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Show An Accomplished Duelltt. Thero is something very fascinating to one accustomed to tho somewhat oven and prosaic tenor of tho English public life to gazo on a man who has scon such vicissitudes ns tho present prlmo minister of Franco, M. Georges Clomenccau. Ho was but a boy during dur-ing the Empire, when ho was exiled; ho spent four years In America which Is tho loaBou why ho speaks English bo perfectly. Thou think of what he has gone thinugh since; to every man who challenged him ho sent nu acceptance, uud a dozen, perhaps per-haps a score, of times ho has taken his life In his hands and looked Into tho barrel W a revolver or at tho sword of an opponent who had for him nil tho deadly hatu of political animosity, and especially In n country llko Franco, where religion and clusses, us well ns llorco personal ambition, dlvldo men Into such hostllo and Irreconcllnblo camps. Neither giving nor nsklug mercy, this terilflc man small and compact of stature with tho great round head, tho great dark oyes. has fought his way, now trampled down, now rising again, and always feared nnd kept back, as men of such florcoly Htrong churnctor are bound to bo. It JTm Is only mediocrities In politics that ho J( world allowH to get tn tho top without obstruction. |