Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-09

of Greece 338 B. G. All who honor a lost cause
will bring their offerings to this sacred spot
The heroes who fought here did not propose 10
submit until they had done their utmost to save
Greece from Macedonian Philip. The battle was
fiercely contested, especially by the Thebans,
who formed the right wing thrown out into the
plain 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 be-
hind the lion. The Macedonians were command
ed by the veteran Antipater with the youthfui
Alexander by his side
When after a stubborn fight the Thebans were
beaten, the Athenians were isolated and rolled
I'D a loss of over a thousand slain. Demosthenes
the soul of the enterprise, fought in the ranks
In the enclosure where the lion now stands, 254
skeletons were found and carried to the Athenian
museum The lion is a funeral monument not
only to the Theban dead, but to dead Greece
Greece remained power by its art and ltera-
ture but the Macedonian and then the Roman
were its rulers.
WHERE JOAN OF ARC WAS BURNED.
A slab in the sidewalk Of the Place du Vieux
Marche Rouen, France, marks the spot where
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.
For a century and a half after the conquest
(1O66) this northern district belonged to Eng
land by virtue of the sovereigns inheritance
from William of Normandy. Rouen here was an
English town Then the French captured and
held it until 1919 when it fell once more into
French hands. While the inspired peasant girl,
Jeanne dare was leading the French armies
against the English this was stronghold of her
enemies and every victory she won made their
hatred blacker. According to the old chronicles,
she had premonitions that her mission for
France was accomplished when she raised the
siege of Orleans and secured the coronation. of
Charles VII at Rheims but the king would not
let her go back to private life.
In 1430 at Compiegne, she was taken prisoner
by the Burgundian allies of the English, and by
them sold to those against whom she had de-
Tended her country. 1t in an old castle half
a mile away behind US (the building itself is not
now in eXistence) that she was tried for heresy
and condemned to death a witch; on the spot
where the slab is set in the pavement (1431) she
was burned at the stake.
THE LION OF WATERLOO.
The battle of Waterloo was Of the most
important military engagements of all history.
It was fought on June 49, 1915, between the allied
forces of Great Britain the Netherlands and Prus-
STA under General Wellington, and the army of
France under Napoleon. This battle the
elimination of the campaign following the escape
of Napoleon from his exile at Elba- Napoleon
was defeated; he left the field in the center of
a square with a somber but calm countenance,
his far-seeing glance probing futurty and seeing
that more than a battle had been lost that day"
On the 21st of June three days after his de-
feat, Napoleon reached Paris, and the following
day presented his abdication.
The huge statue shown in the illustration
stands on a 200-foot mound in the center of the
battlefield about ten twelve miles from the
city of Brussels.