Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — Fame. [ARTICLE]

Fame.

Lord ..Byrou was not far out of the way when he defined fame as “being killed in battle and having your name spelled wrong pi,the Gazette.” There is J a good' deal of emptiness in fame. S line-Of the first - men- ofc; the world, ; whose .names, have been, and will be, reyered by succeeding generations, have been called upon to suffer disrespect tlnfcngft being 'p(AlsoflirTly:‘ i tiiikiid‘wri. The words tof Buntborad: “Oh.'holldw, >” mjiy well be applied to worldy Juniors. Horace Greeley was onfce Yfemgittbcl to the aftic of a Chiedgohotel; US' being a pirty of no particular, consequence., Proti Agassiz was char.acterizcd as a crazy Dutchman trying to oatplu .-bugs, Gov. Andrew Was Honied admission to, a camp of. ‘ Massachusetts voArrftefrs by a sentry who clian’b know him and refused to-be Convinced. Tim tpigiwUan;Bandnmnn, cn giving hi? naiLj to the doorkeeper of-a theatre, was re? fused fullilission unfees ihe could prove what,band he belonged'tp. Ex-President H?yen, at Cleveland,, while trespassing, wA,s shouted'to By a policeman : “Hi I thidre fgdt \ 4,