| Show A SHRINKAGE IN BRAINS twenty years ago there was hardly a coun country try in tho the world that fit lid did not have some bonn pronounced and accepted great reat statesman was at the height of hla power anti and lie he canted can led about with him such a majesty ns as hardly ever to it IL moita had IL a pi lino line who was almost it 1 not quite tile lio equal or of marck italy had still another angland nI ind had two or three and lit in our own country ther ewas I 1 u atla galday vy ot of great men il who in field and forum anere cre amona the Ne foremost men As w 1 0 look over the world today it 11 is hard to olid find any one who cin can bo be singled out as v a states n maa all such cis as each generation of amerl cans calls has ia had such us as nearly every even generation of the men ot of england Ku eland ot of germany ler marly and of france has claimed we ve are reminded of this by a little no alco in ili the paper ot of Cas casear zear or of spain thirty years ago aco he be was one on of 0 the foremost fon int figures of the world As an orator lie probably lial no rival As hi statesman ho he stood at the head ot of his country and notwithstanding the bigotry tile the cruelty that ruled there re he cried out for or a greater libery to the people for wiser laws rot lor tile tho opening of the ties of spain to her ier children find and now fill an aged man lie ho confines his time lime to writing history and to such public ncr r vloe vice as an a old man can perform but lie has ceased to be fill an attraction to mankind when jules simon died in france a few cew week ago ag with ht hl life went out cut the lat at a t one of the llie remarkable Mf cures ibach havo have atti attracted acted attention ten Lion to 10 uial that country for the ia basl t twenty flie UN e years cars we suppose the reason tor for all this Is that the general intelligence ot of the people lias has advanced until very great men ate not such distinct personalities as they used to be the people can get up nearer to them anti and they do riot not teem seem so colossal as the real leal statesmen did of old another reason la Js the depre depression slon upon the Q id la Is curbing great inanda in every nation and it la is driving hundreds and thou thousands ands of OC men who under normal conditions would bu be seek ing ine glory elory I 1 tito simply skin an everyday every day miserable light tor for bidad As sure as the world a reduction in the honest lioney ot of a country Is a direct blow at that count rys |
