-pressibly sad. It is but four years ago that he was admiral of the Gulf fleet and acknowledged ac-knowledged to be intellectually the most accomplished officer in the navy of the United States. We say acknowledged, we mean by such officers as Admiral Evans. Captain Philip, the great Clark, Wainwright, Crowningshield and the other commanders immediately under him. He had graduated first in a large class, for years before the war with Spain he had directed the scientific work of the navy in both ships and guns in Washington; it was he that drew the blockade block-ade and established its order around the entrance en-trance to Santiago harbor; his desire was that the army should land close to the entrance en-trance to that harbor and make its assault from there, covered by the great guns of the fleet. This was denied him, so he placed his fleet around the harbor, held it there in storm and calm, by night and day for weeks and issued the one order upon which the grandest of sea fights was fought. Like the other great captains that fought there he was not properly rewarded, and as his mind was going into eclipse, his last thoughts were that his good name was being be-ing derided, his great services sneered at in order to further a political party's ends. Time will make it all right and the just honors due all the great band or heroes who strewed that coast with the wrecks of Spain's last "Great Armada" will be awarded, but it is pitablethat through partisan malice there was a concerted effort, as the shadow of death was closing around the great admiral to add to its blackness the shadow of dishonor. dis-honor. Three Congressmen have died within the past few days. One at least, Amos Cum-mings, Cum-mings, was both a statesman and a bright writer. By this last gift he was universally known and by the genial, gentle just tone that always accompanied his pen, "he was much loved by the whole country. The death of Paul Leicester Ford was not less pitiable, because of the splendid genius of the gifted writer, then because of the horrible hor-rible tragedy which in a moment closed his bright career. But soldiers, sailors, statesmen, writers do not make the chief standing and character of a nation. The grim stalwarts beside the engines and behind the guns made the vie- tory of Santiago possible; the general char- acter of a people reflects the character of a nation. JM From among our own people some ster- H ling souls have fled since the present month came in. Dr. Fowler was a strong factor in M giving Salt Lake City a national reputation H as a great medical center. His death was Jfl felt as a personal bereavement in thousands 9 of homes. His life advanced the character 1 of Salt Lake; his death was a mighty loss to M the city and state. One man who has died here since the 9 month began ought to have for his epitaph H the words spoken of him by one who knew H him well. He said: "If Charley Davis had H possessed just money enough for a meal, H and had met someone hungrier than himself, H he would have given him the money." H The face of G. M. Stewart will be much H missed upon our streets. He was a most H valued citizen. "The air is full of farewells H to the dying, of mournings for the dead." S |