| Show I I L NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I ITHE THE VIGIL OF LOVE THAT KILLED A GREAT SCIENTIST By D E J Edwards E This dally daIly dall series of or anecdotes and amid incidents t I that throw new Interesting and frequently dramatic light on famous events and personalities of or the tho past have hove been collected by b Edwards dwards J during duIng nearly nearl forty fort years earl of more or less Inti Intimate mate mato acquaintance with many of or tho time co leaders since the time Civil War Var Each anecdote or 01 incident 1 ii 11 fresh from Mr 11 E notebook and amid either In whole or oi In part It constitutes constitute New News of ot Yesterday garnered from the men who made the the history or from equally eq naIl authoritative sources As Im Inn Important ImI contributions of ot tho Human Interest Int crest sort son to American history articles article have a distinctIve value all nil their the Ir own Two years yearn ago fiSO this month the time cable cubic broke roko the news neis to this country where ime he le was widely know and amI loved that I I Lord Lor Kelvin tho the great British H had died after a brief illness A day da ir ii 11 so later tho time cabled accounts of lila hi funeral told that the time only flowers on his ils casket at the tue funeral was a wreath I toni ram Lady Lad Kelvin Keivin How Lord great love lovo for COl hit his wife really led to I his death is hero told for fol the first time and amid the story 11 t 01 is vouched for by hr HI George Georgo Westinghouse of or who vho was wa one or of Lord most in intonate intimate tonate American friends When Lady Lad Kelvin Kelln accompanied Lord Ird Kelvin to America said sal Mr Ir Vesting house louse everybody y who met mot the two were Cre invariably impressed l with their theil simple and deep devotion to each other It t was easily apparent that Lady Kol Nd KolIn KolIn viii In was vas not only a sharer In her hus bus bands ands Interests In lii mechanics physics I I development and all science e eIn In i n rs fact o which he ho was wal In so great degree a master but also that their domestic relations were ideal she con constantly I looking to his lila comfort and mimi to him him and amid he responding with gentle gentio caresses During Lord Kelvin last visit to this his country his friends here learned learn that hat he was deeply solicitous regarding the he state of or Lady health Some Sonic Sometime time Ime after aHel his return to England woid word reached us that Lady Lad Kelvin had In fact become a hopeless Invalid Then Th n came caine the report that Lord Kelvin him bite himself himself self was 11 Ill III and amid within a week or 01 two the tile announcement of his death followed It was wa his lila solicitude for fot Co I the com corn toft foit of his Invalid wife his helpmeet of oC a It life time that thal really killed him Though he lie was a man of advanced ad years and had ha need nee to husband his strength from front the time day they that Lady Kel Kelvin Kelvin Kelvia vin via became an un Invalid he lie was In con constant slant stant attendance upon her He could scarcely be bo prevailed upon to leave her he herfor heCor herfor for Cor a Cow fow ow minutes minute even he seemed to feel eel that that time was vas wasted which he lie could not devote to the time care of or hia hi wife He Ho was convinced that her Ill Illness illness illness ness was mortal and to those who en on endeavored to persuade him to rest now and then he lie replied ro that during the time time timmie left heft to him and amid to Lady La y Kelvin to be together ho imo felt that ho ought to give her hel his constant c attention And so hour ator hour he sat by his bedside holding her hand and talking her herAt herAt herAt At last there thele happened what Lord friends had feared all along the time strain of oC his constant vigil of or love lovo broke him down completely and amid an hav having ing lug no surplus vitality to rely upon for recuperation he passed away awa Today To a Lady Kelvin Kelln lingers on a hopeless Invalid and I doubt not miot that her Imer thoughts all nil her waking waIting hours arc are I of or tho the mon whose whole married II life liCe fo was dominated by h the time one thought of o oher her imer comfort and an happiness I |
