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I -**f-HWWt t- as a whole. Uut its { CONFEDERATE VICTORIES. + <*hort of the esseutli ^ j i I m m i I I i I I I t : I I I II 1*1* lhe armies i Columbia State. """"I1"' itB ow" ,,u 1 he whole world Under the headllno "Germany is the urmiUK ftnd n beateu," in The New York Tribune, Northern armies, as t appears an extended editorial article! now contrlbnUs to t In which that journal arrives at thoj "AM this w?.a not p conclusion that the history of the outset or until almo European war, so far as the Central *'le ( War. D? allies are concerned, parallels that of s,Klir vv 1 n common i as we see it now, \ the Confederacy. IKspite numerous! North was'already i and magnificent victories. The T'.iib- pure Northern depesi une contends thnt the Gern.an and bloody and fruitless Austrian urmies have utterly failed to the Wilderness to Co destroy or to Tlefeat decisively any Itritish depression noi ft " ,*y ?\^^\ C? .?,n'V ?'"" , ' "' .jWr' ' . i; I \ < ALFALFA HARVI Owned by Mr. Roy Cunningham, one of Lancast ono of the great powers arrayed is patent. Yet this c against them. the back of the Soutl P At the beginning of the war. The attrition of hoe's arm State pointed out similiarity of the "With all tlie vari condition of the Germanic and Aus- jn degree between tie trian alliance with that of the Con- Confederacy, the ma fedoracy, and we believe it was t'n same. tlvrmany and I first newspaper to direct attention to , ny are outnumber* it. We are not prepared to go so far as The Tribune goes in anti< i 'in our own experience ii very admlr- EgK able standard of measurement for German military success. In our Civil War the victors were over long months and years the vanquished. A Defeat, disappointment, blundering Bflk stretch all the way from first Hull ?, ^ Run to Chickamauga. Compare Ger- , man with Confederate successes, and Jhmmpkb with proper allowance for the dif- | ^ ference in size, the essential fact is & the same. "Yet, reading history, looking QSH|BMpv J back now, nothing is clearer than if' A that the South was always doomed, unless it could get an early decision ? I battlefield. inferior in population, resources, cut' I off from sea-borne commerce, the, ' * South was condemned ty defeat un- Heath Spring* less on the battlefield it could win a Mr. Twitty is one victory that would destroy the most energetic and armiCA before it. I raisers, lie is a slro "Precisely' this the South could fine blooded stock, an never do. It could win battles, cam- liever in supplying t pnigns, operating as do the Germans, the larm. Mr. Twitty on interior lines, it could concen- the Swine Departmei trate supb^ior forces at tho impor- this week, and will be tant point, while inferior in numbers many friends attend. - f A Herd of Young Spring Horrs. owned by Mr. W. B. | ed at the Lancaster Coui I .y * TITK LANCASTER NFAVS victories fell aiul resources of England, France il requirement. Russia and Italy are incomparably ?f its l'oe grew greater. Sea power has destroyer unbers weaker. Germ .n coinnierce, >aled u?? Ger contributed to man harbors, while for the im 3 tin lunitioning of sea brings all the resources ot Amerlio whole earth ica and tlie colonics to tlie battle ho allies. 1 lines." terceived at the The Tribune was Horace Greeley's st tin. '?loae of newspaper. Surely no other Ameriaspondency, de- ("in journal, half a century after the at times, when end of our greut struggle, is so well ictory for the qualified to confess and define causes iissured. Com- of the Confederacy's failure. What sion after the it so well and truly says is, after all. campaign from no more than a repetition of what Id Harbor with one hears at Confederate reunion^ v and the thing and in Confederate veteran camps. I SST SCENES er's most progressive rural business men. ampaign broke We arc reprinting it and emphasizing li In the sheer jt_ because, tin account of it ; source, : it will be some consolat'on to tit ous differences rapidly thinning ranks of the ? rinanv and (ho , , . , .... federate veterans that rem un. \\ hatin fact is the her Austrian ?v,'r m:,.v ')e stiid of the cause of our id. the wealth wal" by historians, it is at least gratifying that the twentieth century i vjiM?,4u representatives of their enemies bear ' . . . i ' 1 ; < 1 ' i 1 marked the furthermost point that had been readied in achievement soldierly valor and prowess in 186.1. In one respect, at least, the meth? v JjA ods of Confederate armies were not like those of the Qermans, and in terns oort of this point, too, we cite Northern testimony, a letter printed in another Now York newspaper o:i m ?m -v i^ggfc jl the same day that The Tribune's editorial appeared. It speaks for itself: "To the Editor of The Sun Sir: In the bitter part of June, 18(53, when the Army of Northern Yirginia was in Pennsylvania, its cotninander-in-chief, (len. Robert E. Lee, ^<?"?22^^ a' Chamborsburg, in his historic A BE proclamation among other things pi iva lie* |1 HH Army of Northern Virginia in-'! suits a woman or destroys property will bo shot.' ?. ! ?. "A few days before the battle of of Lancaster's Gettysburg my grandmother was efficient stock walking just outside of York on the ng advocate of pike leading from that town to (1 a sincere be- Gettysburg. It was a beautiful Sunhe home front day morning, and she stood beside ' is manager of the roadway, gazing out over tiro it at the Fair aisled fields, when suddenly she glad to see his was aroused front iter reverie by the clatter of hoofs upon the pike. Turn'' " ; f - ^v ^^ Twitty, of II ^a"n Springs, S. C., to be exhibit[?ty Fair this week. |!^ f . * , ??? ? ? ? - ? ? ? -f * ' ' : ' ' I ,vo * *,; - !;, " ' * * I {M&: _:. ... > i 11K around sho beheld but a short dood and truly appraised distance from Iter (3on. John H. (Jor- generation, even in the St don and his staff at the bead of their should be. brigade, which was part of Early's Tho spirits of l,ee and division of Ewoll's corps. and of Sidney Johnston a "My grandmother trembled. Sho ning victories. had heard reports that the Confed orates were in Pennyslvania, but had True Spirit t?f S| no idea they were near York, and she t'oluinblu Record, nearly collapsed from fear. General have read several Gordon, with the gallantry character- school hoys engaging istic of the Southern soldiers, seeing contest of football only her fright, instantly removed his hat, sani'; break up in a quar and with a gracious how, like the un'lirlllMJte' If '-s not courtly knight that he was, said, 1,10 Kanio? !)Ut an cxhib . . _ roliollinnu ,*< ~ - .wu'ipiue, you neeu nave no rear. Wr , do not. come into Pennsylvania to 's a sport an make war on women. You ran pass ?? on and you will not bo molested in ^T-rf 7~, V~i ?~ two least. e. j. van baman. ; 1 he reliable h "Now York. ..Co.,or GoO<l The Y? It will bo said, maybe, that nothins is gained by aeeentuating these Ready-to-take tilings in a Southern newspaper. Wo think differently. Standards set, whether of valor or humanity, by the Confederate armies are the inheritance of mankind, and sometimes we suspect they are not so fully under !-' !* ' *1* 4*\ *1*\'4* ! ? !-4^.' 4,\* I THAT IS WHAT t BY TRADING i J JUST READ ON AND GET A | BUT A FEW OF THE BARG. j Blankets . . 49? Me | Mens rants . 1 Ch | $3.50 and $4.00 Q98 or r Whitcomb Shoes " * Boys' Shoes . $1 19 Ch jr * | Outing & Cotton A 1C | 10 Flannel *2 I w< 1 Check AlC I W1 | Homespun *2 [ 38 + Anything else that you may need in Dry Goods, Shoes and the latest in La > us before you buy elsewhere. I-I I R S < ? TIIK STORH THAT CONTI1 / > _ r. ? ? 1 r * V * * - ^ . * * v . I 0 > % * "x *? ? I by the new k pi clean ami v .w/egomp. 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