Show MANY ATTAIN LAURELS YOUNG long list of those men who have achieved fame before the A age go of thirty in bis tribute to perry former m er president tatt taft called attention loi to the fact that he hero ot of lake erie was only twenty eight when lie he won that glorious victory an interesting roll might be called ot of the men who achieved deathless fame while yet in their twenties says the st louls louis republic editorially editor lally first Firs ot all we suppose would be ba alexander who had vanquished the world and tor for whom fate flashed the doleful sign noting doing ere yet he be was hardly thirty the bang of 0 hla his toga was waa still a matter of vast concern to the foppish caesar when he was pushing ghis his trl tri remes across the channel to the chalk cliffs of DrItt brittany any at twenty eight the youth of napoleon was tar far behind and kings had learned to come down and personally open the door when ho he knocked burns was singing his last songs at twenty eight and byron awoke to acclaim while still younger the dead boy in a garret eighteen or thereabouts was chatterton emmett named the terms on which his epitaph might be written in the brave days when he was awen tyone ty one slamming the door on history and sauntering out into the golden light of 0 the living day it is a pleasure to reflect elect that at twenty eight john D rockefeller of eller was about as poor and honest as the rest of us and athwart the smoke wreathed skyline ol of pittsburgh no prophet could discern the root roof of a carnegie library but those are negative views by way of 0 citing the positive we observe that tyrus cobb had put a flashing spike on the home plate ot of immortality while still under awen ty eight but of arms and the men and letters and pelt pelf and politics enough As a matter of tact fact and justice be it declared that the name of 0 women who a attain their greatest beauty without ever admitting twenty eight Is legion and will continue to be |