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Show Nine Tons of Iron Crosses. A '-ir!:ni: tn the K:.-l Zliun. ihe v.'.-u:!!n in niI:i. Yhc qiry .--'.'U is mil !!:.- V.l'U" ul su.'h i !.-.w:.tK.i vr.sl ',.ra;.v Ivinm-d l-v tlii p; o.iusi-u.nis .ii.in.iiuiua'.' Tl'. Yi.'loria is ..,.v..l.,j .(.se it is j.iU( (o w in, ;..' wii.t uuu.'iis H Ls ;t :i :,u k .-.1 ir.nn :nace'l. K:oi! lvSd. when it was inptip.it-e.i inptip.it-e.i u I : t ; I '.he . lo: e of the KtiL-r war. nearly alf a enntury. the me.ial was hestow.al -il.out .Vm times thrire ui m . uili ins and on. e ui,,j:, a ehanhun. jianv tinns the award was made when it jlj only ruim- as a pusthumuus re. oe.ni nun prer.ous to tnose who mvuriwi! a saliant inem.'ry. In J".'1' yr('umstam'es Utile of the pride of lite or of vainglory attaches lo the puhlle exhibition of the s. ,,ibol. But men are of different lii'oi'liiities. One shrinks from adyertisni a sreat distinction, and another an-other noisily parades a little one. No monareh nf Kiuone is more liberally bedizened be-dizened w-ith orders than Ferdinand of l-.aU'ana when he has his pictures taken. et perhaps no monarch is less wonhv .'1 the blazonry of honor. t is an amiable nihrniity in lesser personaites to hane eadsTes and buttons upon i hen. se!es, as though, tlie larger part nf a man were Ills lapel. In proportion as one is a minus uuantity Intellectually one is likelv to con-lound con-lound the eye with external trappings. Lie wholesale business done in distributing distribut-ing the iron crosses seems to indicate that one who knew Die foibles and frailties frail-ties of human nature sanctioned a mintage mint-age so lavish that It would have gladdened glad-dened the heart of an apostle of free silver. Philadelphia Ledger |