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WAR S'i Ex-G-?v. Hob Taylor's tlie Heroes of tL At the rei|uest of a number of Con federate Veterans, the Journal pub lishes below the speech of ex-Cover nor Bob Taylor, delivered on July 25th last, at the Confederate Veter ans' reunion at Brownvillc, Tcnn. The .speech is so rich in Ion; of the South, its products and beauties, that there has been a general request to have it rcpublishcd for the benefit of the old soldiers who could not hear it, and who have been uuable to secure a copy of it. The speech is as follows : "Time in its tireless flight has brought us agaiu to the full leaf and flower of another summer. The grass grows green about the dust of heroes; the roses twine once more about their tomb, and the morning glories point their purple bugles toward the sky as if to sound a reveille to our immortal dead. Another year with its sun shine and its shadows, iti laughter and its tears, its sowing and its reap ing, its cradle songs and funeral hymns, uow lies between us and that dark day at Appomattox when the star of Southern hope went down and the ilag of Southern chivalry was furl ed forever. "Another year has added whiter locks to the temples of these old vet crans who wore the gray, and deeper furrows to their brows, and they now stand auiong us like solitary oaks iu the middle of of fallen forest, hoary with age, covered with scars and glo rious as the living monuments of ^ ?Uth?rn manhood and Southern cour age. "But we are not far enough away from that awful struggle to forget the bloody hills of Shiloh, where Albert Sidney Johnson died, and the fatal field of Chancellorsville, where Stone wall Jackson fell. "We are not yet far enough away to forget the frowning heights of Get tysburg, whore Pickett's charging lines rushed to glory and the gravo. We are not yet far enough away to forget Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga and the hundred other fields o? death and carnage, where tho flower of the South, the bravest of the brave and the truest of the true fought for the cause they thought was right and died for the land they loved. "We are not yet far enough away to forget the agony and tho tears of a nation that was crushed when the shattered armies of Leo and Johnston, worn aud weary, half starved, bare footed and in rags, staoked \hoir arms in tho gloom of defeat and left the field of valor overwhelmed and over powered, yet undaunted and uncon quered. When time has measured off a thousand years tho world will not forget the sufferings and tho sacrifices of the brave men who so freely gave their fortunes and shed their blood to preserve the most brilliant civiliza tion that ever flourished in any land or in any age, for literature loves a lost cause. "Historians will some day sit down ou our battlefields and write true his tory?history which will read like the . wildest dreams of fancy that were ever . woven into fiction, and poets will lin ger among our graves and sing sweeter soDgs than were ever sung before. For each monument is u volume within itself of wild and thrilling adventure, and every tombstone tells a story touching as the soldier's lust tear on the white bosom of his manhood's bride, tender as his last farewell. "I Would not utttr a word of bitter n'ss against the men who wore the blu?. They fought and died under the old flag to perpetuate the union and thc> .*erc men worthy of South ern prowess and Southern valor. ' 4J would ?.oL if I could rob Grant, the great and noble chieftain of his fame and glory. Every Southern sol dier ought to stand with uncovered head when his name is spoko?. For when all was lost, in the darkest and saddest moment of Southern history, he was magnanimous to Leo and kind to his tattered und famished army. Along the blue lines of the trium phtut foe, when tho unhappy Confed erates inarched betwecu them and laid down 'heir guns, there was no shout of vic ory nor flourish of trumpets, but OLiy silence and tears. "When the conflict had ended the Confederate soldier proudly stood ! among the blackened walls of his ruined country, magnificent iu the gloom of defeat and still a horo. His eword was broken, his home was in ashes, the earth was red beneath him, the sky was black above him, he had placed all in the scales of war and lost all save honor. But ho did not sit down in despair to weep away tho pa nng years. r~"s slaves were gone, but ho waB ?t?i >u aiaster. Too jnr?ud t? pine, too down" his musket and laid his willing 3but unskilled hands upon the waiting Atlanta adversity, he threw ORIES. s Eloquent Tribute to lc "Lost Cause." Journal. I war and turned his face toward the morning of peace. He abandoned the rebel yell to enter the forum aud the courtroom ?nd the hustings. He gave up the sword to enter the battles of industry and commerce, and now in a little more than a third of a century , tue land of desolation and of death, . the land of monuments and memories, lias reached the springtime of a grand ! or destiny and the suu shines bright ! on tlie domes and the towers of new ! cities built upon the ashes of the old, ; and the cotton fields wave their whito i banners of peace and the fields of j wheat wave back their banners of I gold. "Who cau portray the possibilities of a country which has produced the bees and Jacksons and the brilliant Gordon and tho dashing Joe Wheeler, who is as gallant in the blue as he was in the grey, and the impetuous aud immortal Bedford Forrest, the Mar I shal Xcy of tho Confederacy? j "Who cau portray the possibilities j of a country which has produced the j stalwart and sinewy men of the rank and file, who followed tho Stars aud Bars through the smoke and flame of every desperate battle and stepped proudly into history as the greatest lighters the world has known? A country so richly blessed, not only with hrave men aud beautiful women, but whose blossoming bills and fertile valleys are so generous and kind, and whose mountains arc burdened with coal aud iron and copper and zinc and lead enough to supply the world for a thousand years; whose virgin forests yet stand awaiting and sighing for tho woodman's ax. and whose winding rivers flow clear and cool and make music as they go. It is the beautiful laud of love and liberty, of sunshine and sentiment, of fruits and flowers, where the grapevine staggers from tree to treo as if drunk with the wine of its own purple clusters; where the peach and plum and blood red cherries and overy kind of berry bend bough and bush and glow like showered drops of rubies and of pearls. It is the land of the magnolia and the melon, the paradise of cotton and the cane. "They tell us now that it is tho new South, but the same old blood runs in the veins of these old veterans and tho same old spirit heaves their bos oms and flashes in their eyes; the same old soldiers who wiolded the musket long ago are nursing their grandchildren on their knees and toaching them tho samo old lessons of honor and truth, and the sauie "Id love of liberty. Tho mockingbird sings the same old songs in the same old tree and tho brooks leap and laugh down tho samo old hollows. Wo till tho same old fields and drink in tho same old springs and climb among the samo old rocks and fish in the same old streams. It is the same old South, and wo aro the samo old Southern peo ple. " 'There may bo skies as blue, but none bluer; Thero mny bo hearts as true, but none truer.' "It is the same old land of tho free and the samo old homo of tho brave. It is the same old South resurrected from the dead with the prints of the nails still in its side? 11 Tin glad I am in Dixie, Look away! Look away! hi Dixie's laud I'll take my stand And live and tlie for Dixie. Look away! Look away! Look away down south iu Dixie.* "Within the borders of this fair land of Dixie the finest opportunities for investment and the richest fields for enterprise and industry over known in the western hemisphere are now opcu to all who wish to come and help us iuake it blossom like the rose. A new development has already begun. Thirty years ago there was uot a fac tory in South Carolina. To-day she is spinning and weaving more cotton than she raises aud is second only to Massachusetts iu the manufacture of cotton goods, and North Carolina and Georgia have made equal progress with South Carolina in this new idea of making tho South not only the leader in agriculture, but also in converting our raw material into finished articles of commerce and trade, and thus sav ing to our section countless, millions of wealth. In the mountains of south western Virginia, southeastern Ken tucky, cast Tennessee, north Ala bama, where the sunshine plays hide and seek with tho shadows and where many rivers arc born, there is a beau tiful valley COO miles in length and from 1 to 30 miles wide. Until a quarter of a century ago the principal product of that country was children. The people did not realixe that tho north rim of the valley was an almost unbroken vein of coal and that the south rim was an exhaustless bed of iron, and they placed but little value on the vast parks of timber, where the ! ux had ocvcr gleamed, :<ut now the , I dynamite lias just begun to jar the | ! sili nt hills and the forests have just j ' begun to fall. Birmingham ir, making j the sky of night red with the glare of her furnaces, and ail the way up the valley to the new city of Koanoke new furnaces are being lighted and new industries are developing., and Hunts villc and Decatur and Chattanooga and Knoxville and Johnson City and Bris tol, on the line, will soon be great manufacturing centers, where the pig iron and the logs of hardwood which arc now being shipped away to bo converted into finished articles will pass through our own mills and we will cease to be the fools wo have been in the past, buying furniture made in forcigu cities out of our own timber and all the implements of agriculture made out of our own iron. "Until 20 years ago the bons of Mississippi, Louisiana aud Arkansas were co. tented to sit on their veran das and watch the 'nigger' and his lazy mule in the cotton field and listen to the melodies of the old plantation. But now the mills of Mississippi are beginning to mingle their music with these melodies, aud the marshes of Louisiana are being converted into rice fields aud she is making enough sugar to-day to sweeten the tooth of the world. "Arkansas is building factories and opening her mine.- and mineral wealth and sawing down her great forests of .pine. At the close of the civil war Texas was a wilderness, but now the howl of the wolf hai given place to the whistle of the engine, and the whoop of the Indian has been hushed by the music of machinery. From Texarkaua to El Paso prosperous cities aud towns hate sprung up like prairie flowers, where the wild horse once galloped and the buffalo grazed and great geysers of coal oil have solved the fuel problem. "In the full development of this new idea of transforming our raw ma terial into finished goods lies our hope of regaining our prestige and power in the management o? national affairs and of winning back billions of wealth which were wiped out by the destroy ing angel of war. "God grant that our beloved old South may be as happv in reaping the golden harvest of prosperity in the years to oome as she has been brave and true through the suffering and woos of adversity in the sorrowful years of the past. "And now, my grizzly old friends, who once wore the gray, in the name of our young men, I oongratulato you upon having lived to see the dawn of a brighter day for your battle scarred and war-swept country. You must soon answer to the roll call of eternity and join your comrades on the other j side. I give you the pledge of your sons that they will ever defend the record you have made and themselves live up to the traditions of their fathers. "In tho name of our women, both young and old, I implore the blessing of the Lord upon you and pray that as the dews of life's evening are conden sing on your brow and tho shadows of the long, long night are gathering about you, you may linger long in the twilight with loving hands to lead you and loving hearts to bless." ? The prison authorities of North Carolina have forbidden the female prisoners to wear corsets. In Virginia saws were made from the steel ribs taken from corsets and tho iron bars were sawed out with them. ? The claim of Martin Head, of Napoleon, O., to being the oldest man in the United States is not well found ed. Noah Haby, of New Jersey, who is at the 1'iscataway poor farm, loca ted near New Brunswick, claims to be between 129 and 130 years old. Tho old man was feeling well and said that he expected to live to be 160. "The pitcher that goes often to the well is broken at last." There's a world of wisdom in that familiar proverb, and a sound application of it to disease, especially to such familiar forms of dis ease as coughs and colds. Singularly enough the very thing that ought to cause alarm is given as excuse for a feel ing of safety. " It's nothing ; only a cough. I've had it before." The fact ^yg^g^g^j> that ;i cough re- -tS&SflS^ffikrS^* curs periodically ^^^sR^^tej^^ should be warning r^glBgSBBBSr* V>. enough to take it /W?$9RnfC?lMF^t' in time, for the jfjgSrS^T^BfVjl inost serious and 'Sj?j^/^^^Vs^A maladies begins ~s&Trr*,^vi with a cough. vSfiyy^-/ ^CjX P i e r c e's Golden fJ ' Vv\>dTi Medical Discovery C^* * not only stops the <j?^*^oy^Jf cough but ?eures 4?^g^fc^gflH*'^ the cause. It cures obstinate, deep- ^jr^VXyv seated coughs, ^r>~fn bronchitis, weak 1^?^ lungs, he in or- ^> rhages, diseases w??ich if neglected or uiiskuTully treated find a fatal termination in consumption. Accept no substitute for " Golden Med ical Discovery." There is no otlier med icine "just as good" for weak lungs. "I was very sick Indeed."writes Mrs. Motlie Jacob*, of l-Viton, Kent Co.. Delaware, "and our family doctor snid I had consumption. I thought I must die soon for I felt so bad. Had a bad cough, spit blood, was very short of breath, In fact con id hardly cet my breath at all some tiniest I had pains In my chest and right lung, air'- hud dyspepsia. Before I took your ' Golden Mt?-i'cal Discovery ' and * l'lcasaut Pellets' I was so weak I could not sweep a room, and uow X can do a small washing. I worked In the canning factory this fall, and I feel like" a new person. I l*eUeve thnt the Lord and your medi cine have saved my life. I was sick over two years. ^ I^took thirteen ^botties^ oMhe 'jColdcn Fdlet??n, "*"*'" ' ??.??..??? 9 Dr. Piefce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, paper covers, is sent free on receipt ci at one-cent stamps" to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. ?L V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. T?*e Southern in the Geography. It Covers the Whole South. "The great rivers doo't carry pas sengers any more," said Cbaunccy Depew, "tbo great railroads have taken their places." Mr. Depew is right. Grass grows on the wharves at Omaha and Kansas City, and onl/ a few freight boats are now occasionally seen at Cincinnati and Louisville. The Harpers have gotten a new geography from which the children describe the great railroads, and what ! a knowledge of the whole country it gives to the youngsters. . The school children used to describe the rivers, but now they describe the great railroads. To illustrate how they describe them, the teacher in the Washington public school said: "Now, Mary, can you describe tho Southern Railway? You know it is 9,000 miles long." "Yes, sir, that is very easy," said Mary. "The Southern really commen ces in New York. It runs Us cars over the Pennsylvania railroad through Philadelphia and Baltimore to Wash ington. Then it leaves the Capitol and runs right by Washington Monu ment and the White House, Manassas and Bull Run battlefields to Lynch burg near Appouiattox, where Gen eral Leo surrendered to General Grant, then to New Orleans and Florida. "Whore else does it go to, Mary?" "Wrhy, it runs all over creation. It spreads out like a great fan all over the South to New Orleaus, Flor ida, St. Louis and Atlanta. "Give me some of the cities the Southern goes through, Mary." "Why, from Virginia it goes through North Carolina with its 19G cotton factories, and through tho cotton and tobacco fields to Greensboro, Char lotto, Summerville and Charleston, where the great Exhibition is, aud thon to Savannah, with its grand old Buena Ventura. From Savannah it runs to Brunswick, Ga., .within sight of Jekel Island, and then to St. Augustine, with its palmetto and palm trees, and then down into the orange groves of Florida, where, after shooting a few alligators, yon can ferry aoross to Havana and see Morro Castle and the sunken Maine. Here you oan piok bananas while yon watch the pretty Spanish girls as they play their guitars and flirt with love-sick cavali?re through the iron gates." "Where else does it run, Mary?" "Why, to Memphis and the West. Then it goes to Birmingham and Chat tanooga, with its Lookout Mountain, where Hooker fought among the clouds. , From Chattanooga," contin 19( START If you h ven't been deali to make a start. Any time?al inducements to offer. Others ] you. They find it profitable, sc start you coming our way ? Tacks, six boxes for 5c. Shoe Nails, two boxes (largest size; Heel Irons, any size, three pairs fo Shoe Hammers only 8c. Peg Awls only 8c. Shoe Thread only 5c. Gate Latches, 10c kind, 5c Strap Hinges, 10c kind, 5o pair. Butt Hinges, 15c kind, 10c and 12 Bridle Bitts, 10c and 15c kind, 5c Three Hook brown and white Colh Trace Chains, the 50c kind, 36c pa Cotton Rope, 15c per lb. Curry C 1392 Wire Finishing Nails, only 5 Mill Saw Files, 8 inches, 10c each. A good Braco and Bitt, 15c for bol Lever Harness Mender, 50c kind, < Keyhole Saws, 10c each. Biggest Dime Shoe Polish, 5c bottle. Iron Block Plane, sold everywhere Iron Block Plane, smaller hizo, 35c Harness Mender Rivets and Harne A visit to our Store will convince } want to deal with. We can make 1902 wish that the whole year will be a joyou all for your patronage, and hope to see for your wants ; we will Mirpriae you by JOHN A. At Sext to Post Office. High I war No. 4 got the Big Doll. Mb heldjthe lucky number. WANTED r?G?? fJOST- * nave *n stock the very b number of Standard Vibrator Sewing from 8140.00 to $260 00. Remember, it is COST. No such opportunity has fc You can save fifty per cent by tah Come to see me if you are looking l. wi tfW. Some desirable Building Lots fo uedMary, pointing on to the map, you see the 'Southern' runs south cast to Atlanta and North to Cincin nati, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit und Pittsburg." 'But the 'Southern' don't have its own track north of Cincinnati, does it Mary?" "No, but they send out their won derful 'Florida Speoial' from Chioago, over the 'Big 4,' ?C, H. & D.,' and Mon on,' and they run through cars to Florida, from Cleveland *and Pitts burg to Jacksonville." "But that 'Southern's Palm Limit ed' that flies from New York to St. Augustioc, Augusta, Bon Air and Aiken," said Mary enthusiastically, "and tho Southern's flier that flies to 'the land of the sky' like a cannon ball from New York to Asheville, Nashville, Atlanta, Mobile and New Orleans, where you cau soe tho lavish ing Creole girls with their goo-goo eyes and-" "But your geography don't say that, Mary!" "No, but my brother George said that wheu he got back from the Mardi Gras. George said, he got his ticket at the Southern Ry. Office, 1185 Broadway, and left New York in a snow bank at twenty-fivo minutes past four o'clock in the afternoon, and was in warm Atlanta in 24 hours, and in New Orleans in 39 hours. Mary might have added that Samuel Spencer, tho President of tho "South ern" has taken in the "Queen and Crescent," which runs from Cincinnati and Louisville to New Orleans and Shrevoport, La., and ho ?b President of both roads?about 9,000 miles long. ?Eli Perkin's Railroad Letter. ? Mr. Goodman?"Your little play mate seems ?ad." "Willie?"Yes, sir. He bad ter stay home from school yis tid'y-" "The ideal And he's sad on that account?" "No, sir; itB. becaso he had ter come back ter school to-day." )2! NOW! ng with us now is a good time 1 the time?we have special Like to come nere, so would > would you. Will these offerc ) for 5c. r 5c. c pair, pair. ir Pad 21c. ir. ombs, 5c, 7c und 10c each. c. Handsaw Files, 5e and 7o each. Same, 12 iuches, 15c each, th. A good Hatchet only 16c. only 25c. Hack Saws, 10c each. Bottle Vasaline, 5c. for 40o, our price 25c. ; kind, our price 23c. m Menders. 7c box ?ou that we axe the people thnt you ! a very prosperous year for you. We is one t > you, and tliank you one and you oftener during 1902. Gome here our good values and low prices. r?TlN AND THE MAGNET, 'rice Breakers and Low ?l ice Hakers. a Eunice Erwin, of Antreville, S. C, iw that I am offering PIANOS, OR md SEWING MACHINES g\y est that money can buy. A limited Machines for 8?>,00 o?ch. Pianos this is Cash, and remember, also, that ?eu offered the people of Anderson, ing advantage of this sale, for the BEST. ILLS S, Next door Peoples Bank. 1 reale. The >Jnd You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per 8ona* supervision since its inffeney* *<*6?<Cti? Allow no one to dc solve you In this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are hut Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment? What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups* It is Pleasant* Ife contains neither Opium, Morphine?nor other Narcoti? substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms nod allays Feverishness. It cures B?ar-rhtisa and "Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* Tli a Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA always Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. the ecwTAun eeHMNv, 4i ?urrav amrn. ara vom? errv. The Christmas Carriages We are showing this season are the finest things on wheels. They are the latest in style, the best in material and work manship, the lowest in price, all things considered. We sell all styles Low Down. See the big stock on my floors. ' JOS. J. FBETWELL. <- When the Lea Begin to Turn I 99 IS the time to sow OATS, RYE and BARLEY.. Now, in order that yon may not come up lacking in harvest time, we have bought GOOD SEED for you. JUST RECE5VED 3000 bushels Texas Bed Bust Proof Oats, 2000 bushels Nraety Six Bed Bust Proof Oats, 10'jO bushels Winter Grazing Oats. Car lioad Bye and Barley. Could have sold the above without moving eame for a handsome profit, but preferred to give them to you at a 3oss, as we want to supply those that have always patronized us. - Recollect the above is only about one-quarter our usual supply, and is all we can get ; so come and secure your Seed at once. Can buy plenty of Kan sas Red Oats for less money, but they will not do in this climate. UO0N & LEDBE??EIL WHOLESALE DEALERS. A. C. STRICKLAND, DENTIST. OFFICE?Front Booms over Farm ers and Merchants Bank. The opposite cut illustrates Con tinuous Gum Tooth. The Ideal Plate?more cleanly than the natu ral tenth. No bad tas to or breath from Pla*"?e of this kind ' A LONG LOOK AHEAD A man thinks it is when the matter of life insurance suggests itself?bat circumstan ces of late have shown how life hangs by a thread when war, flood, hurricane and fire suddenly overtakes you, and the only ?fay to be sure that y ottr- family is pro too ted in case of 'calamity overtaking you is to in sure in a solid Company like? The Mutual B nn UUVU1I UUD X1IO. \JVt Drop in and see os about it. STATl? ACNES?, Peoples'Bank Building, ANDERSON S