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Show Burial in Royal Tomb Not for "Old Hickory" of us there to remain until the last trumpet sounds to rail the dead to Judgment, when we, I hope, shall rise together, clothed with the heavenly heav-enly hody promised to all who believe be-lieve In our glorious Redeemer, who died for us that we might live, and by whose atonement I hope for a blessed Immortality." I'erhaps Alexander Severus Is Just as well satisfied that the school children of a democratic land troop past his empty tomb without noticing notic-ing It. Emperor of Rome from 222 to 235 A. D., successor to the degenerate Ilellogabalus, who bad himself officially offi-cially created a god, he might have appreciated Andrew Jackson's emotional emo-tional outburst. He appears to ha 'e been somewhat of a skeptic regarding regard-ing the divinity of emperors and an open-minded boy despite his environment en-vironment of degeneracy. Ills brief reign Is chiefly distinguished distin-guished for his feeble efforts to better bet-ter the hard lot of the common people. peo-ple. He established government loan offices where they could borrow at low Interest to get them out of the clutches cf the "bankers." He did much to Improve the status of the common soldier of the Roman legions. le-gions. Christianity was making headway In Rome. The emperor was not a convert, but he neglected no chances to Improve his fate hereafter. He kept a private chapel with statues of Orpheus. Abraham, Apollo and Jesus, and paid equal homage to all of them. Washington Star. Washington possesses the tomb of Roman emperor. The strange box-like stone! structure struc-ture on the lawn of the Arts and Industries In-dustries building of the National museum, which visitors usually pass without noticing, was the occasion cf a dramatic Incident 00 years ago when It was first brought to Washington. Wash-ington. The tomb was secured by Commodore Commo-dore Jesse It. Elliott, commander of the frigate Constitution, which was' the flagship of the United States squadron In tthe Mediterranean In 18.'!!), from a hillside behind the city of Beirut, Syria. Although the evidence evi-dence was not such as would satisfy an archeologlst, Elliott believed it was the tomb of the Roman emperor, em-peror, Alexander Severus. He brought It back to Washington with him. A few years later. Andrew Jackson Jack-son was reported dying at the Hermitage, Her-mitage, near Nashville. Elliott had the happy, or unhappy, Inspiration to offer the tomb to Old IHckery as a last resting place. Jackson's reply Is one of the classics of American literature: "Although laboring under great debility and affliction from a severe attack from which I may not recover," recov-er," the dying man wrote the navy olficer, "I raise my pen and endeavor to reply. The steadiness of my nerves may perhaps lead you to conclude con-clude my strength Is not as great as here expressed. Strange as It may appear, my nerves are as steady as they were 40 years gone by, whilst from debility and affliction I am gasping for breath. "I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a depository prepared for an emperor or a king. My republican feeings and principles princi-ples forbid it. The simplicity of our system of government forbids it. Every monument erected to perpet-ate perpet-ate the memory of our heroes and statesmen ought to bear evidence of the economy and simplicity of our republican institutions, and the plainness of our republican citizens, who are the sovereigns of our glorious glori-ous union, and whose virtue Is to perpetuate per-petuate It. True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing gov-erning passions. It can only dwell with the people, the great laboring and producing classes, the form, the bone and sinew of our confederacy. "I cannot permit my remains to be the first in these United States to be deposited in a sarcophagus made for an emperor or king. I have prepared a humble depository for my mortal body beside that wherein lies my beloved wife, where, without with-out any pomp or parade I have requested, re-quested, when God calls me to sleep with my fathers, to be laid, for both |