The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, August 27, 1919, Image 11
VOLUME XXXV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1919.6
(Continued from last week.)
The Washiniton Monument.
The memory of our first president is
kept green in many ways In the cap
ital of our country, and not the least
of these is the high obelisk known as
"The WasI algton Monument". This
memorial was begun in 18-18 by popu
lar subscription. The war between the
States interrupted its building and af
ter that, Congress appropriated money
for its completion. 'T'his monument is
555 feet high and one can make the
ascent by elevator or the 900 steps
around the side. We chose to go up
by the elevator. You take your
"turn" In seeing places and "first come
first served" is invariably the rule
there. So we took our places in the
waiting line at. the base of the ionu
ment and leaned our weary bodIes
against. the Phuge :;tones. One fellow
got very indignant when he tried to
crowd in and go up without waiting,
but the guard, who showed his Irish
origin, told him in no gentel tones, he
could wait his turn or go on his way.
He chose the latter, so I saw one man
that lid not go up the miominuenIt.
When we began to move slowly up
ward I'll be honest enough to admit,
that was one tri i I wished I had not
made, for like the old negro preacher,
I Iiough, while the cables creaked, of
"that blessed old terra cotta on which
we stand!" I didn't. enjoy that ride
uip one bit, but the view of the city te
paid r", coward though I was. We
looked out towards the city and it is
a checkerboard ai'raegemienit all right.
The autos an-l street cars looked like
the iilythtin:o that Sanhta ('laus brings
to good little ('hildren. I g:td''"e out to
ward the Pontomica and the hsun<lredIs of
-people" bathing; thereint lookled1 like
'mellow hut0'," that we used to watch
in the,' sprin 1, i'ranih. In the very top
of !h n"),1mument 5(s 10n oi an d soldiier'
with a tele'hlone ree('iver held to his
ear'. I shall always regret .I di.1 no'
ash the old mtan who he wa< tele hioIn
in. to! Now 1ust wouldn't y, 1 like! to
know There -were post carts tor
sale up there and the rcvene for them
went to ti" asyluum fo ' the hlluid in
the city. In all our sightseeing we
could look and se the ml( 1onument and
always there was the stream of hu
manity lined uip at the base waiting
their "turn" to go uip.
The Mruseumn.
I heard the little boy the other day,
while making "toad frog houses"
bin and all the words I remember,
ws was chanting that somebody or
something was "knocked-kneed, bow
legged, crippled and blind"! .1 sat
(lown and laughed,' for that was about
my state of physical being when I en
tered the M usueum and of all places
that surely is one that one would need
all our faculties-so much to see.
However, physical endurance has a
limit, so when I entered the portals of
that most wonderful building, with
statues of great men about, 1 (del1b
crately sat down and pulled off my
slippers to irest mty weary feet and
shut my eyes to all the grandeur of
the past andl prmesent andl told the party
to go on, I had at last met my Wa
ter'loo again! -While I sat wvith closedl
eyes I commutned wIth myself thusly:
WVhy In 'the wor'ld dlidn't we come here
first? Thero Is so much to see and
learn here. In this buiilding we go
back to the beginnitng of civIlization
and come on up, and hier'e I alt. too tired
to move or look. So I tell you ireaders
to p)roflt by my expem'ienice andl when
you go to Washington, go to the Mu
sotum first. T bethought myself if the
sp~lendlid speaches I htad boughit on my
.way down andi while resting I re
freshedl myself wvithi the dlelielouts
fruit. Feeling ver'y much revived I
put on my traveling shoes and sallied
forth. I saw an P~gyptiani Mumtmy that
lived with the Pharoah's of 10gypt. I
saw in glass cases the exact replica
tion of the famIlIes of the earth -the
Hlottentot, the Malay, the Filipino, the
l'sk imos, thle Intdians, all ini thei r tna
five surrtoumnditngs--so r'eah and~ so
Ife-like that I fancy I have b)en ini
far-away lands-the products of othi
er' lands andl coutries, t he. produicts of
our owvn land. One large hall being
given) ovei' to the minerals of these
great United States-coal, iroti, cop
per, silver', gold antI the beati ful
marbles from Vermont to Alabama, In
the first line we sawv the whale that
could have swallowed Jonah and
Jonah's whole family easily, if they
'hneotennn in m'neonf thnt mnonsfi'nni
S WASHINGTON 1
mouth-7S feet long that whale was,
and I reckon man got the idea of a
torpedo from the shape of a whale.
The denizens of the (deep ranged all
the way from the whale, the shark,
aligator and all the fishes down
To the minnow in the brook
'['hat. Tomy catCl 's With a hook!
All kinds of animals of all lands and
all climes are there-the great Afri
<ail collection of Roosevelt was there.
My, how I did wish for some little
boys I know when I gazed at the
grinning gorillas, monkeys, bears, and
elephants, and the birds; oh! the birds.
From the screaming eagle to the tiny
humming bird. And the snakes! You
felt so safe when you looked at them,
stuffed and in glass cases. The only
boys I saw while there were gathered
about the cases that held the snakes
from the deadly cobra and boa con
strictor of the tropics to the ones de
know. From the words they let Nil,
the old prophecy is still so "The seed
of the woman shall bruise the ser
pent's head."
Blefore we went out we rested a bit
in the hall where the statues of great
men are, and whose statue do you sup
pose I spied there, way hack in a
corner? 'There were two bronze
statues standing side by side, and says
I to myself, I'll see who you are
Farragut and Davis, I read. ,Ieff i)a
vis back In a corner in a museum! Yes,
,it was .leff )avis. I hunted u1p a
guard and asked him the pointed qtues
tion. Just l'efore we passed out a
gtard asked its had we seen the new
was pictures. 'T'hese are splendid, and
children of future generations will
have som('thing to look at worth while.
.\mong the imlividual hiroe.; w:is the
hlt tred face of the red-headed mouli
taineer hero, .\.lvin C. York, of 'l'e
liessee.
.\r ling'.! on.
I guess you t hink that, as ired as we
were when we left th. M.useum, sure
ly to our loardinmg place we went to
rest, hut. you are mistaken. Instead,
we invested in more fruit, (and let me
say here I never in all my life saw
as much fruit and such splendid qual
ity as greeted us every few steps in
Washington), bought tickts for Arling
ton and in a little while we found
ourselves alighting at a little station
and vntering the enclosure, Arlington,
our nat t eeptetery, once the proud
ancestral intme of R. E. Lee. The first
tomb-stone that greeted us had this
inscription: "lie was a gallant soldier
in the War of Rebellion". "I'm glad
Uncle John Finley is not with me," I
said to the others, as I read, "lie and
I might start an insurrection!"
Arlington, as all know, was the
home of Robert 1. Lee and is a beau
tiful mansion overlooking the Poto
mac. From its columed porch you
also, as at Mount Vernon, look out
aeross the l'otomac. Th. others sat
and rested in the porch. I couldn't,
but back and forth across its brick
floor' I hacod ahld tried to think the
thoughts that Lee thought as doubt
less he p~acedI on that same porch when
the war clouds gathered In '00. Surely
It mus have been about themi that he
uttered these words: "The sublimnent
word( in the EnTglish language is (duty."
1 leaned against one of the white col
timns and looked out across [lhe river'
towards WashIngton. The capitol is
oplainly seen and It 18 a beautiful
sight. I wondered, as I looked at the
two raiilroadI bridges, wvhich wvas the
01ne t hat the Fedieral trioops passed ov
cer at such rapid rate after' the. battlbi
of Manassas. As If in answer to nmy
thotughits there appiearedl thle I nevitale
tour aist party and1( the guaide megma
phonedl t hus: "'This biiling Is iirling
on, the home of the Confederate Ge>
eral, Robert l'. Lee. Th'le room on thle
left, as you enter is the room0 in .which
G;ener'al Lee married, lie inarried
.\ ary 'Curt is, thle grand-daughtei' of
M\artha \VashIngton, and1 shte inheriltedl
Arlington andI 1,100 acres of land.
"Ttradit ion says t hat (Gen. Lee iiaced(
hack and forthI ac ross the tuorchi for' 5
anys try intg to deide 11 w.hetherli h'le woul Id
:1'eept the tenderm of Commander-Itn
('hief of the Fedral army, I [owever',
as all know, lie cast his~ lot' with Vit'
gitia, his native state and~ the South,
Looking across the r'ivei' you see thie
two br'idges acrloss thet Pot omiac. TIhte
lowver one i.- thte 0one the tr'oops of
thie Feder'al army passed over In r'e
tt'eat fr'om Ilull Run.''
.1 thought of that ai'my that wvent so
gaily out followed by the elite of the
calinta in theitr "'noh nd six", to see
the raw recruits from the South
whiliped and put. to flight. Instead,
they came back in a panic-not a re
treat even--ant I could In my mind's
eye, see that fleeing hosit across that
illroad bridge. The volunteers from
Dixie made for themselves a place In
history that day--.
"Sons of the Sunny South
You did not die in vain;
For you .On the glorious victory,
And fell upon Manassas plain."
Arlington, the home of Lee, a na
tional cemetery' That never did sound
right to me. lerhaps one of the most
impressive sights that one sees is the
monument in which the hones of thous
ands of unknown dead were gathered
from one battlefield. Before the huge
marble box an old mant was Flipping
grass--green and vhite-and when
he finished, clear and distinct were the
words: "Unknown Dead". The thous
ands and thousands of lovely graves,
marked by monuments, great or sim
ple slabs, the beautiful flowers, the
we1ll-kept walks, silcnt. and untenant
ed, the great hall ; of the Lee man
sion, and above and over it all floats
the flag of our country, while the wa
ters of the Potomac sing a reiulem to
Our3' tnt ion's dead. I stood close by
the .pole from -which floats m1y coun
try's flag-on the spot where Lafayette
stood. It. Is said, as he gazed towards
the capitol, he made this remark to
those ,(who were with him: "Surely
there can be no prettier view han
this."
(To be coneh(tided.)
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Bristol, Tenn.-Va., Aug. 2: -Fifty
one great-grandhlildren, eigi ty-two
grandchildren and twelve enildren
survive Charles 1:. Folden, 78 years
old, and Confederate veteran who died
at hIs home at Glade Springs, Va., on
August 141, accordin1g to adivtces reC
ceIved1 here todlay. lie was united In
nmarilago to M\iss i!Gizabeth Annt
Franklin durling the second~ year of
the civil war anld at. tile age of 21
years.
Six grandsons alctedl as Ipallbearers,
whlel an eiqual unmber or grandl
dau~ghlters werIe the flower beaters.
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Valuable Farm Land
FOR SALE
Monday, Sept. 1st, 1919
We will sell at public auction on Saleday, Sept.
1st, at Laurens Court House, during the legal hours
of sale, the following property:
44 acres, known as the Lindsay home place, 1% Y
miles from Ora, S. C., on the main Laurens road.
188 acres, known as the old Lindsay farm, one
mile back of Mrs. Jane Craig's place on the Laurens
road.
This is good farm land, well located and is being
sold for division.
Terms of Sale: 10 per cent cash day of sale, 10
per cent Jan. 1st, 1920 when possession is given, and
balance Feb 8th, 1920.
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