Show j DEAN OF FRENCH journalists QUITS I 1 il f rochefort veteran polemist olst and dean of french journalists has baa laid aside hial bis pen forever ile ho la Is almost eighty two years old has fins been la in journalistic harness tor for halt half a century and until the present indisposition has riot not missed writing an article every day for mare than forty years even since his eyes bogan began to fall him only once has ho he missed dictating his dally daily article and now the doughty old lighter takes what ho he believes to be only a temporary rest at the imperative order ot of his physicians the paper for which ho he has baa written so BO many man pal pi tating articles announces that no ono one replaces him it says in effect what jefferson replied when the french foreign minister welcomed him with the remark you replace dr franklin no replied tho author of jeffersonian Jeffers onlan simplicity no one can replace dr franklin I 1 merely succeed him As long as a shadow oi of hope remains of at his bis reappear reappearance ruice no one will succeed I 1 len ril rochefort |