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A SOUTHERN DUTY.
On the 26th day of April 1865,
just forty-three years ago, the
storm clouds of war were rifted
and the sunshine of peace began to
impart a new life and light to a na
tion that had been rent in twain
by the blood-stained hand of ha
ired and prejudice
On the hill of Appomatox the
conquerors and the conquered met
and mingled for the first time in
four years when their meeting
was not characterized by pain,
groans, and death. It was the
most memorable day this Young
Republic has ever known, It was
the closing chapter in a volume of
hardships, sufferings, bravery and
heroism, whose pages were the
most brilliant and eloquent this
world had ever read.
Robert E Lee had, with tears of
regret, washed his blood-stained
blade, and sheathed the sword of
the grandest soldier in human his
tory, while around him wept a
l iggecl, hungry band of the brav
est, truest, most patriotic follow
ers that God has ever made. And
yet the hour was prophetic of the
sublimest peace that has ever hov
ered over the hearthstones of any
1 oople and proved to the world
the metal of a manhood that pro
vided an era of progress, peerless
and nnparalelled.
A nation without a cause, with
out a struggle of self sacrificing
devotion to what she conceived to
be right, without staining her
convictions with the blood of her
martyred heroes, without placing
all on the altar of her country’s
honor for what she believed to be
her duty to coming generations, is
a nation without a ! istcry, without
a name, a people forgotten and lost
by fane. That nation that has
suffered and sacrificed most for
what she conceived to be in de
fence of the great cause of human
rights has ever blessed this old
world with the highest type of
manhood and furnished the most
brilliant illustrations for the pages
of its history.
The posterity that fails to mag
nify such splendid exhibhions of
true greatness, that fails to appro
priate such an expression of sacred
grandeur amt glory to its heart
and life is unworthy the the names
of such sires. A posterity un
mindful of the virtues of such a
fatherhood is but a prodigal who
outrages the richest bequeathment
of time, is a traitor to the highest
instincts of true manhood, and
must necessarily become a stench
in the nostrils of a disgusted hu
manity. Xn the Decalogne God
said, “Honor thy father and thy
mother that thv days may be long
upon the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee,” and the nation
that lives and prospers must cher
ish the memories of a noble an
cestry, for in that hour thkt they
lecome indifferent and unmindful
of parental patriotism, the germ
of decadence has attacked the mud
sills of their government and de
cay ends in the dismal throes of
defeat and death.
No childhood ever received sneh
•a legacy of manhood as that be
queathed by the matchless boy in
gray to the boys and girls of the
South. It was un inheritance
written upon the papyrns of pa
triotism, with the blood of self
sacrificing heroism and handed
down by the hand of an honored
hero. Defeat plucked not a sprig
from the garland with which fame
had laurelled his life, and the cur
rent of his chivalry, like the Gnlf
stream, will forever retain its
individuality as it courses through
the ocean of human greatness,
warm with the pulse-throbs of
Jove and bravery as it attracts
with its magic presence the atten
tion of a watchful, admiring world.
Did God ordain his defeat to teach
the world a higher, grander, no
bler lesson in the curricntnm of
human chivalry, for the Confed
By J. 0- NOLAN.
erate soldier had shown on many
blood-stained battle-fields the most
superb grandeur in hours of tri
umph and victory, but he taught
the world a new, snblimer and di
viner lesson in the hour of defeat.
How can we refrain from loving
and cherishing his memory, when
foes admire and nations respect
and esteem !
But should we forget and our
eyes grow dim in the debauchery
of indifference, thank God he will
live in song and story as long as
human hearts pulse with princi
ples of patriotism and language
lavishes its litanies above the
sleeping dust ot dead heioes.
His comradeship, whether in the
camp or in the ranks, amidst the
roar of battle, was unequalled and
unsurpassed, and brave, tcnderand
true, his magnanimity and kind
ness to a fallen or captured foe
gave to mankind a higher ideal, a
purer conception of chivalry.
What is our duty? It is so
plain there is no chance to err—
Memorial day should be the grand
est day in Southern life. Not to
harbor enmity or unkind feelings
against those who fought against,
but to consecrate an hour in which
to laud, cherish and enshrine the
memories of those who fought for
us ; to prove to the living our un
dying admiration and devotion,
and to prove to the world our love
and appreciation of our dead he
roes, and like Rizpah on the rock
defending the bodies of her boys
from the birds of prey, stand ever
sentinel ever their sleeping dust
and defend our boys in grey from
the talons of prejudice and hatred
that would seek to prey upon their
lives and characters.
This is the most sacred treasure,
the richest duty that rests upon
the South today. This is the
simplest, sweetest, surest way to
correct the errors of history, to
obliterate the hues of hatred, to
protect from the persecution of
prejudice and passions and per
petuate the principles of Southern
patriotism.
The ranks of the surviving vet
erans are growing thinner each
day. Seven have fallen from the
ranks of life in this county in the
past two months. There are no
recruits to take their places ; they
will all soon have passed away
and the last old veteran sitting in
the camp of life will soon hear the
Eternal command, “Forward
march!” and will totter forth to
fall before Death the universal
enemy.
There ought ty be an organiza
tion of boys and girls in every dis
trict in every county in the South
to follow the remains of the old
heroes to their burial places and
deposit a confederate flag and
sprigs of evergreen in his grave to
prove to the world that we still
honor his patriotism and princi
ples and cherish his memory.
There onght to be a monument
erected in every county in this
Southland, donated, not by the
old veterans, they ought not to
be asked to contribute a dollar,
hut paid for and constructed by
his posterity, carved with fltting
epitaph and placed where coming
generations can realize and pay
tribute with loving remembrance
to the story of his chivalry and
valor.
The cross erected upon the crest
of Calvary, upon which hung and
suffered the dying Nazareue, was
the snblimest monument ever
raised by liumun hands und has
been bathed with the tears *.nd
prayers of millions of worshipping
hearts. A monument that will
stand through the eternal ages
perpetuating the highest, holiest,
and most sacred impulses that
ever have, can, or will thrill the
hearts of a loving, trusting, wor
shipful world. That was a monu
ment that stood for everything
that is pure, good and true in hu
man life. And it is a duty that
every posterity owes to its hon
ored ancestry to cherish and per
petuate that in their lives that is
hallowed by the unfading hues of
truth, justice and right. And
there is no lesson, however elo
quent may become the pages of
history, however sacred may
sound the tradions of a distin
guished past, that can teach pos
terity the virtues that cluster
around a cause he thought was
right, like an imperishable shaft of
granite upon which stands sentinel
the statue of a private Confederate
soldier at his post of duty, guard
ing his unparallelled principles
and patriotism bathed with the
“blue blood” of his heroic heart,
sublime with the sentiments of his
priceless pride. Before it is too
late let us prove to the living our
sincere devotion and love for their
valor and let them bear to the eter
nal camping ground of their dead
comrades a message of peace and
praise. We love them let us show
and prove it to them and feed
their hungry, heroic hearts with a
feast of admiration, appreciation
and devotion. God pity us in
that hour when progress tramples
upon the prostrate form of patri
otism and the chivalry of our
country is covered bv the dust and
dirt of a cold calculating commer
cialism.
He stands in history unequalled
and unsurpassed. He is ours, a
southern treasure that we cherish
and prize and that Americanism
that has made us a world power,
has constructed the grandest and
most glorious government on earth
today, is mostJeloqqently expressed
in the patriotism and chivalry
that, cluster around the character
of the Confederate Soldier.
T<> have perfect health w T e must
have perfect digestion, and it is
very important not to permit of
any delay the moment the stom
ach feels out of order. Take some
thing at once that you know will
promptly and unfailingly assist di
gestion. There is nothing better
than Kodol for dyspepsia, indiges
tion, sour stomach belching of gas
and nervous headache. Kodol is
a natural digestant, and will di
gest what yon eat. Sold by
Horton Drug Co.
An Alabamian made a remarka
ble discovery while hunting quail/
Among the birds killed was one
that had been shot before. Its leg I
had been broken and around the j
fracture moss had been tightly
wrapped and fastened so securely ;
that though the bone had knit per- j
fectly, there was no sign that the
moss would ever loosen its hold,
whether the bird hud been its own
surgeon, or whether the covey car
ried one for emergences, there was
no way to determine, but the near
ness and firmness of the bandage
where said to excel anything a man
could do for himself under similar
circumstances. If it can be dettn
itly proven that birds perform sur
gical operations on themselves, it
would be one of the most curious
discoveries in ornithology. We
submit the question to John Bur
roughs and President Roosevelt,
both expert naturalists, and hope
this interesting story mav not
prove another invention of the
“nature fakirs” who have been so
roughly and justly handled by the
President.—American Farmer.
A big cut or a little cut, small
scratches or bruises or big ones are
healed quickly by DeWitt's Car
bolized Witch Hazel Salve. It is
especially good for piles. Get De-
Witt’s. Sold by
Horten Drug Co.
The Evidence in the Case.
years list* is evidence —millions of cos
sinners is evidence—sales made by 16,000
agents is evidence. You buy 4 gallons L.
&M. Paint and 3 gallons Pure Linseed
Oil (at 60 cents) mix them and make 7
gallons, best paint ready for use —cost on
ly f L 20 per gallon—done in two minutes.
H. J. Copeland Mer. Co., McDonough.
Hampton Buggy Co., Hampton.
L. & M. Paint Agents.
PEARL
SPRING
ftBEfIMEBY
Producers and
Shippers of
PURE
D A i RY
PRODUCTS
Ice Cream, what it is, as defined by the Pure
Food Law :
“Ice Cream is a frozen product,
made from cream and sugar, with or
without a natural flavoring, and con
tains not less than fourteen (14) per
cent of milk fat.”
Anything else called ice cream
offered for sale is a violation of the
law. We will keep on hand during
the season assorted flavors and de
signs which we will be glad to serve
you on short notice, at the following
prices:
One Galon . $1.25
3 Quarts . . 1.00
2 “ . . 65
1 “ • • 35
Pearl Spring
Creamery.
If the toothache doesn’t hurt a
man it’s because some other fellow
has it.
CO TO
B. H. WELCH’S :
FOR YOUU
Stock Always Fresh "
and Pure.
; Goods First-Glass •
; Prices Reasonable.
Also closing out lot of - *
SHOES AND SLIPPERS :
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS
BELOW COST.
WE MUST SELL THEM AT ONCE.
Fewer cigarettes or more asy
lums.
Wise is he tvlio kicks only at the
things that cant kick back.
