Show TilE THE 1 YEAR AIt WAS AS It has hM been called tho the big y year ar In 18 many great lives began Burr Mcintosh presents tho the portraits of or ten of oC them In tho the current number of oC his magazine Alfred Alfre Tennyson son Edward Ed Fitzgerald erI er- I aId ald translator of ot The Tue Rubal at Oliver Wendell Holmes Edgar Allen I Poo Poe Frederick Chopin Charles Darwin Darwin Dar Dar- Dar I win W. W E. E Gladstone Mendelssohn I Elizabeth Elizabcth Barrett Browning and greatest of or all all Abraham Abraham Lincoln Lincoln- were born in the tho year ear 1509 This Is tho the centennial of ot their birth Poe Chopin and Mendelssohn died young Gladstone Darwin Darn and Holmes lived to great ago Lincoln dle died at ot two fifty two when when h he should have boon boen really at the beginning of ot lutes lute's greatest constructive work worl Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitz Fitz- gerald left lert mUe but his matchless s translation of oC the old Persian poet but that little has b been en cn welcomed by unnumbered hosts bosts Mrs Browning was an Invalid for tor the tho most of or her lifo life Tho rest of at them then enjoyed excellent I health with one exception and in that case caso intemperance could be charged with will such ills as ns his flesh was h heir Ir to Tho The world is Immensely richer for tor forthe tho the life and tho work of or these men Lincoln Tenn Tennyson son Gladstone Darwin Dar Dar- win win who who can imagine tho the poverty of or tho race with their pages blank Never in the tho history of or man have so 80 many great souls been launched on Ut life ife In a n single year |