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Show i; The Killer and the Helper j. They took a vote in France recently as to who, in all :' French history, is the most popular hero of all time, t 1 Many thought that Napoleon Bonaparte would win. But he did not. Louis Pasteur won. Napoleon was next, but thousands of votes behind. In the last two years several biographies of these men :': have been issued from American presses. Napoleon's chap-,' chap-,' ters are headed: "Moscow," "The Retreat From Russia," I "Elba," "Waterloo," "St. Helena," et cetera, while Pasteur's ' life chapters are headed: "Studies on Crystallography," "Contagion The Antiseptic System," "The Prophylaxis of Anthrax," "Rabies." The one was the killer, the other the saver of human life. We are more civilized when we vote to give our popular faith to a Pasteur, rather than to a Napoleon ; to a doer rather than to an un-doer; to a Savior rather than to a Killer. |