The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-20
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

Two years from yesterday, June IS, 1915, the centenary of the battle of
 Waterloo will be ftttingly commemo- rated. England and Germany will take prominent part in the program arranged by the influential Belgian committee Ehic4 is in charge of the | arrangeme The object of the com nadttee is not so much to glor1fy the great victory won by Wellington and Butcher over ~the Man of Destiny as to render homage to all the heroes 1 who took part in that terrible and de- cisive conflict, French and Belgian as well as English and German The celebration commentaries not only a great victory over the French, but also the rounding out of a hundred years of peace between Great Britain and France and this fact will not be lost sight of.
 A magnificent monument will be erected at Waterloo and will be dedi- cated two years hence, as a feature of the centenary celebration. This memorial will take the form of a hy- pogeuna, under which will lie the re- mains of the soldiers who died on the field of battle. The base will be dec orated with figures representing grief, herodsm and hope. The inscriptions will be in English, French. German and Dutch. The monument will also include statues to Wellington. Butcher, Napoleon and the Prince of Orange.
 One of the first actions of the ce1e- braHon committee was to collect all the human bones which were even yet to be found in large numbers around the field of conflict These are to be placed in one vast tomb beneath the monument. At Quatre-Bras will be erected another monument to those Belgians who, in the language of Sir Walter Scott. '+died bravely for a cause foreign to them-'
 The field of Waterloo, as it appears to-day, is thus described by g. cores pondent:
 '"The scene is peaceful, pastoral, and at first sight it is difficult to believe that this was the ground on which was fought one of the bloodiest battles recorded in all history. Yet in the farmyard, and the orchard adjoining, one still finds many grisly relics of war. Pieces of cartridges are strew- ed about. There are also bits of leath- CT, once parts of caps, many with holes through them, and to some of these decaying fragments the remains of human heads are attached. In the old orchard are decaying stumps of trees with balls through them. In the field the graves are thick, and, many of the skeletons hardly covered, save by lowered twigs that hang beau tifuI1y over the relics of carnage and the signs of tumult. A narrow rural I 1OOCpS1Lh W1nOS cII1lOdS L110 1dSOS1 blenatic of the gentleness and peace of nature. through these horrid mon uments of men's fury''
 The cunning of the heather Chi nee'' was never better illustrated than by the escape of the murderer of FL sic Sigel It was four years ago yes- terday that the young and beautiful granddaughter of Gen. Franz Sigel, the civil war hero, was found nur- dered in New York's Chinatown, where she had been engaged in missionary work among the Orienta1s Leon Ling was suspected of the crime, and a worldwide search, in which the. po- lice of many countries joined, was comm menced. For four years the quest has continued, but Leon Ling remains at liberty, laughing in his sleeve, per haps, at the clumsy efforts of the white devi1' detectives to effect his capture. The crime was peculiarly atrocious, and the white world de- manded the punishment of the mur- derer. That the police have been baffled, as they have so often been baffIed in such cases is a tribute to the superior cunning of the yellow man.
 Married, twenty-seven years ago to-day. at Cincinnati. Miss Helen L.. Heron, daughter of MT. and Mrs. John w. Heron, and William Howard Taft, son of Judge AIphonso Taft. 'eThe bride wore a charming gown of white silk, with embroidered tablier her veil caught up by sprays of white ii1acs, and she carried a boQuet of sweet peas and lilies of the valley Other details of the happy occasion, the anniversary of which will be eel ebrated to-day by ex-Prestdept and Mrs. Taft, include the item that the T0< AE A. Hoge, pastor of the Second Presby- terian Church of ZanesvilIe, O., who married the brides mother and fath- CT, and the statement that ''the bride groom left immediately after the re- ception for New York, whence they will sail for England.''
 Newspaper reporters, out of the kindness of their hearts. always pie ture bride as reigning belle and the bridegroom as little, if any, short of genius while the famiJies of both come in for much flattering comment. It was former the pleasant custom of society reporters to indulge in predic- tions as to the glorious future of the happy pair. A Journalistic prophet of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette in writing of the Taft wedding, had this to say:
 William Fl. Taft is one of the young men of the city who may be depended upon in public affairs. He is one of the highest standing of the graduates of Yale, and his original powers, per feet integrity and courage and correct instincts, as well as thorough infor- nation, have made him useful, won for him the friendships and enmities most complimentary, and opened for him a career that has the highest promise of great dtstinctfon.''
 Betting is an ineradicable foible of human nature Thus declares the Earl of Durham. who, being fifty eight years old to-day, and. from his youth, a. patron of ''the sport of kings speaks as an authority. Lord Dur n 3-l