The age-herald., 1902-02-02

Washington, February 1-(special.)- In spirit once more in lifes parade did meet the brave and fallen, when the Southern ball in the Nations capital the other night called together by the bugle of revelry thousand merrymakers, the towering of the two mighty forces which contended in battle of war until the mas tery of daring numbers overcame the valorous few.
 This event of m erriment, this scene of joy this coming together of lighthearted- ness and happiness is in the story of the nations unequalled and unsurpassable.
 It was thrilling to behold and is noble to contemplate; 1t was both grand and beautiful to observe and is happy to re- member; it was as a dream of spiritual and material granduer and is lofty in its splendid reality.
 Whoso saw the grandson of the illustri- ous battle-chief of the Southerners receive with the noble courtesy of his race the present successor of the silent man of war who refrained from demanding the stainless sword at Appomattox, witness ed scene so significant in the romance and the valor of mankind as to thrill the heart with its vast and enduring lesson.
 A Lee receiving the commander of the Union army in the sober raiment of the ballroom, within sight and sound of the glad dancers and in burst of the glad music that led them on beautiful wo- men of the South smiling joyously to beautiful women of the North, and men of either side of the one-time border line striving for tho gentle privilege of dancing with either fair Southerners or fair Northerners, all this was wondrous to historian, painter, poet, musician, lover!
 Two physical giants met when young Lee, the aristocrat and descendant of generations of commanding warriors, received General Miles, tho man of the mass of the people who had worked his way from private soldier to the proud place of commander-in-chief of the army.
 Young Leo is believed to be the largest Virginian of his day. He is neither fat nor lean: he is simply a giant of magnifi- cent mold, towering head above all other men about him, yet as laughing, rollicking and merryhearted as a manly schoolboy. His shoulders suggest some modern Atlas powerful to bear the earth an easy burden. His head, hands and feet arc relatively immense. He has just suffi- cient suggestion of corpulency to lend dignity to his bearing. His voice sounds like the suppressed notes of a deep-toned trumpet. His short-cropped hair is black, as is his short-cropped mustache. His forehead is high and his face round and ceaselessly smiling,
 As this Murmurerer looked at this man and spoke with him there was recalled story the tongue did not repeat. told by an Alabama gentlewoman to worshiping boyhood long ago. She had been telling her eager listener how, years before, she had met and talked with General Lee in Lexington, where he was then the head of a school for boys. Pausing suddenly the gentlewoman said solemnly
 'I was never deeply impressed with the true significance of man as made in the image of his Maker until saw General Lee"
 Brave and tender southern woman, many of whose kindred had died where Lee led-maybe her devotion to the cause that was then but memory colored her view of the person of the great command CT, but her words are in keeping with contemporary opinions of Lees time, and it is pleasing to remember and repeat her loving speech.
 General Miles is a man of splendid physical proportions, of superb appear ance. and of noble bearing. As he stood with the young Lee, head less tall in stature, one could not refrain from think ing of the physical comparison between him and his famous predecessor as gen. eral of the army. the great Grant who received the surrender of young Lees grandfather in Farmer McLeans house. near Appomattox, nearly seven and thirty years before
 As young Lee Is Q head taller than Gen.,