Show h N L 4 THE BARTHOLDI STATUE I IL i I. I The New York Sun notes notes that the the birthday birthday of f Miss Liberty is drawing near By Miss Liberty t the Sun means the Bartholdi statue and recalls the the t day October 28 1886 when New York went wild J its dedication over President Cleveland was there iso 80 n so was M. M Bartholdi so was vas the great Count de def f 1 Lesseps and it recalls a few of the words of the old i C Counts Count's speech on that occasion as follows rl 1 Soon Soon oon gentlemen we will wil find ourselves reunited I 1 again agam to celebrate a new pa pacific conquest Farewell I lJ until we meet at Panama where e thirty-eight thirty stars of I. I North America will come to float beside the banners t j pf f the independent states of S South uth America and f. f will form in the new world for the good of humanity i Kc k peaceful and truthful alliance of the Anglo- Anglo or j. j I S Saxon San n an and d L Latin a t. t In races The Sun notes that the stars on th the flag have m in- in r- r rl l creased to forty five but the canal is not dug lug that when finished it will not be the banners of France that will wave over it that since then one one of the Latin races races has been teen withdrawn from this hemisphere hemisphere hemisphere hemi hemi- sphere it means that Miss 1 Liberty's twenty-one twenty 3 years ears ears have been eventful ones The Sun even says that New York no longer vis visits visits visits' visits its its' island and n no longer leav leaves s cards with Miss l Li Liberty erty when ve we ride in iii sight seeing a auto auto- to mob mobiles I J J It declares that Miss Liberty is a most expensive girl Her first cost was francs before she reached ed our shores then we h had d to raise to a pedestal for her to put e electricity in her torch Now the G Government t is going to make mak other improvements it is going to renovate her exterior and her interior and run an elevator into int her uplifted up uplifted uplifted up up- lifted right arm But is it not strange strang how swiftly time moves moves 7 Old man manDe De Dc Lesseps Lessep long since bince passed away the canal zone which was French French is is is n now w American seven seven stars have been added to our flag and another is ready to go on the face of nature is in many places entirely changed J Japan pan has grown to be a first-class first fighting power the United States has doubled in wealth and power Grover Cleveland is s still living but sitting in the shadows shadows- and while e ethe the statue is a marvelous thing it did not cost so much as some of the rich men of of- our country are spending on their tombs Still the statue was a great thing in its day and the spirit beh behind nd it which h inspired red its construction and er erection n was as fine as anything that has b been en exhibited exhibit d in mall all these modern rn rush d days v |