The morning times., 1897-02-23
WORK OF THE DAUGHTERS
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| country under great trials. An instance
| was in hats. ~
| England was making the best hats in
| the world The colonies began to make hats
| as good as Englands. England passed a
| law forbidding the colonies to export hats:
| another law forbidding any man to make
| hats who had not served seven years as
| apprentice; and finally third forbiddin q
| any one to have more thantwo apprentices
| Tte colonies submittedto this sort Of thing
! until patience ceased to be a virtue. That
| happens after while. Patience ceased
| to be virtue in Cuba long while ago"
| Another virtue was devotion to pa-
| triotic duty. A memorial was presented to
| CONGRESS- the other day for a monument to
! 20 900 American soldiers, who died in
| the British hulks in New York Harbor
| And yet there wasn't a day when any of
| them could not have had his liberty by
/ giving up his attachment co the cause OF
| liberty Yet none OF these would for
| swear their devotion TO the colonial cause
| No sublimer eXamplecould be placed be fore
! the youth of America
| Intelligence and religion are the heritage
| OF great, free people. The Bible and
| the schoolhouse were joined together to
| give us a Christian civilization He de-
| scribed in poetic ina agery the union under
| the stars on the New England coast OF
| the Westinghouse and the schoolhouse to
| give the world its highest development
| This civilization had put a church in
! every village and today there are 90
| 0OO, 900 commandments in the Protestant
| Churches alone, and 5000 900 OF Catholics
| 1t gave the country schoolhousGs, in which
! are gathered over 100000 OF children.
| Nations must not forget that God is
| the God OF nations. Rome forgot She
| heard not the gentle voice OF the Son of
| God A holiday at her great Coliseum
| with 100 900 spectators to see Christian
maidcns given to savage beasts was not
uncommon in the days of the empire. But
| Rome perished and her Coliseum is a
ruin
Then with impas>oned gesture he ex-
| claimed:
Spain, proud country, take warning.
| Your power may crumble before the prog
| rcss of Christian civilization. Brntalitics
| must cease The mills of the gods grind
| slowly. but they grind exceeding small.
''Maceo was one OF the greatest gen erals
the world has known patriot, brave,
humane, sagacous. With 10, 900 men
| for two years He was one OF natures
| noblemen. He was fighting for liberty
| as George Washington fought for liberty
| "Maceo was found by Spanish ser
geant wounded at the roadside The
| Spaniard stabbed him again with his
| machetc. and tying hifh at his horses
heels dragged the dying warrior into the
| Spanish camp. The news was cabled
| Spain. 1t was made occasion Df public
| triumph and rejoicing Bonfires were
! built in the hills and the cities were IL
| Illuminated.
| .'Ah, Spain, remember the brotherhood
! OF man has been declared. Repent while
the doors are open. You are looking into
the face OF destiny. If you don't look
| to it your deSpotic power will Crunble
| unicr the white light Of Christian citili-
| zHtion."
| The Columbian anthem was sung by Miss
| Virginia Powell Goodwin and chorus OF
| school children They came on the stage
! to a lively rendition OF the Liberty Bell
! March Among the societies represented
were the Old North Bridge, OF Concord,
| Mass. the Abigail Adams, Capital, Piram
! Ripley. Red. White and Blue, Yorktown,
! and Nelly Custis. of Washington mum
| Der OF the older participants in the chorus
| were dressed in colonial costume, This.
| With the white dresses of the little girls
| and white duck trousers ana blue coats OF
| the boys. made a pretty and viyaeious ac
Compartment to the patriotic strains Of
America" to which the new anthem is
| set
A number OF these costumes reappeared
when Miss Columbia with the thirteen
colonies, came on bearing Maypole and
| with its colored streamers and the Hendcr-
! son Drum Corps, made music, TO which
| the company marched about the stage
| Miss Columbia reCited when Freedom
| from Her Mountain Height
Mrs Donald Mclean, state promoter
| for New York, was obliged to 60 away,
| and her address was taken from its place
She said she had not learned the masculine
| art of saying no address had been prepared
and then delivering most finished GRAFTON,
| as Senator Frye had done. She had no for
! nal speech, but would talk with the chill
| drcn little. She said when an American
! mother looked first upon her child it bore
| to her eyes the sign of the cross. Now ii
| was her privilege when she sent that Child
| TO school to set upon its brow the sign of
the cross. She remembered in Duchess
county, n. Y. seeing the children OF a So
cirty wrapped in the flag ard bearing aloft
| the cross. and she knew they were safe for
| this life and the next.
| Greetings were given by Lucy Hayes
| Breckinridge, of the Capital Society; Mar
garet NJ. Lothrop, of OLD North Bridge,
| Concord, Mass; Mary NJ. Bursley, of Tren-
ton, Princeton; Annie French, of Abigail
nd oil ~ Of pirar
| Ripley, and a dozen tiny members from
Miss Goodwin S little band. Miss Bursley
spoke clearly and with unusual good taste
and good sense Miss French spoke with
| spirit and effect. Mr. Kelly, who is from
the Central High School, made well
turned address, paying tribute to Wash
ington. The little children made gen
uine hit and received applause for an en-
core. The "Song OF Liberty" was sung
| by Miss C. W. Hayes and members of the
societies
Mrs. Stephen Putney, State promoter Of
Virginia, was to read q poem, but it was
already past the hour to adjourn and she
said pleasantly she would earn their graf
itude by surprise. She would not read
it.
Inspector General Breckinridge, of the
Army, said ne was satisfied that the thing
that would most interest them after so
much patriotism was dinner, and he would
| be content with reciting Scotch battle
song. The announcement was received
with applause that was humorous in its
earnestness. When he had given the STAN
| Zas of the song and added a word of
| patriotic encouragement, Mrs. Lothrop ex-
| tended thanks to Drum Major Ebert Hart,
| Of the Henderson Corps Mr.. Charles Burner