The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-19
Convention Notes.

"Kings may be blest but Tam was
 So felt the "Daughters" of Alabama on closing their convention at the Iri- Citias Rut the source of their joy ,yas very different from that which was inc inspiration of our friend Tam's rip rorious hilarity, coming as it did rom tta .anse of a great duty successfully performed. with the added pleasure con: ferred by the illimitable hospitality and beautiful courtesies showereo upon them by the hostess cities.
 E.verything was propitious from the hegtnnine to the end. Even the weather. Sbicb had shown itself stubbornly in- tnImicaI pouring it's wrath upon our haads in thunder storm, and rain, all the way from Birmingham, began to look down with a more friendly pace as our feet pressed the sod or Shlloh IIven the railroads repented at last or tbair obduracy and not only gave re- duced speciaI rates to the Tri-Ctties, but furnished special trains for the trip to Sklloh. The steamboat company also fell into line and gave us its hest steam or at minimum rates. As for the hostess cities themselves, they killed the fatted calf-a wholeA drove of them--they put the big pot in the little one and filled up both to overfiowing they hung the latch string on the outside--or rather they threw away the latch and opened wide the doors of their hearts ana homes in a way that made us feel 1t is better thing to be a -Da ,ghter Of the confederacy in our Southland than to be the daughter of a queen in any other land.
 The ceremonies of the unveiling at Shiloh have been so fully described by The Advertisers special correspondent that it is unnecessary to refer to them here One feature of the occasion hy ybn have labored so hard and so faithfully to build this monument on field where more Alabama soldiers lie than on any other. was that the State of Alabama. in her official capacity, was so conspicu- ously absent General Basil Duke came from his distant Kentucky home to hon. or the memory of his comra ades In arms. Mrs. Mckinney, President of the Ken lucky Division, U D. C., came to re- 1oice with her Alabama sisters on the completion of their great undertaking Mrs Henderson. the President General, left the convention of her own State Division, to be with us. Col. Harvey Jones, that noble son of Alabama. was there to represent the Veterans Dr. T'honaas M. Owen, always in the right place at the right time, to say the right ting, was there as the representative of the Sons of Veterans--but the representatives of A1absma's sovereign majesty--"Oh, where were they.
 \ A beautiful incident occurred while the monument was being unveiled. Just as the fair hands of Miss Kirk patrick and Mrs. Perry, to whom this honor had fallen by right of descent from heroes of the bloody fight once wased here, drew the cords that lifted the veil. a ray of sunshine bursting through the clouds that yelled the face of heaven, fell upon the marble shaft fit emblem of the light of love that will forever keen briRht the memory of those whose bodies per ished there. And as I slooked upon that simple, modest shaft, the fruit of nine years of toll and struggle and ceaseIess effort on the part of few faithful women. and compared 1t with the splendid memorials reared to the Federal dead by their States, the words of the Master came back to me fraught with tender meaning: For an they have cast in of their abund-