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The Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, June 10, 1903. AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS. Confederate Women and Confederate Soldier. We select the following charming tribute to the valor of th^Confederate Soldier and the heroism of the Confederate Women from among the many brilliant bouquets that were given the old Veterans at their recent ?? *_ n.i Tt. reunion in i/oiuuuuit*. iu w&a ucn*ered by Judge Andrew Crawford, a prominent and eloquent member of the Columb'a Bat: Previous to the war between the States two battles stand out luminously on the pages of history in commemoration of the valor of those t who dared and died for home and country, while fighting overwhelming odds. Thermopylae stands almost isolated in ancient times among the exploits of the patriotic Greeks, who preferred death to defeat and bared their breasts to the invader's weapons, thus preferring death to dishonor. In Helenic song and story ^ so heroic a sacrifice in so holy a cause has come down to us through the ages beautified and sanctified in the ? telling, as it has been repeated from generation to generation through the uncounted centuries. The Alamo, among the modern battles, ranks with and surpasses in glorious deeds the exploits of Leonidas's band. Fought here in America, on Southern soil, by Southern msn, the world only knew the result of the conflict by the ensuing silence. Thermopylae had its messenger of defeat, the Alamo none. History had not duplicated these brave deeds of the Ancient Greeks and modern American, until the Confederate soldier, in response to the call of arms in 1861, rallied to the defense of our dear Southland, when on an hundred fields he surpassed in heroiem and courage the doughtiest deeds of the most valorous warriors of ancient and modern times. This is not the time nor place to cite you instances,of such heroism as caused the world to pause, lost in wonder and pdmiration of the Confederate soldier. He exhibited tenacity of purpose, fortitude in adversity, gentleness in victory and bravery upon the battlefield through four years of unexampled privation and suffering, which have placed him in the front rank of the soldiers of the world. But when the war wa3 ended it was, that all that was elevating and truly great in the Confederate soldier found expression. "When he turned i his back on Appomattox and bid farewell to those scenes where his valor had won the applause of the world, in his tattered clothes, and unshod feet, tired with the toil and strife cf a hopeless Btruggie, defeated, despairing, penniless and starviag, groping through the passes and by ways and brambles and rocks and stones of a land that had felt the hot breath cf war for many years, he locked into the future with bis face turned homeward, and braved greater dangers, greater anxieties, than he had ever carried into battle. As he thus stood in May, 1855, silhouetted against the sky of his dead Southern Confederacy, he was the embodiment of all that was great and good and true and knightly in the history of our race. He was a king among men, the bravtVio ViroTP trnpr and nobler in I COl c/i vuv Ib/VM V * ? ? bis defeat than the victor in any less holier cause. And when be had overcome all the obstacles standing between him and his home, sweet home, which had nestled amid the hills and vales of his native beatn, what met him at his ftnnroaeb?was it the happy wife and ? ri - ? little children Ibafc had clambered at bis knee in the days gone bj? was it the dimmed eyed mother, or the bow father who had grown too old to bear arms in the defence of the countr\? Nv! that home was gone, his people scattered, 'The blackness of ashes marked where it stood, And a wild mother's screams o'er her famishing brood." "War is hell," said a certain incendiary who led his invading hoardes through the Carolinas. And so the Confederate soldier found it on his return to his desolate fireside. No man, or set of men, anywhere \ i under the sun, would have been censured, had he, at such a moment, lost his nerve, and begun to repine. Not so, however, with the Confedrate sol dier. Ke did not lose his nerve, he did not repine. "He belonged to the Anglo-Saxon blood which had dominated always and everywhere. It fed Alfred when he wrote the charter of English liberty; it gathered about Hampdenas as he stood beneath the oak; it thundered in Cromwell's veins as he fought his ? - -i. k ??*> 1 ? "NT flfr KIDg 111 UlilUUiCU Ha^lV/ibVU urn v Waterloo; it baa touched the desert and jungles with undying glorj; it carried the drum beat of England around the world, and spread on every continent the gospel of liberty and of God; it established this republic, carved it from the wilderness, conquered it from the Indian?, wrested it from England, and at last, stilling its own tumult, consecrated it forever as the home of the AngloSaxon and the theatre of this transceDdant achievement. Never one foot of it can be surrendered, while that blood lives in American veins and feeds American hearts, to the donation of an alien or inferior race.5' Thu3 spoke the Confederate soldier at the close of the war, standing upon his desolate hearthstone, sitting amid the ruins of his household gods, and thus he thought and thus he acted. Beginning with a crust j^id no bread, having no money and no credit, he stood in the presence of starvation with bis ragged children and patient helpmeet round about him, the broken and shattered remnant of a once invincible arm}! Would you younger generation of the South have done what he did? What did he do? I will tell you in my way briefly and not wholly uninterestingly, I Ihope, because this is j the truth I am giving you, and not fiction. All government had fallen away him with thft loss of the cause be bad loved so well. He was more or lees a law unto himself. But he went to work, called conventions, passed ordinances in keeping wifcb the demands of the new order of things, sssembled legislatures together and enacted laws, al6o meeting those demands. In the meantime, crops were growing, and, when gathered, they supplied food r.nd money in meagre quantities. In a year or two the old Confed., having defied his threadbare and ragged gray jacket for a better garb, began frt Vmi M nr\ Ttroofc nlar?ps anrl fhpn it. IV k/vti&v* U If MUVV ?? v? VMX? . occurred to him that the South was rich in minerals together with other unsought treasures, and he already knew that she had a monopoly of the cotton product of the world. That same old soldier, instead of being a destructionist became a constructionist in the highest senee of the term. The mines filled with the richest treasures of earth were developed, and the cotton which had been going to the mills Old, as well as New England, and enriching them at his expense, were converted into cotton goods right here at the cotton fields, and this was done in every instance by some good old Confederate soldier. If he was not the old promoter and owner of the mills, bt wss always oDe among them. And I challenge today the naming of a sic gle enterprise in the South of any oonsfquence where Southern men are engaged in it, which has not among its controlling members one or more Confederate soldiers. Every wbirriDg spindle in every Southern State today sings the praises of the progressive Confederate soldier who had inaugurated this onward 6tep in the develpment of these new industries. So, as they were first in war, they also were first in peace, and guided the South's development in things material to a height of prosperity unparalleled in the history of the progress of the world. And you must remember that this was going on under the most adverse circumstancesStarvation was the first load that the Confederate soldier bad to carry from 18G5 to 1868; after that a still more terrible calamity had to be faced in reconstruction, whose baleful visitation lasted from 186S to 1876', when under the leadership of that peerless old Confederate soldier, Wade Hampton, it with its accompanying eviU was crushed forever. Now it was that with herculean [Continued or; Fourth Page] Ridgs Eoad Lets. To the Editor of the Dispatch: The health of this section is not so good at present. Mr. J. D. Langford, of the Lorera sectior, visited relatives on the Ridge Road Sunday. Mr. Henry Price aDd wife, of" near Summit, visited at Mr. E F. C-aughrnan's recently. Peaches and blackberries are ripe now and 'oh how we are feasting off of the juicy pies. Several of the Ridge Road boy?, with their best girl.-, went to St. HFurL-'a fRalnrlo ^ Rnnrldv They report a nice time. The gardens in this section are looking pretty well and the good ladies are giving us plenty of good beans and Irish potatoes to eat nowadays. Weil girls, you may look for P. B (Perry Burket), as he will be around in that new buggy now soon. Mr. C. D Barr, on9 of Leesville'e go-ahead business men, was in this cnmmunity last week representing to us the Deering Ideal Binders and Mowers. Neddy Bray. June 2d, 1903. ? tate of ohio, ClTY of toledo, ) r Lucas County j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm . r m t ni p. : ? u.,~: ui x . o. v^ueuey iv V_PJ., uuiuj^ uu?i* cess in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Citarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Core. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1S86. 1 SEAL I A' Tl'- GLEASOX, { j Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for test.'monials, free. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold b? Druggists, 75c. Halls rainily ruis are tne Dest. Dynamits Plot. Bloomington, 111, June 3 ?There waa a sensation at Lincoln today over the discovery of a satchel full of dynamite hidden near the Chicago and Alton tracks in Lincoln. Thi3 was located within a few yards from the point where President Roosevelt leaves the train tomorrow morning and a plot was suspected by the police. A thorough investigation is in progress. The affair ha3 caused an intense sensation. Ladies and Children Invited. All ladies and children who cannot stand the shocking strain of laxative gyrup?, cathartics, etc., are invited to try the famous Little Early Risers. They are different from all other pills. They do not purge the system. Even a double dose will not gripe, weaken cr sicken; many people call them the Easy Pill. W. II. Howell, Houston, Tex, save nothing better can be used for constipation, sick headache, etc. Bob Moore, Lafayette, lad., says all others gripe and sicken, while DeWitt's Little Early Risers do their work well and easy. Sold by all druggi-sts. It is a sign of greatness in the man who never tries to solve the problem o? th9 way a woman's mind doesn't work. <T77~ r J."../-, 0*>?w,v./n r>/y I? 1^1 Jii*Z ^^ v., * .. , Vi'.1.'" '/ i*' '"* ' J >v._V--r^"-'"-^V'.'<' ^ * :*! < vv-- -vfe ./?#-. ?.*?'"%?/. ?! "V /. *i.*.'X#/?_ -bZstf send $1.00 ANd get the POLICE GAZETTE for 13 WEEKS and a Sporting Book FREE prswiuv list wailed free on application. Richard K. Fox. n. Y. City. * After eating, persons of a bilious habit will derive great benefit by taking one of these pills. If you have'been DRINKING TOO MUCH, they will promptly relieve the nausea, SICK HEADACHE ?. and nervousness which follows, restore the appetite and remove gloomy feelings. Elegantly sugar coated. Take No Substitute. I, R B KB OT rz* P 0 B ? NfcfcUHAM t In elegant cases containing ail the j latest improvements. Designed tor j both Home and Church use. Up-to-' date and noted lor sweetness and j purity of tone, power and durability. I Write today for catalogue, prices and I terms. Stool, book and freight free. ' P LA . i a wonderful attachment to fit any piano, enabling any one without previous knowledge of music to play ; the simplest to most difficult music j ! without study or practice. Catalogue j and particulars free. We have a lot of good second PianAs r?*i^ Ornmriw nf varinns i mftk^s from rent and exchange to be i sold at low prices and easy terms. For anything musical write j Llll iBATES. I .1 > I i I S. M. II. I I I II I SAVANNAH, GA. t I i : September 10, 19C3. ly. i ! i ANDREW CRAWFORD ATTORNEY AT LAW, COLUMBIA, - - - - S. C. PRACTICES IN THE STATE AND .Ii7 Federal Courts. arid offers bis professional services to the citizens of LexingtoD County. October lb? ly. gNGINES -boilers. Tanka. Stack*, Stand Pipe* and Sheet-Iron Work; Shafting. Pulleys, Searing, i/Oiee, Eaugera, eta. Mill Casting*. &r-Cast every day; work Sto handa. LCM5ABD IRON WORKS A SUPPLY C# AUGUSTA, G30EGIA. January 27- l v I Alfred J. Fox, j Life and Fire *1 I ???? j Insurance and ! Real Estate | Agent, Lexington, S. C! ??? Only First Class Companies .Represented. i My companies are popular, strong and reliable. No one can give your j business better attention; no one can give you better protection; no one can ! 8 orivf> vrm hatter rates. I Prompt and careful attention given 11 ; to buying and sealing Peal Estate, ! j both town and country properties, j J Correspondence respectfuly solicited. ' | Thousakds Saved By 1 {OR. sirs IH BiSCSIESff | This wonderful medicine pes:- p gravely cures Consumption, Coughs ?j | iCoids, Bronchitis, Asthma, Fneu-s l^monia, Hay Fever, Pleurisy, La-| j 1 Grippe, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, 1 iCroup snd Whooping Cough,| 11!Every bcttle guaranteed. No! |Cure. No Pay. Price 50c.&$I.ft SHICMESTEB'S EKliUSH PiiMYSOifSL PILLS pi ?s, T At p Safe. Altravs reliable. Ladies, ask r>rufr/r:?t Tor t HICHKSTEK.S ENOILISK in Ke<! and <?old metallic boxes, seaied with blue ribbon. Take no oilier. Refti*e dany:ero?H ??bitb (utionhund imitationk. Buy of your Druggist, or send 4e. in stamps for Pariieulan. Testimonial* and "Relief for Iiadie?." in Utttr, by return .Hail. 10.000Testimonials, bold by all Druprisw. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO. ulOO Uadlion V;uarc, PES I LA., PA. HcnUoa '.U1 * ar^csr. NEW AND FBESH. I Mffi ^ v - ' jili Wkxm '\Ek ;k ~Pi <d mmmVw 'mskwb, v- *$* i mwmw milk >^sciw^v- ! lf^^SsSE^D~* -*18 largest and r '-i-fei best stock of D. 1 PM. Ferry's and Crosman Broth- j . es' Seed we have ever had. ' Now For Sale at TIT 4P& IDl SIHF M H11H1U n ^ DEALER IN ^ mSLY OPPOSITE j OFFIOS, nOT TTTv/TTDT A r*< 3XAX1V STREET. We have received and have placed on our shelves one ot the rncst beautiful as well as the most complete line of ever shown in the city. These are all standard goods from the most reliable mannfacturers and are reoommeuded for their stylish and nobby appearance and the beauty of pattern. A full line of Ginghams and dress goods ot ail descriptions, as well as lovely creations in fashionable spring and summer millinery. Come and see these goods fcelore purchasing. I will make it to your interest to do so. October, i).?3oi. i rur^lr!!^ .P1 i|i| THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN plli COLUMBIA. pllll ?? UNITED STATES. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY ' If IS DR.- BAKER'S DEPOSITORY. pai '"* Saving's 2>epartment. p||i Paid Hp Capital - - $200,000 v j .Liability cf Stockholders 200*000 j ^FuHIa H J j j Tjl'lj'ijl'l!! I WiQIIiEitf<? Vito" |j SlTO.i O'-' . I! i Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cert ! :v!p;l A-New Discover; Iur the.; I per annum, payable May lit and Xovem- I Prevention and Cure of bar 1st W. A. CLARK, President. | nlljkl Female Diseases. V, tt.tf,Toxfs, Vice President and Cashier. . : J December 4?ly. i *1 hdijljjijl It is o permanent cure for ell ? '1'lllj Womb. Bladder end Urinary Dis!Elilfll SM 11.11 HS=? -I j Lad.es will find it of special ?~ I .*? .f ?nV or\ v?/ifh rsrsulori; v du DEPOSITS KECEIYED SLE-JEUi' 'iU | ?? ? ?- ? ? CHECK. :-!l'! rin9 P^egnoncy or the Chongc ;i;l of Life. W. 3?. ROOF, Casliier. ||| ~ DIEECTOES: I i _ . 010~ i Allen Jones, W. P. Hoof, C. M. ESrd, if ^^ j K. Hilton. James E. Hendrix. j| ___ EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND SOLD. PREPARED hi Deposits of $1 and upwards received and qr W q BAKER, interest at 5 per cent, per annum allowed, I jy - I payable April and October. i jij TBE LOOKOUT FOUNTAIN SfiEO uO., T i September 21?tf I alii KiKflCTtUU 1*9 son narxiiTou*. j j GREENEVILLE. TENX. nr. WnnltartESMk' I i I **.'* nin'rrr opium, laudanum,; X I oooooooooooooooo* ;i i laBr raw PAINLESS fixIrof0pium,co- \ i v^ !l 1 BS SOto Ell Bfl calno or whiskey, a \ ftxftvV* M j < 1 O 1 1 I 19 large book of Par" 1 N " 1 I H 9 i Hfffl tlculars on home or fi 8 U 8 V 9 sanatorium treat* - IB ment. Address. B AND M. WOOLLEY CO. j IIaWSH'g Witch Co|va I ?R9 Uiu:?l/rtu Pure 104 N. Pry or Street UeVTIll S Hazel OaiVC " SW WniSKflK lUfB Atlanta, Georgia p p., Burns Sores. /"