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Show Tiieiu? used to be a custom In ancient times of criticising leading men or rulers, rul-ers, after their death, which had a wholesome influence on them In life, and which If followed In our day would at least do no harm, and might in somo cases bo productive of a considerable amount of good. In those days however how-ever It is tho custom to be blind to the virtues, and argus eyed to tho faults of our species during llfo, and to follow the opposite course aftor death, and extol thoso whom wo had no good word for ln,llfc, It Is refreshing to see or hear tho words of of a man who has sufll-clent sufll-clent originality about him, backod by tho necessary, moral courage, throw off the claims of custom, nnd voice his sentiments an these matters regardless of the unconveqtionallty of tho act. Of such material is "Drr A. B. Howard who turns the light of "Tho Sun" upon the late "American Csar!' in tin fol-lowing fol-lowing luminous manner, to wit: |