In spite of John Randolph's oratory, Rothermel's painting came before me, and I could see the Virginia cavaliers gazing at the speaker with startled, breathless look, while the colonial dames with their powdered hair and stiff brocade leaned eagerly forward in the gallery to catch each note of the immortal voice; and in the doorway stood Thomas Jefferson, the slim young student of William and Mary College, electrified by the fiery eloquence, "such as I had never heard from any other man," he said: "he appeared to me to speak as Homer wrote." "But why didn't you say 'Give me liberty or give me death,' Uncle John?" asked the young interrogation point of the party. "'Cause Marse Patrick never said dem words here, chile. He spoke 'em in old St. John's Church up in Richmond ten year arterwards. I gin you his Williamsburg speech, his fust great speech." And the darky orator and historian smiled with that superior wisdom which we had seen illumminate the dark Italian features of Antonio Griffenreid, the famous sexton of old St. John's as he enlightened the ignorance of a party of sightseers.--_Atlanta Constitution._ SONG OF THE REVOLUTION. We love the men and women, too, Who fought and worked and brought us through Our glorious revolution; Hard was the struggle, brave the fight, That won for them the sovereign right To frame a Constitution. CHORUS. This Constitution made us free In this proud land of liberty-- The best in all creation-- And we'll stand by it while we live; Whatever we may have we'll give For its perpetuation. Our Country is the fairest one Kissed by the ever rolling sun-- We glory in our nation; And we will see that it shall be The happy land of liberty, Through time's continuation. _--Francis H. Orme._ This song has been adopted as a State song by the Daughters of the American Revolution of Georgia, and as a national song by the Continental Congress 1906. A TRUE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION. BY MRS. M. S. D'VAUGHN. _Archibald Bullock Chapter, D. A. R., Montezuma, Ga._ This is a story of how a woman's wit and tact saved her husband's life from the hands of the Tories, in the dark days of the Revolution.