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Show 'THE "IMMORTALS." In lh esat there ia a society which, with the aumr ides, probably, thai the old Oreeka had when they organised "the immortal band," has. or ia going to organise, an immortal band of fifty, and the qneation ia. who shall be named In one paper we aee a letter to the editor, where the writer insists that they most be either artieta or men of letters, beeause they will be immortal through their pencils or their pena. We do not aee the pertinency of that Take, fur mitani r. Colonel Ooethala. Il ia not a writer, that ia. an extraordinary writer; he ia not an artist, when it romna to illuminating a nn.aa or molding eome metal into an immortal form ; but is there any danger of hi, being forgotten! Why ahould not hia name be in the lint T The ancient world had aorven wondeis, and not one of them compares with the work thai Colonel Ooethala has about completed, except, perhaps, PTiideaa Hie temple to Jupiter and hia status of Minerva are things that men cannot forget. Even the memory of them now that they hav paaaed away will remain and illuminate hia name forever. But in usefulness to the world, hia work does not compare with that which Colonel Colo-nel Ooethala haa performed. When Luther Burbank perfected his potato, it was not a work of art and it ia not a theme rhat the greatest poet in the world could make heroic. But, according to the secretary of agriculture, agri-culture, he by that act increased the wealth of this nation by seventeen millions of dollars a year, and made sure food for millions now and to come Why ahould not Iuthcr Hurhank be one of the immortals T And when we look over the achievements of our countrymen during the year past, or two or three years past, and aee that the discovery of one physician haa probably atarted what will in the next ten years practically eliminate typhoid fever from the earth, why should not he be remembered re-membered as one of the immortals f If the greatest man in the world is the one who can do moet good for hia fellow men in a material mate-rial or scientific way, to make their lives less laborious, to shield their lives from sickness, to excite men to higher endeavor, successfully, those men are of a class who ought to be sinong the immortals. |