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Show PETTY PRIDE IS LUDICROUS !J i'Ef Clearer Judgment Often Would Make Us Ashamed of the Things of Sk Whloh We Boact. jti Nearly everybody la proud of some- fjjj thing. That is one of tho curious jjjj streaks of human nature. I have seen juj a released Jailbird strutting bofore her g- cnvlous companions bccauBo) of the jig number of occasions on which Bho had vS "done time." One man Is proud be- (,; causo ho onco was presented to a j king; another one becauso ho Ib tho 2 second cousin of a prize fighter This jj parson Is proud of his anccBtry, and I v tho other becauso ho Is a self-mndo ,- f man." The roapons for pride which ' persons dlnplay aro many and curious J ( and various. Most of us do not out- ,' m grow the childhood boastfulnes3 Yet f; jj if we could see ourselves from the g height of tho pyramids, or from one of the tombs of the Chinese emperors i outside of Peking, or from a cell In the ( recently uncovered monastery of Bud- ' A dha at Sarnath, or from a mountain , il side on Mars, wo might perceive tho f futility and vanity, not to Bay ludic- J t rousneca, oi our petty prido. j' I Often the things of which men aro '' proud are those of which, were their 'l Judgment clearer, they would bo ashamed. W. T. Ellis, In Baltimore Nows. |