The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-02
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MRS. BRUNER'S ADDRESS.
Delivered at Banquet of Daughters
OF the Revolution at ASlle-
willie

OF the revolution at ASlle-
Vile.
The National Convention of THE
Daughters of the Revolution, which
met at Asheville has closed, and the
delegates are returning home. The
closing lay was marked by an elah-
crate banquet, given at the Battery
Park Hotel, at which the two princi
pal addresses were made by Mrs. ID.
Phoenix Ingraham, president general,
and Mrs. 7. *. Bruner of Raleigh,
the later responding to the toast ''To
the Land OF the Sky"
Mrs. Rruner spoke in part as fol-
lows:
81 am sure that it is a pleasure to
talk; | have INDUCED to an extent
that has given me a reputation-in
my family, / mean, and my husband
he does not say much when l am
about. That is, he says that he pre-
fers to hear me talk. My father is
a very frank man; ne INDUCES in no
ambiguity. He says | talk too much.
lie likes to say things himself and in
sists that there is small chance where
/ am. Just a short time ago he want
ed to say something; | was there and
talking, and he could not break in
very we'll. He threw his arms into
the air in a dramatic attitude, which
stopped me for a moment, then he
exclaimed: III give you 5000 just tc
stop talking
This gives you some idea, my good
friends, of the trouble you are in.
am sorry for you, but it is not my
fault. If you get tired remember the
last bid was 5000. and not accepted. !
expect a higher bid Everything is
high, even the surrounding domes OF
azure breaking in fantastic undulation
against the palling sky are high-the
highest east of the Reckless Yet they
do not seem to be too high TO be SEN
timental. We are told that
The mountains lift their towering
peaks
TO kiss the bending skies.
There is, therefore. some sem
blance between women and noun
| tains-so they say. Perhaps that CO.
| incidence, shall / say, is responsible
| for our coming to Asheville.
But this is the region of the pic
| turesque. Here nature has wrought
! her handiwork. BeauteouS and in
| spring; famed for its Salubriousness
| the purity of its waters and the splen-
dor OF it's vistas. See yon massive
| piles OF purple and blue, their heroic
outlines dimming, fading, hiding in
celestial ether, and behold The Land
of the Sky
There are some twenty-five coun-
ties in this Land of the Sky, an area
in square miles larger than Vermont
or New Hampshire. There are more
! thar forty mountains exceeding 6.00C
| feet in height twice as many exceed
| ing 5000 feet, and hundreds exceed
! ing 1000 feet
But | must not tarry too long on
these dazzling heights. ] wish | could
| take you by the hand and lead you
to the top Of Mitchell's peak on the
borders of this county. 1t is GIL
| feet above the level Of the sea and
| from -this vantage point l could di-
rect your eager gaze into Virginia
| West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee
| and the Carolinas, and to hundreds OF
domes and peaks-a panorama in
ipurple and blue and pink and gray
| But | can not. [ can only say: Come
| the Land of the Sky welcomes you. "
| The next National meeting viii be
| held in Philadelphia, Pa. At the
closing session Miss Mary billiard
| Hinton. of Raleigh, read the North
| Carolina report, which showed that
the society in this State had lost dur
| ing the past year as many members
as it gained, but the progress being
steady there is hope for more pros
porous future.
Major Morehead, Of Greensboro
presented pamphlets to the society or
| Mrs. Kere nhappuch Turner, q
| heroine of 1875" vino came from
Maryland to administer to the wound
| ed AID dying soldiers at the battle
! of Guilford Court House. Her de-
| scendants have erected a monument
to her memory on the battle ground
and it now stands the only monument
ever built in America to a Revolution
| airy heroine.