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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER.
VOL. XXII.
NEWNAN, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1887.
NO. 30.
JOHN KEELY,
“THE LEADER OF LOW PRICES.”
JUST BACK FROM NEW YORK!
THE NEW GOODS ALL IN NOW.
JOHN KEELY
OFFERS YOU THIS WEEK
STARTLING ATTRACTIONS IN EVERY
DEPARTMENT.
DRESS GOODS!
600 pieces brocade Drees Goods, 4c. yard.
All colors In Cheese Cloths, fine quality, 6c.
yard, worth 10c.
Beautiful gray mixtures 8c., worth 12tfc.
anywhere.
Very fine grade Nun’s Veilings, wool Ailing,
Uc. yard, worth 16c.
MO pieces spring shades Cashmeres 12!?c.
yard.
150 pieces “Cable Twills” spring colors, 12’4c.
yard.
Beautiful lot Spring Worsteds, 12% and 15c.
yard.
Black and colored Albatros wool drees goods
16c. yard.
Doublo width Cashmeres and grey mixtures,
15c. yard.
Choice evening Nun’s Veilings, etc., at 20c.
yard.
Lovely double width Cashmere and Nun’s
Veilings, 25c. yard.
Beautiful Cashmeres, Ionian cloths, etc., 6-4,
25c. yard.
Flannol suitings, Albatros Cloths, etc. All
colors, 50c. yard.
Camelettes, Serges, Diagonals, Camels Ilair,
JUbatros, Gray mixtures, corded latlstes,
Checks, Gray and Brown mixtures,'etc., in
fine French goods at .50c., 75c. and $1 a yar .
Lovely goods!
All the evening Hhades in
all grade* and
prices.
Bcautilul spring stock of Worsted Dress
Goodembracing all the French novelties of
the sea»on.
JOHN KEELY'S
LACE MITS
Boat the world for their beauty and cheapness.
Much offering* have never been made in this
desirable claw of goods. The variety Is simply
immense!
60 Solid Cases ot
FINE WHITE MUSLIN DRESS GOODS!
From the Largest Auction Sale of the
Season.
PURCHASED
at about one-half their value!
THEY WILL BE SOLD AT ABOUT THAT
RATIO.
You have never seen anything
like them..
15 solid cases of the FINER grades white
India Muslins in short lengths,'but In perfect
condition, at-8.10,1'iS and 15c. a yard. Every
•ne worth double Its price.
"White cheeked Musliusat 5,6. S, 10,1~Sand
15c. a yard.
Goods not to be matched for the
price.
An innumerable variety of
STRIPES, CHECKS
And Fancy Weave White India Linens
at 8,10, 12S1 aud loc..
Good* never Intended to sell .for less than
donbla their price!
This auction sate was a ruin
ous measure! The low prices
obtained *at this sale caused
quite a commotion in Dry
Goods circles.
It bids fairly to disrupt the trade of this
season in that particular branch. It will do it
too.
All the benefits arising from “this slaugh
ter” of a most desirable class'of goods are laid
before you at JOHN KEELY’S!
180 pieces “Batiste Claire” Linens—20, 25,
and 35c., lovely goods!
Excellent Bargains in Plain Nainsooks!
Superb Values in Victoria Lawns, 6 to 50c.
yard!
Fine Stock BISHOP’S LAWNS, all prices!
White Linen Lawns, at every known price!
Extra fine grades, checked India Linens!
Persian Lawns irt every color!
White and Cream Mulls in every quality!
Stupendous Bargains in Dotted and Figured
Swiss!
Linon Di Daca Lawns 12^c. to 50c. yard!
The largest stock of Persian Lawns in Geor
gia!
But the effort to enumerate fully the variety
of White Goods here offered were vain!
THIS NEWSPAPER
Positively docs not afford SUFFICIENT
SPACE to enable me to dilate fully upon the
details of the wonderful offerings now being
made in this department.
JohnKeely’s MILLINERY
Department is being made still
more attractive by the daily
additions which are being made
to the stock. Every Novelty
of the season will be found
here in the greatest profusion.
A truly Superb Stock of
Goods!
Close upon the Heels of
WHITE GOODS
COME
EMBROIDERIES
The Stock of EBROIDERIES is
MAMMOTH!
This is my
“PET” DEPARTMENT.
No wonder that it “BLOOMS” as it
does in tfco way of sales, for enough
CAPITAL, LABOR and THOUGHT has
been expended upon it toruua pretty
good sized
DRY GOODS STORE.
$30,000
WORTH OF EMBROIDERIES
In this Stock to-day.
The Sales of Embroideries in this
Houso just now are ruuhing up to Jrom
$S00 to $1,000 a Day!
THIS MEANS SOMETHING!
Hamburg Edgings and-Insertions to
match, do. to $1 3 ard!
Lovely Nainsook Embroideries, from
the “Daintiest” little beauties, to the
widest, grandest Flouncings with inser
tions to match.
Mull and Swiss Embroideries insets
of four and live widths to match.
Sweetest little “Baby Sets” in Mull and
Nainsook.
Superb line of Skirtings trom tho low
est to the highest grades made.
ItXMifferent styles of Colored Embroid
eries in all the widths to match, with sol
id color Lawns to match all of them.
Hundreds of “Allover” Embroideries,
from 75c. to $5.00 a yard.
The truth is that never before has such
an Immense Stock, such a Svtrpising Va-
riety or suen an Array of Beautiful Em
broideries ever been laid before the
Ladies of any Southern City as that now
offered at
JOHN KEELY’S
FANS.
I Challenge the South on
F ans!
THE STYLES AND QUALITIES
ARE TOO NUMEROUS
TO NAME.
But they brat everything ever offered
in Fans in this or any other market.
They range in price irom 5c.
up to $3.50!
YOU
CAN MATCH THEM NO
WHERE ELSE.
They aro Laid Out so you can see thorn
at a Glance!
THE STOCK IS IMMENSE!
The Variety is Unsurpassed.
They are selling like
“HOT CAKES!”
Price and Quality Will Sell
Any Quantity of
Anything.
LACEMITS!
Fomething Very Attractive.
I Closed Out a Lot of 1,500
Dozen Black and Colored
Lace Mits.
I OBTAINED THEM FOR A SONG.
If your voice is anywhere near Mediocre
You Can Get What You Want
of Them.
They Embrace the Best Goods Made!
They Embrace Nothing Worth less than
$0 per Dozen. They Run up as High in
Value as $1 per Dozen.
M isses’ Black Lace Mits, fine goods, 15c
pair, worth 60c.
Ladies’ Black and Colored Lace Mits,
20c. pair, worth 65c.
Ladies’ Superfine Black and Colored
Lace Mits, 25c. pair, worth 75c.
Ladies’ Lace Mits 35c. pair, worth 85
anywhere.
REMEMBER!
Tills Is no Mere Exaggeration! Il is Fact!
Ladies’ Black and Colored Lace Mits,
40 and 50c. pair, worth $1.00.
Ladies’ Light Colors—Lace Mits, the
best made, 60c. worth $1.25.
WELL!
TTiis settles tne Lace Mitquestion tortile
Season.
Nothing like iHem Has ever been shown
Here before.
Nothing like them will ever be shown
here again.
To examine them is to purchase them.
John Keely’s SHOE DE
PARTMENT is one of the
marvels of the trade to-day!
'i he run of patronage is im
mense. but the stock is the
largest and the best ever placed
before the Atlanta public! No
Shoddy Goods. No Trash.
But the best “Custom Made"
Goods, every pair of which is
warranted!
JOHN KEELY’S
Stock of Black Summer Dress
Goods is immense ; 100 differ
ent styles of Black Dress Goods
in stock, in both Jet and Blue
Black, in every grade, style
and effect. No possibility of
you failing to find just what
you need here in Black Dress
Goods!
LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDER
WEAR.
Ladies Chemise 25,35, 50,60, 75,85c, $1,
$1.25, $1.50 and up to $2.00 each.
Ladies’Night Gowns 50, 60, 75 30c., $1
and finer grades.
Ladies’Walking Skirts 35,40,60,75,11,
$1.25 and finer grades.
Ladies’ Muslin Drawers 25,50c,$1, $1.50,
etc.
ONE WORD!
This lot of Underwear ex
cels for beauty of design, qual
ity and finish anything ever
offered in Atlanta. The unan
imous verdict of the ladies is
favorable. They are picked up
very rapidly.
$5,000 WORTH OF NEW
PARASOLS.
Ladies’ Gingham Parasols and Sun
Umbrellas.
Ladies’ Alpaca Parasols and Sun Um
brellas.
Blaek Silk Parasols and Sun Umbrel
las at$I, $1.25. $1.35, $1.50, $1.75 aud $2.00
each. Natural sticks.
Fine Black Silk Parasols, Pearl Han
dles, HALF PRICE, at $1, $1.50, $1.75,
and $2.00 each; positively worth double
the price.
Ladies’ Fine Mourning Parasols at
from $2 to $5 each,
Black Satin and Black Lace Parasols,
half price.
Colored Fine Satin Parasols, half price.
BARGAINS IN PARASOLS.
Any quantity of novelties in Parasols-
viz: in White and Cream Parasols, Fan
cy Fine Black Laco Parasols, Fan
cy Colored Silk Parasols, Colored Bro
cade Parasols, Fancy oolored Satin Par
asols ; in fact
An Immense and Beautiful Stock
PARASOLS!
And at prices which fairly startle the
purchaser! You will find just any
kind of a Parasol' ye j need here.
LACE CURTAINS.
A BOOM*IN
Lace Curtains and Curtain Laces.
10,00 yards beautiful Scrim, 6,’Jc. yard,
worth 12^c.
500 vards Lace Scrim, 10c. yard, worth
15c.
Lovely lot Scrim goods, 12U' and 15c.
yard, half price.
Beautiful printed Madras Curtain
goods 15c., worth 25.
Superb “Etamine” Lace goods, 20, 25,
and 35o. yard, cheap.
l.OCO pairs Lace Curtains 90c., $1, $1215,
$1.50, $1.75 pair.
Better grade goods away up to fine
grades.
Nottingham Curtain Laces at from 10
to 35c. yard.
SPRING WRAPS!
1,£00 Ladies Casbmere Scarfs$1 each;
beautiful tilings.
1,000 fine Embroidered-Scarfs at from
$1.50 io $7 each! All colors, various styles,
etc.
a.fine line q| ladies’ Oaslimeie Shawls,
in every graueof goods at piices rang
ing from *1.50 to $10 each, in black, light
blue, white, cream, cardinal, pink, etc.
; SILKS!
Black Silks at from 50, 60. 75. S5J90, $1,
$1.15, $1 J25,$1.S5,$L50, $1.65, $1.75 and up to
finest evades of Silks made.
Every Black Silk above 90c. yard is
GUARANTEED!
No such a variety of Black Silk in
Georgia!
A fine line of Summer Silks, Solid
Color Gros Grain Silts, Black aud Col
ored S»tins. Khadames, etc., all oolors
and grades of quality.
Thousands ol Novelties in Trimming
Silks, Satins and Velvets. All new. All
fresh.
BESIDES ,
Tlie best Line of Solid Color and Black
Plain Silk Velvets and Velveteens ever
shown here.
SWEET MAY.
“The summer is come! the summer is come
With its flowers and its branches green.
Where the young birds chirp on the bjossom-
inc boughs.
And the sunlight struggles between;
And like children over the earth and sky,
The flowers and the light clouds play;
But never before to my heart or eye
Came there ever - o sweet a May
As this—
Sweet May! sweet May!
“Oh! many a time have I wandered out
In the youtb-of the opening year.
When nature’s face was fair to my eye,
And her voice was sweet to my ear!
When I numbered the daisies, so few and shy
That I met in my lonely way;
But never before to my heart or eye
Came there ever s*> sweet a May
As this—
Sweet May! sweet May!
“If the flowers delayed, or the beams were
cold,
Or the blossoming tree were bare,
I had but to look in the poet’s book,
For the summer is always there!
But the sunny page I now put by,
And Joy in the darkest day!
For never before, to my heart or eye,
Came there ever so sweet a May
As this—
Sweet May! sweet May!
“For ah! the beloved at length has come,
Like the breath of May from »far;
And my heart is lit with her gentle eyes,
As the heavens by the evening star.
Tis this that brightens the darkest sky,
And lengthens the faintest ray,
And makes me feel that to heart or eye
There never was so sweet a May
i As this—
Sweet May! sweet May!
MEMORIAL ADDRESS
DELIVERED B7 HOWARD M.
SMITH, ESQ.,
Before the Ladies’ Memorial Asso
ciation, at Newnan, Wednes
day, May 4th, 1887.
armies. The rooted forces of • the ! have no. proud recollections look
North supplied artillery and ammuni- forward to no future achievements,
tion. rifles and bayonets to the South- These are the influences which estah-
erners. The cannon which thundered : lish national pride and make bravery
against Gettysburg, the shot which hereditary in a people. The army
crushed the brave mercenaries of 1 * 1 -' K “ - ! ’ K ’**“
AT JOHN
>8,60,62 AND 64 WHITEHALL AND 8 AND 10 HUNTER STREETS,
ATLANTA* GA$
Ladies of the Memorial Association,
and Fellow Citizens:—
If I had felt that I should be expect
ed upon this occasion to give expres
sion to any sentiment that has not
been expressed before, or pay any
tribute that has Dot been paid before,
or develop any principle that has not
been developed before, I should have
considered myself in duty bound to
decline the honor that was accepted
with such great misgiving. Appear
ing as I do before an audience of such
intelligence and culture, one whose
tastes have become so refined and crit
ical through enjoyment of exceptional
opportunities ot this nature, I should
be keenly gratified if it were within
my power to present to you even some
minor phase or aspect of my theme to
which your attention has not been
previously directed. But since the
curtain dropped upon the stupendous
drama of ’61 to ’65, Southern thought
has deeply pondered, and Southern
memory has tenderly dwelt upon all
of its momentous issues, bound thereto
by the inflexible bond of personal
pride and personal bereavement. Re
sult ing popular sentiment has crystal
lized iuto observance of the day we
now celebrate, and for something like
a score of years each recurring spring
time has brought with it innumerable
scenes like this;—scenes to which elo
quence and learning and statesman
ship have esteemed it a proud privi
lege to contribute their best endeavors.
It follows naturally, therefore, that
you have learned of the pure and lofty
patriotism of those who bore the Con
federate arms, and that you have been
told with all the force of polished
rhetoric and burning eloquence of the
unparalleleJ gallantry with which
they stood by their convictions. You
have learned of those great social and
political problems, which, at an early
day, thrust themselves iuto our na
tional existence, and, growing with ad
vancing years till they finally over
shadowed all other considerations, on-
Iv found solution in that trial of arms
which has given us a dead to com
memorate. You have, perhaps, learned
best of all of the dark chapter of re-
ciSnstruction; of that era when society
and law and order were in a state of
chaotic confusion; when industries
were paralyzed and States bankrupt
by an incompetence aud corruption in
office that have no parallels in history,
and when the intolerable oppressions
of vengeful malice and brutish ignor
ance seemed to the minds of many
good men to warrant appeal to meth
ods of self-protection more summary
than are known to courts of justice.
You are now learning year by year
that the animosities of the war are dy
ing out, that sectionalism is rapidly
becoming a thing of the past, that a
community of interests is binding to
gether States lately in conflict, and
that upon the re-establishment of a
union in fact as well as in name, ma
terial developnuen and prosperity
bave, all over our Southern laDd,
made such strides as to awaken the
wonder and admiration of the world.
Yes, it is all as familiar to yon as a
thrice-told tale which an orator’s elo
quence might embellish but could not
in any w'sy alter. In these piping
times of peace public sejtiment is, for
the most part, opposed and justly op
posed, to auy public utterance that
would te->d to rekindle the smoulder
ing fires of sectional animosity, and
no word of mine shall be spoken to-day
with such intent.
The day is not far distant, however,
when the exploits of yourdead heroes
out yonder shall come to be held as a
national inheritance, lo which North
and South will alike claim interest.
Permit me, tbeB, to present briefly an
estimate of those exploits made public
during the closing scenes of the war,
and formed not from a Northern or
Southern, hut from an impartial Eng
lish standpoint; and later I shall tell
you why. Listen. “The South is
doomed. With the surrender of Gen
eral Lee ends, not indeed the possibil
ity of military defense; still less that
of desperate popular resistance, but
the hope of final success. After four
years of war, sustained with a gallant
ry and resolution that have few if any
precedents in history, after such sac
rifices as perhaps no nation ever made
in rain, after losses that have drained
the life-blood oi the country, after a
series of brilliant victories gained un
der unequaled disadvantages, courage
and skill aDd devotion have succumbed
to brute force; and by sheer power of
numbers a race inferiot in every qual
ity of soldiership and manhood has
prevailed over the bravest and
most united people that ever drew
the sword in defense of civil
rights and national independence. To
nutnhers and to numbers alone the
North owes its hateful triumph. Its
advantages in wealth aDd resources, in
the possession of the sea and the com
mand of the rivers, were neutralized j
hy Southern gallantry, Tn despite of “
the most numerous navy ju the world,
half a dozen Southern cruisers drove
its commerce from the seas. In de
spite of if* overwhelming'*uperiority
in strength of ships aDd guns, impro
vised Southern ironclads beat, and
drove off its blockading squadrons
and Southern cavalry, embarking
upon little river steamers, captured Us
armed gun-boats. When the war
broke out the North had every kind
of military stores iu abundance and
could draw unlimited supplies from
Europe; the South had scarcelyacan-
noo, had but few nflt-s, still fewer
swords or bayonets, and not a single
foundry or powder factory. All these
deficiencies were supplied by lh» fire
light of the Confederate government
aim fcr <* *» CosMttata
Burnside od the slopes above Fred-
ricksbttrg came, for the most part,
from Northern arsenals. Almost ev
ery battle has been woo by the South,
but every Southern victory has been
rendered fruitless by the overwhelm
ing numerical superiority of the
that marches to battle armed with the
prestige of a glo.ious aDcestry, goes
out in the confidence of sure success,
and to it the victory is already half
won. To properly foster these influ
ences, so salutary in the development
of a robust national sentiment, they
should be perpetuated through me-
vanquisbed. It may console the he- diums that touch the masses more di-
roic soldiers of the South to remember
that their whole force was uever equal
in number to the foreign mercenaries
of the Union army alone. Richmond
has fallen before "an army of foreign
mercenaries. Lee has surrendered to
an army of foreigners. With a horde
of foreigners Sherman occupied At
lanta, took Savannah, ravaged Geor
gia and traversed the Carolinas.”
Here is a tirief and imperfect out line
from sn English point of view of the
achievements of Southern arms, and
of the overwhelming odds with which
she bad to contend; aod the re.cord is.
one which no people can afford to for
get. There is a power in recollections
of this character of which, perhaps,
you might never guess..
An eminent Euglish author has
said: “The history of mankind, from
from Its earliest period to the present
moment, is fraught with proofs of one
general truth, that it is in small States
rectly than do the records of history;
and just here to my mind is to be
found one of the grandest features of
the work that is being done by the
Ladies’ Memorial Association. All
over our Southern land every memo
rial shaft pointing heavenward is an
undying declaration.' not merely of
love and gratitude to those who sur
rendered their lives in the bloody
struggle for Southern independence,
but au expression, as well, of admira
tion and pride, in their heroic achieve
ments and of unswerving loyalty to
the principles and convictions f r
which they fought. He who regards
these matters as of little practical
moment is but a superficial student,
either of human nature or of history.
The influence of Westminster Ab
bey upon the English Da ion can nev
er be estimated. Standing in the
aisles of that majestic pile, surround
ed by the tributes of gratitude and
and in consequence of the emulation ! homage which England has lavished
and ardent spirit which they develop, j upon her honored sons, surrounded by
that the human mind arrives at its I the intellect and valor that for centu-
greatest perfection, and that the freest ! ries have adorned the pages of Eng-
scope is afforded both to the grandeur i lish history, there is begotten within
of moral and the brilliancy of inlel- i the soul an ambition to live and die
lectual character.” Whether or not the i worthy of so much greatness. And
proposition as laid down he true, j to-day were the ashes of our heroes,
there can be no doubt but that the I statesmen aud authors, few though
principle involved is of vital import- i they be, gathered together under oue
ance to every government. Nations, 1 root worthy to be their resting place,
like individuals, know the force of im- : that spot would become the centre of
pulse and incentive to action. There j such stimulating influences us S»uth-
is national ambition as well as indi- I eru ambition has not hitherto known;
vidual ambition, national honor as j aod among the multitudes who would
well as individual honor, national ! visit its sacred precincts, how many
pride as well as individual pride, and ! would the hallowed associations of
by these the character of a people may 1 the place arouse to a sense of their
be largely determined. i own unemployed talent, and animate
Let us consider briefly the develop-; with the pride of their country’s re-
meDt aud operation of these ageucies. ! uowo; and, impressed with the gran-
The British empire comprises witbiu ; deurof the scene, would kindle with-
lts immediate domain three distinct ! iu their breasts the noble feeling of
peoples, originally under as many ; Correggio in contemplating the R<>-
governments; while witbiu our own ; man masters, “I, too, am a painter.”
- -■ j t j s this spirit of perpetuation that
gives stability to national pride and
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vast territory are many theoretically
independent states, and further Hues
of demarcation as sharply drawn as
though defining distinct nationalities.
In each of these we find an illustration
of the principle referred lo. Who can
estimate the good which England has
derived from the stimulation of a na
tional pride by snch Scottish minds as
David Hume, Robert Burns, Dugald
Stewart and Walter Scott ? And even
Ireland,outraged andoppressed victim
of a political tyranny that is amazing
for its malignity and shortsightedness,
fit subject as she is for the pity aud
commiseration of all lauds where the
principles of civil liberty have ob
tained a footing, even Ireland has bad
her Wellington, her Goldsmith and
Burke. History records these names
only as belonging to that mighty host
that has given an added lustre to Brit
ish warfare, poetry and oratory, but in
reflecting upon their achievements
aDd contemplating their greatness the
heart of every patriotic Irishman
swells within him as he exclaims,
“these are my countrymen.” Though
bound together by the tie of a common
government, the individuality of Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland has ever
been preserved; and when the mighty
intellectsnfWebster,Clay and Calhoun
met in the halls of our National Leg
islature they were at all limes sensible
of the fact that they were, in a meas
ure, representatives of distinct peo
ples, whose several interests laid tribute
upon their utmostability. Pride of na
tion is no small influence in the devel
opment of a national character; and In
our own land what is now termed
sectioual animosity will, in time, tone
down lo a wholesome emulation.
Owing to our peculiar form of govern
ment and many of the circumstances
of onr former civilization, mere is a
danger just here front which we of the
g mill have not entirely escaped. As
another has it, “There are few exam
ples in the history of mankind of an
independent kingdom being incorpo
rated with another of greater magni
tude, without losing, in process of
time, the national eminence, whether
in arts or in arms, to which it had ar
rived." It is from this tendency, I
say, that we of the South have already
suffered to some exteDt. The long roll
of bonored names contributed by the
South to the nation in the early days
of the Republic was such as to estab
lish the intellectual predominance of
this section in all departments of pub
lic life, while in these latter days La
mar, Stephens and Hill have well su-t-
tained the reputation of Southern
statesmanship.
In wartare we suffer by comparison
with no people on earth; but in music,
literature and art we have practically
no national record. And why? The
same stock that furnished to history
most of the illustrious names, whether
in civil or military life, which she is
called upon to chronicle during well-
nigh the first century of the Repub
lic, could not fail in these other de
partments of effort, if properly stimu
lated thereto; and this can hardly be
more successfully accomplished than
ulates individual energy; and iD
my belief in this principle lies my
apology for presenting to you these
familiar thoughts at such .length.
Let that spirit live, for it is the promise
of better things. Let every name and
every tradition interwoven with that
darkest aud brightest chapter ofour his
tory be handed down till they have be
come as familiar as household words;
for out of them may proceed a power
to fire Lbe blood ot generation* yet un
born. He who stands in the aisles of
some temple whose windows are
adorned with variously timed glasses
finds himself illumed by lights of as
many hues that give to all about him
a strange and glorious beauty; so the
generations ot man, surrouuded by
memeutoes of greatness made death
less hy its works, stand flooded in 'he
blended hues of glory trausmitied
through diverse mediums, that will
beautify and soften the poet’s dream,
elevate aud strengthen the patriot’s
pride, animate and sustain the war
rior’s zeal down the shadowy aisles of
the far-coming ages long after you and
I have faded like streaks of morning
cloud in the hazy azure of the bound
less past.
It Das been said, and withsomesbow
of reason, that weoflbe Southareana-
tion of seutimeutalis's; that as a peo
ple we are characterized by a strong
romantic bent; interesting aDd attrac
tive enough in its way, but not condu
cive to the development of a great
mercantile or manufacturing nation.
Just at this time, when our people are,
toau unprecedented extent, engrossed
with the prosecution of mighty enter
prises, when our vast coal, iron and
railway interests are inviting for
their development speculative mill
ions. both at home and from abroad,
when the national heart seems throb
bing and every nerve seems thrilliug
with the infusion of new life and ener
gy-just at this time there would seem
to be no room in the public thought
for seutiment of any kind. And if
the war cloud that broke upon us
just iweuty-six years ago, is to be the
last of its kind to darken our land;
if the future has in store for us only
smiling years of peace aud plenty;
years that may be entirely given
over to ;be creating aud hoarding of
worldly possessions, then, indeed,
theredoeBseem hut little room forsenti-
ment. The Confederate dead did but
their duty, and, therefore may invite,
but cauuot demaud our gratitude.
There are times, however, when senti
ment is a power. It was sentiment
that made the Old Guard destructible,
but inviueitile; sentiment has elotbed
the "Marseillaise" of FraDceand the
shamrock of Ireland with terror for
all tyrauDy and oppression; sentiment,
for the most part, lime aud again
drove Southern bayonets up tho well-
nigh impregnable heights of Gettys
burg aud through many another hard-
fought field, aud sentiment has pre
served intact our social laws and cus
toms in despite of the civil and mili
tary power of the government, and iu
Ice and knavery sway the sceptre of
power.” The sequel I need not tell
you. Gibraltar’s massive front could
scarcely he less shaken by the gentlest
zephyr that fans its’ rugged heights
than ha* been Southern determination
to preserve intact all that was best of
the instincts, customs and traditions
of the old civilization; and the
world at large has come to under*
stand that a settlement of all those
irritating issues, coming in with
the new order of things, can only
be had hy adjustment to that
can only be had by adjustment to that
fact. And this we call sentiment.
Can you longer doubt, then, that sen
timent is often a wonderful power with
in itself? The preserving of this influ
ence, at once so potent aud so whole
some, has been for the most part left
with you, ladies of the Memorial As
sociation; and l would voice no idle
flatteries when I say you have nobly
discharged a glorious duty. If at any
time your energies should flag in this
labor of love, it should stimulate you
to remember that you have in large
measure, noth our past and future, in
your keeping. You cannot perpetuate
an ennobling thought without insur
ing its fitting act; jou cannot foster a
love of the heroic without in time pro
ducing the hero; you eannot hold up
to the generations of to-day, and ail
generations that are yet to be, a past
whose darkest shadow seems luminous
with the flash of martial deeds and the
halo of deathless names without pav
ing the way for a future that shall in
all things he its fitting complement.
By the eternal laws • >f cause and ef
fect it must be so. And the immor
telles you now weave into garlands
for the dead shall in d. e season be
transformed iuto wreaths of victory
for the living; while for all time to
come the brightest pages of our re
corded history shall chiefly abound
with the fruits of your labors. Yes,
treasure up and perpetuate all of these
influences, and with a jealous hand.
No matter about those grand charac
ters that stand out as central figures
in the late war between the States.
They have their places in the world’s
history, and cannot be forgotten so
long as Napoleon or Wellington or our
own Wa-btngton are teuiembered.
Turn from these to the myriads of
humbler graves that dot so many
hillsides of our fair Southern land,
aud from them gather up the animat
ing impulses aud quickening memories
that shall preserve in us as a people
those superb soldierly qualities that
the world has never matched. The
field is not an uninviting one and it
will be much if you only relieve In a
measure that grim satire upon a peo
ple's gratitude, though inseparable
perhaps from war, that goes out to
the world in the pathetic “unknown”
which marks the last resting place of
so many of the Confederate dead.
But I cannot better fix the place of
the private in gray than in the fa
miliar language ot ooe of Georgia’s
sons whom most of you have had the
pleasure of listening to in person:
“The daring deeds of Stonewall Jack-
sod, his rapid movements which
invested him, iu the belief of
the superstitious, with ubiquity,
and bis sudden descents on the foe, as
he swept like a falcon to its prey,
were only possible because his high
born pride inspired his devoted band
with a heroism that wearied out the
stars in their inarch «by night, and
caught new strength from the risiDg
sun as they rushed upon tho flame of
battle. So is it with Lee. His follow
ers were nurtured in the same civili
zation as himself. Under the gray in
the Confederate rank aud file heat the
great hearts ot many aCurtius,Coccles
and Ney. If bis gloryis like the sun,
theirs is like the stars. When the
splendor of the sun is veiled by Dight,
we behold above us a few bright stars
moving in grandeur over the field of
heaven, whose names and pavjllions
and goings forth are known ; but in their
midst is seen, iu “lose column, an un
distinguished host pressing steadily
onward, nameless and unknown; no
one brilliant, but all together shed
ding a halo around the skies. For
ages ignorant man called them a con
gregation of vapors. But the astrono
mer, drawing nigh and scrutinizing
their ranks iu clear aud passionless
thought, has returned to earth with
the revelation that they are an army
of stars, differing from each other on
ly as ‘oDe star differeth from another
star in glory.’ And when the histo
rian, iu after times, shall turn his ad
miring gaze from the lustre of the
greatest captain of hi- age, and from
his brilliant subalterns whose names
and deeds are known, to scrutinize
that mighty host who, nameless and
unknown to fame, barefoot and sore,
marched under the banner of the
Southern Cross, he will, from their
blended glory, resolve their individu
ality, and tell the children of this ig
norant and malignant generation
that they were, one and all, heroes as
great as ever fought beDeatb the Cross
to re-cue from the Crescent the Holy
Se ulchre, and patriots as pure in
tbeir devotion to liberty as wero the
fathers of the Republic.”
Not Every Woman Would Have Seen
the Point.
Buffalo Conrier.j
A man having large business inter
ests and a hat.'Uome income married
a lady who, accustomed all her pre
vious life to the luxuries of wealth,
had never lormed any clear conception
of Lhe value aud purchasing power of
money. For some months every
whim, no matter how extravagant,
was promptly gratified by the indul
gent bushaud, who always gave his
check for any amount of money asked.
Oue day the bride of a few months, to
through the influences growing out of despite of misguided sycophants
occasions of this nature. If you have i sruoug our own people who, from
given the subject no thought you will | press and pulpit, have aspired to fig-
be disposed to think I rate such influ- ure as apostles of a Dew order of
ences too highly; but search the pages things. Just here is to be found its
of history and you will fiud the idea 1 perfect work. Enactments beyond
sustained. When the Athenian ora- : constitutional limits have been aimed
tors wished to stimulate the Grecian j at it by a partisan Congress; f»r a quar-
soldiery to g-eat and patriotic deeds. ; ter of a century a practically uuani-. - caprice reauested a
thev recalled to their minds the he- mows Northern press has heaped upon ! c f rr y out some caprice, requesiea a
rof/acU of their forefathers, pointed j it columns of vituperation and abuse, !
to the Acropolis crowned with the and inflammatory Nor hern orators wassomet*hattstaggered thtsre
spoils oi 'heir daring and bade them have called down maledictions wito a I by. He saw that such itrodigality.il
be worthy the national name. De- ; ferver born of blasted political hopes, persisted in, n*eau^.ruin, but, not
mosthenes in one of the grandest Nor have we been without advice, dis- i wishing to grieve his wife by a downs
apostrophe's Vwdint* HtSS? “ interested and abundant The same | ^trefusal ^<l«temtnedto^ve
vokes the shades of those who died at inscrutable providence that, from : her an object lesson in the financial
at Marathon and Platea to sanction time to time, has seen fit to dispense : line. Accordin ly, with a «
the cause in which his countrymen pestilence andfamines.and[wars, has . « SnfXoJtLeXnsU
ea no power wicDinlweirr io tne minions. x«»u wm irauw, iw, i rv-r* — j „ *x . * . ^_
war-worn veterans who followed it pricelessness of this boon when you ! bffls, as was expected, but in sterling
blindly through a hundred fields, who reflect that within the first hundred j silver dollars, the sum total filhugsev
felt it hovering over them like an an- , and odd years of its existence noprob- eral specie bags. Thej*ife was at first
gel’s wing and saw it leading on like ; lem has arisen in the business of the vexed and theni amused, andL
a beacon light to'victory,—to these world for which New England has j before the afternoon e , vh * hM .
men it was possessed of a mystic spell j not been ready with prompt and per- j came deeply though 1.
that kindled in their breasts the fires i Bistent solution. A', the close of the better half ca mehotij e toeu ppershe
of patriotism and made them wild to late war we offered a field for gratui- i took hjm geutly by tbearra.and lead-
diefor it. Call It superstition or fa- tous beneficence too inviting to be j ing him into the hall "be r e the pon-
naticism or what you will, but certain ; overlooked. With our resources ex- derous hags of specie w ere still stand
His that within its silent folds slept ! hausted by four years of consuming ; ing, said: m „ npv T asked
an eloquence mightier than that of war, with our social and economic > My dear, isitbis the,money I asked
aoy huuian tongue. Around Bun-i fabrics overturned and destroyed, with 1 youRm this morning.
kefs Hill 1 Monument. New England’s all the old conditions of success anni- r It is, my love, was tne rep y.
—ide and New England’s patriotism hilated. withont money without ered- j ^nd dtd j.-u have to take this^all
! in the streets or Paris as the land- social ana ponucai status oi tour uiu- ,
| ark of established government, of' lions of’elaves suddenly clothed by act • suits of Y - *
! law and of order,maddened the ragtag of Congress with all the rights and ; be answere g ^ y. tearful
mob of the Parisian Commune, and ■ privileges of citizenship; eorelv tried Well, then she said with teartal
i their vindictive malignity was satis-1 by dissension* frota within and perse- eyes, 8e . , — ▼
fied only when it bad been leveled with* j cations from withont. with, no rights
the dust. And so I might illustrate ! the victors felt bound to respect and
indefinitely the influence of these and j no representation for nrgtag those
kindred objects. They are the outer ; rights—at each a time as this
embodiment of an inner sentiment, j England was not slow to come and
They are the tangible expression of j say, “Abandon all the old traditions,
associations and recollections that are ; cut loose from yoor pride and love of
dearest to the hearts of a people, and j cas*e> and let education and culture
commemorate deeds that were vital to | and intelligence bumble themselves
ttafttttnti*fa*
eyes, —_
back to the bank in the morning. I
can’t use so much money for a trivial
purpose.”
Editors may be passionate and ex
citable, but they rarely throw a dte-
moud-studded'paper weight at an Ob
jectionable spring poet if there hap
pens to be auy boos «tuur leg# lyuif