Show Till Tm NATIONAL ANTHEM I How It Cuino to lie ho Written by ly b Samuel Smith In 1581 Ii William f C a Ocr jer deranY educator anY to study the tim common schools no Ht oti that much attention was wan gly glyn Ih In n to tr music neut brought hom man Herman German books of music H Ht thim to ell Mason Ml nou OIl of or who was also Interested In Inurn urn nl for children Rev Samuel Francis Smith has told toM tolda Ij fa a the Outlook how these books ts d him In writing America Amerl n nI I 1 MS II wo K a student In the th Th at nt Andover Ando r One day dB Mr lIn n brought me mo the whole mass of ot III tl book bohs some Bome bound and somo In form and nM said In his led g si WRY way Mr tr in III brought me mo these thess books I dont dontI lw tow I ow what wIit Is In them I f cant read rend but you can If It you fall In nth rth anything I can use nse n e any hymns h S II for tar children I wish you would soult them th m Into Inlo poetry or OM hymns or songs BOHRS of at your own GI the i am anu metr ond as the co 0 that I can use u e them 1 the trust not net unwillingly u in 11 agreeable recreation from grave groVa and from tim to time gave jn Ve b the results of ot my nw efforts Thus Thull ha ho hou u 1 with several hymns for the Spiritual Hones Bon 8 which he ho was Is in Issuing suing In numbers also for the tho Juve Juvenile nile Lyre Iyre tho the first book of ot childrens music ever published In this thin country c In which most of tho the SOURS songe wert I my III own translations from lull nd other German aerman composers One dismal day br Ia In l 1832 bout about half an nn hour beor sunset nut set I WM nn turning over oer the leaves leans of or one une of at the tha music books when hen my eyo eye rested on the tho tune tuno which Is now known as liS Amer Arner America ten lea I liked tho the spirited movement of ot It not knowing It at nt that time to bo be boGod God fled Save Ane tho the King icing Ing I glanced nt tho tim German words and sow caw that they the were patriotic and Instantly felt the Impulse to write rito ix II patriotic hymn of at my own on Adapted to the tune Picking up III if It scrap of at waste paper poper which lay In near me 1110 I wrote nt at once probably within half halt nn on hour tho the hymn America ns nA It Itis is 11 known everywhere The rho whole hymn stands today as ns It stood on tho tim bit of ot I waste vaste paper give or nj MX six Ix Inches long and tO and moul n a halt half Tlde I le leMr Mr Smith hail no suspicion that ho ha had In that short halt baft hour made his name Imperishable says tho the Westminster liter alec Press lie Ho gave MO tho the song soon af at afterward to Mr Mason with some som oth others othera ers era er ant and thought no more mOrA about It On tho the Fourth of at July of ot the same samo year yeM Mr Mason brought It U out cut nt at a childrens celebration In the tho Park Street church nORton Hoston From I rom there It soon poon found Its way Into the tho public schools of at that city and then of ot other places and ancl Into pic plc picnics nice and patriotic celebrations every everywhere oer everywhere where and finally Into Inlo tho tim hymn books of the various denominations The whole history of the hymn and Its pres pren present emit ent position pORI lion are aro summed up In n a re rt remark remark mark made by the author himself The people took It Into InlO their hearts During his life lIe Dr Smith became fa tn miller with no loss less than 15 1 languages und A n visitor to him In his I year car Ir found him on the lookout lo kout for tor a 1 i suitable text hook book with which he lie I might begin tho the study of ot tho the language For halt half n R century his hili homo home was nH In Newton Newlon Center Mass MaliS Dr Smith lived hived to bo he years ears of ago age active nethe and busy hURY bus until the Iho evening of ot Nov No IC 16 1895 18 r when ho hI suddenly dropped dead deul while on Oil n a car |