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Page Two The Gold Hill News. Gold Hill, Oregon ARLINGTON .SACRED SHRINE OF AMERICAN DEVOTION ON MCMORIAL DAY ★ ★ * ★ By ELMO SCOTT WATSON An Historic Marriage. THIS WEEK thin ks about: George Washington Parke Custis he was continually under her guid ance and Influence or under the In struction of his famous adopted fa ther. Perhaps no other American boy ever had better advantages offered him than young Custis had in his day. As a child he met all of the great men who had taken part In the American Revolution, and when Washington became President he was taken with him to live In New York and later to Philadelphia. In both places he frequently came In contact with the builders of the re public. as well as the most cultured and retired element with which the first President continually surround ed himself. He was educated along the most practical lines in the best schools of his day, forming the foundation for his subsequent taste for art and literature, and equipping him as well for the speaker’s platform, which he delighted in filling In aft er years. Following the death of his grand mother, he made his home for two years with his sister, who had mar ried MaJ. Lawrence Lewis. In 1802, In anticipation of his own marriage to Mary Lee Fitzhugh he began building Arlington mansion, or Lee mansion, as It later was called. To this house, designed after the Tem ple of Theseus in Athens, Greece, he brought his slxteen-year-old bride In 1804 and for the next half century the "Sage of Arlington,” as he be came known, wag a leading figure In the life of the national capital. There were few men of nofp whom lie did not know and few men who did not know him. He was popular with the people of Washington for whose entertainment he generously threw the grounds of his pstate open. They were glad to take advan tage of his hospitality even though he was regnrded as something of an eccentric character. R elics o f th e W a s h in g to n s Arlington house became the re pository of a large and Interesting collection of relics of the Washing tons which were given to him by his doting grandmother, or fell to his lot In the final division of the household goods or which he pur chased from less affluent posses sors. These Included among other things the bed In which Washing ton died and the tent which had sheltered him during the Revolu tion. The latter was often pitched on the Arlington lawn for the awed admiration of residents of George town and Washington who were everly h il l s , c a l if .— Practical Selassie Snake killed One Inch Find of the Gun? I A little more than a year later a young officer in the Virginia col onial troops, who had distinguished himself at Braddock’s defeat, came a-woolng the Widow Custis. His name was George Washington and he and Martha Dandridge Custis were married on January 6, 1759. Washington grew passionately fond of his two step-children and when Martha Parke Custis died on June 19, 1773, at the age of seven teen he was almost heart-broken. Meanwhile her brother, John Parke Custis, had become deeply smitten with the charms of Miss Eleanor Calvert, second daughter of Bene dict Calvert of Mount Airy, Md„ a descendant of Lord Baltimore. His marriage took place in Feb ruary, 1774. At the beginning of the Revolu tion young Custis promptly offered his services to his country and as an aide to Washington lie served with distinction down to the siege of Yorktown. There, however, he contracted camp fever and before the surrender took place he was forced to leave his post. He was re moved to the home of his uncle. Colonel Bassett, at Elthara where he died on November 5, 1781, leav ing his young widow and four small children. This second blow was almost as great a one to Washington as the death of Martha Parke Custis had been. He immediately adopted as his own the two younger children, Eleanor Parke Custis und George Washington Parke Custis. who were taken to Mount Vernon and placed in the care of Mrs. Lund Washlng- BRISBANE M ussolini Goes Through F TH ERE is one place in the United States toward which, more than to any other, the hearts of Americans turn on Memorial Day, it is Arlington national cemetery in Virginia. There the first Memorial Day exercises were held on May 30, 1868, after Gen. John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of t he Grand Army of the Republic, had is sued his historic "Order No. 11,” setting aside this day each year for honoring the Civil war dead. The principal speaker on this occasion was Gen. James A Garfield, later president of the United States, and at that time was inaugurated the custom of honoring the Unknown Dead, Arlington House, Built by George as well as those whose names ton, whose husband was managing are known. For the principal the general's property at that place. ceremony at that first Memorial When permanent peace came and Day celebration was decorating Washington again took up his resi with flags and flowers a monu dence at Mount Vernon he and Mrs. Washington assumed Intimate and ment that had been erected to active care of the two children, who the memory of 2,111 unidenti proved of much comfort to them In fied dead found on the fields of their declining years. Bull Run and the route to the Why Named “Arlington” Rappahannock. In 1796, what are now the Arling There, in 1921, was entombed ton lamia were allotted by the court the Unknown Soldier of the to the legal representatives of John Parke Custis who had died Res World war, to give the nation tate. By the law of primogeniture its most precious shrine. the estate descended to Washing And there, as a crowning to n s namesake, George Washing glory, has been erected the mag ton Parke Custis, It was G. W. P. Custis who named it Arlington, aft nificent amphitheater of classic er the Custis ancestral home In design in which the President Northampton county on the eastern of the United States on each shore of Virginia. Memorial Day speaks to the na George Washington Parke Custis tion and for the nation in pay had an Interesting career. From the time he was six months old until ing tribute to its soldier dead. the death of his grandmother. Mar Truly this is hallowed ground tha Washington, on May 22, 1802, and Arlington is a hallowed name. Rich in sentiment, Arlington is also rich in tradition and in historic association. Its story goes back to the year 1669 when Sir William Berkeley, royal governor of Vir ginia, "by authority of King Charles II, by the grace of God and by the discovery of John Cabot,” granted to Robert Howser. a sea captain, 6,000 acres of land, including the present site of Arlington, for bring ing settlers to Virginia. Howser is said to have sold his grant the very same year to the Alexander family for six hogsheads of tobacco. But they do not seem to have taken advantage of what was obviously a good bargain until 1735 when John and Gerald Alexander asserted title under the grant made 66 years pre viously and their title was sus tained. On Christmas day of 1778 Gerald Alexander sold two tracts on the Potomac to a certain John Parke Custis. One of these tracts, embrac ing 1,100 acres and Including the present national cemetery, brought 11,000 pounds sterling in Virginia currency. John Parke Custis was the son of Col. Daniel Parke Custis who had married seven teen-year-old Martha Dandridge, the reigning belie of Williamsburg, then the leading city in the Old Dominion. Daniel Parke Custis died in the spring of 1757, leaving besides his widow and their two children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis, an estate valued at more than $100,000. s:« Thursday, May 21, 1936 Mussolini's men entered Addis Ababa, driving out the Ethiopian looters, bring tug safety to vari oua foreigners, In cluding our own minister. Rome went wild with Joy; and no wonder. In seven month* Mussolini has con q u e r e d Ethiopia** millions, killing and wounding 256,666 of them, m a r c h i n g a t e n d 11 y ahead through «lungerou* valleya and h i g h mountains, driving A r t h u r llr U lm n » out the Ethiopian armies, that were directed by skilled soldier* from Turkey, Scandinavia and elwwliere. Washington Parke Custis on His Estate, Now Arlington National Cemetery. ferried across the Potomac to at tend the annual sheep-shearing fes tivals which Custis held, since the breeding of merino sheep was one of his hobbles. A barbecue was the reward of those who attended these festivals and "an oration by Custis was the penalty"—at least, that Is the way one of hla descendants put It Although he was one of the wealthiest men of his day, Custis was often hard pressed for ready cash, tin one occasion he asked the bank to defer payment of a note for S65 and In 1831 he applied to the Bank of the United States for a Ioan of $12,666 In order to finance a trip to France. There he proposed to go to obtain from Lafayette all of his Revolutionary war papers and his personal recollections of Washington for a book on "The Private Memoirs of the Life and Character of Washington” which Custis proposed to write. Besides aspiring to be the biogra pher of his adopted father, Cuatls also had ambitions as a painter, a poet and a playwright As the lat ter he wrote such productions as "Launch of Columbia, or “Our Blue Jackets Forever." “National Dream of Pocahontas, of the First Settlers of Virginia,” and an operetta called "The Railroad.” "Pocahontas” was played In Charleston and Columbia, 8. C., and "The Railroad" was pro duced at the Old National theater In Washington and also ran for seven nights In Baltimore. go with Ida state when It left th* Union, although It meant the sacri fice of everything which he held dear. On April 22, 1801, Col..... 1 and Mrs. Lee left Arlington for Rich mond, where he Immediately en tered the military service, first of Virginia and later of the Confed eracy. From the date of their de parture Arlington was occupied only by servants and soon afterwards a force of Union trm>i>s commanded by Colonel Helntzelman took charge of It. First Burials B Those Impressed by the high quali ties of Ethiopia’s Arab slave-trading ruler will note that in the great crisis Ms prewnee of mind remained. The Associated Press gays be took with idm on the British boat "the Imperial family Jewels, many eases of gold bul lion and gold coins." (in hla way from Addis Ababa to the British ship he stopped to take all the cash from the treasury and customs house at Dlredawa. In Florida, a well-meaning preacher, who thought It his duty to let ra ttle snakes bite him to show the power of God. actually did let the Minkes hits him without first removing their fangs. He Is dead, the Jury said, "by the bits of a rattlesnake through hla own care I lessness.” The poor fanatic succeeded only In | proving the power of rattlesnake not- | so«. The laws of the universe could j hardly be suspended to Justify the whim of one well meaning fanatic. The more I jHmtlcr on Ita ly ** sacrifices in E thiopia, as balanced against w hat she gain*, the more Em reminded of the old story o f the Confederate who was released from a northern prison camp after the surrender. Skeleton thlu from Jail fever and debility, he started on tot tery legs for the Ohio river, deter mined to die on southern soli. One night this poor rack-u’-bonea crept Into a haymow. Nest morn ing, early, the hired tuan heurd auspicious sounds In the loft and ran for reinforcements. Presently, the excup- tlve's refuge was sur rounded by stalwart, armed men. The farm er's six-foot son lev eled a cocked musket. “ Come out of ¡bar. whoever you tie,” In, Irvin 8. Cobb bellowed. ■'(.: o n s a r n your hide, we got you.” The southerner rulsed a white face. “Yas," lie aalil, wanly, "and one b—I of a git you got." • • • Hla Next Movie, ••artlng a new picture, and » » I am teamed up with .Slim Sum merville, (1 feet 6 of pure comedy, mid little Jane Withers for her age, the greatest arene-stealer In the business. It's ns though Little Boy Blue were anmlwlched In between Jesse James nnd Calamity Jane. Well, ns 1 go down for the third time I'll ptlll bo gurgling feebly, so give me credit, please, as an earnest gurgler. They rail our picture "Public Nuis ance Number I." but a movie la liko an Indian—starts out with a name and winds up with anyone of a half dozen. I once knew a Blackfoot who was first one thing, then another, and the beet he could do for himself In hla old ago was to be known as Chief Many Tall Feathers Going Over the Hill. \ A Z , ,lE After the first battle of Rull Run, McDowell’s army entrenched Itself on Arlington Heights; the mansion was occupied by officers, soldiers were encamped on Its grounds and two strong forts were built there for the defense of Washington. Aft- er Hie battles of the Wilderness, Quartermaster Gen. M. C. Meigs or- dered burial at Arlington for all soldiers dying In the military hospi tals In and around Washington. The official records of such burials be Pranks of Zlonchsck. It makes a difference, even to the gin with May 13, 1884, so Arlington No. 1 Public Enemy, "I'll never be tak- * I 'H E palters st-euied So barren—not hag been a burial place of soldier en-allve" bandit, which way the gun Is a single front page story about dead for nearly three-quarters of a pointed. Mr. Knrpls Is taken, much Representative Zlonche.k, Washing unknow n n° « " ' M 1*- '«-y«nd iw M tag ton's No. 1 Boy Scout. Life, Indeed, w.c, p r " I b’" " " 'r,,w hat 0Ver hl" '« baffle pho- Is empty on a day whose low descend tween the Potomac and the Itnppa- tographers. ing sun sees no gay deed done, no bannock, were relnterred In Arling headline won by the nation's official ton it brought the total of Civil Much efficiency in ensh rewards; problem child. war burials there to 16,666. He may have »farted off at the foot Dllllnger defied all the “O men"; a re As for the process by which Ar ward was offered, and a rcd-hnlred of the ladder, alphabetically speaking, lington became a national cemetery, lady delivered him to the "O men" bui but his startled constituents can't com it came about in this w ay: In 1862, lets, and got $3,666. plain that the gallant lad stayed there by act of congress, a property tax Either he's getting pinched or getting W riter of Melodrama was levied In all the states for the Whether the $7,666 reward offered Jailed or getting married or getting hl* “Pocahontas" was criticized as be conduct of the war. This tax totaled for Karpls tempted some friend of pen In hand to tell the President how ing too melodramatic and Custis $92 for the Arlington property, and, that courageous one remains to be to run the country, or getting ready to wrote to a friend: "Melodrama Is all since It was unpaid, the property seen. polish off some fellow statesman of the the go now, and even In historical was ordered sold on January 11, house, or Just getting about. plays you must sprinkle show and 1864. The government was empow And hasn't he put the throbbing The criminal Is In business for mon pageant and things to please the ered to bid the property in nnd to ey, nnd when he can sell a friend for pulse Into the Congressional ReconlT senses as well as the Judgment. . . . use it for educational and military $5,066, that seems preferable to risk It reads now sometimes as the old The play Is in London In the hands purposes. The price paid was $26,- Ing his own life. The reward system Police Gazette used to. of Washington Irving and John 806. • • • should be extended; $5.666 reward for Howard Payne, who will under their In 1877 George Washington Custis evidence resulting In arrest and con Rules for Olympics. able auspices bring It out on the Lee brought suit In circuit court vlcton of any murderer. London stage. If successful there, 2k 8 I understand it - and somebody for the ejectment of persons living why, I may be considered here as * * correct me, please, If I'm wrong— on the estate. The federal govern something of a dramatist." The Curnegle Institute announces a the rules for the forthcoming Olympic ment had rented out parcels of land But If Custis never became known to small fanners, while on one cor “new law of m atter” having to do with Games In Berlin have been so revised as "something of a dramatist.” he Is ner of the property a village of the "cohesion of Infinitesimal purtlcles that It will be quite nil right for any of our Jewish athletes to take p o r t - remembered for many other reasons. nearly 1,060 persona had grown up. of matter within the atom.” One of them Is the fact that It was If It were not for that law, accord just so they don't win. Ix-e won his case In the lower court, In big mansion on June 36, 1831, that Pm wondering, though, about what and In 1882 the Supreme court up ing to scientists, “the universe would his only daughter, Mary Ann Ran held the verdict. The government consist of nothing hut light hydrogen may happen when the American team dolph Custis, was married to a then had made Itself a party to the gas.” That should Interest politi turns up over there with a whole batch young lieutenant In the engineers suit, and following the handing cians, who, after the big conventions, of negro foot-racers In the outfit It's will live, until November, In a universe going to he awfully hard to convince consisting of something lighter than a Prussian crowd that they're merely “light hydrogen gas.” me<llum-to-wei|-d»no Nordic-Caucasian Block browned In the pan, no to speak. It so happen* that our fastest run England's new king. Edward the Eighth, is said to be engaged to marry ners arc nil colored boys. Perhaps tls the Princess Alexandrine Louise of Just as well. They may have to keep Denmnrk, twenty-one years old, the right on running. English king's third cousin. Improvement In Influenza. The uncle of the young Indy says he nnd her father know nothing of It. YN RESPONSE to large numbers who Nevertheless, It Is difficult to believe 1 wrote or wired, I would state that that King Edward will remain a hnche- cither I'm getting over my Influenza, lor, whether he marries thia charming or maybe I’m Just getting used to It. young princess or some other, possi Its Intent whimsical notion wa* to set bly a good healthy young Scotch girl, tle In both ears, and now should It thunder, a rare occurrence out here, If one avullnhle could he found. In order for nje to get the benefit of Dr. Waller Emerson Briggs, who the phenomenon, It'll have to thunder teaches dentistry In Tufts college, says agnln—and louder. However, being "women can take any kind of pain temporarily deaf has Its advantages: I don't hear the dull things other peo without a whimper." Women endure pain more courage ple say, but can still enjoy the bright ously than men. Childbirth has taught things I guy myself. As will be noted, I'm hack from them to suffer nnd endure In Isolation. Man shows his heroism preferably In Palm Springs, where I cooked In the crowds, In squadrons, platoons; often desert sunshine until all I needed Io do he would not do that If It did not before being served was to drape a take more courage to slay behind alone sprig of watercress across my brow and thicken the gravy with a llttie than to go ahead with the others. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington. Women's Is the courageous sex, man brown dour. Driving In, I kept tying corps of the United States army. down of the Supreme court decision, Is the other kind and might ns well up the traffic; so many motorists mis took my face for n stop signal. His name was Robert Edward Lee it agreed to pay Lee the $150,060 admit It. Should I relapse I’m going to try to and through that marriage the name he asked as a compromise. Tills The only certain Immortality Is rep of another famous Virginia family sum was appropriated by congress resented by our children left behind to throw myself Into the epizootic. That's became linked with Arlington. a horse disease, but I've been ns sick and turned over to Lee. work on this earth. It must lie of The approaching storm of civil After the close of the Civil war great Interest to provide a child to fill ns n horse and had to be as strong as war greatly troubled the mind of the Arlington house, or the Lee mansion a throne and rule the world's greatest a horse to live through It—and, any master of Arlington but he did not how, I know n good horse doctor. as It became known because of its empire—whether or not it lasts. live to see It break. He died on Oc IRVIN 8. COBB, association with the great leader tober 16, 1857. copyrlxht.— WNII Service. of the Lost Cause, remained a de Two misguided Mexicans decided to Custis had bequeathed the Arling serted mansion. In recent years, ring bells of the ancient tnlRslon church Ouch ton House estate of 366 acres to however, It has been restored anil at Juarez, Mexico, to celebrate the "Yon say yours is the perfect hus- his daughter and at her death to completely furnished with original nomination of a National Revolutionary her eldest son, George Washington pieces of furniture, or faithful re candidate for governor of Chihuahua. band?" exclaimed the first woman. "Yes,” retorted the other, "but my Custis Lee. Colonel Lee obtained productions of them and contempo The pious ladles of Juarez thought leave from the army to go to Arling rary articles so that a visit to It those old bells should not be rung definition of a husband Is 'a man who ton to settle the Custis estate and takPs one hack to the days when the for any revolutionary candidate, and It takes his wife for granted, thinks during his brief stay there brought * Sage of Arlington" ruled there and became necessary for troops to rescue having meals on time one of the most order out of the chaotic conditions gave the hand of his daughter In the bellringers from the Infuriated Important things In the world, won Into which It had fallen In the last marriage to the man who was des women, giving a good imitation of ders why she complains about picking days of Custis’ life. up after him and can't he made to un tined to become one of the greatest Euripides man-hunting Bacchne. It was at Arlington that Lee derstand It actually takes money for captains of all time. When women start they mean IL made his momentous decision to a woman to keep looking present ® Western Ne<vspxp«r Union. © King F*«t<ir«g flynriicate. Ina. able."—Cincinnati Enquirer. WNU Service»
