| Show 8 AN ugly story comes from prance france it seems that an aged general in the army named cossares Coss Cos arct his has been convicted of what is a grave offense in military circles that thai of selling decorations badges representing meritorious service when properly considered it is also an offense against decent conduct ia any department of life as it labels with the insignia of the government a fellow who may never have set a squadron in the field nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster and thus the nations guarantee of sterling qualities priceless in itself is made merchandise of this is very bad but it proceeds from chatto thatto that to worse hy dragging in tte abe modern marshal ney nev in general boulanger gei perhaps france never had a public man in whom more genuine confidence was reposed bv the p people generally than lie he aud and if he should fall like lucifer to rie no more there would be such a condition of moral and social conf confusion u prevailing in the country as has not been pee seen 0 since the abe surrender of emperor napoleon at sedan details are wanting but it seems hat bat Boula boulanger Bou laneer tizer is accused by general 9 fermun Fer errun run minister of if war of being in some way privy to the disgraceful business which the f former oric r firmly denies and courts the abe f fullest investigation in the meantime he has resigned his bis command in the army which has been accepted and be has in addition been placed under close arrest for the period of thirty days unless unifies this is all a malicious invention of the enemy as bebla balanger nger pronounced it when it first started to circulate a bri ht and shining star will be blotted from the the french frenel firmament and the surging I 1 patriotism of the masses which has been at the point of bur barting ting its bounds and sweeping everything german from west of the be apt to simmer down to the point of actual torpidity the french U as a race must have a name to conjure with and aad they had it and were satisfied with it to erect another idol will require the work of gri groat griat at minds for a long time to ACome and in the meantime me the attson arts of peace may resume their sway and take a firmer hold other influences are at work however but what they will amount to is a question to be determined only by y experience it is proposed by a number of Boul Bouli augers agers friends to afore the electors of his arrond as a candidate for the Asset assembly and he ha would doubtless he be elected but even then his light will have gone out or neatly nearly so it will be as it would have been with general grant or general sheridan in the united states senate they were able to cope with and conquer adversaries in the field but would have made a borry figure attempting emping att to hold their own in that forum where quickness in debate reir readiness diness in discussion and profoundness in conclusions are the chief re requisites q the th frenchman who j has so a finy reconstructed the army of his county country and so rearranged the system of frontier def defenses elises thata that a fox could scarcely pass them would be apt to sit among the grave and reverend sigo lors of the chamber of dt deputies cuties with a feeling somewhat akin to that of a whale in a te brook not entirely out of his bis element and not sufficiently in ih it to do himself or his kind any good personally general boulanger is accomplished affable aud and handsome he is not deficient in military experience as many are led to suppose because of his name having so recently arse become b ome known abroad on the contrary he lp is a thorough soldier having served aa a boy with bazaine and macmahon at badawa and other doted battlefields of the war between ace ce mud and the allied powers in 1858 ar rendered service ja algiers and iwo s it we remember correctly a f ry 1 I brigade commander in the franco arauco vf 45 24 fierman erman war that he did not ilot dis in mish himself is well known and an d the causes of it are to some extent well understood the war against germany was napoleons Napoleon vs not the frenchmens French mens his dynasty dynasty was tott prins and a successful war would alone prop it up and hold it together for another generation in order that his personality might be impressed upon every feature of the campaign he personally led the attack and formulated the principal plans taking no counsel from the gray headed veterans with whom war was as a game of chess and with such men set aside confusion thrice confounded and disaster following disaster soon produced a condition of things out of which order could not come and personal valor was unheeded amid the scramble for a foothold anywhere it swamped bazaine macmahon trochu fraissard Fro issard and a number of others and aad gave a still greater number no do opportunity for distinction this is why boulanger did not come to the surf surface aee and why when he did come it was not as the the hero of hard fought battles but as the genius whose accomplishments imparted to his native land ednd a sense of security against all without gild and of self reliance to all within such as it had not known since the overthrow of the bloody triumvirate it would seem to the unprejudiced thinker that fran e would do well not to add enforced retirement to banishment in Boul angera augerl case unless such action becomes imperative it is much better to have such men and not want them than to want them and not have them |
