Jamestown tributes and toasts . d the low, the rich andthe poor, wliile in God Himself there is that promise of Hopewhich stealeth away the sting from Death. Inevitable Hollywood! Whether thou wearest the sombre ermine of winter, theexuberant emerald of spring, theplacid olive of midsummeror the moribund crimson of autumn, thou art ever a beautifulemblem of Rest, Repose and Resurrection. We toast thee, not with wine but with our tears, and as ourvotive offering we give thee that which Golcondas richescould not buy— OuB Loved Ones. Evan R. 90 VIRGINIA First to strike the ty
Jamestown tributes and toasts . d the low, the rich andthe poor, wliile in God Himself there is that promise of Hopewhich stealeth away the sting from Death. Inevitable Hollywood! Whether thou wearest the sombre ermine of winter, theexuberant emerald of spring, theplacid olive of midsummeror the moribund crimson of autumn, thou art ever a beautifulemblem of Rest, Repose and Resurrection. We toast thee, not with wine but with our tears, and as ourvotive offering we give thee that which Golcondas richescould not buy— OuB Loved Ones. Evan R. 90 VIRGINIA First to strike the tyrants shield,First to swear she would not yieldHer liberties to Royal mightAnd see the Wrong enslave the Right;First always when the battle rages,First in our historys glorious pages;First to tread the bloody wayAlong which Truth and Honor lay;First in Time and first in Glory,Shrined in Song, embalmed in Story;First in a thousand gentle arts,First in a thousand thousand hearts. Virginia ! Waltee Edwaed Haebis. yVashington. 91. The Cabin in whicli Mary Ingles lived on her return fromcaptivity among the Indians. It was built in 1755, and isthe oldest house in Virginia west of the Alleghany Mountains. The Mary Ingles Cabin still stands in a meadow near NewRiver, three miles from Radford. 92 TO MARY DRAPER INGLES The first white bride married west of the Alleghany Moun-tains, heroine of real life, whose story reads like fiction! Carried, in 1755, by the Shawnee Indians from her home atDrapers Meadow, the present site of Virginia PolytechnicInstitute, into the Ohio wilderness, the hardships of thejourney were intensified by the pangs of maternity—a littledaughter being bom to her on the march. But her wonderful courage and endurance were put to astill more harrowing test, as escaping from her captors, shemade her way back to her home, a distance of about sevenhundred miles through the pathless forest, without other pilotthan the rivers to guide her bleeding feet, without other h
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