The reception of the Major in Paris on Thursday was,
if possible, even more enthusiastic, but his speeches there were much more guarded and more formal. He bore himself, how- ever, with great dignity, and as he drove through the streets in an open victoria he saluted the vast crowds in quite princely fashion. The Daily News correspondent notes that during the ovation in the streets she did not hear a single cry of "Vive la Republique !" or even of "Viva la France !" Nothing was audible but the universal shout of "Vive Marchand !" Mrs. Crawford also notes, however, that every now and then little gangs of apparently hired roughs tried to raise the cry of "Vive Deroulede !" Among the half-delirious attempts to raise Major Marchand to the necessary height of glory, we note one in particular. Statements have been made in the Presi as to Marchand's goodness to his younger brothers, and as to how his scanty and hardly earned pay was sent home 'to educate them. Yet he is a very stern brother. France always remem- bers the other stern young officer who spent his pay to educating his brothers.
