The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-10
DAUGHTERS OF THE
 AMERICAN REVOL UTION

REVOLUTION E EnpmmnmmmmHmHgEmHmMmmnm I lain. Miss Meta Thompson, followed | by the annual report of the offfcers. The report of the treasurer showed collection of $s0l.Se and a dishurse- ment of s+7s.0S. The report of the register showed io4 members; . fall ing off of one member during the year. This includes i've (5) resfxna- tfons and four (D new members.
 The following officers were elected for the coming year: Mrs. J. St. c. Tucker. regent; Mrs Chas. Shawhan. vice regent; Mrs. John B. Harvey, re- gister; Mrs. James o. Smith, recording secretary; Miss Gertrude Wilkins, cor- responding secretary; Miss Frances Hopper treasurer and Mrs. Frank A. The members of the Executive board are as follows: Mrs. Rhett Goode,
 chairman; Mrs Harvey E. Jones. Mrs. Santos E. Rubira. Mrs. H T. Toulmin. Mrs William Quigley. Mrs. Stanley Finch and Mrs. George Leftwich.
 After the business meeting Mrs Tucker gave an interesting account of the meeting of the late Continental Congress. Her report on the condi- | lions of the Continental Hall and its | needs was of especial interest, also the fact that during the past year the So- | ciety showed an increase of fully 5000 | members.
 Mrs. R. H. Clarke. the honorary life l regent of the Mobile chapter who is now living in Washington. acted as delegate for the chapter at the late Congress.
 The regular May meeting which will be social affair takes place on the sth at the residence of Mrs. James Q. 1 smith, with Mrs, Smith and Mrs John B. Harvey as hostesses.
 Something About New England in the RevOlutionj Her Heroes and l Her Shrines.
 The weaving of a magnificent car pet of tapestry involves innumerable threads, of texture coarse and fine: manifold colors. in shades sober and gay; skillful workmen. delft in finger, artist in eye: and patient ingenuity, and time to interweave warp and wool into | one imperial whole. thus to make a fabric of lasting worth and beauty" Long years before the American Republic was set on the map Of the ages. the hand of God was preparing the eternal forces on both sides of the main. twining the iiaments into | threads which were to be woven into the marvellous of the American eonti- nent-a continent stretching from ocean to ocean. from the Atlantic's | bounding waves on the east to the mighty pillows that thunder on the golden strand of the West.
 God spoke the word: Let there be mighty nation of mine own. planted | in the land where dwell my red chill dren. He put out His hand on the | Old World and spun the threads, one by one. and when the hour thrilled on the dial plate of time. He iinpelIed them forth on their pilgrim quest. Cavalier and Caledonian. Pilgrim and | Puritan, Spaniard and Scandinavian, ] hohander-each with its glint of light 1 It's russet tone. or bright-hued ray, He sent across the billowing waters. Each a strand to weave in that great na- l tional fabric mid the painless forests and mountain ranges of an unknown world. the great republic of the flu. ture.
 1 Let us take to ourselves a lesson No lesson can braver be,
 | or the wares of the tapestry weavers,
 On the other side of the sea. Above their head. the pattern hangs, Ihey study It with care.
 The while their fingers deftly weave,
 Their eyes are fastened there.
 It is only when his work is done. | That he sees the real handiwork
 His marvellous skill has learned.
 How q him hn' fST fSs'Sf'f s it's sssssy eost
 No rarer, daintier work than his Il Was ever done by the frost.
 The years of man are natures looms
 Let down from the place of the sun, l Wherein we are weaving alway,
 Till the mystic work Is done.
 Sometimes blindly--but weaving surely
 Each for himself his fate:
 We must not see how the right side
 looks,
 We must often weave-and wait"
 Motley the historian oe our great American Republic: The American democracy Is the result of all that was great in the by-gone times--all led up to it. It embodies all. Mt. Sinai is in it. Egypt is in 1t. Greece Is in 1t; all tn C arts are in it, and all the reformations and all the discoveries.
 "The early Puritans were gentlemen and gentlewomen of distin guish ed families and ample estate. many of them having the yearly revenues oi
 large estates In England. They were high minded mon and women of ane education and culture.
 After them came the Pilgrims and they were soon one people. The same
 Puritan church bell. the beat of the
 drum called them to worship, and the incense of prayer rose up to God from the same altar. These were the build CTS in New England, and in after years
 when again the beats of the drum ral- lied them to Concord and Lexington and
 Bunker Hill-and the shot which was heard throughout the lard. drew into
 the loom, the pine cone of Pernaquid
 the golden Manhattan reel, the Quaker
 drab, the Virginia blues, and other
 threads, and the multiplicity of color
 became a triplicity of red. white and
 blue, and the tapestry wool was trans
 formed into starry banner, whose : folds in course of time foated over a
 great and prosperous nation.
 When young girl. just aspiring to
 long dresses, 1t was my good fortune to be sent to Boston for a long visit
 with relatives, that might prove an educational advantage as well as a pleasure to one of my years. Under the leadership of two very energetic cousins, l started out to see the wonderful sights of a big city
 Near Birthstone Corner" next Park Street Church, we came to the old
 Granary Burial Ground" Huddled uu
 close to the iron fence. I looked ii upon the gloomy black and gray stones with their faded inscriptions, and
 upon inquirinG who was buried there learned this: "A lot of old fellows who trod on the paws of the British Hon and made him holler about 8
 hundred years ago" This was tho l "Younr America" of that day wifi