Show HE UNDERTOOK TOO MUCH DR DB LEs simps panama canal scheme is one of the proposed great things of ehfe that grow smaller instead of greater as the years come and go it is bat little talked of now and the chances are that the work werk being performed corresponds with the talk it begins to look as it if there were a fatality attending the attempted severance of the two continents and as though be great french engineer had taken more caf 1 a contract on his bis hands bands than be could uld execute it is sometimes a grievous thing that men who know SQ BID well how and when ind and where to begin should be so deficient in judgment when comes the time for leaving off A great triumph or a decided victory seems to blind them to the fact that there is a limit to human achievement and that in the best beat estate of man we are never sure of anything in detail except what is past so it would seem to be in conspicuous terras terms with de lesseps he placed himself in n the front rank if not at the very head of the civil engineers of all ages adges oy the lagrand a success eckas accomplished with the suez C canal linal thus simplifying shortening shorE ening and cheapening commerce with the far ear east to an extent scarcely dreamed of before if fame were the object his labors would properly have endea ended there his grand record barough i life being thus rounded up and crow crowed ed with a dazzling and momentous success and it was that kind of fame which brought honors and emoluments with it bestowing the physical necessaries in abundance while yielding amply of the sensuous demands of the high minded worker but surely a I 1 demon caused him to play at hoodman blind when he so tir tar emulated alexander as to seek new lands if not new worlds to conquer on this side the atlantic he began by virtually ign ignoring oringa a solemn compact of the nations and thus cresting creating un unfriendly lenda if not belligerent feelings al 1 began work on a project pro toy by those more familiar with the country than himself to be impracticable ti mud and which every step of his bis slow and weary advance has shown to be so and sef scheme ierne Is practically abandoned with results most disastrous the least consequential of which is his bis own humiliation influenced by his bis solicits eions and representations and assured by his recognized ability his friends and sympathizers have been induced to invest large sums in bonds of the paper canal and as in the event of its collapse aney will never receive anything la in betuu u some of them must be brought to financial ruin and all will be losers to the eilent 0 of their respective investments while the odium of failure which always magnifies disaster into crime and attaches it firmly to the perpetrator will surely weigh upon him with increasing weight as disability hia bis abilia ability to endure it becomes less he if is a tull full decade be yond yona and ana years of man and his failure is the most conspicuous instance of vaulting anft amft Ution tiou overleaping over oter leaping its ilsek that presents itself to our oar mind at the present time alme the great eastern and the K kely eely motor are som somewhat what in the same line but only figure as bagatelles by comparison there are examples or of similar conduct nearer home and it is to be expected that in such cases as in the others the limit will be reached all too soon for those who engage in them and they will find when too late that there is a host to be consulted con suited in the reckoning |