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Show AT CRAVE OF NAPOLEON ' Roosevelt Grows Silent When He Sees the Tomb Paris, April 22. After paying a tribute to Mark Twain. Mr. Roosevelt bogan today with a visit to the tomb of Napoleon. Passing first Into the chapel where are the scarred battle flnga captured in the conflicts of the great general, the former president kept up a running run-ning fire of comment with General ! D.ilateln, military governor of Paris, concerning Incidents of the various battles, but when ioe rotunda was reached, from which 'he looked down' upon the red marble tomb of the conqueror, con-queror, draped with the flaps of Aus-terlltz Aus-terlltz nnd other reminders of the great victories of the soldier, the former for-mer president gew stangely silent. A few moments later, the party descended des-cended to the crypt through which they entered the tomb over the door of whic.i Mr. Rooseelt read th words of Napoleon written at St. Helena lu which the great general expressed the desire that his ashes rest on tho banks of the Seine nmong the people he j loved. Here in a niche was shown Napoleon's sword and black hat con-I con-I talned in a glass case, and the un-I un-I marked btonc slabs which the English Eng-lish general placed over the grave at St. Helena, but upon which he refused to permit Napoleon s name to ho chiseled. chis-eled. Paris. April 22. Former President Roosevelt, was greatly pained to hear of the death of Mark Twain. He said: "It is with sincere grief that I learn of the death of this great American author. He was unique, not In American Am-erican letters, but In the literature of . the world. ' "He was not only a great humorist but a great philosopher, and his writ- ings form one asset in American contributions con-tributions to the world of achievement J of which we have a rlrht as a nation I to be genuinely proud." In the pigskin library which Mr. Roosevelt carried through the Jungles j of Africa, were two of the late au- ' thor's books, "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawer," and Mr. Roosevelt says he rad both of them several times, and always with the greatest Interest. |