Show GARIBALDI DEAD News comes of the termination of one of the most eventful lives of the centurya life that has been during its 75 years almost perpetual storm a life of wars and wounds of perils of agitations and of noteworthy note-worthy incidents Few careers have been EO crowded with excitement excite-ment and turmoil as that of General Gen-eral Guiseppe Garibaldi the man of the people the lover of two countries the sometimes almost enemy en-emy of mankind and the vigorous hater of priests and aristocracy yet the worshiper of greatness in others Wild as the world has been over Garibaldi en tbuJastic as were the men and women America over his vulgar red shirt soiled cravat and slouched hat jubilant as was Great Britain over his visit to her shores crazy as France was made by him and loud as Italy sang his praises it is questionable if he were not much more an injury to mankind than a benefit Strife followed him everywhere every-where save perhaps when he was engaged in the laudable but unromantic unro-mantic and un warlike industry of making soap and candles on Staten Island New tork Even in his age and while tottering over the grave he was an agitator only last winter I one of the innumerable popular excitement ex-citement attributable directly to him occurring But poor Garibaldi is gone and if the world does not feel sorrow over the death it will nevertheless mourn the departure of the man who actually caused thrones to totter and whose influence in-fluence upon the people was more powerful than that of perhaps any other person of his time He was brave and impious reckless and reserved re-served a leader lacking in some of the best elements of the chief a success as an agitator but a miserable miser-able failure as an executivejust such a man who if he had been more evenly balanced might have revolutionized half of Europe He was born at Nice of poor parents July 22 1807 |