The age-herald., 1902-02-02

eral Miles, so General Miles is head and shoulders taller than was Grant, who was one of the many small great men of his- tory.
 General Miles came to the southern ball in conventional evening dress and accompanied by his wife, beautifully dressed grayhaired and gracious woman. General Miles hair and mustache are en- trely white, and his face very rosy, as well as remarkably strong. Somehow his face suggests the eagle, an impression heightened by his hooked nose which is precisely of the type of great Wellington's nose as made familiar to us all in art. Seeing him, one ceases to wonder that he without military education should rise from the ranks to the chief command of the army.
 General Miles was one of the most genial and jovial, though withal dignifed men of the hundreds who attended the Southern ball. the object of which was to raise money for the needy and desti- tute old Confederate soldiers who fought against Private Miles in the early Cos One saw him jolly with the veteran Con- federates, Longstreet. Bate, Cockrell, Herbert, Bankhead. William Richardson, and others, and then one observed him as ne laughed and chatted almost fiirted, with dozens of beautiful belles of the ball. Wherever he moved he was Q gracious and engaging figure. He was especially gracious to General Lees daughter. Miss Lee, who though unwed- ded has a benign, one had almost writ ten matronly. bearing.
 Probably never before was that which is the best of the South so largely and so worthily represented in any one as- semblage as in this Southern ball in the national capital. So much of the dis tinctve and characteristic Southern charm was there as to stir to unwonted degree the pride and gratitude of even the most Southern of thoughtful Southern observers.
 It was history, poetry. art, beauty, chivalry and enlightenment, the whole, in one marvellous scene of surpassing nobil- ity and charm, entrancing to the eye and ennobling to the mind.
 Every Southerner of Southern pride might have wished the world to look upon that rare blossoming of the South, to look and behold something of that which constitutes the glory and the greatness of the Southern people. The Southerner would have been glad for the world to form final judgment of his people by what was there represented.
 The women of the South-Gods bless ings be upon them for ever! They are much of our religion, most of our worth iness-all of our world that is best and brightest, sweetest and lioiest. They tighten our burdens, strengthen our high CT purposes, and triple-arm us in faith and firm resolve that come what may come we will do the best we can do in love and ado-ation of them, guided by their gentle admonitions and hearing in their words of cheer the bugle notes of the blessed who are pure of heart and unspotted from the world!
 They did stanch the wounds of war minister to the fallen in strife, and lend to the brave double valor. They were the inspiration of the field and the soft voiced, deft-handed angels of the rude houses of heroic suffering. They wove the flags, polished the swords. gathered the food gave the blessing; and to the silent camping-grounds they have for a generation borne the flowers of love that shall not pass.
 Sweet and low, strong and tender, they have sung into the hearts of their daugh- ters the old song that has touched the world to melody. and catching the spirit of it the daughters sing on and remember and love, glad in their heritage and rejoicing in their own glad afterwhile of light and love and laughter. Rosy-lipped maidens of the new dawn of the new life. in their precious present they forget not their precious past. the glorifed past of their mothers. the wives and daughters Of brave men.
 l-- In that wonderful hall the Southern