Show SOME OF THE BIG NAMES And with his sickle keen Ho Ha reaps the bearded grain at a breath And the tho flowers that grow between One hear much of the tho flowers li lin In n this necrology ot of the year just closed But there must have been art an unUsual harvest of the bearded gr grain ln Look back bacle at the beginning of the twelvemonth twelve twelvemonth month and note the men here named They were active in life very monuments meats ments of power and influence then It I seem possible they could be bi spared But they have been spared They h have been taken the world moves on and each shall chase his favorite phantom as before There was E H Harriman and Henry Henri HenryH H Rogers They had been masters so st long one could not imagine them yield yielding yielding ing to th the summons even of death But Bu they their several Interests do di donot not pause In the tho onward movement Francis Ma Marion lon Crawford like Bayard Taylor was found dead among lilt his books His many stories at last com completed completed and made a part of the history of th the world And Charles Algernon who has been re read d and ad admired admired mired all the life of two generations And George Meredith the whimsical and fascinating the puzzle among au authors thorn thors And with them journeying to tc the shades which never him goes Clyde Fitch the writer of exquisite exquisite site sketches and of strong and impressive impressive sive plays Clyde Fitch Is there Is none to take his place And old Edward Everett Hale full of years and of honors moves to that mysterious realm where ea each h shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death Dr Hale know where he was going go goIng Ing but he knew that with such a life Ufe he eligible to any place that Is bad And Richard Watso Watson Gilder the precise the exact the cold and yet the has vanished One wonders what magazine editing will be without his sane and capable jUdgment to guide it Then again across seas and Augusta Aug sta Evans latter famous In the seventies and ever after Governor Johnson of Minnesota and King Leopold and Carroll D Wright these are but three In governmental af affairs fairs of the many In authority who were called to lay down the cares of state The stage lost Helena Modjeska and mimic ad artist In act actIng acting Ing And journalism lost P F Collier whose son does fulfill the promise of the sire and A K McClure who brought the thrill of the war down to the very latest days of his life and William Wil William liam Laffan who did much to make the New York Sun the power and the per perfection perfection that it Is How many of strong and yet not indispensable Let the strong and the proud learn humility from the record of what the reaper has done Inthe In Inthe the near 1909 |