Show IN LESSEPS LESSEES MEMORY A colossal statue by Fy emiet of the late lata M do Lesa Lesse epa fig over 39 30 feet in height li 19 to be set bet up at the entrance to the ho suez sues canal over the european dress a bourn will 1 be ba thrown and ono outstretched arm wl will 11 the way up the great canil ca nil the world n hlll IR bo be glad clod to read the above announcement anent A great man was U M do ills work on uie the darien isthmus should not count against him ile he was very old ve hen he went there be could not eftim estl mato tte that climate it was natural if ho be did not mako make proper account of that furious chagdes chagres Chi Lerea river and possibly sib I 1 y his mighty success at suez had in hla his old age ace made him over corett dent that un unfortunate fortanatO scheme ought no more to taint his fame than did waterloo napoleons tor for were not MI renco and arcola and masram and and borodino borodine Bo iland a hundred other fields behind the corsican Cor elcan and behind lessons lessors was wage that pathway that ho had befree through the sands and the fortress that ho he had bubbled to withstand all the assaults of the in 1 coming furious seas ite ile stood upon tho the short shore slid and beckoning to commerce caused to turn its ships into new paths he reduced the ills journeys of the th ships around the world by many weeks of time hla his work caused statesmen to readjust their plans it was ho he th that it began beean t the real rehab illation of africa ills his memory de deserves gerves all honor ills imago image in stone or bronze should be teller taller than that one reared to apollo let at rhodes |