The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-04
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tA &r. diers.s the song which was sDie so maEe them forget their tired hungry footsore. condition and renew nope 'h their breasts. ..., xy....a
 Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic" can never peconle popular iu, the South caals p~,ns np uno many sad and bitter memories; snntherners can never sing of FateLM 1sshtninr.r4 of Gods Swift Sworar svsar tt y1,eans that 1t was on the side ~ inc North and the muchly hated ana despised Yankees. Time has healed the wound 70 great extent ana has softened the bitterness but let some one attack the posielon roes and then one discovers that the ala Confederate soldier, their child. rem and grand children are in spirit s,,s, as Laval to the "L0st Cause as sn the days when it was not lost when it lourished and seemed to conquer:
 .sPresident Roosevelt has the strange idea that Julia Ward Howe's battie Hymn of the Republic" ought 70 pc conna as popular in the South as DlA- ie is in the North, and sooner or Ia far be recognized as a National anthem. The president communicated his ioca to the late Joel Chandler Harris m I,,ne and his letter apsars In the cur rsnt number of Uncle Remus's Masa. zine. together with Uncle Remuss sp. peal to his readers to tell him wha. they think about 1t Ths ae snA iHsa. that aDixie" is popular n tne North. But 1t Is Il Northern tune. Ioronosed hv a NortherneT, ana sung iu inc North before the war. It was tanporarilv eclipsed in the sad yeals when Dixie's land was assoclalsa, ,A the Northern mind. with discoTa ,s.AS ssS suffering, but was quickiy after the civil war. .,vs,.,.,, .. MrI Fsoossyelt quotes his adJutant, cap tain Butt as saying of Mrs. aoWss s . .oan that if is not sectional. As TOT Mr Roosevelt and Captain Butts oninfon that Mrs HowSs poem IS the very finest and nobleSt battle nynn s 2. possessed by any nation in the Woliu. oninion in which Frenchmen, Germans, Russians. and Austrians will not con cur. If is poetry, surely, wnicn mus of our patriotic songs are not.
 II is full. however, of its own nery rosnel writ in steel; 1t is full or the old. harsh New England feeiins .o- ward the South, now softeneo or moved; 1t recalls bitter menories q. Written by an Abolitionist agitatof, U ,s associated with the "Jehn Brown tIne. always recalling the conquerors hoast. It will survive in books. anu fhere it will stay. National anthems eenerally glorify war When the ora wounds in this country are thorougniy healed, if we are to have Nations. hymn let it be one in the gioIy ot reace The South will never accept tnts .Hattle Hymn" or ceuntenace sMarching Through Georgia but ,sn,t if like Mir. Roosevelt to burst out this way, wondering why, hatless ano fuII of reverence, the South will nor join in singing about the feteLul swords's helping the armies or ths North? If Mrs. Howe's words ola nOs mean just that. they meant no'n'ns'
 AmraroAN HUSBAND BEST.
 T.at all those women who think their reenectiye husbands is not all thai ne oueht 10 be, take heed. Dr. Aked says the American husband is the pest m the world. .. in inc act of adrniring himself in the elase and looking chesty." says an ex- chanee. sit is doubtless because he has heen reading that the Rev, Dr. Aked savs he is the best husband in the world, being far superior ln every way to the pauper husband or Europe or tne prince husband, either.
 aArherican wives should pause occa- sionallv to congratulate themselves on thA snso they have. They should also s.s Ins sn i, from breaking the furniture in rssantment if hubby breaks away ana yneg to q. ball game once In awhile
 aTheir lot might have been cast n Europe, where husbands are cast m a different mold and where as yet ns .s Sut nartially subdued, or in Asia, wnefe bs thinks he ia a superior being ana tbat he ig doing her a favor in mary sn~har Still sometimes out or curl nsitv' the American woman must won S1r ie she has the best husband tn the world. what the worst Is ike,
 DANCE AT COUNTRY CLUB.
 large number of friends and mem' hars enjoyed the usual fortnightly CO., tillion at the Country Clup wnen sa snanne inc dancers were: Mir. and Mrs' Gaorre Merts, Mfr. and Mrs Dennis Carr MT. and Mrs. Harry Connin' PIT. and Mrs Lawrence Anderson, hr. anu Mrs. Temple seihsls.. MISS Lne.a Hn HS,a, ardeon. Mss Roberta Roberts. Mlss cseorria saffold. Miss Sarah warren VvIllxerson. Miss Mary Kirkpztrick Niles Julia May Henderson, Miss Annie Danzfer. Miss Katherine Courtney Miss Mary seibels Ball. Miss Minnie Lee Rainer, of Union sprinss, MISS Ashley of Tuscaloosa. Miss kschel set- asrnsipeham MT. William Davidson, Mr, Henry Cfenshaw, Mfr. Paul Park Sqr- waiter Pickett. Mir. String fellow of Birmingham, Mir. r. O. Izler MT Clifford Lanier, Mir. Coolidge, MT Graves. Mir. Morton, MT. J. Fl. Wallace MT. William Conniff, MT. John Jones, Mr' Jack Hobbie. Mir. Merrell Moore Mr. Weatherly Carter, MT. Henry Lus- fer MT. John Brane pr. W. A. Sellers MT. Tom Jones.
 Lieutenant and Mrs. wm. Preston Screws and little son. James Lahey serewg. will arrive on Thursday to spend some time with her mother. Mrs |. w. Lahey at her home on s. Goldth- waite street Later they will go to North Carolina for the remainder Of the summer. Lieutenant Screws is stationed at New Orleans on recruit ing detail
 Mir. and Mrs. G. A. Beaueharnp will entertain at an informal euehre party on Wednesday evening at their home on South Perry street in compliment to their guest, Miss Virginia Bushy, of Salisbury, N. C.
 Mrs. H. Alexander has gone to New York where, she will spend some time as the guest of her daughter. Mrs. Will liam Druekerman.
 Miss Esteue Meyer has returned from Selma, where she has spent some time with relatives and friends
 Miss Mary Lee Vaughan has gone tc Nit. Meigs, where she Is the guest oi Miss Mary clai Wigglesworth.