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N E W N A N, F RI D A Y, F E B. 12.:
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
“The Old Confed.”
I Row) Ix.foro the Confederates Vet.-nm* on l.ee’.
birthday, Jan. 19, 1909, by Mi. H Helen IaOTu:. j
In addressing you to-day it is for a [
twofold purpose.
First—There is always a welcome for
you ! It is our wish that you will ever
he with us. There is a fascination,
tinged with pathos, which surrounds the
Confederate soldier. No one else car
ries this indescribable, magnetic charm
as the soldiers who wore the gray, and
in years to come the story of their per
ils, privations from hunger, cold and
destitution, will bring pain to the
heart, a sob to the throat, and a tear
to the eye. It is the desire of the
Daughters of the Confederacy that ev
ery Confederate veteran should have a
Southern Cross of Honor.
"Few an* left who now can claim it;
Fewer grow they, year by year;
Yet the veteran’a Groan of Honor
Grow® to Southern heart® more dear.
Yew, *ti« guerdon of a glory
Which cun never phmh away
'Tin the aeal of Southern women
On the valor of the gray."
Second—Last year I made a public as
well as a personal appeal to you to
write me a history of your soldier life
during the days of ’61-’65—to give me
a sketch of your prison life, on the
march, weary-fought battles, stories
told around the camp-fires. Only three
of you have responded. Dr. Curry in
his “Southern States of the American
Union” sHys: "History, poetry, ro
mance, art and public opinion have
been most unjust to the South. The
true record of the South, if it be relat
ed with historical accuracy, is rich in
patriotism, in intellectual force, in civ
ic and military achievements, in hero
ism, in honorable and sagacious states
manship. History as written, if ac
cepted in future years, will consign the
South to infamy.’’ The greatest mis
sion of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy is to collect the true his
tory of the Soutli in this great conflict.
For our veterans the banners of the
eternal camping-ground are ever wav
ing a joyous greeting; old comrades
are reaching out beckoning hands.
Now is the time, while you walk with
ns, and can give us this history from
your own lips. Once again I ask you to
write this history. If you do not,
where and how are we to obtain it?
Act while the day is yours 1 “Let but
a spade of thought be sunk and some
long-hidden treasure is unearthed.”
There is no successor to the Confeder
ate soldier. You are rapidly passing
away--nearing the end of your long
march. Soon the sultry suns and the
dust of time will have done with you
forever.
"You boy® nro gutting kind o’ gray,
You old Confed®;
You Him* ain’t got long lion* to stay,
You old Confed
llalf-Htarvud, you faced tin* boy® in blue,
When clothed in rngH and tatter®, too,
Ami braver soldiers no one knew.
Than old Confed®.
"And when old Gabriel blown hi® horn,
You old Confod®
Will fall in line on that great morn,
You old Confed®.
The Miinter then will say to you,
‘Just take your neats in that front pew—
Thero’® nothing here too good for you
You old Confed®.’ ’’
With what confidence Manassas in
spired you, although victory was cloud
ed by the death of Georgia’s first Gen
eral—Francis S. Bartow. This battle
had its humorous side, too. It is said
of the ynnkees, in their hasty retreat,
that an Irishman outstripped the rest
on his way to Washington. Being met
by an officer, the latter inquired why he
ran. He answered: “Them as didn’t
run are there yet.”
Comrades meeting comrades have
never ceased to question why was that
useless sacrifice of life and fruitless
battle of Franklin. Some of you were
there. Fredericksburg, Chancellors-
ville. Cold Harbor, the Wilderness,
valley of the Shenandoah, swamps of
the Chickahominy, the trenches of Pe
tersburg, Yellow Tavern, Sharpshurg,
Chickamauga, Vicksburg—some of you
were there. In dwelling on these years
of carnage, “there is one name whose
very sound is like a sigh or groan.
None is gloomier or instinct with a
more nameless horror than the little in
significant village of Gettysburg.”
When Lee’s old war-horse attacked
Round Top Hill victory seemed within
your very grasp, but you could not
snatch it. “ ’Twas then the century
reeled, when Longstreet paused on the
slope of the hill.” When we see the
bullet scars, the saber, cicatrix, empty
sleeve and crutch, we know you were
there. Then came the iUh of April,
Appomattox—the bitterness of death.
Those of you who were there stacked
your old muskets you had carried in an
hundred battles; surrendered your bul
let-torn colors; all lost, gone, save
honor and principle You returned si
lently with your “parole” to your des-1
olate homes. With brave hearts you
gave your energy and every thought to
the restoration of your ruined homes,
to the gathering up of the pittance re
maining from your once bountiful
store.
Could there have been n nobler sight
than this? You have been blessed, for
where can you find a fairer or more
prosperous domain than this same Dix
ieland? Do you ever dream of Dixie
land?
' Her home is in a wondrous clime.
Yon inland in the stream of time;
The phow’ra that wash it® cloud® away
Are tear® for her dead boy® in gray.
To her you cannot find the way
Unions you wore or loved the Kray;
The ‘Star® and Bar®’ wave o’er the door
In Dixieland forevermore.
Tin there the veteran® pro each year,
And there they hold reunion® rare;
With nonKs and tale , and yell' the hoy®
KotaHte their bravest, sweetest joys.
The lK»yn that died for Dixieland
Gome back and take them by the hand.
And on that glory-lighted shore
They siriK their glory ®onir® once more.
There Dixie calls the roll each your,
And fewer, fewer annwor ‘Here;’
And soon there’ll none be left to Bay:
*1 fought w ith Lee; 1 wore the Kray.’ ”
“Fads That Sicken a Sane Chris- j
tian.”
Atlanta Journal.
The plan of one hundred young peo- |
pie of Dr. John E. White’s church of j
Atlanta, to walk in the steps of Jesus
for one month, is the subject of a card
that has just been sent to the Atlanta
Journal by Rev. B. J. W. Graham, edi
tor of the Christian Index. This plan
was tried in Cleveland and spread to
other cities, finally reaching Atlanta.
To-day the attempt at sinless living
for a month by one hundred young peo
ple of the Second Baptist church of
that city will begin.
“I am surprised that this old fad has
been revived,” writes Mr. Graham.
“It is positively sickneing to a sane,
orthodox Christian.”
He insists that the question is not
what Jesus would do, but what he
would have us do.
His card in full follows:
“ ‘In His Steps, or What Would Je
sus Do,’has bobbed up again. I am
surprised that this old fad should have
been revived. It is positively sickening
to a sane, orthodox Christian. In the
first place the question is not what Je
sus would do, for He is both Savior and
Lord. It is not within the province of
a Christian, who is a servant, to per
form either the functions of the Savior
or those of the Lord. The business of
the saved who are bought with a price,
and therefore are servants, (douloi.) is
to obey the commands of the Lord.
The question is : ‘What Will Jesus Have
Me To Do?’
“The most disgusting thing about
the revival of this fad is the fact that
those who have been caught by it have
pledged themselves to do what Jesus
would do for one month. What have
these Christians been doing before this
time? But the most serious question is
what are they going to do at the end of
the one month? The implication is that
they are not going to do what Jesus
would do. Is the obligation to do what
the Lord wants me to do limited to one
month? I once heard a man say that
the Lord only required a man to live
right for one month in the year, and
that he chose February, because it was
the shortest month.
“If I know anything about Christian
ity. as set forth in the bihle, it is that
Christians must endeavor to do what
Jesus wants them to do the rest of their
lives. Being good a month is a delu
sion and a snare.”
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Which Serves Us Best, Our Joys
or Our Sorrows ?
In the beginning, with youthful ex
uberance and abundance of hope, it is
joy, pleasure, freedom from care, that
makes young persons merry and ripe
for fun, but the time soon rolls around
when disappointments crowd in so
thick that the pursuit of pleasure gets
to he full of things that are not pleas
ant or enjoyable. It is borne in upon
one’s mind that duty oftentimes con
flicts with pleasure seeking, and the
future then becomes a conflict between
the pleasure seeker and sensible views
of duty and obligation, particularly if
reverses of fortune intervene to make
this conflict more strenuous.
There are few persons in the world
who have not tasted the ills of life af
ter they have reached maturity. Some
times the change comes through loss of
health, oftentimes through reverse of
fortune, and many times through one’s
sympathy and affection for those they
love as their own selves.
A great many fling themselves
against the bars of their captivity and
aggravate their suffering by a vain
struggle to alter the inevitable. Such
struggles have sent scores of once hap
py people to the asylum. A great many
have been reduced to misanthropes and
disbelievers in whatever is pure and
good. They are transformed into mis
erably unhappy creatures, a burden to
those who must endure them, and to
themselves, because they are discon
tented and rebellious.
But while the ways of adversity are
hard and the struggles with poverty
are often sore and wearying, there is
a discipline that attends such burdens
which works a healthy condition of the
mental and moral man in the end. The
Master says, “Blessed are they that
mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
That comfort is obliged to grow out of
the chastening results which attend
this conflict between duty and inclina
tion.
The “Inhumanity” of Poisoning a
Dog.
Griffin News and Sun.
A gentleman residing near Griffin re
cently had a dog poisoned which he val
ued very highly, and the following ex
pression of his feelings, addressed to
the despicable parties who commit such
dastardly acts, will probably meet the
approval of many readers of The News
and Sun.
“You dog poisoners! You inflictors
of suffering upon the noblest and most
faithful of dumb animals! Have you
ever witnessed the agonies of one of
these poor brutes after its system has
become inoculated with the deadly
dose you have tossed him, or perhaps
given with one hand while the other
palm caressed his shaggy coat? Have
you ever seen the full results of your
inhuman work—the awful, frame-tear
ing spasms, the frantic efforts to con
trol the pain-contracted limbs, the
heaving of the tortured body, and the
almost human appeals for assistance
by piteous little moans and uplifting of
eyes that are trustful of man, even
with the glaze of death settling upon
them? And then, the last awful death
spasm, in the throes of which the poor
animal attempts to caress the hand of
the man who is ministering to it—a last
expiring effort at gratitude. And yet
there are people who will poison a dog.
Oh, the inhumanity of it all!”
He Learned Something.
A young man who had recently re
ceived his “sheepskin” from one of
our leading colleges, and who was de
sirous of an easy, good-paying position,
boarded the train for the city. He
walked about the city nearly all day,
undecided as to what sort of employ
ment would suit him best. Finally, he
decided to try a printing establishment.
Walking up to an old printer he said:
‘‘Good morning, sir. I am looking
for a job. Have you anything for me?”
“Are you a printer?” asked the vet
eran typo.
"No, sir; but I wish to learn the bus
iness. How long will it take me to
learn the printers’ trade?”
‘‘You never learn it. my friend, ” said
the typo. ‘‘You learn something new
every day.”
The young college graduate thought
the printer was ‘‘dragging ’ him. and
he pertly asked:
“What have you learned to-day?”
“Oh.” said the printer, good-natured
ly, “Among other things I have learned
that there are all kinds of fools in this
world.”
A young man who persisted in whis
pering loudly to a lady who accom
panied him to a symphony concert, tell
ing her what the music “meant,” what
sort of passage was coming next and so
on, caused serious annoyance to every
one of his immediate neighbors. Pres-
j ently he closed his eyes and said to his
I companion:
“Did you ever try listening to music
with your eyes shut? You’ve no idea
how lovely it sounds.”
Thereupon a gentleman who sat in
a seat in front of the young man twist
ed himself about and said gravely:
“Young man. did you ever try listen
ing to music with your mouth shut?”
And it sometimes happen that one
can judge by appearances. Many a
woman seems strait-laced because she
is laced that way.
It’s the easiest thing in the world for
a man to deceive himself.
Wanted All the Facts.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
When the policeman told Patrick Col
lins that he was before the court, Mr.
Collins felt his wav to the rail and
stood there, his hands upon it. His head
was completely wrapped in bandages.
Just one little peek hole was left,
through which a gleam of light pene
trated to the inner Collins. He turned
his head sidewise, like a battered and
very dissolute robin, and peered at the
magistrate.
“You are charged with disorderly
conduct, Collins,” said the court.
“I know it,” Mr. Collins was under
stood to mumble. “I want to be held
for trial.”
“You—want — to — be — held — for
trial?” gasped the court. “Why not
plead guilty now, pay a dollar fine, and
go away free.”
“Nup,” said Collins, straining lan
guage through the cloths. “Nup, I
wanta be tried.”
“And in the name of Great Chief
Tammany—why?” asked the court.
“Because,” said Collins through his
swollen lips, “the last I can remember
was when I was standing peaceful-like
on a corner. Then the next thing I
can remember two doctors were sewing
me together so I wouldn’t fall apart
before I got to court. I want to be
tried and hear the stories of the wit
nesses. That’s the only way I’ll ever
find out what happened.”
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