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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 wall the 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 ttre foregoing contrlhu-tlons, contrlhu-tlons, rushed Into the competition with all of the restraint that characteriie members of our great nation : "But braver still, and truer far and tougher than shoe leather, "Was Washington, the man who could have licked them both together." h wrote, and doubtless went awsy Quite satisfied with his climax. Fhiis-delphla Fhiis-delphla Public Ledger. |