Show NAPOLEONS ATTEMPT SUICIDE When the Terrors of a Shaken Uct lon Overpowered Him Sin e 1808 he hid worn about his neck as a kind o amulet a little bafl sad to contain a deadly poison one of the salts of prussic aced says the Century Thai l night when the terrors of a shaken reason overpowered him it is bleve he swallowed the drug Instead In-stead of oblivion came agony and Ms valet rushing to his masters bedside air the sound of a bitter cry claimed t catch the words ilarmount ha struck me the final blow Unhappy I man I loved him Berthlers desertion i I has broken my hearth My olH friends i my comrades in arms I Ivan the emperors body physician w as summoned and administered an antIdote The spasm was allayed and after a shot sleep reason resumed her I seat 1t is related in the memoirs of sa I C i CouC > a3ncoUrt and probably with a SOt of Homeric truth that when the 1 reputed writer was admitted in tie early morning Napoleons worn and sunken eyes seemed struggling to recall re-call the objects round about A universe uni-verse of torture was revealed in the vaguely desolate look Napoleon is reported ported a saying j I is not the los of the throne that makes existence uinendurVole My military mili-tary career suffices for tie gory of a single man Do you know tthGi is more difficult to bear than the reverses of fortune I is the basenesS tho horrible hor-rible ingratitude of men Before such acts of cowal lice before the shame lessrec3 of their eswism I have turned away my head in disgust and taken my I life in horror What I have suffered for 20 days no one can understand |