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Show LAFAYETTE. i Marquis de Lafayette, whose .full name, by the way. was Marie Paul Jean Rock Yves Gilbert Motier, will always remain a hero in the eyes of the American Ameri-can people. Other distinguished foreigners foreign-ers fought on the side of the colonists in the American revolution, but Lafayette Lafay-ette stood at the head, and his memory will ever be kept green in this country. So the purchase of the chateau in which he was born by patriotic Americans will be generally approved, more especially as it is to be restored and perpetuated as a memorial museum and home. It is the Uitentien of those who control the French hero fund to make the chateau a complement to Washington's home at i Mount Vernon. Records of the colonial days as -well as those of the present war are to be preserved there, and it will be made a home for orphans and 1 disabled soldiers. Lafayette was a pa triot in France as well as a warrior for liberty on this side of the Atantic ocean, and had be been ambitious might have risen tb the dizzy heights of power attained by Napoleon. But he was ; honest and good as well as great. a.nd , never sought that kind of glory. That , is why his fame increases with the lapse of time. |