The age-herald., 1900-11-26
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"Friendship, like the ivy,


 'Friendshp, like the ivy, clings To olden times and olden things" Quoted the student of history and wom- 1 en and current events. "The war of secession, with all that it represented, is rapidly receding as a subject of moment | ous interest to mankind, but there is most ample evidence to prove that it remains | a clear and distinct fact in the souls of a great number of good women and men," | said he, and reflling his pipe the man read:
 "Tt would require the master mind of | him who portrayed the march of the rebel angels across the north plain of heaven to | tell in fitting verse of all they did and | dared. Then how inexpressibly dear to us | should be the memories of our Confedera- | cy. It sank in sorrow, but not in shame, 1 and far. O! far distant, be the day when | we shall cease to cherish these proud, though melancholy recolections' That is from an eloquent speech deliv- | cred by Capt. B. H. Screws, now and for | many years past member of the Legisla- | ture from Montgomery County; the speech | having been delivered at the unveiling of the famous Confederate monument on Cap | itol Hill, Montgomery, December ', 1898. :" My heart is thrilled with mournfu1 pride when I recall the scene so full of
 rapture which transpired in February,
 1861. There stood our illustrious President
 Davis, God bless him. with uncovered head before a vast throng of patriotic men and
 women and with reverential mein and voice of concentrated fervor, rang out that sol emn pledge, "So help me Godr' hx,
 the venerable and venerated Mrs. Sophia
 Bibb of Montgomery, an eyewitness of the Inauguration at Montgomery of Jeffer-
 son Davis president of the Confectionery. " Stripped of every insignia-of rank, in plain citizens dress, with tears on his fur
 rowed cheeks, he walked to the spot al- ready made sacred by his footfall, sur rounded by thousands of his old comrades, in eloquent silence, only broken by the sobs of women, while veterans who had
 grown grey in faithful service brushed
 away their poorly hidden tears
 Thus writes Mrs. I. M. Porter Ockenden of Montgomery, who has partly written
 and partly compiled pamphlet of nearly hundred pages entitled-1S61-19O0. The
 Confederate Monument on Capitol Hill
 Montgomery, Alabama
 
 Mrs. Ockenden's dedication Is "To the Brave and True" and she writes: This little work has been done to save me from heart-break-out of the depths it comes slight token of love to my associates and friends. Its greatest merit consists in the presentation of the beautiful thoughts of others, the gems of oratory that are worthy of a more brilliant setting than these sim pie pages"
 Very beautiful and very pathetic are Mrs. Ockenden's tender words, and right well has she worked her duty of love to the dead and the living. For two years she suffered as only angelic mother could suffer from the knowledge that her only child, son just reaching manhood, was fatally i'll. He was MT. George Henry, and he died a few months ago in New Mexico. She is the gentlest and most loving of women-one of the most faithful of all good women-and so her sorrow is one that may
 not be lifted. She was a very young and
 beautiful bride when the war between the states was begun, and she sent her bride
 groom into the strife to which he gave
 his life. Since those long-past days she has
 sung ceaselessly of southern valor and
 southern glory, and in verse and story Ala
 bama has had none more gifted than she
 This new production of Mrs. Ockenden
 contains historic speeches from Thomas
 Goode Jones, sometime Governor; William
 J. Sanford, now Governor-elect and pos-
 sibly on bed of death; Col. Hilary A. Her
 bert, sometime secretary of the United States navy; Capt. Benjamin H. Screws; Gen. John w. A. Sanford, and others, and it is published by the Ladies' Memorial As- sociation of Montgomery. It is therefore of abiding historic interest to all southerners
 "Those noble women at Montgomery are
 striving nobly to raise sufficient money to
 build a shaft to Alabamas S heroes on the
 battlefield of Chickamauga and they ap-
 peal to all Alabamans for help. They now have about $500 in bank, and hope the little ssoklet will bring us several hundred more. O pious wish of pious women-can
 any Alabamian, any Southerner, resist the gentle and unselfish appeal of those good women at Montgomery? Theirs is not the spirit of passion or resentment but gen. tie love that to them is holy; and no man may see or hear them and not uncover to these amongst the blessedest of all the women of the earthi
 "Our Southern women, my boy-they ara enough to make our South glorious! And their love for the things which pertain to the perished Confederacy is as true and as sacred their love for ourselves of today!'
 "The thousands of Alabamians who feel personal interest in Dr. c. F. Mellen, will be glad to know that the world is go- ing remarkably well with him." said a
 noted scholar and teacher of Birmingham. "Dr. George Frederick Mellen was grad uated master of arts from the University of Alabama in 1878 He then taught school several years in Gainesville and Livings- ton. In 1885 he went to Germany and won the Ph. D. degree from the University Of Leipsig. Returning to Alabama he took charge of both the boys and the girls schools of Demopolis. A year or two after wards heNwas elected to the choir of Greek in Trpiyarcitu of ard