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Show II HERO OF PANAMA OANAL. t A hero of the Panama canal died yea-I yea-I terdny at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Ho gnve his lifo lor his ,! country as truly as any soldier ivho ' 1 died upon the field of battlo. "Tho I prido, pomp and circumstanco of glorl-ocs glorl-ocs Trar" -were absent, but for that Tery reason tbe honor which Americans I pay to his memory should bo the more conspicuous. No monument that his grateful country can erect can do jns-, jns-, tice to Lioutcnant Colonel Gaillard, who directed the engineering work in the j Onlebra cut division, of tha Panama i canal. Ho was a soldier of the common (food, who was content to sacrifice his j Ufa that his country mipht grow gTeat I, and prosper, j For the last two months he had boon j In a state of coma, duo to the pressure of a growth on tho brain cell. Tho j physicians decided that an operation i was useless and that it might hasten i j his death, which is indirectly trace- able to his deadly experience in the j Onlebra cut. ! His death reminds us that many an . unknown hero has immolatod himself i iu order that tho United States might f schiovo tho surpassing triumph of tho 1 i Panama canal. Those of us who sit comfortably at homo and watch tho grcnt world iio round, must realize the lofty merit of thojo mou who always arc willing to dare :ind do on tho field of batilo or in conflict with disease and peril that, they may pqrform their duty to themselves nnd to their conn-I conn-I try. j Mou like Lioulcnunl Colonel Gaillnrd I mil kc the world's progress possible, i bometimoh wc wonder at the bpirit which impels a (Japtuin Scott to defy the dentil-dealing riyors of tho polar j region to wiu oven a small measure of ! honor ami a still Miitiller measure of Vinctlcal advantage for Imp country, ' but wn must recognize thai it, is this i spirit of advonture and intrepidity that ( malt ea it possible for nations to achieve si ch magnificent victories as tho construction con-struction of the Panama canal. To Licntcnnnt Colonol Gaillard, therefore, let us givo all praise. 1 "Greater lovo bath no man than this, 1 that a man lay down his lifo for hie friends." Such was tho .spirit of love and devotion which inspired this gallant gal-lant soldier, and such is tho spirit of lovo and devotion which would inspiro million patriots to spring to arms at a moment's uotico orn their services needed for tho defense of their country. In theso days of -money grubbing and apparently the most unflagging devo-iion devo-iion to selfish intorests, the lifo and death of such a hero is an inspiration Hlj and a lesson. For our country's sako HHtl and for our own sake, wo must not for- Igct to pay duo meed of homago to tho heroes who have placed our national life on such a high piano, and who make the prosperity ami tho permanency perma-nency of tho republic asfurod. |