The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-22

west line Of Seventeenth, or Adams VIII
ley Street, MS It was called of old.
TITS truly wonderful how many changes
tnko place in one's town city or province
IN tho course Of ono slloi't century. An
old citizens Of yoie could not have been
persuaded that Richmond would cross q,
some time impossible creek and many
an invinciblc rnvine, III order to trans
plant its growing population upon APP
parcntly inaccessible heights. There
wns tic beautiful vale Of Gillic's Creek,
with It's adjacent terraces and slopes,
md the still more accessible. II less
ample, vale o. the 'Siockoes,' up which
the town was already trendlng. If ex-
elusive. society and beauty Of situation
were desired by tho more wealthy and
refined portion of the community, where
should they find n land fairer and more
accessible to the townspcoplc from below
than Richmond ELL? 5
Notwithstanding this persuasion OF
our old citizens, the town, in defiance OF
MI the prognostlcs and hopes Of our
fathers, has moved upward and west
ward over obstacles which they believed
to be insrlperable. What have become
Of the towns laid off by tho speculators
at MARKINGS 1lill, three miles below Our
Capitol, at Fulton and Mount Erin at
other points up Gillie's Creek as far as
Blakey's, or up tho AdarnsVallcy till you
come to the French Garden and Bowling
Green? vestgcs Of these old boon1s. as
speculation In suburban lants IS now,
called. may DO observed by the curious
in nearly all Of these we'll known places.
Virginia.
1,o,1,, ~ 1,io1, la obi vo1,-y rot,,a11cn
Where "knighthoods still In flow'r," pre-
pared to break a lance
Wheno'er just cause requires against the
nations foes:
IIor record Is unbrohen; when Duty calls,
she goes.
For shining deeds Of daring the Old Do
mnion stands.
Her Ever thus to tyrants' still flashes
In hor hands;
FOR her Nathaniel Bacon, century be-
fore
Tho dawn of independence, upon Vir-
gnia's shore
Rnls'd standard Of rebellion against a "
rants pow'r;
lie knew vlrgnla's spirit e en- then would
never cover,
Nor lick tho hand that smitcs her. no
matter whose 1t be,
Whether satraps foisted on her or kings
beyond the sen.
Here the mighty mind Of Mason from
chaos order brought,
And fashlon'd a republic on the basis VI
his thought;
Here Jefferson, his pupil. the universal
man,
Became a nation-builder on Mason's
matchess plan.
Here was the elimination OF those heroic
T., days.
When flaming torch of freedom shone
with its brightest blaze
At Yorktown when CORVALLIS was fore
to give away
And empire where his master could not
exert his sway.
The State OF Clay and Henry. OF Mar
shall and Monroe.
OF Mathew Fontaine Maury and Edgar
Allen Poe.
Can laugh to scorn the greatness thrust.
on q little name
She is her own Valhalla-she Is her Hall
of Fame!
And as her laughing rivers go ripping
to the sea,
hear In liquid music this message borne
to me:
'Remember, son, remcmber-in my ex-
tended round
Tho land my current kisses to south Is
hallow'd ground.
Tho wide and proud Potomac, the ma
jestic James
And Shenandoah nro famous with decda
and shining names
That will live on for ever in story md In
song,
And ever grow In glowry as the ages roll
along.
Nor is Virginia wanting, In this com
lncrcial age
FOR sons to represent her upon the ma
TONS stago
Maintains her best traditions in Danters
eoquence.
And Martiny--modern l'rankin--rcnown'd
for common sense.
Cascade. Va,