Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-07-10

OF Greece. 1893 B. c. All who honor lost cause
will bring their offerings to this sacred spot
The heroes who fought here did not propose "
SUBMIT until they had done their utmost TO save
Greece from Macedonian Philip The battle was
fiercely contested especially by the Theoans'
who formed the right wing thrown out into the
Main resting on the Kephisos and facing west'
while the Athenians at the other end of the line
rested on the hills, one Of which appears just %
hind the lion. The Macedonians were command
ed nv the veteran Antipater with the youtnfui
Alexander by his side.
When after a stubborn fight, the Tnepans were
beaten. the Athenians were isolated and roieo
mn loss of over thousand slain. Demosthenes'
the soul OF the enterprise, fought In the RANKS.
In the enclosure where the lion now stands Zo4
skeletons were found and carried to the Armenian
museum The lion Is funeral monument not
only to the Theban dead, but to dead Greess'
Greece remained power by its art and htera-
ture, but the Macedonian anu enen n0
were it's rulers.
WHERE JOAN OF ARC WAS BURNED
A slab In the sidewalk of the Place du Vieux
Marcne Rouen, France, marks the spot wnere
Joan OF Arc was burned at the stake.
For century and half after the conquest
(1066) this northern district belonged 10 Eng
land by virtue of the sovereign's inheritance
from william OF Normandy. Rouen here was an
English town Then the French captured ano
held II until 1919 when 1t fell once more INTO
u,arch hands While the inspired peasant girl
Jeanne dare was leading the French armies
AGAINST the English, this was stronghold OF nef
enemies. and every victory she won MADE tneu
hatred HACKER According to the old chronicles
chs had uremonitions that her mission TOT
France was accomplished when she RAISED tne
siege of Orleans and secured the coronation Oh
Charles VII at Rheims; but the KING Wouiu noa
let her go back to private life
In 1880 at Compiegne, she was taken prisoner
by the Burgundian allies of the English anu W
them sold to those against whom sne nad us
Tended her country. 1t was In an old castle nan
a mile away behind us (the building itseiI Is noe
now In existence) that she was tried Tor heresy
and condemned to death as witch; on the spot
where the slab is set in the pavement l4SIl sne
was burned at the stake.
THE LION OF WATERLOO.
Tho hattie OF Waterloo was one OF the MOST
important military engagements OF all history.
II was fought on June Is, 1915. between the aineo
forces az Great Britain the Netherlands and Prus-
STA under General Wellington, and the army OF
FRANCE under Napoleon. This battle was the
c,lminatfon Of the campaign following the escape
~ NAPOLEON from his exile at Elba- Napoleon
uas defeated. he LEFT the field in the center OF
square .-Wtth somber but calm countenance.
h,s farseefng glance probing futurity, and seeing
that more than battle had been lost tnat oay.
On the 21st OF June, three days after MS oe-
feat. Napoleon reached Paris, ana tne Ioio"ans
day presented his abdication.
The huge statue shown In the liustrauOn
stands on a 200-foot mound In the center OF the
battlefield about ten or twelve miles rom tne
city of Brussels.