Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1903-01-21
BIRTHDAY OF ROBERT E. LEE.
Daughters Of the cOniedersey and Friends
Unite in hOnOring his Memory.

filled to overlooking Monday
evening by a responsive audience
gathered 10 do honor to the memory
of General Robt. +. Lee. The
exercises we're held under the aus
pices Of the devoted Daughters Of
the Confederacyof l.. 5. Ross chap.
ter Of Bryan, and were Of high
order and in harmony with the
dignifed aud reverential spirit OF
the occasion. The exercises open
ed with an organ voluntary,
suppe's Light Cavalry Overture"
which was inspiringly given by
Mrs. II. o. Bcatwright, who also
played the Accomplishments for the
other musical numbers, and who
gives fine expression to the pipe
organ.
A feryent Invocation was offered
by the pastor of the church, DR..
W. c. Friley, himself an ex-Con-
federate soldier and one who
cherishes memories Of the noble
men and glorious deeds OF the past.
The other musical numbers in
Guided Schumann's Two Grena-
diers, exquisitely rendered by
Miss Edna Zuber; Braga's angels
Serenade," sung with great sweet
ness and artistic expression by
Miss Esther Boatwright, and my
Old Kentucky Home" by Misses
Robinson, Boatwright and Zuber,
Messrs. Law, Moore, Withers and
Davis.
"The Sword Of Lee" was beauti-
fully recited by Miss Bette John.
son, and appropriate addresses
were delivered by Messrs. W. NJ.
Board, T. S. Minter and w. C.
Davis.
The address Of Mr.. Board was a
sociological study. Il is ! compre-
hensiye view Of the lessons of his
tory that enables one to trace a re-.
lationship between this subject and
the observance Of a great soldiers
birthday, but in the larger view
the relationship exists, and from
the study Of these greater questions
Of history We derive the greatest
benefit. The speaker, with artis-
tic touch, showed how our civil
war, in its last analysis was but a
conflict between opposing industrial
and social ideas. Religion, govern.
ment, the home, occupation and
the school were named as para
mount forces affecting the social
organism, and they are influences
that are continuous through histo-
ry. The speaker made practical
application Of the duty to rightly
direct these forces that so power
fully afec, the destiny Of man.
The slow evolution Of popular self
government out Of various antece-
dent forms Of tn social structure
were traced as but a history in its
varied phases, Of the labor prob
lem, which is now the paramount
issue OF the day, and is pressing
for solution. This is something Of
the great theme which the speaker
discussed, though but an made.
quate idea Of Il can be given in a
limited spice.
The auses Of the conflict be-
tween the States which developed
the gre soldier whose birth we
commemorate we're traced togerms
that existed in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, IN the tight
little isle across the sea, so preg.
nant at that period with the germi
Of forces destined to nightly af.
iect the race. Our war between tn,
states was an outgrowth Of the
conflict that was waged between
the Roundhead and the Cavalier
The seeds Of the war were sowr
when the Puritan settled New Eng
land and the Cavalier planted his
social ideas 10 the generous coil Of
Virginia. The irreconcilable ideas Of
both found expression by compro
mise in the constitution, and wer,