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NEWS AND HERALD. PUBLISHED SBMT-WM2KLY, WINNSbEGM PRINTING CO. J. PRANK FOOSHE, - - EDITOP. TERMS. IN ADVANCE: One Year,.....................$t-50 Sit Months....................... . - 75 WINNSBORO, S. C. Friday, May 10. - - - 1901 That Soldier's home proposi tion is gaining favor the more it is discussed. It is not at all un likely that the next legislature will be memorialized to establish such a home. In case it should decide in favor of the establish ment of the home, the town of Winnsboro should be in a posi tion to offer it a suitable site. It would not be amiss for the town council to make an offer of the park as an evidence of the town's desire to have the home in the event it is established. The city of Columbia and the State of South Carolina are to be congratulated upon the getting ol the Southern Educational Asso ciation. The educational value of such gatherings cannot be over estimated, and the teachars of the old Palmetto State are exceed ingly fortunate to have two sue large educational associations a the National and the Southern t meet in theirgis44jnl-shoe'r period a& years. It need no be that Columbia will d4 b part well as did Charleston tI w up to the teachers as t< wh56 "^'thering in Columbi during the Xings holidays will b a -success. By attending ani working for it they can contribut the all in all to make it so. B taking no interest in it, they ca cause it to fall as flat as a flour der. -While Columbia is doin her part so well, let the teachei of the State be up and doing. As the time draws nearer w want to repeat a general suggei tion made not long since in rE gard to the election of teacher and that is that no advertisemeir of the election of teachers t made until vacancies have bee declared. True he teachers< .Equally true * tevery one of them who h done satisfactory work is wort1 of re-election, without having be brought into competition wi a large number of unprofession~ teachers who are chronic app cants. What more fitting tribu~ to a teacher's work could a boa of trustees offer than to re-ele without even having to make application! That is the tribr we should like to see the truste of Mt. Zion pay in every instan in which they think it is deservE The sooner, the better. Thursday's edition of The Sta was a rich one, reflecting gre credit upon the Capital City which the reunion is being -he and upon the paper which h done so much for the upbuildi. *of that city. It is brim full Confederate history, and shou be preserved by every one t has been so fortunate as to i ceive it, and should be had 1 every one who has been so u fortunate as not to get it. reading the article on the Sece sion convention as one looks up' the distinguished faces mention therein and calls to memory t names of their associates wl have gone on before, it is impc sible to shut out the thought t a move endorsed by such in could have been otherthan rigi For the sake of p reserving histo we w.sh that this rich numb could be placed in every home South Carolina. This day thirt-seven yes ago the spirit of that great mi tary hero, Stonewall Jacksc took its flight. In memory him and the dead heroes of t cause for which he gave his li: thousands of old veterans-G bless them every one-with the wives and sons and daughte will visit their resting places lay flowers upon their graves a token that those who have go before are not forgotten. Wou tha evry-grvecould be markd. e tustthat the grav in Winnetoro in Fairfield Coun will either this or some oth early day be so marked. T] wives, sisters, and daughters w see that this tribute of respect paid the husbands, brothers ai sons. Nor will they rest till th are able to erect a lasting nm f Fairfield County. That monu- p ment will be forthcoming at some f not very distant day to perpetuat B the heroism of the sons and the I devotion of the daughters. 0 NIP AND TUCK. The editor of The News and Herald spent Wednesday in Co lumbia, and but for one sight he saw in common with several others from Winnsboro he would have made no mention of the fact. And it was by the merest accident that this came within his observation. It was just as the Blanding street car was mak ing its last trip before the de Sarture of the first section for innsboro. This car was start ing off on good time and at a pretty good speed, so much so that it attracted the attention of one of Winnsboro's largest citi zens who had figured on going on the said car-and on that car he was determined to go whether or no. The race around the walls of Troy that willbe shown in the lec ture Tuesday night was far more exciting, but for an amusing scene the effort of this not-to-be-left citizen of Winnsboio would hold its own. How he spread himself in his onward move to catch the car that was rapidly speeding on its way'and how intense became the excitement of the lookers-on as it was seen that the distance between himself and the car was getting rapidly less. - And when he mounted the rapidly moving public convevor.Ahere - m aa r ro'm those within and but for the fact that it might have reminded the old Vets up stroet that they were again marching on to victory there woald have gone up from those wi.hout a victorious yell. And whtn the incident was over there was the common question why should a man who can outrun a car wish to ride on the same. ADDRESS BY PROF. THOS. DELLA TORRE (Continued from page one.) e the vision of the ideal beneath the actual. Does he not himself sing: s, "I love the world of flowers I Less for their beauty of a day e Than for the tender things they n say, An d for a creed I've held alway is And this recognition of the se a cret bond of union between atur and man sometimes touches hi g genius to the expression of a th almost human tenderness for sligi a~ things of beauty, and is the it Ii.. spiration of the exquisite lines: ~"And when in wild or thoughtles 'ct hour et My hand hath crushed the tinies t1flower, Ine'er could shut from sight es The corpses of the tender thing e*With other drear imaginings, And little angel-flowers with wing Would haunt me through th~ night." at But, Mr. President, Henry Tinm in rod's claim to recognition an< l honor among his own people rest as not alone on the fact that he is ig poet; it is based on the two-fol, of reason that, as poet, he drew hi id inspiration from this, our land c at South Carolina, and from ot e- civilization, and that in a grea >y crisis, in searching down into hi n- own heart, he found there th [n heart of his people. And so, whe: 8- I think of Timrod's deep love c yn nature, the thought that is upper 3d most in my mind to-day is tha e this forest land, with its trees an< 10 flowers and rills, with its blu - sky or cloud and the winds tha at rush over it-that this land tha n fed the poet's inspiration-tha it. this is our land! Venice has faire ry skies and the leaves that fall i: er Vullombrosa are the leaves e in grander trees. The jasmine tha "burns its fragrant lamps," th~ "flowers that shake their odor r in the wind," the forest trees il i- whose deep heart "the blood i n, all aglee," the tall fir that "whis of pers to the stars," the dark oak~ le and fluted chestnuts where li Ee, "fettered all the secrets of th >d breeze"-these are our flowers ,ir these our trees, this the Carc rs linian forest! The poet's hear to has seized the universal note c as nature, but in its loyalty seldox ae 'wanders far from home. And no' ld shall I ask again, why stands thi so monument here to-day; what is it es justification? ty Is there no debt, Mr. Presideni er which a State and a people ar ie bound to acknowledge except th ill debt of material and political pro is gress? Is there to be no recogni id tion of spiritual and moral claim my Are we to rear monuments to ou e- statesmen, generals and soldier raise who preserves their deeds >r distant ages to which wasting iarble may bring no message? )oes the poet bear no gift of his wn within his gentle breast :ightier than the might of war iors and of armies? Not so hought the earliest of the great ommanders, the Macedonian Llexander himself, who, standing >eside the grave of Achilles, ut ered the famous words which nany a hero has echoed since: '0 happy youth, in that you found L Homer as herald of your valor!" [t matters not that critics spend ;heir little days in vain question ng if ever the mail-clad Greeks ranged round 1lion's sacred tow 3rs; for swift-footed Achilles and florious Hector, Diomedes of the roud war-cry, and wide-ruling Agamemnon keep marching down the spacious halls of time with Mien as stately as they ever wor., living too full and real a life to feel the chill of doubt! And so Homer's Agamemnon lives on, and will live on forever, while the heroes-countless-who lived be fore Agamemnon "all lie buried in endless night because they lack their sacred bard." And I must think that, if in the long centuries tfA day shall come when the cause for which Caro linians bled and died shall grow fainter and fainter on the ears of distant men, that even in that calm and far-off day the agony and strife would live agan'-' the great heart of Ca would be t ' , perhaps, some ancient scholar, musing on the words of the past, should read these words: "I hear a murmur as of waves That grope their way through sunless caves, Like bodies struggling in their graves, Carolina! "And now it deepens; slow and grand It swells, as rolling to the land An ocean broke upon thy strand, Carolina! "Shout! let it reach the startled Huns! And roar with all thy festal guns! It is the answer of thy sons, Carolina! South Carolina, Mr. President, has been mother to many sates m nand'.comman~kai anthey so ye ir ~due. Te earn ed and the eloquent hav . wri their names deep on the re 'rdo eher bench and bar and they houk( ahave their due. Humble, but de t voted, sons, with nameless graves consecrate her soil, and .thesi should have their due. But thi face that looks out from the new s bronze that rises in our midst to day is the face of another and t rarer race-the race of poets and of that race how many, be sides Henry Timrod, shall South s Carolina count among her: soni in her two centuries and more o: a motherhood? Should he not have e his due? God forbid, Mr. President, than there should fall from my lipi - any word this afternoon that migh lnot seem to bear witness to th4 s happiness we all feel in our re a united country, but something a must ever be wanting to that hap piness when doubt is cast on th4 >f motives that led southern men t< r battle. Again and again, wher ,t the purity of those motives has s been challenged, statesman and e orator have leaped up in defenc4 i and the southern cause has beer i amply vindicated. But yet, Mr - President, where shall the mar t who would feel as southern mex felt in those days, who would ex e p lore the southern heart ani ,t kow its truth, where shall tha' ,t man find the knihtly spirit o: t the south so typefid and imaged r as in the war lyrics of Hen.ry a Timrod? So long as the wordi if of Timrod's "Carolina" shall live t so long shall those words dis e prove the charge that South Car s olina fr'ught for sordid gain; foi a within those verses there lives s the spirit that never yet wai -evoked save by the conviction o: s right; for it is a holy emotion tc e which base, material ends could e never be mother. Such a spirit i, through Henry Timrod's verse -lives in South Carolina's men t And for her women--would yoi know the Carolinian woman of the i old south? Read Timrdd's "Twc Sris and tell me, if you can, s where lies the land that shall s boast a holier type of woman transfigured, as she stands before ,us, in ali the glory of gentle deeds, wearing a soft halo round e her head, the bright emanation ol - purity, loyalty and courage! I believe, Mr. President, thai ? Henry Timrod's supreme service r to South Carolina and the south s -a service, too, we are here to This i WICKLI Made also in four lrger Sizes. Sold everywhere. ver the distant historian may ;ttle the constitutional right of be southern cause, Timrod, bet er than any ether man, has so that all may see, the he t in . sopthern breasts and has or.n that those hearts beat unselfish and true. Had the south no conception of a lofty mission? Read his "Eth nogenesis." Had she the Tyr taeaa spirit that animated the Greeks of old? Read his "Caro lina." Had she with her the con sciousness of the right that justi fies the cruel battle? Read his "Cry to Arms." Let the i historian, who woud-feaiIght the southern heart, first read the heart of Henry Timrod, And, if imrod's heart is the southern heart then that southern heart beat pure and true and knightly and in such a heart no base and selfish cause 'could live. And Timrod's heart was the southern heart. For when this country's soul was stirred within her his voice was echo to that soul; when southern statesmen were gathered first in council his genus conjured upt f Ivision Fifi faue south whos< beneficent wealth should spreas lthrough all the lands, blessinj the distant peoples; when th -.hour for battle had sounded hi answer was "Carolina" and ") Cry to Arms;" when South Care lina's heart was glad with victor, from his lips pealed out the "Car men Triumphale;" when his nativ city was besieged did she not fin a lesson of calm and steadfastnes in her poet's "Charleston"? An' at the last, when all was over an Carolina's nameless dead lay saf in the mother soil, was not Henr Timrod's voice lifted up, in n vain repining, no idle regret, be with all the healing of the poet' art, to give comfort to the livin andhlie to the dead?. I know not how another, n true soan of the old south, wit: no deep feeling of reverence o loyalty for that more generou: and less self-seeking time, ma; ~judge of the ode to the Confed erate dead sung in Magnoli; cemetery in 1867; I know not an< I care not how on alien ears thesa words may fall; I conceive no how in southern hearts no ans wering throb may rise; but i poetry mean the expression c deep emotion-the stirring c noble feelings of pity, and exalta Ition and pride, even in defeal and calnm r-'pose and resignatioi when all has been given and a] has been lost-then surely thes words, whatever they mean fo alien ears, mean poetry to th soul of the southern man whoa heart goes out to his elder people "Sleep sweetly in your humbl graves, Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause Though yet no marble columi craves, The pilgrim here to pause. In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame i blown, And somewhere, waiting for it birth, The shaft is in the stone. Meanwhile; behalf the tardy year Which keep in trust you storied tombs, Behold! your sisters bring thei: tears, And these memorial blooms. Small tributes! but your shade: will smile More proudly on these wreath to-day Than when some cannon-mnoulde< .pile Shall overlook this bay." the Sirn i55Blue O ,55Flamei C C 'Stoop, angels, hither from the skies! There is no holier spot o ground Than where defeated valor lies, By mourning beauty crowned!' The man who wrote these lines ladies and gentlemen, lived brief life, full of trial and ful of disappointment, but such life as his has not been lived i vain, for he has gone down into his people' eart eve to pass from his e's memorj However and uneventft W y seem when set dow to old words, the man wh echoes a people's heart in som ret crisis, who feels and a vers to its throbbing, encourag in hardships, rejoices in victor' mourns in defeat-such a ma bearing within his breast not or human heart but the univers heart of his people, lives a fullt ife than his fellows, and in deal his meed is the fullest of a meeds-remembrance! And, o i know that there is not or within the roach of my voice t< day who does not feel the path that underlies this glad occasio of to-day's sunshine could ha hpassed into the poet's last hou sRut may we not hope-forl poet has a keener vision of i future than falls to -common nm -and the seer within him looks < into the distant years-may I not ope that the genius of: tlife, the "Fairy of his Dream whose conscious presence he te infcthv come again to him the last, bearing some bright fo cast of this scene to-day, whisp ing that his life had not be lived in vain, but should "bi its flowers in future times," te that "nothing wholly perishes b~ grief." Food changed to Poison SPotrefyiner food in the intesti: i produces efike.ts like those of arser but Dr. King's New Lite Pills ex the pisons' from c'ogged bawE g -ntly, easily hat murelv. curing C s ipa ion, Bitionaness. Sick Headac Fvers, all Liver, Kidney and Bo' .troub'es. Only 25c at McMaster Co DE BOYD DEAD tS rianburg, May 6 -Dr. J. Boyd die~d Sarday night about o'cock -- He had an att-ick of coldt weks sgo which developed into br cbiti'. fH. was a native of Fairfie'd Con and was in bis 83 1 year. Lie grse ated at the South Oarolina Colle read medicine, and after taking i diploma spen' a yea- or two in a me sal school in Earls. After bi< reti he uettled in Spartanburg in 1843 1844 andtbetan tte prbelice of me cie. SHe ma~rried a daughter ot Rich~ Tomson, who lived near the ci 1 Of the live chl'dren born to the m o wo are living. Some imne after war he married the wid'w of Col. E. Eiwards, who survives him. was burled to-day, Dr. E E. Bon of Richuoad reading the fnneral s vices and making a most api repri talk. Dr. Boyd was perhaps the old member of the Baptist Church at t place, having j ained by le ter in 18 Mis citizenship in tbe town was lon. than that ef any wbite man livi except.Maj A. H. Kirby, so far a' know. lie was a most con'.idt Christian and manifested his ze!;g during the we k as well as in church on Sunday.-Greenville Nel Ladies Can Wear shoes one s'zi smaller after usiog Alle Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken i' the shoee. It makes tight or n shos f-el eia ; live. instant rele corns and bunions. Li's the greai comfor t discovery of the age. Cu and prevents swollen feet, b'ists Scallous and sore spot'. Allen's Fo Ese is a certain cnre for swelling, hi jching feet. At a I draggists and at stores, 25c. Trial packege FREE mi'. Addiess, Allen S. Omit' Le Roa, N. Y !lest LSTOVE If your deale does not have them-write to the nearest' agency of STANDARD OIL CO. ils1roIcbet Co "That's cheap enough; wrap the goods up; here is your money. These are the remarks we I hear every day in our Cheap for-Cash Store. r D 'Nice line of Chenille Ties a at ioc; Spiked Belts at 25C each; Yard-wide Sea Island at 5c; 4o-inch Lawn at 7c; Yard s wide Percales at 8 I-3c r, French Gingham at 7 1-2C. n Keep cool! Prettiest line e Fans ever shown in this tow from 5c to 25c each. h Our entire line of straw 1U goods going at cost. &! Curtain Poles, all colors, at e 45c per pair. - Window Shades going aba Ssong. ,<Ladies' Skirts-Crash, Piques rs. an Duck, blacks, whites ga( he assorted colors; price too? he cheap to mention. Latest *en styles in ladies' walking .r ,e rainy-day'skirts. isA complete line ot Ladies ," and Men's Summer Under ils wear, from 5c up. ay A complete line of the at newest styles in Ladies' and Y Me ~ en's Collars 15c; Centersifor en Ioc. ~ar It will pay you to look ati nour line of Colored Lawns at before buying. A new line of Ladies' Ox .e fords just arrived. It will pa eyou to look at them b~f pel' buying./ SA complete line of Men's he, and Ladies' Link Cuff But vItons, Stick Pins, Hair Pins, Lace Pins, Hat Pins, Hair Brooches, Collar Buttons,Belt SBuckles, Rings, etc., going at ,ohalf price. '- If you are in need of any- ~ ,ty thing in our line it will be to ' Iu your interest to join in the Q' procession of hundreds of bar di- Igain-seekers who~ are constant 'r ly makcing their way to the WINNSBORO RACKET Cf., -~ C. B. GLA DDEN,;Mgr. r -for the best Open and Top it Baggies, Snrrey' and other vehIcle., an Harefl Oa at dTohre hfor ca-h or good paper. Prices 0. K. , nNoice to Stocfleldn. Ot" A meeting of the stockholders: hthe Fair field Cotton lkille hereb -- 11 o'clock A. M , in the President's - room of The winboro Bank, Wina.. sboro, S. C., for the purpose of coosid Ito ering the question of inereasing the. "' cspital stock of baid company to to $250 0(0, the increased stock to be of est the class known as ' preferre'd." rJNO. W. CAT~HCA RT. rs, .Secretary. t- -I. K. ELLIOTT, President.