Show SOME OF OP O THE TEE WORLDS FAMOUS OLD FOLK Kansas City Star The death of tf Queen Victoria removes one of the two most Illustrious old peo pec people pe pie pl of the close of the nineteenth cen con century century tury Pope Leo XIII still lives at the age of 90 years Three years ago the list Included two others Gladstone and Bismarck B These four stood In a group by toy themselves in m age and reputation Gladstone had bad done more perhaps than any other man mart in Europe to pro promote promote promote mote political ideals and to give the common people of the old world a shaPe shae in the government Bismarck had been the great unifying force that welded a powerful empire out of if scores of netty tty states Victoria was ss IDle fihe embodiment f domestic virtues and a strong fac factor factor tor tom in preserving the peace of the world Pope Leo is the religious ideal leal i of more than of souls The English statesman then the oldest of the four died in May 1898 at the age of f 88 The man of blood and iron Uon five years jears y ars his junior survived him only ten weeks The death of ot Victoria comes conies less than three years after that of h her r famous contemporaries Only the pope is left and lie he so feeble that the an announcement announcement of the end at any time could occasion no surprise The list of men and woman above 70 includes many yell well known names Within the last month it has been diminished by four Brad Bradbury Bradbury bury of Maine died at the advanced d dage age of 98 and Lord Armstrong the famous British builder of ships and ord ordnance nance at that of 90 Verdi the compos composer er has just passed away aw ay His long life of years covers the period of the development of music from the formal compositions of the eighteenth century into the passionate p expression of Wagner and the romantic writers among whom Verdi himself belonged belon ed edIn In America Cassius M 11 Clay is liv Jiving living ing lag in retirement at his home in Ken Kentucky Kentuck Kentucky tucky tuck a year older than the pope He was 10 years old when alien Victoria was born and almost in middle life when she came to the throne Before the memory memo of the present generation hp hI h had served as minister to the court at St Petersburg Samuel Smiles the biographer Bishop Clark of Rhode Island and C L Tiffany the jeweler were born years yeaTS ago Elizabeth Cady Stanton is still vigor vigorous vigorous ous at the age of or 85 arid and with Susan B Anthony five years her junior con continues continues continues to work for Cor the cause of ot woman Julia Ward Tard Howe author of the Bat Battle Battle Battie tle tie Hymn of the Republic is 80 SO SOo o 3 2 0 Russell Sage although he is 84 years old is still In active business life Ex Senator Dawes of Massachusetts whose name Is borne by the commis skin ston now at work among nong the fihe nations of or orthe the Indian Territory wa waa w born the same esme e year ye r with ith Mr Kr Sage The Rev Dr Newman Hadl Hn the ie British h clergy cIery clergyman man and writer of devotional books and poetry is of the same me age King Christian of Denmark is a year young younger er He is the oldest monarch of ot Eu Europe Europe rope although Francis Joseph J has reigned longer Christian came to the throne in 1883 1863 His wife Queen Louise Loul e L who died three years ye ago was known as the royal matchmaker One of his hia daughters shares the throne of Eng England England land another is 18 Dowager Czarina of Rus Russia Ha and a 8 son on is king of Greece Gree e eOther Other royal personages per who are an a 70 or over are Eugenic Eugenie exempress of the French who Is 74 King Oscar O car of Swe Sweden SWeden e eden den and Norway three years her Ju Junior junior junior Emperor Francis Joseph To e of Ann Aus Austria tria Isabella of Spain and president Diaz Dias of Mexico who ar are the Ule same age a e 70 Among the aged public men of the world are Evarts who re te retired retired tired from front the senate and from active affairs ten years ye rs ago Boutwell Grants secretary of the treasury of Mr Evarts age ap mier inlet Crispi of Italy who wo wa was born the thes same s me year with Victoria Hohenlohe of Germany 78 71 7 Abram S Hewitt a year his junior Grow of ot the house of or representatives and LI Hung Chang of China 1 it E a 4 qc JL Vice Vlee President Morton and Senator Morgan both tooth 76 Senator Hoar 74 Senor Sagasta Sagast and Sir William Vernon VernonH Harcourt H 78 73 Justice Gray of the su an supreme preme court and Lord both 72 Senator Allison Senator and Schura SchuTZ a year young younger er em and Lord Salisbury Tracy Trac and Senators Vest Vett Teller and Jones Tones all of whom are 70 The list ll t of ot aged soldiers would include General Longstreet who is of or Victorias a General veneral Sigel Si Sig l 76 16 7 Lew Wallace 73 n 7 and General Howard 70 10 T 0 G 0 Florence Nightingale to whom the English people gave a quarter of a a mil mu million million lion dollars d in recognition of her Mr r 8 in the Crimea is living in Lon London London London don at the age of SO 80 Herbert Herbei Spencer S the scientist and philosopher is a year Professor Virchow the Ger German German German man pathologist is 79 and nd Professor Pro 8 Or Wallace most famous exponent ex on eat ent nt in England 78 Among men of let letters letters letters Donald G Mitchell Dc Ik Marvel Maivel Marvelis is 15 78 Thomas and Professor Prole sor Goldwin Smith a year younger George McDonald is 18 78 76 Rich Richard Richard ard arid Stoddard is 75 76 and Ibsen Ib en Jules Tules Verne and Count Tolstoi Tol toi are 72 Gen General General General eral Booth of the Salvation Army and I Joseph Jefferson are 71 Five years will make a marked change chan in the list A survey of this aged acred ag d company coupled with the re me remembrance remembrance of the changes of the last lut half balf decade recalls the words word of Moses loses We UWe spend our years as a I tale that Is told The days of our years are three score years and nd ten and if it toy by reason of strength they be four score years yet is 18 their strength labor and sorrow orrow for it fe is soon BOOn cut off and we fly flyaway away I fw 4 c 1 hI hII I I i Li L LI t tI I I i JJr I I 1 L V v S t 0 c T 7 tC f 1 2 THE TEE E USE OF OP ENTRE DEUX j 2 J 4 r |