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Show He "Wrni Alive. 1 The grenadiers of the famous "Old Guard" will never be forgotten in Trance as long as tho memory of (brave men shall live in the national heart. But some of them, at least, "were as bright as they were brave, as the following fol-lowing trustworthy anecdote bears witness: wit-ness: One fine morning, after peace had been concluded between France and Russia, the two emperors, Napoleon and Alexander, were taking a short walk, arm in arm, around the nalnce park at Erfurt. As they approached the sentinel, who stood nt the foot of the grand staircase, the man, who was a grenadier of the guard, presented arms. The emperor of France turned, and pointing with pride to a great scar that divided the grenadier's face, said: "Wliht do you think, my brother, of soldiers who can survive such wounds ns that?" "And you," answered Alexander, "what do you think of eoldiers who can inflict them?" Without stirring on inch from his position, po-sition, or changing the expression of his face in the least, the stern old grenadier grena-dier himself replied, gravely: "Tho man who did it is dead." Youth's Companion. |