Show HOLMES AND AD CUR curria cariln 7 tha he immortals immortal 11 are arc moving swiftly no nowadays W from this side to the other one passed from massachusetts on sunday and one front from pennsylvania doth both were superb types of 0 americans both filled most important places on earth both will have niches in history which will be surrounded by haloes baloes in very many respects oliver wendell holmes was the best man to gattein after of the tha last generation he had a dual nature indeed so versatile was lie that either cither ot of two or three of his gifts would have immortalized him when but a lad ad he wrote the poem on old ironsides which thrilled the co country and then for seventy years atter after that one sift gift ot of genius after another displayed itself in him and so tor for forty yea years yeara rs his name has been a household word in every home in america A trained physician ho he had received prize after prize tor for scientific essays in that profession n all AH his life he had an extended practice for years yeara and years he was a steady lecturer and tor for pleasure and rest lie wrote poems and essays and stories and withal he be hold held tor for his friends the most genial nature that ever shone out on oil at 0 family or on tl a co community m mu r there was wag a strain oi of mirthfulness and humor in jilin him which was perpetually bubbling forth forill the world was tras very sweet to him and he be made the most of it and yet when serious his voice was an inspiration and lit his s thoughts were gents gems of instruction to his countrymen lie was one of the most pa patriotic americans that ever lived and ile he wanted so many sorrows taken from hla his countrymen and so many joys joya given to them that all men would have to be patriots patricia in a land like ll 11 tc ours to go into his presence was like going out of a dark room into a full blaze of suns eunah Joe wac the tha mirthful side of hla nature prevented ordinary men from knowing how bow serious the undercurrent of at his thoughts was and it needs a study of his works to comprehend how under his cheery exter exterior for lila his heart all tho the time throbbed in burlou toward his country and his countrymen he lived the three scora scara years and ten and after that continued sixteen years but his gentle ways his beautiful cheerfulness remained with him and his lite life was sunny to tho the end ile he will bo be greatly mourned in boston and in massachusetts the now news of 0 his him death cornos comes elmost almost with it a shock bf because causa it t was only lust last week that a paragraph was going the rounds of 0 the papers that he wa wai the best exemplification ot of preserved genial age in the land he was in not at so no preat great as emerson but he was a very much more useful cit citizen liten he was not so a poet as longfellow but the difference between them was the difference between the trumpet and the tarp harp he did not devote his bis life to literature as aa a work but as a play the work had bad been finished his carter career waa vias altogether splendid and he has hag gone to rest with emer emerson 5 on w it 11 hawthorne with longfellow with with en bryant ant and with lowell so linked me are thy they in the fhe thoughts of 0 americans americana that for or all time to came the mention of one ona name will recall all the th others they made a constellation on oil baith which shone with divine lacht and the radiance shed back upon their memories with illuminate their names us as long as this republic lasts governor curtin lived out his real life and finished his real work twenty years ago ABO he was wag the governor of the keystone state when the war came a on n and he better than any other governor understood what it meant and made mad 0 the most ample preparations to meet the storm and to roll it back the record lie he made then had not a haw flaw he did everything that a gifted patriotic inspired man could do in his position ho he showed allowed more prescience than all the statesmen and the soldiers about abou t washington ile he was one of oc the pillars upon which the republic leaned when the storm ot of the rebellion beat about it and so he goes down to everlasting glory and in millions of hearts the words are rinsing ringing how sleep the brave who sink to ret rest with all ail their honors honora bleat |