Show FOURSCORE AND HEARTY Bismarcks Advent Among the Worlds Octogenarians GLADSTONE LEO VERDI MAIXES GRAXD OLD 3IAX EL DOW nUng Classics Writing1 LcLtin Poet y and Composing Wonderful Wonder-ful 3InsIc Among the Gayeties of Life at Eighty and OverWritten Over-Written for The Herald Bismarck enters the ranks of the octogenarians tomorrow and a world will shout dts tributes as he crosses this rarely reached milestone of < time Bismarck will find himself in excellent excel-lent and brainy company on the other side of his eightieth birthday anniversary anni-versary He will find the schoolyard full of gay old boys and girls He will find Pope Leo at eightyfive writIng writ-Ing Latin sonnets just as in the olden days when as a lad he surprised sur-prised the Pecci family by his preco ciousness He will find the English statesman William E Gladstone discussing dis-cussing Greek prose and writing critical criti-cal essays on religion and philosophy He will be surprised to find Verdi at eighty planning a new opera for the great singer Maurel seeking his inspiration in-spiration from no less a pleasant theme than Shakespeares Tempest Here is Professor Dana at eightytwo fresh from Hawaii giving the world amass a-mass of neT facts in geology Bessemer Bes-semer is still bright in his panoply of Inventive thought and Sir Henry Parkes is just entering the calm of octogenarians with a new educational education-al project for New South Wales Coul dock comes gayly into the ranks of rare old men still treading the boards and giving the world delightful touohes of mimicry Few have faith ompd life as deeply as he Few know how to interpret dt better But the list of famous old men and women is a long one and darkened only here and there by the touch of mental blight or great physcal weakness weak-ness As a rule these old men and women are still extremely active Dhey seem to drop out of the ranks very quietly and then it takes a long stretch of memory to find where history his-tory connects the links of their past active careers with their more recent works So Rawlinson has just died and his first great volumes of history look old and musty on our shelves like the records of a past century So with Professor Blackie Old Marshal Canrobert just died at eightyfive end the third Napoleons Kalian campaign cam-paign rises like the shadow of the past blending its color with the light of the present But it is with the living we have to V3o and the laurels we can place upon their wrinkled brows and silvery locks are lardy tributes to repay in some degree for humanitys past ingratitude Bessemer who enriched the world as bas no roan living or dead in the past stood biting his lips with rage at the sarcasm and ridicule heaped upon him for declaring that he had discovered 3 cheap process for quickly changing y pigiron into steel The bronzed face the burned hands the empty purse at 0 tte ted to t > e labor he had devoted to Rio idea Then came his greatest < battle J fJ tie He had to iforce the world to acct p ac-ct his idea When engineers finally appreciated his discovery they found Q km disheartened discouraged and u7 c j Q c fl Ci e V < 1 f = ready to turn against the world Then came honors thick and fast He was knighted Sovereigns vied in doing him honor Great societies elected him to honorary offices Medals were voted vot-ed to him and he Is today among the happiest of the Old Masters of England Eng-land In Happy Old Age So is William E Gladstone So is Sir James Bacon who at the age of ninetyseven lives a happy life of retired re-tired ease Until 1SS6 this great English Eng-lish jurist sat upon tae bench and the clearest decision ever rendered by him was that In a case tried two months before he retired from the vioeohancellorship of England It to practice his profession when Napoleon Napo-leon was at the < height of his glory in 1809 He has also the honor of being the oldest Freemason in the world General George S Greene U S A the oldest living West Point graduate is ninetythree A Vigorous Maine Celebrity Neal Dow is Maines grand old man and although very weak at ninetyone still talks entertainingly of the days I of 1851 when as mayor of Portland he i drafted the famous Maine liquor law i I His career as a brigadiergeneral in the war is to him a rather sad reminder I re-minder of woes He lay eight months in a southern prison recovering from a severe wound But the bright par I l r IFS enNea prince Bismarck Wm dsiOne n I kfr G 1 abefhCad Stanton 1 Ve > ose ° i rheComp 9aroness Burl etrcout r S r t I s sse mer Cw couldo K Sir NenYY Parkes Harrier 6 eecherSt TilE WORLDS FAMOUS OCTOGEXARIAXS was he who said that his life proved I the reverse of Bowders famous aphorism apho-rism The first twentyRe years of I ones life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man even though I those five and twenty be spent in penury and contempt and the rest in the possession of wealth honors respectability re-spectability aye and many of them in strength and health None of this centurys living famous fa-mous old men have yet reached > the age at which the philanthropist Mon teflore died a decade or so ago Yet William Salmon today the oldest member of the Royal College of Surgeons Sur-geons comes near it He is one hundred hun-dred and five this month and began 4 Y c titular events on which he converses I I frequently are his famous visits to England in behalf of the prohibition I cause I Among the famous nonogenarions i are Rev Dr William H Furness of England now ninetytwo and Field I Marshal Sir Patrick Grant of England Eng-land ninety Coming Xonogenarians Those who enter the ranks of non ogenarians of 1895 are Francis WIlliam Wil-liam Newman brother of the great cardinal James Martineau philosopher philoso-pher BarthelemySainteHilaJre and I George Mueller the orphanage founder I found-er Dr Newman only recently com I pleted a memoir of the early days of his great brothers life and is now I deep in the study of Gaetulian His knowledge of ancient languages is marvellously rich and he has given the world some valuable philological treatises He is not alone an abstainer ab-stainer from liquor and tobacco but never touches meat and attributes his longevity < to this method of living James Martineau the brother of the famous Harriet Martineau is still discussing dis-cussing philosophical treatises Harvard Har-vard conferred the title of LLD on him Gladstone will be SG this year So will Cassius M Clay of Kentucky erratic er-ratic and erotic though he be and so will exSecretary of the Treasury Hugh McColloch ExSecretary of the Navy Richard W Thompson of Indiana Indi-ana has just celebrated his 86th birthday birth-day Hugh McCulloch is the only living member of the Lincoln cabinet Ex Secretary Thompson was a member of the Hayes cabinet ExSenator Payne of Ohio Is no longer very active at 84 although his senatorial contemporary Senator Mor rIll of Vermont has by no means retired re-tired from active work yet he like ex Senator Payne Is nearing his eighty fifth year Sirs Stowe Declining Tears Harriet Beecher Stowe lives quietly with her son in Hartford Conn She will be St on June 14 and the closing C kAiQl t i I IIi days of her life are marked by extreme Ii ex-treme mental weakness Bishop Clark > f Rhode Island wa I still active at 82 although now growing I grow-ing somewhat weaker Curtinr the polished Greek scholar is living at SO Verdi is nearing 81 and has just achieved a marvelous success with Falstaff Baroness Burdett Couitts begins her eighityfirst year in I 1895 and her life runs on as smoothly as ever in its philanthropic channels It seems an age since she succeeded suc-ceeded to the Coutts millions Still since that time ISTf she has endowed many bishoprics has established homes for the fallen homes for children and in a thousand different ways given the world object lessons in real charity Her romantic marriage with young Ashmead Bartlett is still fresh in the minds of readers ExSenator Thurman of Ohio is no longer active and his SI years of life hang heavily on him On the Eligible List But then is a long list of elig bios The next few years will uuiass many additions to the ranks of octogenarians should those now in line remain alive Justice Field exSenator Dawes Leon Say Park Goodwin and Russell Sage will be SO in 1SSG In 1897 King Christopher of Denmark Prof Mommser Sir John Gilbert and Senator John M Palmer will reach thp octogenarian stage In ISIS exSenator Evarts Bishop Coxe and Mrs John Drew become SO In 1899 Queen Victoria Vic-toria Julia Ward Howe Crispi Long street Ruskin W W Story and Bishop Bis-hop Huntington will make up the list of young octogenarians In 1900 the list will comprise Herbert Spencer Florence Nightingale Mrs G W Gilbert Jean Ingelow General Rosecranz and Susan B Anthony i As for the famous people between 70 and 74 their name is legion |