Show A ridiculous TEST PERY PERHAPS rAPS henry adams of new hampshire and james D walton of england thought they were inspired inspire with a spirit of patriotism when they a as to the courage of the people of their tive countries by an individual contest the decision was to be given in favor of the nation of the one who first planted his bis national colors on the edge of a volcanic crater in mexico both oth the poor follows fellow lost the their ir lives by being engulfed eDgul fed in a stream of molten lava of course the deciding of a national quality by an individual feat to is an unqualified absurdity if the point of dispute bad been as to which of the two persons persona had bad the smallest amount of common judgment that would have been quite another thing in that case it would have been a draw as an neither neither seemed to be possessed poss eseed of any if the discretion of these two men had been equal to their bravery and energy they would doubtless both have been today with a fail prospect of useful usefulness nees ahead of them |