The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-15
REMEMBER BLUE AND GRAY
oravse 81 Northern and Southern Col.
d'srs Will % strswn With Flow
efs Without Discrimination
0reat Chiefs Sleep There.
~ GEORGE CLINTON.

WALL UOdI ATAAB. -.
This national cemetery is perhaps
the most beautiful burial ground in all
the country. 1t lies upon hilltop
where grow mighty forest trees anu
where the view Is unbroken to q point
lar OF down the road to the Potomac
The caretaker at Arlington will tell
you that no soldier ever saw the place
In life without expressing the wish
that he might lie there after death.
On Memorial day the soldiers OF the
regular army and veterans OF the
Union forces Of the Civil war will re-
member alike the graves OF northern
and southern soldiers. One week
later, however, there will be another
observance at Arlington when the
Confederate veterans and Daughters
OF the Confederacy will hold special
memorial services of their own In
honor OF the southern dead.
Great Chiefs Lie There.
Grant and Sherman, the greatest
two Of the northern war chiertains,
sleep elsewhere, one on the shore OF
the Hudson and the other in beau
tiful cemetery in the city Of St. Louis.
Their place is In Arlington Generals.
colonies, sergeants, corporals and pri-
Yates are side by side In this encamp-
ment of the dead. The Silent tents OF
Unionists and Confederates are
pitched not far apart and no guard
stands between. Schoffeld (FederaD
and Wheeler (Confederate) sleep a.
most side by side. They. were friends,
then enemies In war, and then friends
again, serving under the same flag,
both dying while In service of the
United States.
There are soldiers OF many wars
resting in Arlington Revolutionary
veterans lie under the same trees that
shelter their descendants killed in the
Philippine Islands. Soldiers who were
the victims of the Seminole and Sioux
sleep side by side, and with them are
tho mon who fell at Moline del Rey
and Buena Vista. Sailors who served
on the Constitution and on the Maine
are in port in Arlington.
General Sheridan rests under q no.
bic. monument not far from the Cur
tbs mansion on the brow OF a Hill over
looking the Potomac. Near him are
Crook, and Gresham, and G1bbon, and
Schofield, and Wheeler and Harvey.
For seventy-one years Harvey was a
commissioned officer OF the United
States army-a veteran of the old
Second Dragons He fought in the
Black Hawk and Seminole wars, in
Mexico, and on the plains, and In the
northern army In the Civil war. He
was soldier after soldiers own
heart
Time and again attention has been
called to the fact that General Law
ton, who was killed at the head OF his
troops in the Philippines, lies in Arl-
ington without fitting memorial of his
services to his country. There is a
government marker above the grave
bearing the Indiana soldiers name
and rank, and that is ala little gov
eminent reminder rising nearly six
inches above the turf. On Memorial
day there will be memorial of flow.
ers on General Lawton's grave, but
the flowers will. fade within a week.
It should be said that there is a Law
possibly an unwritten law-which
makes it impossible for the govern
ment to erect q monument over their
graves in Arlington. The generals
family is prevented from doing it by
the terms of his will, for the general
loft only small property, and he re-
Quested that no part Of 1t should be
used for monument. He felt and
said that his family needed all OF the
little money he would leave.
Finest Memorial.
Near what ID known as The Tenn
pie Of Fame" ID the grave of Major
Liscum Of the Ninth infantry, who
was killed at Ttentsin during the In
vasion OF China The Liscum monu-
ment beyond question Is the finest
memorial the national cemetery holds.
This field ofncer Of the Fighting
Ninth" upheld the best traditions OF
the American army In both Initiative
and courage. ;. /.
Three generations Of the Capron
family are represented on the death
rolls Of the American army. Erastus
A. Capron. the grandfather, who was.
killed at Churubusco: Allyn Capron,
the son. died % the result OF exposure
and hardship In the campaign before
Santiago; Allyn K. Capron. the grand
son. who was killed at the front with
Roosevelt's command In the charge at
Las Quasimas. II . younger Cap
ron's grave IL In one of the sections
Of the cemetery given over to the
Spanish war dead There rest Col
Alexander w. Wetherell Of the Sixth
infantry and Maj Albert e. Forse OF
the First cavalry, who died together
on the slopes Of San Juan Hill.
There are legions Of dead In Airing.
ton. but on Memorial day not one q
the multitude will be forgotten.
NayipabIe Rivers In Arkansao.
Arkansas has more miles OF navigae
bic rivers than any other state in the
Union.
Two Uses Tor, Burmese Teas.
The tea grown in Burma IL used
almost entirely for picking. After.
ward It is eaten 20 condiment.
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