The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-09


 tunate enough to hear 1t. An originay poem was expected at this meeting. but the member could not attend so that Is only pleasurable treat deferred.
 An amusing personal reminiscence of How the turkeys were saved Tn those stirring times that tried mems souls. was furnished by charter member and much enjoyed. Resolutions of sympathy were offered by the President, in the loss of the chapter of one of its valuable members. Miss Louisa Bibb, and the committee will forward a copy of the resolutions to the family. A communi- cation from Colonel Owens was read, in which he suggests that the Daughters place a picture of Aiabama's heroine. Emma sansom. in the Capitol. A dona- ton of s25 was given by the chapter to the battlefield monument also the neces- | sary amount to furnish the sum pledged | by our State President at Wilmington | for fencing the battlefield at Bull Run. The President had arranged for an en- tertainment known as progressive Con- federate heroes, in January, but the bereavement in the chapter caused its postponement -.--.-.-4..e-s | The following notification has been sent | out by the Secretary to every chapter | in the State. We hope that many may | go to represent Alabama on this day ap- | of the Exposition and the l. D. C., as United Daughters of the Confederacy | Day.
 Headquarters United Daughters of the | Confederacy.
 By authority of the convention of the | United Daughters of the Confederacy, | held in Wilmington. N. C.. and by mo- | tice received from Mrs. Lee c. Harby, chairman of Committee of Convocation of | Indian Exposition in Charleston, 8. C.. | Saturday, April F. 1902. has been desig- hated as United Daughters of the Con | federacy Day. Your chapter is cordially invited to be present. | Mrs John P. Hickman Secretary These beautiful lines were read in the | Veteran, and heoaunse found lon an Alabama soloier. we print In these col
 A. Mothers Sorrow. | The following beautiful lines were | belonging to one of the Alabama regi- l ments in General Lees army:
 l know the sun shines. and the lllacs are
 And the summer sends kisses to beau tifui May;
 o to see the rich treasure the spring is
 And think my boy Willie. enlisted to-
 day!
 It seems but day since at twilight, low
 I rocked him to sleep with his cheek While Robby, the four-year-old. watched
 for the coming
 Of father adown the streets indistinct line.
 It is many a year since my Harry de-
 To come back no more in the twilight | or dawn; And Robby grew weary of watching. and l started
 Alone on the journey his father had l gone.
 It is many a year, and this afternoon
 At Robby's old window, I heard the And suddenly ceased dreaming over my
 To % rseoiiect Willie was twenty today; And that, standing beside him this soft
 Mayday morning,
 The sun making gold Of each JOCK tha' I saw in his sweet eye and lips faint
 And choked down the tears when he
 eagerly spoke.
 ''Dear mother. you know how these
 Mortimer are crowing;
 They will trample the rights of the The Soysh Sous are ,r 'af ai fire, and they wish
 He stopped, but his eyes said; 70. say if must"
 I smiled on my boy, though my heart II | seemed breaking;
 My eyes filled with tears as l turned snswared snsm AT: him: willie, 'tis well you
 Go He de as your father would bid you today"
 I sit on the window and see the nasS | flying, ~ u zt tho And smother the pain in my heart that
 Is lying. So.or, he l dumb.
 And if he should fall, his young life has
 been given Cor r,a
 will pray a pohhv Once more, with my Harry ana Roooy in heaven, ,,.toA to
 To meet the dead boy that enlisted to-
 day.