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Show intii f itrriiVtt jm ,,j "1 K ' AtK au z&fti&mU J 'Vv wwfc s' r ' 1 '1 i4 . THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Chief Red Tomahawk Inspects a Field Gun I i t iiTRAXPai& '.Hcxti? or mrzrzs In pacing him is memory Is preserved In honor. many ways in the college at I.exing ton, Vu., which bears his name and of which lie became prcs'dent In the later years of his life; in the marble figure which stands In Statuary hall in the National Capitol at Washing ton; and in ttie preservation of hit home Arlington" as a national memorial and a last resting place for North lias Joined South 1 1 Chief Red Tomahawk, Sioux, said to have slain Sitting Bull, the leader of the Indians at the Custer massacre, Inspecting one of the latest three inch field guns at Fort Myer, Va. The venerable red man was equally impressed and mystified by the modern war tools. lie wus the guest of General Suinmerall, chief of staff. eighty-year-ol- d Lava From Vesuvius in Its Destructive March our soldier dead. By ELMO SCOTT Recently a new memorial has been added to the list and it is singularly appropriate that this should be done in the centennial year of his entrance into the service of Ids country. For on Januaiy 10, the anniversary of his birth, this year the announcement was made that William Alexander chapter of t lie United Daughters of Hie Confederacy in Connecticut had purchased Stratford hail aDd the plantation of 1,222 acres, where Iee was born, spent Ids boyhood years, to be preserved as a national memorial and administered by the Robert whose advisory E. Lee foundation, board includes prominent men In the North ns well as the South. That the movement to preserve Stratford hull as a Lee national memorial originated in a New England state and that it lias the backing of North as well as the South is significant of the fact that ttie partisanship of 150 years ago no longer denies him t he right to lie regarded ns a great American, nor denies t lie enshrining of his memory in the hearts of all his countrymen. The romantic Interest attached to ttie establishment of this latest memorial to Lee was told in the following news Item which appeared at the time of the Stratford hall purchase last January: WATSON hundred years ago July 1, 1S20 there was graduated from the United States Military academy at West Ioint. N. V., a class of 40. The man who stood first was Charles Mason of New NIC York. He became a second lieutenant in the en- gineers' corps, sened as assetant professor at the academy until ISfil when lie resigned from the academy. Then he praticed law in New Yuk, Wisconsin and Iowa, and his career as an attorney ended in Washington in 1SS2. Toe man who stood second in the class of 1S20 was a young Virginian named Robert E. I.ee. After his graduation lie became assistant engineer in the construction of what was known as Fortress Monroe in his e state. In IS.47 he was oidered to the western frontier and for many years lie served his country far from Hie banks of the Potomac, where stood his beloved ttie Arlington, home of his childhood playmate, Mary t'ustis, and his own home after their marriage in 1S31. During the Mexican war Uapt. Robert E. Lee became successively Major Lee, Lieutenant Colonel Lee and Colonel Lee, aud General Scot t declared that lie wus the best soldier lie had ever seen in the field. In lsr2 the second man in his class" came hack to West Point as IN superintendent and Hint position lie held until 1S33. Visit the office of General Smith, the superintendent at West Point today, and among the soldiers who look down at you from their portraits on ttie walls is tills handsome young Virginian. In 1SC1 the guns of Port Sumter shattered the hopes of a peaceful settlement of the differences between the North and the South. Lee was recalled from Texas to Washington and General Scott offered the soldier he had praised so highly the command of the Union army that was about to be put into ttie field. And to Robert E. Lee, pacing back and forth on the veranda of historic Arlington as he sought to make his greatest decision, must have come the words of Ids father, Hie famous "Light Ilorse Hurry" Lee of Revolutionary war fame: "Virginia is my country. Her will I obey, however lamentable the fate to which it limy subject me. So this was Lees answer to Scott, as he sent in his resignation from tire army, Save in defense of my native state, I never again desire to draw na-ti- I 1 J j I 4 t I i I 1 I 3 5 I ' ! f i i j my sword. Then Virginia seceded from the Union and Robert E. Lee put on the Confederate gray. Within a year he proved that another name had been A New Valuation The awanl offered for ttie most originul social innovation is claim'd by the friends of Col. Milialy ArnnVy-Interrniein- of Budapest, says the I s Living Age Tlie plan is to strap the conventional and coiutnonpiaee salutations of good morning and good evening," frequently tittered without feeling or genuine sincerity, an substitute a newer and more expressive go il-- ep 1 iXS'Smruzwuj. capitol added to the list of great American A captains. distinguished English Viscount Field Marshal general. isited the Confederate Wolseley, army in 1NG2 and years afterward lie wrote: Every Incident of that visit Is Indelibly stamped on my memory. All he said to me then and during subsequent conversations Is still flesh in my recollection. It Is natural it should be so, for he was the able: t general, and seemed to me the greatest man I have ever conversed with, and yet I have had the privilege of meeting Von Moltke and Prince Bismarck. General Lee was one of the few men who Impressed and awed me with their Inherent greatness Forty yeais have come and gone since our meeting and yet the majesty of hts manly bearing, the genial, winning giace, th sweetness of his smile, and the Impressive dignity of hts st le of dress, come back to me among II is my most cherished recollections greatness made me humble, and 1 never felt iny own Insignificance more keen! He than I did in his presence. was, Indeed, a beautiful character, and of him it might truthfully be written, In righteousness did he judge and make war. . . . ... Such was the loader of t he Lost Cause whose military career came to an end in April, lSOo. Then (and this tribute is from an editorial in the New York Times) General Lee, who hated war and opposed secession, and yet for reasons highly creditable to his character seceded with ids state and led the Southern troops to battle, stated the Confederate cause with perfect truth and simplicity, saying: After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the army of northern Virginia has been forced to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. No commander on the other side, no historian, whatever his prejudices, lias ever disputed the accuracy of those statements. As time has cleared away the prejudices and hatreds engendered li.v the Civil war, more and more have all Americans come to a realization of the greatness of Robert E. Lee and phrase, adapted without variation to all hours of the day or night. If tlie new plan Is carried out, when acquaintances greet each other, one will claim, soulfully, "Better future, and ttie ottier will respond with emotion, God givei" Properly Designated Colorado is called tlie Centennial state hpniuse it was admitted to tlie Union in INTO, tlie centennial anal versary ol the Declaration of Inde pendence. Purrhasa of the Lee estate marks the first step In the plan sponsored by the William Alexander Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy to make the place not merely a shrine, but a living national educational memorial and a center of historical research," according to Miss Ethel Armes, of the William Alexander chapter. of the sale, on the Announcement anniv-rsar- y of General Lees birth, and the 20litli anniversary of the building of histeitc Stratford Iml!, marks the fulfillment of a determination born of a dramatic story starting in Grecn-wkConn, nearly a ear ago Mrs Charles D Lanier of Greenwich, head of tne William Alexander chapter, while going through an old broken Sidmother-in-laMrs, desk of her ney Lanier, widow of the poet, came upon a penciled manuscript by I.anler, unpublished and until then not known to exist, which tuined out to be a Maspeech he made before citizens of con, Ga , in H70 upon the death of General Lee in which he urged the of a memoi.al to honor Lee, to which every peion who loved the southern leader could ccntiibuto The folloAlng day Mis. Limit r received a letter from a friend visiting In Virginia, describing a trip to Stratford lull and asking why It could not be preserved The same day Mrs Lanier called a meeting of her chapter which resulted tn the passage of resolutions looking to the purchase of ttie tract. The deed of purchase was signed at Stratford hall by tne owners, Mr and Mrs. Charles E Stuart, after seven months' Front of a river of hot lava moving slowly but Irresistibly from the crater of Mount Vesuvius, In its wake. The torrent is nbout to devour a house. WORLD STILL FLAT leaving King Fuad Visits Von Hindenburg h, negotiations. Miss Armes set forth the purposes the Robert Ik Lee memorial foundation, now being formed to operate similarly to the Mount Vernon association, as being fourfold: To purchase, retare and furnish the home; to restore the famous old library, make of tt a center of research and to establish scholarships; to restore the colonial gardens, the Stratford wharf on the Potomac and teproduce some of the boats which two centuries ago were tied there; and to perpetuate the Ideals and character of the Lees, chiefly by historical studies. Stratford was the gift of Queen Caroline, w ife of King George II, to It was members of the Lee family. the home of Richard Henry and Francis Llghtfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence; of "Light Horse Harry" Lee and other generations of the family Prior to the Revolutionary war it was a gathering place for Virginia leaders and the origin of much of the sentiment for of Earliest Use of Iron Specimens ot iron have been found In Assyrian und Egvptinn rums, lu tlie British museum there is a piece ot Iron believed to date from about 4000 B. C. In tlie Black Pyramid of Ahuslr. at leust JOOO B C Gaston Mn'pero found some pieces ol Iron, and in the funeral text of Tepl I (about HUH) B ('.) He metal was mentioned. The knowledge of Iron spread from the south to the north of Europe, and one theory l that IroD brst came Into use in ALica. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, head of Zion near Chicago, photographed on his return from a trip to Iulestine. He still insists that the world Is a flat disk at tlie center of which Is what we call the North pole. City, HELEN IN STOCKINGS King Fuad of Egypt (left) and President Von Hindenburg of Germany meeting in Berlin where the king visited for several days. Roman Relic From Lake Nemis Bottom Helen Wills, wearing stoikmts, irevv all the crowds Hut could puck Hie si. mds about the No. 1 Wimble don court ns she won her first round ii, itch in the British tennis champion ships from Tommy Tomidin, Queens club player. G 0. 6 0. Nenii the Italian scientists who are bringing up from the bottom of Roman galleys that were sunk In tlie time of Caligula have recovered some interesting ti ensures. Above is a bronze wolfs head with a ring In the mouth. |