Show NAPOLEON SOUGHT DEA DEATH TH when the geors Terr of a shaken reason 0 overpowered er powered him since 1808 he be had worn about hi his neck as a kind of amulet a btttle bag said to contain a deadly poison one ol of the salts of prussic acid says the cen tury that night when the terrors ot a shaken reason overpowered him it Is believed that he swallowed the drug instead of oblivion came agony and his valet rushing to his masters bedside at the sound of a bitter cry claimed to catch the words mar mount has struck me the final blow unhappy man I 1 loved him Bre thiera thiers desertion has broken my heart my old friends my comrades in arms ivan the emperors body physician was summoned and administered an antidote the spasm was allayed and after a short sleep reason resumed her seat it is related in the memoirs of caulaincourt and probably with a sort of homeric truth that when the reputed writer was admitted in the early morning napoleons wan and sunken eyes seemed struggling to recall the objects round about A universe of torture was revealed in the vaguely desolate look napoleon is reported as saying it is not the loss of the throne that makes exist enece unendurable my military career suffices for the glory of a single mando you know what is more difficult to bear than the reverses of fortune it is the baseness the horrible ingratitude of men before such acts of cowardice before the sha shamelessness me of their egotism I 1 have turned away my head in disgust and taken my life in horrar what ablat I 1 have suffered for twenty days no one can understand |