ABOUT CENTENARIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 710, 8 January 1910, Page 3

ABOUT CENTENARIES.

' 9 -; SUGGESTION BY ME. FEEDEBIO

■'i'^t, th * 5 ttg6 - ° £ Itenteriariea'- ; fo^noV't^' • landablo. custom in. danget; of .being-, 6v«V ■■ : 888° f -S. as Ki Mr - Froionfi- Hawisonviai •■ -isi? 9 ii ■ m? -*-" '■ mirabilisV. ••' . 1909, brings.us round,to.the birthdays''ol v four great-, EaglisMien— Darwiij,"' Teiihy--son, ■■■ Jbhnsbh,•;<Hadstbnc—to 'say,aotttog■ '■ '■ of .others,- suolras CaMa'and'Tobi 'Paine.. • ,wbo- have beeh:;conmbiiKjrated. by .'their' ! .respective admirers, .i'j;..;.:,.;> ".- ---.fttV'- : bmSS■• ''^'&s*!?s^Ps» rd i'yrivftl,- '' Budgets, and HalleyV comet, >we, 3 d*a ■■ hardly hvo up to; Jthe ,im»Sßant.Ban£a.' \' .turns',which' race.across our-thonghts-l&s" ; flying'.men.at Blackpool.ia;a:gale." : l &»/ ' .more■.centonaries coming .along '.sbbtfs-i' Oharles Dickens, Thackeray, 1 -, to "bo folib;*-' ed by; Shakespeare "himself.--'Not. V hav« ■<: .a proposal to...offer'/which"'wili : greiiirf ' ; " .riuHga.to';:thia'".Bt6riaburst; of' oeittibaricsi •: :which: palt .ns like November : inetebi&H ; :.<Mmingaad-gb)%ibefore'iWerhavfe"rcbbvaN ! . Ed-breath,. , ■■."-'; ■•-,'.-,■•/ ".•;■: : V'';»:/i■;■■-;.vr- ' niy sUggSstWisTto'-iimtf our-; :cominemorations.- toV\tho'^'ceateiflryi' .only >of ,'the,aeatli ) v:iiot;of;.flie'--bir&i'6f\ ' :;our worthies; ■'This: •■:-wbuJd, ■reducoK'th'o;;'" ;n^ber : of ,fesHvals;>j;WoiairasT:; ■at least,.besides.bdsg^iiorotrwy-'histtfiq'i and';rat!on^:;\(^ntetories v are-'bbitig;j)re.f .pgsterously.'vmultip!i'ed,t.-.'--Aud'-'tao%nl-i : inemoratibn•• of'-the'birth- of ■'■ aiiy : but'ldf::':■'• sUp^rn&ujaT'bein^ point '■' of .view ■ of - sound • sbeiologjv '■' J - V ■'•■■{■ ' I i. .'% is l ?>.vi b ! t ? s^at . ifi*6"'celßbrati;ony-r;. the death,;: but:never. ; >the::blrth,-*6f■* oW ■'■ greafcnien, ,w,at lonco. strike - ; of/..these. occasions;, ,But we siibWstrik'ir.'' off; many. moro..,:'lf,w;e,.\vait;tiil , 'a;hxmd" VK.'; years , passed-; sineo'JoarVYgreat^moit^ ,;.wont.;frqm,'us,■ ■we should.'find';somatomes*' that;; posterity: w.ould.; ; nbt:..judgythb> ; o&' ; ■ : casito.v.o.m'torso.; pt' ! .theso centenaries solves,,asVNapbleSa-.said .Ms■ lettersvdiil'. when a ; - :Jni tH ■ bato::.local;^'oi I '- ,giecial,\ but; not ■..national-commemoraWoa.'-.' jfr;, a »Vmoans lot Xittle'Pedlington -aid'.' i Little; Bethel-glorify, their-former : mayor,', I or pastor,' if his memory: keeps'.green;b'na'.' hundred'.years after his 'decease.' ./But V . tbe'.iiation would'not-bo-roused■ into'eri-'r" cituusiasra by orations, and-dunned' with,l.subscription- lists, week after■ Week.'■"/ ':-■ U ; only the hundredth ..grinV; vMsary;of'a; memorable 'death, 'and I 'wof ; !..should'.' not/ have',sbj>erior persons ■ cysiis i;l----ally sneering-at a noble custom.:, Jt'is'thej•'' .miscellaneous : ana ; :'intorrainablo r '*re'ku*'l renco of; these- occasions which; calls'but' •tho: irony fof Culture..: Ih ; this- ; a(!6' ofi .longevity;, the', centenary, of,' tHo. birth'-bf,'.. our;.hero ;follows too .closefc-Won'the'i. :actual,date-of-his'dcathC'-We/h.avo hardW' recovijred from, the emotions - of :'a gfitnol! national- funeral, with various: local; cole- -'' orations,' as'.'the. fashion-is' to-dav; before > ■ we are asked to- renew- btir lyrical i And our; apodeictid'eulogies.- Tfie=fuber'ili : bak'd words do 'coldly furnish' -forth. th« i ' centenary..feast, v Why!: the'other-day! dear .bid Garcia in person- attended : thV■• centenary festival of his' own - birth!" It ' i remihdctt'mb of. Darwin's'old' Patajonianwoman, whom: he:saw,walk in procession.:, to''>her.-.own funftnil.-,,This'.wet-year'wb'V .lia've:been.snrfeitbd : .>rlth"lamentations or' jubilees'Bf the mighty dead. .-One'might ;; think',. the .angels .in 'chorus' had- been f ■raining tears-upon oar-island.". - ';.-';•.