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AN HU HERO COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY THOMAS F 1.4 OHAPTER XXIL siM IETUJRNs. Pap Sampson, older by four years, a trifle grayer perhaps, but as activo and alert as ever, sat on a fence at the side of tho road leading into Beckett's Mil from the south. Ills attitude was such as to denote that ho was absorbed in earnest thought, which lie was. He was recalling scenes and events of past days and was so lost to the present as to be totally oblivious of everything about him. So unconsclous of his sur rouidings was he that lie was not even aware of the approach of two men, dusty and travel stained, who wearily plodded their way along the hard, white road. Pap's thoughts were of Sim Banks and of the events attending Sim's de "Why, hocdy, Pap Sampson?" parture from Beckett's Mill. Though four years had passed since that time, Sim had never returned, and the people of 'ossum Rlidg were no wiser as to his whereabouts than they had been the day lie left. A large reward had been offered for his arrest, and the oil ils, stimulated by the hope of earn lug the money, had made strenuous ef forts to locate him. But it had been all in vain. Now and then there had coie reports to Beckett's Mill to the effect that Sim had been captured; but, as is usual with such reports, it always turned out a case of mistaken identity. Pap was wondering where Sim could have gono to hide himself so complete ly and whether he was still among the living. Ie wa ILwotderiig, too, wheth. er if Simu still 11ived he would ever re turn to Posnam IRidge- antd if' he return ed what would he his fate. It was with such thoughts as these the old inan was busy whleni he was .suddenly aroused and shocked by somne one close to) 11un saying (Juietly: "Why, hiowdy, P ap Sampson?2" P'al started and looked guickly around, and1(, his eyes falling on a hearded, sunl tantned face, his mouth fell open and he stared in stupi amazement for- almost a minute. 'Then be r-ubbled his eyes and stared again. "'Lord a-massy! " he exclaimed at last. "A mn I dreamuin, or is that r'ally Simu Ianks?" "it is r'ally Simu Bank~s, Pap," the other repliedl; ''what's left of him any way." Pap was down oll' the fence in the twinkling of an eye, and the next mo ment he had Simu by the hand, shak lng It with a heartiness that was al most painful. "Great land of Goshen!" he cried. "Who'd 'a' thought it? Lord a-massyi It's shore old Simu, ain't it?" "I guess it is. Pap- Arec you sur prised to see me?" "Surprised to see you! Why, Lord, I w'ouldn't be no more surp~rised if the sky was to drop). But think of the devil an lhe's shore to make his aip pearance, as the old sayin goes." "'Werec you thinkin of me?" "'Jest beeni a-sitt In that- on the fence a-wonderin wh-lar you'd gone an what had 'come of you an if I was ever a-gwilne to git to see you any morec. I was jest a-gwine over them thoughts when you muoughty nigh skeer-ed the life out of mec by speakin to me that a-~way. Land, dlon't hardly seem like it can he you, Simu." "Don't it?" "Shor-e it don't. Rut whar you been all these y'ear-s?" "I've been to the w~ar-, Pap." "Great day in the. mnornin! You ain't been fightin into the army, have you?" "Yes, I'vo done some fightin." "But you wasn't killed, bless the Lord." "Not quIte." "Heo caime next thing to it, though," Sun's companion volunteered. "Is that so?"' Pap cried. "WVaal, I'll be stmitched! You come muoughty nigh glti killed ?" "Yes, I had a pretty close call once." "Great land! Tell me Aill 'b~out it, won't you, Situ?" "Yes, but fir-st you must tell me sonmethin, Pap. Ihow is Loucesy?" "Lord, ain't I a great old fool, a-run in on here that a-way, never a-think in 'bout what you'd nat'rally be jest a-dyin to know? Loucesy's well." "Where is she-up at the old place?" "La, no! She ain't lived thar- sence you went away. She's (Iown at town." "W~hat is she (loin downa there?" "She's workin In a store to earn her livitn." Simi was surprised. "To earn her lvin?" he repeated. Pap noddied his head. "What's become of all the land I left her?'" Sitm asked., "It's thar jest as it was. She ain't never teched a foot of It." "W~hy ?" "Said it was your'n an she didn't do sero I" - '."%1 6 Sk WII BY THOMAS P. MONTFORT MONTFORT .,:.. ~ ~ ~ ..' I.. .,:: Sim pauseci a moment, tnen saa: "An Melvin?" "Lordi" Pap exclaimed. "Don't you ,now?" - "No. Did he an Loueesy" "No. He was killed the day you eft." A queer expression came to Sim's ace, an expression In which surprise ind relief were blended. "Didn't you know 'bout him beln rilled?" Pap asked. "No. I have never heard a word 'rom home sence I went away, an I lon't know anything that has happen !d. Who killed him?" The man who came with Sim looked iuckly upand appeared to wait eager Ly for Pap's reply. It was then Pap Lioticed for the first time how pale and amaclated that man was. "Who killed Melvlu?" Sim repeated presently. "I don't know," Pap answered. "The niext mornin after you left Jim Thorn found the dea(d body in your woods with a bullet hole through it. le had been killed several hours then." "And nobody knows who done it?" Pap s0hooC his head. "Was nobody suspected ?" The old man turned away and began to thumip his cane against the ground, but lie made 1no reply. Sim saw that pap's action ieant something, and he >egan to put a few things together. IlIe 'enembered that lie had gono into hose woods with his gun about the line the killing must have occurred tid then had disappeared. le remem ered also the threat lie had made that lay in Mrs. Mann's wheatlield. Re 'alling these things and noting Pap's chavlor, lie was quick enough to sus ect the truth. Pale, but firm, he said: "Pap, was anybody suspected of kill In Melvin?" The old man hesitated still, but final y he replied: "Thar mought 'a' been, Sim; yes, I'm ifeard thar mought 'a' been. But, Sim, I ain't never suspected nobody." "1 know, Pap. But who did the oth ers suspect?" Again Sim's companion leaned eager ly forward and seemed to await Pap's reply. After a short pause the old man said slowly: "You know, Sim, thar's allus some people ready to suspect anything bad of a body if they've got a ghost of a reason. I-le's go on home, Sim. I guess you must be tired an hungry." "No, Pap, not now. You must tell me the truth." "Oh, Lord, Sim, I can't tell you no more." "Yes, you can tell rme who was sus pected." "I'd ruthier not." "Then it's true, Pap. It is me?" Pap remained silent. "Tell me," Sim insisted. ''is it me?" "l'mi alfeaird so. Slim; :e,u I'm afeard thar's sonie as thinks it was you. But I dlon't think it.'' Simi had known what was coming, but P'ah's admilssoon was a hard low for all that. 11 s head dlrooped, and an expression of bit ter pain came over his features. Pal) saw andm undlerstood1 rnd, placing his hand oni Sim's shul tier, saidl consolingly: body'll ever mnake' me h'lieve It for a miimte if t hey sw'ar to it oni a1 statck of' Biibles-neve.r."' Th'ie old umn's act and wor'' did Sitm good1. It was ai great (coimfort to know that lie had one true' friend at least. "'I know, Pap,"' he said, 'fliat I enni always trust yon. You'll stand by me to the last." "That's what I will. Sitm, 'enause I knowv you're not gulty."' "An thar's otheris," Simi said. "'Thar's S'am M organi an Jason Itob) erts. Tlhey'Il tnever b'lieve ime guilty eliter, will I hey, IPap?'' Palp was ser'iously troubled, atnd lie showed It. "Sin,'' lie sahIl, "I kiiow you ns must he tIred an hungry. Le's go on home an talk a fterwvards."' "No," Slin replied; "I[ want to know the truth, thle whole litter truth. So Sain an Jasoni b'lieve' me guilty of such a terrible crliie as that ?I" "I dunnilo," Pap answered. "They don't waunt to b'lleve it, Sliim. I know they dion't want to b'lieve It." "But they (10,'' Siim said, with a sigh of resignation. "Waal, so he It. An Loucesy" Papj raisedl hIs hiatid instantly, and1( a beam of Ipleasure lighted his face. "No, .Sim," lie Initerrupted, "d(on't you say that. Loueesy doti't ihieve It tin never has b'lilved It. When she first heard you accused, she saId It was a lie, ani she's stuck to It from that (lay to this." "Thank God!" Sim cried ferv'ently. "If she don't b'lieve It, I don't care what anybody else thinks." "She don't, Shim. I'm tellin you the God's truth. She doni't. An now we've iaidh enoughi for this t ime, so Ic's go on homne." lBnt Sim (lid not move, and( lie hadl >ecomue (deeply thoughtful. After a lIt Ilelie said: "I don't know what I hadl best (10. l'hiis Is all so new an unexpectedl to ne that I eann't jest see my way clear. f I stop hiere, I'll beC arrested." Ini his exeltemtent Pal) Samplsoni had ')rgotteni t his, butt lhe kiiew it was true. f Siim's pre'(seiice in the village became nown, lie woulIid ce(rtainly be ar'restedl, mtd then the gallows, or at least thle tate pr1isoni, would no dhoubt await tlm. "You laud better hid~e somewhere un il night," lie said( anxiously, ''then go way agaIn. That Is the best you can lo now." But Sitm deliberated a long time, then aIdl slowly: "Maybe you're rIght, Pap, b~ut I doti't now. A body may as well bo (lead i' in ni'Ison na to ha nwa.nre on' the earth, with neither home nor friends an always in dread of some thin. No matter what anybody says or thinks, I'm innocent." "I know it, Sim; I know it," Pap said assuringly. "But, then, courts mebby won't see as we do." m "Maybe not, Pap," Sin replied after im a pause, "but I'm Innocent, an I'm goin fr to stay." L "But think, Sim, of" - "I have thought of it all, Pap. I'm r goin to stay an face it out." Then Sln's companion, who had lis tened Intently all this while, spoke up again. Laying is hand on Sim's arm, i he said earnestly: It "And you'll never be hurt, Sim. Nev- Y er so much as a hair of your head shall y be touched." ti Pap Sampson looked at the speaker ri doubtfully. "Ilow do you know that?" he asked. 0 "It doesn't matter how I know it," t' the other answered. "I know it, and ri that is enough." 11 "Who are you, an what do you o know 'bout this affair?" Pap ques tioned. f "My name is Thompson, and I ant Sin Banks' friend. I have been his j friend since that day he saved iny life at the risk of his own." "That was nothin," Sim said. "Any- d body would have done all I did." v "Anybody would have rushed into that hall of shot and shell after our men had retreated and carried a wounded comtrade off the battlefleld to save bini from the enemy? You'll never make ine believe any such thing. c Nobody can ever make ine believe f that there's another main in the world t besides Stin lMinks who was brave v enough to have done it." "My Lord, Joe, I'd been a bruto if I hadn't done It," Slin protested, "it plumb cowardly brute. You make too much over a little no 'count thing like that." "It may seem of no account to you, 7 but it doesn't to ie, I can tell you. I guess it didn't scen so to the men who 1 saw it either, judging from the way they cheered you. Why, even the ene my cheered." "I didn't hear it," Shu said. "No, you were too busy tryin to get C me out of that awful place. I guess 8 y'ou didn't evenl hear the hlleis whiz- t zing round yoit head like a ,%warm of bees?" "I didn't." "Well, I heard them, you can just bet. It was just like a hallstorm bro ken loose. I know I thought every i second we'd both be killed. and I enn't I understand why we weren't. I begged a you to leave ine and save yourself if you could, and you wouldn't do it." "Oh, waal, Joe, le's let that alone. I'm plumb tired of hearin of that fool thing. It ain't worth kickin up so much fuss about." "Well, that's just your opinion, Sim. Other people see it differently. Then there Is the way you looked after me for weeks while I was in hospital. No father, no brother, my own mother even, could not have been more care ful of tie. I remeinber It all, Simn, and I'll never forget it ns long as I live." "Waal, that's all right, Joe,"' Sim said, "but I'mn tired an hungry, so le's not say no more, but go along of Pap. I'll go io his house ana rest a bIt. Then I'll go an give mnyself up.' ''You'll not give yourself up this dhay 1nor this nigt ,t Si mu'"i Pr animd flatly. "'You'il have onle good1 rest first if I know mtyself', an 1l'in miost shaore I do, for it' they git you into jail you wvon' t haive no( rest I ha r.' "'No, hut it's all right, Paip. I 'im re signied to take whuateverkomtes, an I reckon it dlon't unat ter much whlat it is. I ant't got anything to live for nto mor'e nobo(w, anl I'dl jest ats well lie dead aus nt." "'But y'ou'll never lhe hutt. Slt,'' the othier said. "D1on't y.ou tink it. Not] a halm' of your head s hal hile touched.'' l'aph Saipson looked wonin~t'tgly at the spieatker, sa w sineithling lhe had ntot obiservedl bef'ore' andu in his aston Ishmaent unithloiut edly erled:l ."My LoIrd1, stranger, you'r'e not goin to live long." 'Thomups9on smtiled. "'I kntow it," lhe said(, ''lit it is best. I only wanit to (14 one thIng more, anid then I'm dlonte, and~ I'll live to do it; voa. I'll live to do it." [CONCL~UDEDu NEXT1 WiEEK.j For- the Little Pig. A concentrated food containing a large per cent of indigestible woodly fiber' like bran is not -suitabie f'or young pigs, andi they will not thive ont it or a mixture of it half and half with somec miore digestible contcntrate utl they have reatchedl the age of 41 or 5 monthts. The harsh woody husk of whetat is irritating to the stomach, causing inidigest ion wvlieht finally re sults in scout's, one of the worst of young pig diseases. Any food that contlains a har-ge per centt of inidigesti ble matter' should be rejeced as a pig food duinhg the first mtonths of the pig's existence. While they ar'e still with their mtothuers and for a ilme aift- t er-ward ia good qtuality of shots or milddlings or' shorts withl ground oatsI or bat-iey is found to give satisfactory I results. T1his is par-ticular'ly the case if, aifter weaning, these foods ar'e sup. pletmnted by a supply of skinunilk. We have very satisfactor'y results fromu running around aill our (crop~s, as C 6001n as wiei ll), with the onte huorse subsoil plo0w, says Southernm Cultivator. This thtoroighly br'eaks the ground lie low the crops before the r'oots have brantched Out entoughi to lie inuiredl. It ~ also0 causes time rainiwater to colleet r unider' the plants where it is most f needed. Th'iis is the ottly deep llowintg I We (10 in cultivating. Fliusht out flue I Iniddles with huarrow or scrape. Thio t oftotter tis is done the more rapid the ~ growth of thle crops. It is estimuated1 that albout 8,000 square miles of the alluvil prairie lands(1 of Louisiana could1, with some expen~diture of mtoney, be br'oughit un-1 der- cultivation anid irr'igation where'( they wouild be valuable for' rice culture,.i Cane amnd cassava aire two lmpor'tant n Items now talked about for flue dive sifleationi of Georgia far'tmng. Th'ie t] babitat of eassava in Flor-ida may it i is thoughtt, lie extended 50 to 100 miles farther nor'th inito Georgia. Start lettuce In a box with shade anid c: nlenty of moisare.n THE SOUTH AT 4 Unveiling the Monument The following address was delivered on Onument on the battlefield to the South auga. The orator of the occasion w as 11 om &Iken County : ADIEs AND GENTLEMEN: Americans, through all stages and po. ods of their history, have fought, and rer will light, for the preservation of hat they honestly believe to be founded L prilciple. Fromt the byways and edges of Lexington to the marshes of orktown our forefathers fought to es 6blish the equal rights of men against to exactions and encroachments of ty tuts. The blood of Warren sprinkled n the green sward of Bunker Hill, and to blood of Jasper, bespattering the unlparts of Savannah, were alike sacri ces upon the altar of patriotisi for love f liberty. Tho blood of the brave McPherson .ecly shed on the plains of Atlanta ; and 1e blood of the immortal Stonewall ackson, running freety amid the fast esses of the Wilderness on that fatal ight, were alike unstinted offerings of evotion to duty, and conscientious con iction of right. Neither were rebels. Both were pa riots. As much so as the heroic War en or the brave Jasper. When the din and turmoil t f the Ryev lutionary struggle had comparatively ubsided, the separate and independent olonics entered into "Articles of Con uderation" and a "Federal Constitu. ion," in every line and sentence of vhich, and in every utterance of debate rom which they emanated, is' written he understanding, that the union was oluntary, with each 8tate remaining a il'AnAT entity ; and such powers lone were given the Union as were ex ircsed and ket forth. All others were titsalnve to the States and their citi ,ens. Time rolled on. Prosperity followed ,dversity. The impetus of Freedom ;avo momIen tumn and push to til engines f (levelopenett and enterprise. Indi ridual aggrandizement and sectional in crest brought oii political turmoil and inrest. Right or wrong, the whole ountry was in a fermentation. The one ide asserting the 'Indissoluble Union," he"other asserting the "Indestrue.able Itates." South Carolina, whom in part I repre eut on this auspicious occasion (the tomc of John Rutledge, one of the first Thief Justices of the Supreme Court of he United States ; tile home of that em nent Pinckney whose enunciation, "Mil ions for defense, not a cent for tribute," vill over be a pacan in the cause of free loin), South Carolina, on the 20th of Do :emiber, 18(10, by solemn conventional Letion, retired from that confederacy, which she had voluntarily joined and to hich she had freely contributed of >lood and treasure. In tbe ides of the following April the irst gun "of the war between the States" 'everberated in the harbor of old 1harleston. The North armed to sustain its views f the union. The South armed to sus ,ain its ideas of the sovereignty of the 3tates and freedom of action. As that great Englishman, an impar ial witness, Lord Wolseley, has truly 3xpressed it, "The true cause of the con lict was ANTA(IONISM between the spirit >f Federalism and the principles of state's Rights " Bull Run ran red with the gore of >rothers. ' On to Richmond" was the :ry in the East. '-On to Atlanta" the :ry in the West. The sanctity of our homes and our icarthstones ; the e xercise of home rule md home government aroused every en rgy of the South : and from "the cradle o tihe grave'' the call to arms was heart ly obeyed. 'They left tihe pioughshiare in tihe mould, the lhocks and herds wvihout a fold." Through the clover ficlds of tha~t ~ranld, green valley of old ',irginia tile oesin of tihe dread struggle soundled and murged. M aratho 11 anI~d Thermopyhea Lharsalia and( Cannoe were surpassed in ;lory and heroism. The scene shifts beyond tile beautiful >Aue mountains. Gaines' Mill and Fra ier's Farm anid Malvern Hill are envel )lped with tihe smoke and turmoil of the pray. Never did ancient warriors, whether 3recian, Rioman or MaCcedoniakn, shlow lreater courage anld fortitude than that which tile American soldlier, on both ides, exhlibited on thlese ensanlguinedl icids. No mfedioLval cavalier withl burnished Irmior and( drawn cimeter ever iclt the patriotismi thlat animated tile bonnie boys >t tile Southland, who tramped victori us over tile Seven Days battlefields iroulnd Richmond. Again Manassas shlouts forth tile hlor ible sounids of perilous battle, and( goes lown into history as a victory for tile mmlnortal Lee, m~ore illusti ious than11 MIontibello or Bolferino were to tile hreat Bonaparte. McClellan, with his almost countless housands, againi grap~ples wvith the lardy veteranls alonlg tile waters of the intictam ; andl sharp an~d fearful is thle Parnage. Tile God of battles himself' must have l'ept over tihe fearful destruction of' amlericanl manhlood. At Fredericksburg, tile heroic life of ldaxcy Gregg, Caroina's great so (dicr, ilnd that of Tom Cobb, Georgia's valiant on, Ilowed out ; and tile mlyriadis of ilurnside were as easily diriven back as hose of Xerxes in the olden times Chancellorsville, withl its great victory, mt its sad loss, 100oms upj Jackson >assed over thle river and( restedl ulnder lhe shlade of the trees ; and Jeb Stuart, Vithl his flowing plumle andl keen Damn ,scan blade, led the Stonewvall brigade nd thleir associates to victory with as suchl (1ash as over did1 Henry of Navarre, he0 lioln hearted Richard, or tile imnpetu us Murat. We crossed tile I iver 0oncc more Ai ound the cmetery Ueights anld eminlary Ridge tile alarmI of war broke >Ose withl its most terrible vigor. Tile ofensive hadl been transferred to tile fortl ; and( whlen Picet~ot and( his vote ans were decimlated(, and( tile tide of Ito bore hack his bleeding columns, tobi rt E. Lec meot them amid tihe crash1 ig rhells and( crushing shlot and told 10em ill that mlanly moral, heroic man51 or, "It is not your fault, boys, it is all "Nor purer sword led braver hand, Nor braver bled for a blrightler land, Nor brighter land had4 a cause so gr'andc, Nor' cause a chief like Lee." From the beginning of the struggle, 1 thle great West, wherfe thle hardy fron crsmen of tihe North met tile sturdy untamoenl of tile South, ,he e >mibat, was loreO cqual, exacting and unlcertaina. D~onison, Henry and Vicksburg, withl lcir misfortunes and( mistakes, passed Ito hlistory. ilohi, withl its two( (lays of burning shieven oat, electrified thle world as an Kihibitionl of tile battle power of Ameri Iln manhiood. Its first dlay of glorious inory to tile Sonnth, dimmed nlye a . JHIOKAMAUGA. to South Carolinians. Ifho 27th of May at the unveiling of the Carolinians who were killed at Uhicka Dn. Daniel S. Henderson, the Senator 'freedom shrieked' as Sidney Johnston ell, was scarcely overbalanced by the iuccess of the second day to the North, irought about chielly by that perilnacity, itern determination and confidence which characterized U. 3. Grant as a born leader of men. The Gray and the Blue grappled to gother on many a gory field from the ississippi to the Tennessee. The stars Ind bars, and stars and stripes, waved efiance at each other across many a ravine of that grand region. Bedford LForrest, "the noblest Roman of them %ll," led his troopers triumphant from Inc end to the other. In the crucial year of 1868, when the shortoning days of Septeiber eame and the halo of the Indian summor was creep. lng over this favored region of Georgia and Tennessee, the electric batteries of horrid war stirred the lethean waters of this "tiver of Death," and its search. lights i luminated these grand overhang. ing mountain peaks with a luridues never to be forgotton. Once again, as in its legendary historic past, o.d Chicka mauga became the tramping ground of hosts of men embraced in an ensan. guined struggle for arnihilation and de struction. Both sides were ably led. Both sides fought nobly. Both sides conscientiously acted. All of them pa triots ; none of them rebels. Lee had detached from Virginia and sent his great corps conuuandter, Long street, with his hardened veterans to aid the Confederate chieftain, Braxton Bragg (lie, the same Captain Bragg who, under the stars and stripes at the bloody Mexican battle of Buena Vista, had re. ceived and valiantly carried out the memorable order of Gen. Taylor, "Give them a little more grape, Capt Bragg ") Grant had hurried forward the flower of theWestern army to the aid of the Federal commander, Hosecians. "And when the mists had rolled away," on that autum nal Sabbath morn of the second day and roves ed the sorried ranks of the oppos ing hosts to each other, it was a s:ght before which the Sun of Austerlitz would have dimmed, and a sight to which the Old Guard of Napoleon and the English fit Squares of the I ron Duke at Waterloo, i opposing each other, was but a circuni. at stance. 8[ What was done-what deeds of daring P were achieved--what charges and coun ter-charges were deVelop)d-how bat- t teries were handled with wonderful sci- a' entitio skill-how battalions of in fantry and squadrons of cavalry covered them. a se.ves with glory-how particu'ar com- b nands and individual commanders espe- d cially distinguished themselves, those t who were here and mingled in the fray G can better tell than 1. The carnage of the contest best tells the tale of the fighting. 16,129 on the side of the Federals ; 17,80.1 on the side of t the Confederates. 11 When nightfill caie the complete dis c )naiture of the Federal army wias ar rested only by the intrepid stand of George 11. Thomas, himself a Virgin ian, e who has gone down into history as the ' Rock of Chickamauga" and whose name as an imperturbable leader of lighting men should be written high in the gal lery of fame. H[ow those who perished here, whose a blood darkened these slopes, ravines and 3 hillsides, are revered by their pleol)'e at home, is told in mute and silent language g by the monumental suires that have been a erectecd in this National Pirk by sixteen of the States of this retunited Union, at tile aggregate cost of $5011,000. It was certainly a befitting and mag naniiious act, on the part om the Govern ment of the United States to permit the establishment of a National Park on this battlefield, where the Confederates ob tained the advantage, iad espccially ~ when the Act of Congress permits both sidles to mark their lines of batt'e and to ~ erect monuments over their gallant dead. The South hias accepted tile opportunity ~ and joins in the spirit of reconciliation She did her best. Whatever she had ~ of blood, of treasure, of spirit and love, ~ she unstintedly laid upon the altar as a sacrifice for love of freedom and liberty of conscience. What Courts and Constitutions and Conventions and Congresses and Presi- " denlts could 110t (do, it took the arbitra r ment of stera war to (10. The "Indisso- I luble t'nion"' on tihe one side, andI "Inude structib'le States'' on thec other side, have become the "indissolub~c Union''of 'in. decstruestible. States " c Whoever else .we may fight as an ~ American people, wec will never again light our-scltes. ijsmensions and1( aifes and~ turmoils, begotten of p~olitical for mnentations andl uplheIaal, wvill com but the (juestion of the sep~arate actiona of the States (whilst they have theirt rights, which exist andl are respectedi every day by the courts and the govern- . ment,) is settled for all time.a Tio-day the Palmetto State, the grand a old Commonwealth of South Carolina, as a member of the Amneric~an Union, cOmles to thlis shrine of sacrifice, this al g tar of f reedonm, wvht c the pride anid : glory of her yeomanry 81hed their blood, to show her applreciation of their patri- tr otic endecavors. Trute, siho waIs the "cradlo of seces- t 81011," but siho alwvays was and m always will he a leader in cEonscientious action; and1 her hlistory of patriotic devotion to I dluty has been op~en to the world from si thei time she joined with Alassachusetts og in tdying the tyranny of "'taxation with th out represent at ion'" to the present time. th For her devoti')n to reljublican prin y ciples, as fairly understood by our fore y - vi thi Weak? " I suliered terribly and wvas ex- s tremely weak 'or 12 years. The i doctors said my blood was til c turning to wvater. At last I tried t Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and was soo feeling all right again.,, rc Mrs. J. W. Fiala, H ladlyme, Ct.- li No matter how long you t have been ill, nor how ct poorly you may be today, wi Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the best medicine you can w take for purifying and en- l] riching the blood. ph Don't doubt it, p~ut your br whole trust in it, throw lb Lawayayvererythingee. $l.00 a bottle. 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EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. the rs, let the bones of her sons who per- i hed at King's Mountain, at Cowpens, f Eutaw, and at the Palmetto Fort, E :eak I For her determination to per Atuate those principles let the blood of 1 onham who perished at the Alamo, and t Le Prlietto boys who fell with Butler i nid the halls of the Mo utezuinae speak ( For her firm determination to stand t id to die for what she conscientiously ( alieved to be right, let the trail of her I ,ad and wounded in the war between t ic States from the Potomac to the Rio rande speak ! Carolina's dead, Carolina's dead On every hill they lie." In Virginia her spirit was evinced by ic brave boys led by such men as [ampton and Butler and Gary and Mc owan and Haeood. iiley aud Elliott, Rhett and Mitch- % l1, Gaillard and Huguenin, and their % oble boys stood amid the crumbling E 'alls of Sumter for four years and never % irrendered. And here, right here, amid the crash- a ig of arnis, the martial muster of battle a ad the terrifying trials of the fray, Jo t !ph B. Kershaw, States Gist, Ellison j apers. Irv'ine Walker, Aithur M. Mani- ( ault, John D. Kennedy and those chivf rinc warriors, Elbert Bland and .John Hard. wvho fell with their faces to the >c within a few feet of the place where lI -e now stand ; and those other brave entlemen who led her boys to victory 1 n this spot, illustrated the spirit of larolina, always prepared to do her< uty. The granite shaft has not yet been ut that would be tall enough to com-i iemorate the deeds of her private sol- 1 icry. Her wvhito voting p)opulation in 180 ias 58,000, yet she sent to the war (65,000i ildicrs, rank and fille. There is no p ir-< llel in history to such a record. From the first bud of youthful man ood to the gray haired fathers, they rent without a murmur, and fifty per 1 ent, were killed and wounded. Let the Palmetto tree which standls 8 s the cap picce to yonder monument, il emain there forever as the memorial of 11 er vener-ation for the deeds of her brave i oys and when in after years Carolin- c mns o)f another age stop here to view it, 1 it them in memory recall the fact that c n thme monument erected at her capitol v ity, Columbia, by the' women of her e tate to her Confederate dead, is graven a lat wond(erful sentence so powerfully ti ut by the p~olished .John S. Preston, b 'hich applies to all alike, there an.l, ere " Let the stranger wvho may In - Fter- times read this incription recognizte ( iat these wer-e men wvhom power could ot corrupt, whom (leath could not ter fy. whom defeat could not, dishonor, ad let their virtues plead for just judg ent of the cause in which they perished. et the South CarolinIan of another * ancration remembher that the State ,ught them how to live and how to (lie, id from her brokeni fortunes she has reserved for her children the priceless easure of their memory, teaching alla ho may claim the same birthright, that uth, courage, andi patriotism endures rever."a One more word and I have finished. I I this bivouac of the dead, where these lent sentinels comnmemorating the love 'the ivine for the departed heroes, lift eir headslo high heaven In tes-timony ereof, we have assembled on this aus- t Icious occasion not as Confederates or 3derals. but as Americans, andl the sur- e vers of the heroes of both sides, who irty-six years ago laid aside their arms Cl returned to thme p~eaccful vocations life, realizing the fact with satisfac- a )n andl pride that they are component rts of the greatest Union of the world. Y The Sou'h In that period, by earnest dceavor arid a candid realization of her ,uation, withbout surrendler of her opin us, but in the true manly spirit of re- t nciliation has resuscitated her waste aces andl energies much more effec- 11 Flly than France has done from the mult of the France German war. We 'e todlay In an era of Industrial advance3 thout a parallel We are making his ry each day, andl not simply living on o traditions andl Ideas of the past. Finding in the (lawn of the twentieth tury with Its allurements of power; th its impedimenta of growing civili - |ion ; with Its temptations that beset Snew giant--our Republic--among the )Ild rowers; and the bewitching en emenits which our Increased responsi- , ity engendem s, it behooves us as a pee -, as a Republic, (especially when ndering lover such memorilet as are ught to our minds at such places as s where we linger today), to look Il to our moorings and aspirations. andl consider our destiny. We are equal any emergency of advancing civiliza n. if we as a people only keep our FieO with God by our voice and con esation. d We must be equal to the demands that a gress monats, witho.t -vlng it. ,ASTORIA 'or Infants antgOhildren. e Kind You Have Always Bought lears the )ignature of In Use For Over Thirty Years JASTORIA IHK CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. mperialisn, else the dream of our fore. athers, that the people should rule and ,re capable of it, becomes a myth. We should not be land grabbers or mucancers for pelf or plunder. but ,mong the nations of the world, bohdly isserting our rights to the extension of our commerce under proper treaty rea ions for the enjoyment of our trade, be ontent to have the beneficent Monroe )octrine receive its old time construe ion, lest if we extend it to allow us to stablish dependencies and colonies else. vhere, the other powers can claim a eciprocal construction for themselves n seizing territory in the Western iVorld. I stood a few weeks since on one of ts busiest, most exciting days, in Wall Itreet, New York. where the financial mlse of the country, and in fact of the vorld, can always he felt, and watched iith interest that bronze statue of the reat Washington crected at that spot ?here he to( k the oath of oillie as the rst President of our young Republic, nd with his right hand held forward, nd In a speaking attitude, he seemed ruly typical of that. grand warning he :ave us in his farewell address, never to nter "into entangling alliances with oreign powers." The kings andl emperors; the princes nd potentates of kingdomand emIl IIpires, ept together by the powers of grand tanding armies and navies, sooner or ater will need the aid of thbis pe"ople overned country, wvhich when united an always meet any issue, to wrest them rom the rush of arms against each other: ut it is better, far better, for us to stand n no comp~ulsory relation with any of hem; and free and independlent, to act, haping our own policies based upon mre D~emocratic prinuciples, and breath nig the pure air of national independ nce and freedom, as typi tiedl by our ;rand mountains, our rolling rivers, and ur marts of development andI progress. To that endl let our hopes and actions u'ad us; andl ini the vast and incasin gly amst aggregation of American citizin hip, there is no class that will render ore devout loyalty to the onward iarch of American enterprise and Lmericanl progress as the rightful fruit f the heritage handed down to us by ic fathers, than the survivors and the bildren of the survivors of the great ar bctween the states; a struggle un, q~ualed in hiistory, ancient or modern, ud out of which has come a reconcilia on which, we pray God. may 'me as meting as that struggle wias g~i )ur Spring Lines Of .Shoe Lre now being opened up,\ nd1 we find them p)rettier nd better than we had leven oped for, We get them direct from be world's best manufactur rs. If youi will favo.'us with look we can certainly please OU. Some very d esir able~win-. 3r Shoes still going at gieat, r reduced prices. ~ride & Patton Greenville, S. C. KILLS ---J oTO OUS, &PJDERl6, LlebfLBA&, AND ALL INS3ECTL/pt SO ANDa5 CE NT3. 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