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Show A MODEST COLONEL. Colonel Goethals, builder of tho Panama Pan-ama canal, hopes that ho will not be present whon the canal is opened. "It will bo a great show," ho sa3Ts, "but I hope I won't; bo there. You know, 1 don't like celebrations and never did. When they have this celebration 1 think I shall go away for a little trip until it is over." It is a popular saying that all great men aro modest, but this seoms too broad a generalization. It is doubtful whether even most of tho great men havo been modest. Now thero is Colonel Colo-nel Boosovelt, for example; ho has not been accused of humility, and yet, every Progressive will admit that he is a great man. Even somo others will grudgingly coucedo as much. Tt was Colonel Koosevclt who finally made the Panama can.il possible, oven though ho accomplished this by questionable methods. No ono ever has heard him say that ho did not liko celebrations or that ho hoped ho would not bo present at the oponing of tho Panama canaL It has been shrowdly suspected that among his chiel1 reasons for de-Eiring de-Eiring tho presidency again was his wish to bo a central figure at the Panama Pan-ama canal celebration. Colonel Goethals Goeth-als might pair with Colonel Boosovelt on that occasion. He might take him by tho hand and lead him out into somo Brazilian forest and repeat Grey's elegy to him, while the festivities at tho, canal are in progress. Fow great men havo been modest unless they havo been good men also. A great man whoso ambitions aro all for this world, and who never has repeated re-peated to himself "vanity of vanities, all is vanity," and who seeks only eolf-glorification, eolf-glorification, is generally an egotist, although al-though at times ho may bo subject to paroxysms of humility. Who among tho greatest men of history his-tory have been modest? In tho .Tcw-iph .Tcw-iph thoc.rnftv. -srhorn thn minds of all mon wore constantly directed ttoward a supreme being, humility was a religious relig-ious trait, because tho finito could only bo oonstrastod with tho infinite, and yet tho Jews wero mor noted for thoir pride than their humility. Among the Grooks not many of the groat mon posflossed the virtue of humility; surely not Alexandor or Poriclos. Caesar probably was tho greatost of tho Romans, Ro-mans, and yot thero is nothing in his life or hla works to indicate humility. It is truo that soma of the pagan philosophers, phi-losophers, such as Eplctetus and Marcus Aurelius, Bhow indications of this virtue. vir-tue. Althongh Napoloon was a wiso observer ob-server of anen and things as well as a great soldior, his entire caroer blazoned bla-zoned forth his colossal egotism. Among our own great mon only two appear to have realized that such a virtue was consistent "with great ability and high accomplishment Washington and Lincoln. Lin-coln. While many of our leaders wero not offensively egotistic, they did not seem to think it worth whilo to cultivate culti-vate humility. If thoy had any rogard for Buch a virtu it found expression rathor with roforenco to somoono elso than themselves. Thoy left humility to women and tho clergy or to tho dovo-tcoa dovo-tcoa of tho esoteric or tho simple life, and if they thought of it at all as a desirable attributo for themselves, thoy did not 6eem to oonsldor it nso-ful nso-ful in public 11 fo. Tho postoffico department has ruled that babies must not bo sont by parcel post. We know that the attempt to break tho stork trust would fail. For it requires at least a modicum of intelligence to bo a successful knave. Horald-Bopublican. Is this a confession or a boast? If Secretary Bryan has an onion farm in Texas, ho ought tb bo strong enough to grow his own whito radishes. Wo aro glad that ho Japanese are using tho yellow peril at homo those days. A new Indian tribo has boon discovered discov-ered in Brazil. Maybe it is only Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Will Bulgaria oxhibit her rags or her wounds at San Francisco? |