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Show All Great Men. Once upon a time, so the story goes,, a Frenchman visiting the tomb of Napoleon Na-poleon wrote on a convenient wull th lines : " 'Bony' was a great man, a soldier brave and true." An Englishman, coming along a little lit-tle later, read this and added : "But Wellington did beat him at the battle of Waterloo." The next visitor was an 'American who, seeing the foregoing contributions, contribu-tions, rushed into the competition with all of the restraint that characterizes members of our great nation : "But braver still, and truer far and tougher than shoe leather, "Was Washington, the man wTio could have licked them both, together." he wrote, and doubtless went away quite satisfied with his climax:. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Public Ledger. |