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ANNIE LAURIE, law' ri, a famous Scottish 

 song, as beautiful and as popular now as when 

 written, in the seventeenth century. William 

 Douglas wrote it of a real Annie Laurie, daugh- 

 ter of Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, with 

 whom he was in love, but its charming lines 

 evidently did not win her affection, for she 

 married another man. 



Lady John Scott Spottiswood, an English 

 music writer, loving the old words and feeling 

 that they deserved music as beautiful, wrote in 

 1836 the tune to which they have ever since 

 been sung, and which has become so much a 

 part of them that the two can scarcely be 

 thought of separately. The first stanza runs 

 as follows : 



Maxwelton's braes are bonnie 

 When early fa's the dew, 

 And it's there that Annie Laurie 

 Gie'd me her promise true 

 Gie'd me her promise true, 

 Which ne'er forgot will be; 

 And for bonnie Annie Laurie 

 I'd lay me doune and dee. 



ANNISTON, an' is tun, ALA., a progressive 

 industrial city with a population, chiefly Amer- 

 ican, of 13,686 in 1914, an increase of '892 



since 1910. It is the county seat of Calhoun 

 County, situated in the northeastern part of 

 the state, on the Southern and the Louisville 

 and Nashville railways. Birmingham is about 

 sixty-three miles southwest, Atlanta 104 miles 

 east, and Montgomery 148 miles south. The 

 city was founded in 1873 by the Woodstock 

 Iron Company and was incorporated as a city 

 in 1885. Its name was received from the wife 

 of one of its founders, whose name was Annie. 

 The area of the city is about nine and one- 

 half square miles. 



Locally, Anniston is known as the MODEL 

 CITY and is located in the midst of a natural 

 park, sheltered by the Blue Ridge Mountains. 

 Pulpit Rock, the loftiest peak, 2,400 feet, and 

 the highest point in the state, is plainly in view 

 from the city. It is also called the CITY OF 

 CHURCHES, on account of the number and 

 unusual architectural beauty of its religious 

 buildings; of these, the Church of Saint 

 Michael and All Angels is the most notable. 

 Anniston College, for women, the Alabama 

 Presbyterian College, for men, the Noble Insti- 

 tute, for both sexes, the Barber Memorial 

 Seminary for colored girls, a normal school and 



