the official informal emblem, is sterling silver, the insignia in blue and gold resting on a field of white enamel.

Send name of member for whom intended with one dollar to MRS. ELLENORE DUTCHER KEY 902 F Street, Washington, D. C. and pin will be forwarded postage prepaid. National Number engraved free.

D. A. R. RITUAL

By

Mrs. Emma Wait Avery

Ex-Regent Bellevue Chapter St. Albans, Vt.

This Ritual has now been in use several months by D. A. R. Chapters over the U. S. at the usual chapter meetings as a part of the regular programme; at various public meetings such as Memorial Occasions, Annual D. A. R. Sermon and at some of the recent State Conferences.

From all directions and from many of the leading women in Nat. D. A. R. come strong testimonials commending it as supplying a long felt want for something to invest our meetings with more character and dignity in expressing to ourselves and the world the lofty design of our organization. Already it is in use in many chapters in 26 States and Honolulu.

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American Monthly Magazine

VOL. XXVI. WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL, 1905. No. 4.

PATRICK HENRY.

BY MRS. X. B. SAUNDERS.

(Written for Agnes Woodson Chapter, Belton, Texas.)

The history of all times shows it to be a noteworthy fact that periods of military revolutions among nations are almost invariably peculiarly productive of remarkable men.

This condition of things is so usual a result that it may be safely affirmed that revolutions produce men more often than men do revolutions.

Or, it may, perhaps be correctly assumed in explanation of such sequences, that an equal average amount of natural genius or great intellectual ability has existed and will exist for all time in dormant state and only becomes visible or is developed by an occasion to call it forth, as the beauty of the seed lying buried in the earth will never open to the sky until warmed into life by a congenial sun. The period of our own great Revolution was especially prolific in men of great moral and intellectual ability, who were equally renowned as patriots and

statesmen.

Prominent among them was Patrick Henry, of Virginia. This extraordinary man was born in Hanover county, Virginia, on the 29th of May, 1736, the son of a poor but respectable farmer. His early years were spent as a worker on his father's farm; his means of education were limited, and being deprived of the means of improvement the years of his youth and early manhood gave no forecast of his wonderful latent powers and splendid genius, which were to prove at once the

admiration and blessing of his countrymen and the friends of liberty everywhere. At the age of eighteen he married a Miss Shelton, and after unsuccessfully attempting to succeed at farming and clerking in a store, he read law for a brief period and in the year 1760 he was admitted to the practice, in which in a few years he soon reached, and throughout his long and useful and eventful life, maintained the highest professional standing. Many notable instances of his unrivaled forensic triumphs might be mentioned, but even to record a portion of them would be inappropriate in a sketch of this character. It is enough to say that as a profound and brilliant jurist and orator he has had no superior among his countrymen, and scarcely a peer. When the troubles between our patriot fathers and the British government began he was among the first to espouse the cause of the struggling Colonies, and throughout the eight years' duration of that heroic struggle no one contributed more zealously or effectually to stir the hearts of his countrymen to resist oppression or to achieve the glorious triumphs of the arms of the thirteen weak and impoverished Colonies over the then wealthiest and most powerful nation on the earth. Having been elected a member of the House of Burgesses in 1765, solitary and alone, on the blank leaf of an old law book, he drafted a set of resolutions denouncing in bold and fearless terms the infamous "Stamp Act," and that body at first seemed almost unanimous against him, yet by the magic of his unanswerable logic, and the inspiration of his matchless eloquence, he overcame all opposition and secured their adoption, thus achieving in the outset the first important success in that memorable contest for freedom. From that time forward he was continued in public service in some important position by his grateful countrymen until after peace was finally restored. In 1774 Governor Dunwiddie dissolved the House of Burgesses on account of their unyielding opposition to oppression; that body recommended that a convention of delegates from all the Colonies meet in Philadelphia. Mr. Henry was chosen a member of that convention, which comprised among its members the most illustrious men of America, Virginia alone sending Washington, Lee, Randolph,