Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-22

General Lee was as kind boo,+o,
he was brave. One day he mot oon,
Ing 70 the rear, gallant Georgian
whose right arm was badly shattered
grleve for you, my Door follow ),
sald the Kind hearted chief. Scan T
90 anything for youY' Yes. sir, ro
plled the brave boy, with a proud
smile; you can shake hands with poa
general, II you will consent TO tako
my left hand General Lee cordia1Iv
'srasped the boys hand and snent Some,
minutes with him, speaking all man
ner OF KIND words. The feeling of adj
mlration for him was so sincere ths+
one night when a company of soldiers
was discussing atheism one of the MOI,
exclaimed, well, boys, the rest of rs
may have developed from monEors
but tell you none less than Cod
could have made such a man as Rob
ert e. Lee
mere Is notable case of General
Lees magnanimity as related in the
Youths Companion:
lie was sitting on the veranda Of
MS Lexington home one afternoon. en-
gagged in conversation with Some
friends, when a man, i'll clothed and
covered with dust, appeared at the
gate ana tlmidly beckoned to the gen
eral. Apologizing to his friends. Lee
rose at once and went to the gate.
Very soon his purse appeared, and he
was seen to give the man some money.
His friends, knowing the extent of his
charity in any case Of suffering, real
or apparent, looked on with some impa-
thence, for they knew how slender his
means were then and how many calls
Of the same kind came to him.
General, who was that?' one of
them ventured when he had returned
to his place.
One of our boys in trouble" was
the half smiling answer, for the gen
eral knew the remonstrance which his
friend was longing to make.
What regiment and company did he
belong tor persisted his friend, anx-
ious if possible to unearth the suspect
ed fraud.
"Oh, he-he fought on the other side"
was General Lees calm answer
How the "AIabama'' Escaped.
The keel Of mysterious vessel
known as the 200 had been laid at the
Laird's yards in Birkenhead and Mr.
Al ~
soon reported Capt. Bulloch's interest
in her, following this with surprisingly
accurate details of her construction and
mission, but all the Investigations of
the English officials failed to unearth
what Mr.. Adams agents had readily
discovered, says T. I. Hill in Harper's
Magazine. The 300, it was admitted,
might possibly be adapted for war
vessel, but there were no guns upon her
and her mysterious numerals merely
indicated her dockyard name, she be-
ing the 29Oth vessel constructed by the
Lairds. Her real name, according to
the records, was the Enrica, by which
she had been regularly christened at
her launching, and there was, to the
official mind, no cause for her deten-
ton.
All this was solemnly reported by
the foreign office and it was almost
impossible for the American minister
to appear unconscious of the yelled in
sincerity OF these official communica-
lions. But Mr.. Adams shut his ears to
all that ruAled the temper and, keep
ing his eyes wide open, began prepar-
ing a case against Great Britain, know
ing that sooner or later there must be
A day of reckoning. In order that
there might be no mistake, however,
as to the legal bearing Of his proofs
he submitted them to an English Jurlst
of high authority, who expressed his
opinion that the laws of England were
being violated.
Fortified with this decision, he once
more visited the foreign office and
called the facts and the legal opinion
directly to Lord Russells attention.
Representations Of this nature, of
course, could not we'll be disregarded
by the government but 1t was SLOW
to act upon them, and Capt BulIoch,
receiving inside information that the
authorities were contemplating the
seizure of his vessel, took advantage
of the delay to arrange trial trip,
for the Enrica, which proved so emf
nently satisfactory that she never re-
turned to her dock. After a short stay
st another British port she sailed for
the Azores where an English steamer
met her with her arms and equipment,
and with an English crew she sped
away as the Alabama to capture ana
destroy all the unarmed commercial
marine of the United States that cross
ed her path.
Veterans Excuse.