Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-06-23
THINKS OF HIVE FOLKS
AT SEA. GENERAL re z RS DEPICTS
MEMORIAL DOnT HERE
Walks Corridors Of Art Galleries. Muse
ums. Palaces: Visits CAthedrAIs,
MonASterieS, CloisterS
AT SEA. ON BOARD n. S. S. KRooN.


man and late comrade, Rusk; also TO
see the face of Comrade Tate who has
| labored so many years to take care
with pains that the cemetery shall be
a respectful place for eternal rest The
sun is now sinking seemingly in the
ocean, the gulls have returned and we
are alone, going into darkness. 1t is
| ! 90 p. m. in NirOqua. look far away
through my vision telescope and see
| "Old Glory" radiant and bright, car
ried to the corner of Main and Jcffer-
son: then Brown and the band, me mu-
| sic floating across the continent and
over the ocean. | see a few men in
| faded blue with arms reversed. see
/ in this vision scope fifty bright-eyed
girls, sweet, lovely young misses in
white, garlanded with wreaths of flow
ers and carrying bouquets nf the choic-
est gifts; | see behind them fifty cf the
boys in blue who voted for Lincoln and
marched to triumphant victory.
see the Women's Relief Corps. always
ready to aid, in carriages, and still be-
hind them in carriages | see those who
cannot keep step, amongst them my
comrade Petit Following | see two
hundred girls and boys from the school,
we'll dressed and ribboned; | hear them
singing Three Cheers for the Red.
| White and Blue. :" ! see the procession
marching to the cemetery, followed by
many people. see the procession file
| into the cemetery, ! hear the band
listen to the girls singing as they scat
ter flowers, see everywhere loving
! friends have scattered flowers, the EN-
blems of peace and love. | hear the
prayer, the roll call of the forty-five
dead, Grafton, lights out" and salute
to the dead!
All this | called to mind while on
| the ocean homeward bound from roam
| ing midst the tombs, mausoleums and
monuments of the ages long past.
| have walked the corridors of arts, mu-
seums, palaces and stood beneath the
domes of cathedrals, in monasteries and
cloisters. The world has long 'tindly
remembered the resting places of the
great builders and actors, and from the
earliest civilization built lasting tombs
and erected noble monuments to their
memory. stood on the top of the
great pyramid at Giesa and from the
elevated position saw the desert, the
| Nile and Cairo, the minarets and
mosques. | realized that was stand
| ing on the mightiest work of man,
| built in the dawn of civilization and by
a people who originated "A religion that
stood for four thousand years. and be-
meath me in the base of the pyramid
was placed the emtamed body of the
Egyptian ruler, with his queen wife,
their pearls and jewels. to await the
return of the dove with their souls
Their embalmed bodies, pearls and jew
els are now in the Cairo museum. The
souls have not returned. ! go to the
old city of Helopolis and there still
stands an obelisk, a monument to Phar-
aoh, and his history inscribed. long be-
fore Moses was discovered in the bull
rushes. We stand on the banks of the
M, the identified place, so stated,
where Moses was found and taken to
the palace of royalty; also by marker
at lsmalia where Moses led his people,
when the Red Sea rolled back, enrOute
to Siani.
wandered to Hebron and stood by
the caves of Macphela. where A Abraham
placed the dead Sarah then in turn he
was laid by her side There, also, Isaac
laid Rebecea and soon it was his place
oe rest; then they brought Joseph all
the way from Egypt that he should rest
with the forbears. Over this cave,
now in possession Of the moslem. stands
a beautiful mosque, in which no Chris
tian though he be sandled, can enter.
For centuries thousands of people have
pilgrimaged here to see the place where
the great patriarch sleeps. Midway be-
tween Jerusalem and Bethlehem, where
the Magi saw the star, and close by the
road is a tomb and cut in stone in the
! Semitic, Rachael" " Passing along
/ this highway, nearly four thousand
years ago, Rachel stopped by the way
side where Benjamin was born. Rachel
gave her life on that spot Benjamin
lived and his tribe was settled here.
| The Greeks have a beautiful chapel OPP
poste and guard the place with loving
care. Jew, Christian and Mohammed-
an. stop by this wayside sepulchre and
respect it with a saaam or cross, while
/ lifted my hat. Standing there, we
called TO mind the mighty contests that
! have taken place in the Holy Land; the
| Christian and Mohammedan wars that
have been waged in the cause of relig-
| ion, as well as the battles in the times
Of Joshua, Saul and David Walking
around the walls of Jerusalem, cave
| is marked as the tomb of Absalom, the
| rebcllOus son, then we rest by the
Tomb jeremiah. We 20 to Mount
| Zion and are shown the tomb of David
and Solomon, before which is a veil
| that Christian eyes shall not see the
place of rest. Then we 90 TO Mount
! Moriah where Abraham was about to
sacrifice Isaac, and we find over this
sacrifcial rock large and beautiful
mosque. We sandle our feet and step
in under beautiful dome Of mosaic,
stained windows of wonderful colOring,
a soft and pleasing rug and are by the
rock that some law sent the goat to
prevent human sacrifice. Millions have
come here and will come TO see these
places Of interesting antiquity, be it
legendary or traditional. Like millions
before us. We stood by the place Of ma
tivity, looked over the field where Ruth
CLEANED and stood by the scpulchre of
| Joseph Of Arimethea. from whence the
stone was rolled away and Christ came
forth. We 20 to Ollyett and there by
Greek chapel is rock encircled with
an iron fence, from which Christ as
cended 10 heaven. so the sacristan told
me. Looking for place of antique note,
we continued the journey to Bethany,
| stood by the tomb Of Lazarus, he whom
| Christ restored. The hole in the rock
/ 80 vile, did not crawl in.
| We stood before st. Peters cathe-
/ dral in Rome, the mightiest Of our relig
! ious monuments, to the glory Of St.
/ Peter We enter and stand beneath
! the greatest Of all domes, by the great
architect Angelo We behold with won
| der, amazement and astonishment the
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