Show 1 I IMMORTAL The Paris correspondent of the Sun says the French explain why the population of their country countr does not increase that Napoleons Napoleon's wars cost the lives of all their strong men that only those too weak to s serve him remained And though the great Corsican h has s been dead eight seven eighty seven r-seven years Frenchmen speak of him as though he were still alive and this being th the hunt hunting ng season the authorities invite people to hunt the pelican in the woods of Versailles and other birds in other places no specimen of which has been seen for years and ye years rs The invitation is to do honor to Napoleons Napoleon's victories As the emperor conquered conquered conquered con con- other countries Ire lre sent the birds of those countries to France and though the they r have long been extinct the people treat the thc matter as though the tho birds and the emperor were still on French soil Was ever a personality so impressed upon a countr country as that of the great emperor upon France 1 They know the abstract fact that he lie is dead They go at times to look into the crypt where rests the thc sarcophagus t that lat holds his dust but they seemingly treat that as asan asan asan an illusion and still hold him as alive and among them so incorporated was vas his life with all the glory and sorrow of France for twenty-five twenty years The They can reason that he destroyed the vitality of France that because of him the children born in France since his day have been the children of weaklings still to them Marengo i and Austerlitz and Wagram and Arcola Arcola Ar- Ar cola edla and the others were only fought as yesterday lAnd And as they brood over the momentous history they instinctively look up half expecting him at the head of of his legions re-entering re Paris Tho The thought is hereditary in France |