The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

college of William and Mary. where Eye | young men" were forbidden to keep Eye | race horses at ye college" or ito bet at ye billiard or other gaming tables" Per haps the boys were not altogether to blame for being so like their fathers, for | we've heard of certain grave professors
 who were reproved for giving too much Of their time to horse racing and fox hunting. This seemed never to have hindered the old alma mater from giving good and great men to the nation. His tory tells us that from It's halls came sol
 diers of the Revolution, attorney generals. members of Congress, senators. govern ors, judges, generals and professors; four signers of the Declaration of Independ- ence, seven cabinet officers, a chief jus tice and three presidents of the republic. So we can forgive all the harmless friv- olities of a time when Jefferson's repu- tation was firmly established as one of the finest fddlers and best marksmen In Virginia. and when the daintiest belles from the countryside gathered at the metropolis to find new styles ''just out" and new beaux Just in, for the gaieties of the season.
 Most of miladfs silks and faces were imported, like the mahogany and house. hold lines. and the masters fine wines, delivered in return for tobacco, at the private wharf of the planter. The planta- tion carried on all the industries neces- sary to a small town, where all of the coarser materials were manufactured. Probably miladi grew tired of "patronz- ing home industry" or of the old loom and spinning wheel which held such an honorable place fin the chimney corner. The merchants must have realized this, when they marked American goods with English tags, for even our incomparable southern songsters were sometimes brand ed as English mocking birds. This might have been a preconceived and very mis- taken idea of the English sparrow which were to come over later; or, perhaps. such Inducements were merely used in lieu of the bargain counter idea of the future. At any rate, the caged victims
 were sold, while their happier brothers continued to sing and build nests every spring in the big cool trees around the great house Within these spacious halls was happiness and peace and plenty, with only an occasional clear prophetic voice sounding above the careless gaiety of the crowd. But away from these English and Huguenot homes; far over the mountain, in that wild valley of the Shen- andoah, were log cabins and stout hearts and willing hands. "Sic jurat transcend ere montes' was the motto of Spots woods knights of the golden horse shoe," who first found 1t pleasant across the heights. And following them. long afterward, was the sturdy Scotch Irish man with his humble home and the fam fly altar. The hand of German thrift was also over the land and the barns of the Dutchmen overf1owed with plenty. Un- der the sycanores nestled the quaint lit- tie churches with spires pointing always heavenward, and in the thick woods apart glowed the Indians campfires. On and on. toward the blue Alleghanies, were men still hewing their way into the heart of an unconquered wildness, toiling. fighting. enduring for the sake of that which was to be.
 Westward, ever westward. their eyes
 of faith were turned, toward that wide
 new land which seemed forever to reach
 toward some final destiny, some ultimate fulfllment some haven long desired. And the eyes of the Red Men followed theirs, past the friendly streams and
 wooded haunts. past the heritage of their
 forefathers. toward the sunset hills and
 the infinite beyond.