The daily Alaskan., 1912-09-25
ALMIGHTY WARRIOR
General Dumas Was a Colossus
 In Size and In Heroismt
HIS AMAZING FearsloF ARMS.

 The Hereulesn Fs.hsr oftths Famous
 Novelist Had the Strength of Sam
 son and the valer ote ttorstius--siis
 Son Was . Chip Of thes Old Block.
 General Alcxandre Damas, the ia ther of the celebrated French novelist. | was mulatto of berctnctn bssild. who was renowned as tremendous tighter \ and as man of marvellous bodily strength
 It is generally believed that he was the model from which his son drew the character of Porthcs in the Three ] Guardsmen"-;he sometimes vaingic- rious sometimes heroic but always iovaoIe rorthos
 Of the recsle-Ssness and daring of General Dursas there, can be DO doubt. and evidently fear to him was an abso- iuteiy unknown quardity. -I had long ] thought the feats ot arms sascribed to nim in La veudee. Italy. and Egypt rather spocryphaL too gcodsto be true writes M Jules Claretie in French paper. 'sThey seered to combine In one the tours de foice ofiPorthos and the escapades of Cbicot. But oue day when l had promised to write q short life of the man his, grandson put Into my hands all the Pgypers rysating to the soldiers career. and ! then saw that had before me sa real epic. describing sequence of glorious actions of un- doubted authenticity. "It was. for example. established by official documents that General Dumas. standing solitary, colossus. at the end of the bridge of Bytxen. In the Tyr ol. did. ike aoc,r1ius of old, dispute the passage ot IL with a cloud 'of Aus 1rians. whom he- sabersJ and shot one after the other until ne had broken hls sword and used his last cartridge. and that he then did convert the body of an eue1ny into-a brItiering ram.
 Again. at the theater one day he was ia a box'with.a Esdy who had won his affections when a ,gentlemnu-of the court. pointing at him. remarked to the lady. So. marcliioness. you have got your negro here At which the mulat. 10. without word seized the man by his cellar. lifted him frou his seat and threw him across the footlighIs on to the srage.
 His son inherited the 'fat1Ier's mus cleS Travelmg one year in the south of France for the sake Of collecting some amusing impressions he came to A hviCnon by diligence withsthe inter- rion of enjoying the we'll known view of the silhouette of the papai palace. The diligence. on stopping. was sur rounded by porters. who tried to clutch the travellers luggage. Dumas insist ed on carrying his own vaiise. and this provoked some insoIeut remarks from the porters.
 Hook, said one. at the big lout who won't let poor fellow earn iivingr
 .What's.so astonishing in thatr re- piled another. He's nigger. Nature intended him for drudge
 -.Tne son did not hesitate to initiate his fathers example. He put down his valise. seized one of the porters- took hlm by the waist. carried him to the parapet of the bridge and held nm out over the river. saying:
 ".Gfve me your word that you are not the assassin of Marshal Brunei
 Marshal Bruue was assaSsinated at AYisnou. in the white terror. 1915. "T? But. monsieur
 
 "'Swear. tell you. that you didrnot nssaSsfnate Marshal Brune or will throw you into the Rhoneg .lyr, mans face became as white'as stsee [. and he gasped out;
 "'I twill swear, monsieur, by austhe saints | dld not assassinate' him.
 ..ATl right said Dumas. and he throw the wretched man oa to the bridgs took up his valise and went.on his ws,y. smiling. leaving the porters gaspiDg with wonder.
 ..To return to the old general. he'was coming back from Egypt when hisiship ! was surrounded by some Eugtsh.ves- 1 sels.
 ".Fssht to the last was the order. and when shot and shell are exhausted blow up the ship sky high
 "An very we'll but he'could swim and others couldn't. To equalize mat ters Dumas got two cannon balls. put them into his pockets and said with laugh;
 Now shall go all the quicker to . the bottom.
 But 1t was not to be He was taken prisoner and thrown into foul dun. : geou at Naples from which he only . emerged with his health shattered and his magnificent strength dwindled to the vanishing point"
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