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Show The Birds Knew Him. The death of Francois Copper in Paris is announced. an-nounced. He was a poet, dramatist and writer of romances, but his best work was his poetry, and he was hold by tho poor of France in- much the same estimation that Bobbie Burns was and B is by tho poor of Scotland. He was so essen- tially kind that as he walked through the H Luxembourg Garden thd birds would light on his shoulders and arms for the ciumbs which he H always carried in his pockets for them. And he would talk to them and they would twitter back to him and they were all tenants in common of the Garden as much as were Adam and Eve and tho birds in the first garden before cruelty was bom into the world. |