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y ) By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D. D. Los Angelos, Cal., May 20.—In this •erinon for Memorial day the preacher pleads for justice and recognition for those who, though wearing no unl- ^ forms and hearing no weapons, yet served their country in its crisis as faithfully and patriotically as ever did soldier at the front of the battle line. The text is Matthew xix, 30, “Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” From time immemorial nations have honored their military chieftains. All Carthage knelt In reverence before the tombs of Hamilcar and Hannibal. All Sweden honors the sacred dust of Gus- tavus Adolphus and of Marshal Berna dette, who afterward ascended the throne as King Charles XIV. All Ger many reveres the name of Frederick the Great and Count von Moltke. All Italy praises Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel. In England the Duke of Wellington and Lord Napier sleep within St. Paul’s cathedral under the most magnificent dome of all London. Westminster abbey is the last resting place of scores of generals and ad mirals who have made England’s name famous upon the land and upon the sea. Not only do the modern nations hon or their dead military chieftains, but also the living soldiers who have shed their blood upon hard fought battle fields. They honor not their generals only, but the humble privates who once carried the muskets in the ranks, or the petty noncommissioned officers, or the lieutenants, or captains of small company commands. When these sol diers die they are laid in the grave with military honors. When as worn- out veterans they are unable to look after themselves, then the best of “soldier homes” are provided for their housement. England has placed the royal palace, in the Isle of Wight, where Queen Victoria passed most of Aher life, at the sendee of her conva- ; 1 iescent sailors. France has her beautl- ! ful retreat of the Invalides for her aged soldiers. In the midst of which is the huge sarcophagus of her greatest warrior, whose dying request was this: “It is my wish that my ashes may re pose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom I loved so well.” The finest sites near our own national capital and Milwaukee and Danville and Santa Monica are fill ed with the veterans of our own army, | who were just as brave as any that wore the Confederate gray or the Fed-1 eral blue, who laid down their lives upon the blood soaked soil of Vicks burg, Chancellorsville, Lookout Moun tain or Atlanta. Though on this Memorial Sabbath we specially honor the heroes who laid ' down their lives on the battlefield or who survived the war to die afterward of their wounds or of disease brought on by the exposure and the hardships of the war, I want to call your at tention this morning to men who ren dered other kinds of service in the great struggle. That conflict could never have been fought out if some who did not go to the front had not loyally done their duty in other spheres. There were some who would gladly have shouldered a musket and gone to the war, but renounced their share in the danger and the glory of the battle that they might render less conspicu ous but no less essential service to their country. Let us give them, too, their meed of praise. The L'nprulMed Iferoea. On this Memorial day I praise the unpralsed southerner as well as the unpraised northerner. I believe the civil war, bloody us it was, awful and terrific as it was, mortal as it was. with 1,000,000 dead, was worth all the sacrifice it cost. Why? Because once and for all it settled the vital and far reaching question that the United States government forever was to be bounded on the east by the Atlantic, on the west by the Pacific, on the north by the great lakes and on the south by the gulf. Though the United States proper comprises an area of 3,023,000 square miles, yet in that vast area, great as it is, there will never be room for more than one government any more than two queens can live within the same beehive. This ques tion of one government had to be set tled once for all by the sword. If it had not been settled by a bloody con flict between the north and the south It certainly would have had to be set- tied later by a bloody conflict between the east and the west. Thus I honor today the unpralsed hero who in 1801 lived below the Mason and Dixon line as well us the unpralsed hero of Mich igan and Pennsylvania and New York and Maine. First, on this Memorial day, let ua honor the statesmen in the cabinet and the legislators In the cupitol who con ducted the national government during those four years of trial. In the north ern capltol at Washington and in the Confederate capitol at Richmond there were men as brave as those in the armies. Their duties were onerous, their responsibilities serious, their patriotism intense. Let us raise the national flag over the dead bodies of * the senators and the congressmen who valiantly stood at their posts during those awful years of carnage, ns well as put a wreath of flowers upon the graves off the men who died at South Mountain, Antletam or Frederick*- burg. It Is so easy to speak sneerlngly of our Washington legislators. It is so easy to call the United States senate the “millionaires’ assembly” or the “club of the old fogies.” it is so easy to say the house of representatives is a collection of nonentities, who are ruled for the most part by one or two men who crack the party whip over the backs of their fellows. But, my friends, I believe that by such speeches injustice is often done to able men. We have a right to assume that men who have been chosen by their fellow citizens to represent them in congress are worthy men, and when we dispar age them we disparage the citizens who elected them. The first great but tles are not fought out with sword and cannon, but with tongue and pen in legislative assembly. The civilized wond knew Spain was doomed long before Commodore Dewey’s guns spoke in Manila harbor. When, on June 13, IS'JS, congress authorized the secretary of the United States treasury to issue $400,000,000 worth of bonds for na tional defense, all the ultimate outcome of the 8panish-American war was de cided, except how the treaty of peace should be signed. The outcome of the terrific conflict of 1801 to 18G5 would never have been the maintenance of the Union if congress had not loyally supported President Lincoln during that eventful period. Aye, there were giants in those days. But the giants upon Capitol hill, whose moral courage and unswerving loyalty were tried and proved, deserve our honor as much as do the giants fighting at the front Which Moat Deserved Honort Place side by side, if you will, those two master personalities, John Sher man and William T. Sherman. They were brothers; they were both gen iuses. As we look over the pages ot history it is a very debatable question which should be honored the more and who did the more valiant service for his country, John or William. One was a giant in guiding and creating patriotic legislation, the other a giant in military strategy, yet today in al most every city you can see fifty pic tures of William T. Sherman where you will find one of his patriotic broth er, who was senator of the United States from 18<J1 to 1S77. The vital importance of the work done by our national legislators can never be bet ter illustrated than in the life of James A. Garfield. He was one of the most brilliant volunteer soldiers of the war. From the presidential chair of Hiram college in 1801 In* stepped into the mil itary camp and donned a soldier’s uni form. Within two years he wore the shoulder straps of a major general. Yet Abraham Lincoln placed his hand upon the brilliant chief of Rosecraus’ staff and said: “Garfield, I need you more in congress than I do in the field. Resign your soldier’s commission and as a congressman come and help me.” Thus today I not only honor the sol dier, but also the legislator. I honor James A. Garfield the general. I also honor James A. Garfield the Ohio con gressman. In both positions he did valuable and heroic service. On this Memorial day the brother who stayed at home and worked the farm should be praised as well as the young man who went to the front and was mentioned for a heroic deed in the commander's dispatch. The young man who sank his personality in the more common but equally needful du ties of home life might have been even braver and more unselfish than the soldier boy who marched down the main street of his native town or city, keeping step to the strains of martial music, and whose train pulled out of his home depot amid the shouts and huzzas of admiring friends who came to bid him goodby. The Boy* Who Stayed at Ilome. Let me illustrate what I mean by praising the boy who stayed at home to work the farm. Some time ago I was attending a soldiers’ reunion. It was a most impressive spectacle, that assembly of aged men. Yes, the ranks of the old soldiers are thinning very rapidly. We shall not have them with us long. But, though these veter ans were very old when they began to tell their campfire stories, as their nar rative proceeded they seemed to be come boys again. Among the stories told was one I shall never forget. “Did you have any brothers in the army?” I asked an aged soldier. “Yes, one,” was the answer. "There were three boys of us. We all wanted to go, but father and mother were getting old, and some one had to stay at home and look after the old folks and our youn ger sisters. So one night we had a fam ily convocation. After the family talk we three sons and mother and father decided that two of us boys could go to the war, but that one should stay at home and work the farm. Who were to go? Who was to stay at home? We all wanted to go and tight and so we decided to draw’ lots. Mother held the book and put in the three slips of paper with one marked ‘Stay at home.’ We drew. John and myself went to the front. Hurry stayed at home.” “Did your brother regret that he hud to stay?” “Oh, yes. But some one bad to stay, c:.d so he simply swallowed his disappointment. Yes, we two boys could never have gone to the front but for Harry's faithfulness to the old folks.” Was he not Just as patriotic us the two who went forth to battle? Let us, then, place a flow’er over his grave as well as upon the graves of those who wont to the war. Let us realize that the stay at homes some times evinced greater moral courage, made more heroic self sacrifice and en dured greater disappointments than the ones who went to the front. In this Memorial address we would accord praise to all who did the coun try senice—the contractors who fur nlshed the blankets and the shoes and the tents and the food and the guns, the patriotic hankers, the railroad men, like Thomas Alexander Scott, who did such valuable service in rushing the troops to their ultimate destinations. We would praise the newspaper ed itors, who molded public opinion so that the right men wore elected to con gress, and the newspaper reporters, who risked life and limb to carry back the news from the front, of what hus bands and fathers, and brothers had suffered under the tornadoes of shot and shell in the last battle. We would praise such men as A. K. McClure of the Philadelphia Press, with whom Lincoln was in closest contact, and Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune, and James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. These men never were able to wear a Grand Army button. They could tell no campfire stories at the Grand Army reunions, but they had their part in the great struggle. But for their enterprise, their daring and their patriotic devotion we should never have had the records of valor which are now our priceless possession. Services of Charlen A. Dana. It is a very grave question whether Abraham Lincoln could not better have parted with almost any one of his major generals than he could have lost that genius of railroad organizing, Thomas Alexander Scott. It is a very grave question whether U. S. Grant would not have been deposed from his command and sent back home In dis grace had it not been for Charles A. Dana, who, as the personal representa tive of Lincoln, went to the front and exposed and denounced the false scan dals which were being circulated about the "silent warrior” of the west. It is a very grave question whether Sal mon P. Chase could have ever success fully financiered the United States bonds which paid the running expenses of the war government, costing at that time millions upon millions of dollars each month, unless he had been backed up by Jay Cooke, the Philadelphia cap italist, who was to Lincoln what Rob ert Morris was to George Washington in the Revolution. So today I impar tially praise the patriotic soldier, the patriotic railroad man, the patriotic editor, the patriotic financier, the pa triotic contractor—McClure and Dana and Scott and Jay Cooke, as well as Grant and Sherman and Sheridan and Lee and Lougstreet and John B. Gor don. In this Memorial day address we would not omit the need of recogni tion due to the ministers of the home churches as well as the chaplains who labored in the field hospital and by the wounded and moaning men who had the pallor of death upon their cheeks the night after the battle. We would praise men like Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn and Moses D. Hoge of Richmond and Dr. Palmer of New Or leans. These men were never identi fied with any one particular regiment or brigade, yet in their utterances of inspiration, in the divine comfort which they carried to the bereft homes, in their words of faith and love, which through the printed page went to the boys in the camp, they became mighty evangelists of light, mighty gospel messengers for God and their native land. We have all read about the noble services of Dwight L. Moody to the soldier boys at the front. We know that many a dying soldier boy was able to answer “Here!” to the roll call of heaven because some faithful chap lain on earth had prepared him for that “Fall in!” on the other side of the grave. We know that many and many a dying message sent to the mother or the wife at home was penned by the faithful chaplains who looked after the boys of their regiments as a father might care for the children about his own fireside. But what about that gray haired old minister of the village church? Did he not serve any patriot ic purpose? JarkaoiT* Advice to a Minister. We cannot today too much praise the worn of the gospel minister during the agonies of America’s four years of carnage. One day a man applied to General Jackson for a position in his army. “What Is your business?” asked Jackson. “I am a minister of the gospel,” was the reply. Then Jack- son, the Christian soldier, uaid: “My friend, I can give you no position as high as that which God has given to you. Go back to your own church. In the name of Jesus Christ, give comfort to the widows whose husbands have been shot; to the children whose fathers, on account of this bloody war, will never come back; to the young maidens who can never again see their sweethearts. Go back and preach the gospel of sacrifice to the young men who must be enlisted from your town. Go back! In God's name, go back!" Aye, the duty which Thomas J. Jack- son assigned to the ministers of Jesus was grandly and uohly fulfilled by hundreds of consecrated clergymen, both in the north and the south. To day I honor the memories of the noble men of God w’ho at home were true and firm to their Lord and their people during the awful conflict. But I have still another long list of unpralsed heroisms. I would not praise the boy in blue or the boy In gray for what he did in 1801 and 1803 more than I would praise him for what he did after peace had been pro claimed. It w’as a spectacle that as tonished the world, a spectacle unprece dented in history, that of the soldiers of those two huge armies laying down their muskets and taking up the plowshare. To their honor be It said that they were ready to turn their backs upon strife and, side by side, work together In the vocations of pence. The vast armies of America going forth to battle is not nearly as Impressive, from a historic standpoint, to the student of sociology, as those armies almost Instantly melting away and then and there their ex-members fr&temizlng with one another and striving to the uttermost to build up the country with as much earnestness as they had shown In fighting each other to the death. Without any doubt, Robert E. Lee wjis one of the finest characters Ameri ca ever produced. Would you like to ! know what w:is to me the greatest act of th.-tl grand life? 1 find it not in his actions befo'e the war. I find it not in his wonderful equipoise and gentle ness and marvelous powers during the | war. But after Appomattox the chief nobility of that life glowed before his j fellow countrymen its a single star might outshine all the other stars In the heavenly firmament. After the war was over a rich financial company of New York city, in order to catch the southern trade through Robert E. Lee’s popularity, offered Lee $25.01*0 per year at a salary to become its manager. What said General Lee? “No, I can not come. I must stay among my own people to help teach them to become true Christian citizens, to help teach them how to have faith in their God and patriotic love for their whole land.” Robert E. Lee turned his back at that time upon the most princely salary then offered in the city of New Y'ork. In order to teach his people to love a reunited country and to have faith in God he accepted a humble position as the president of one of Vir ginia’s bankrupt schools. Rather than live for mercenary gain he quietly and yet nobly and unselfishly went to live among the shattered walls of Wash ington college in Lexington. He lived there until the close of his life. Some people may tell you that the greatest service the American soldier did for his country was when he suffered up on the lield of battle. I tell you that the greatest service the Confederate army and the Federal army ever did for their native land was when they dissolved and when their Christian sol diers became the earnest, consecrated advocates of Christian peace. So to day I praise no less highly than the soldier who went out In 18G1 to fight his country’s battles the soldier in I860 returning to civil life and striv ing in home and factory and store to heal the wounds of the nation and re unite its people In the bonds of Chris tian love. The Sentinel’* Call. Some time ago I stood on the top of the Washington monument and looked off upon the battlefields of America and dreamed my dreams. I saw hundreds of thousands of human bones bleaching in the sunlight, gnawed of the vulture and the wolf. I heard the muffled drums beating the tattoo at sunset. As the artillery wagons rumbled away to the rear, and star twinkled to star, I heard sentinel by the glare of the campfire call to sentinel: “All’s well. All’s well along the Potomac!” There go the booming of the can non and the sharp commands of the officers, “Steady, boys; steady, steady!” There is the ping of the bullet, and the dying soldier clutches at his heart as he moans, “My babies, O God, my poor babies!” and then drops dead. There comes the blood curdling Confederate cry, “Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!” There is the long line of set faces behind the glittering bayonets. The heavens red- dim and glow. The flames leap and hiss and difnee and make merry over the burning homes. The falling beams go crash, crash, crash! The rivers are deep with flowing blood; the grave trenches are filled with a million dead. As I turn and look upon the great white dome of the capitol the old na tional flag flaps and waves. Its stars glitter like the eyes of the mothers waiting for their boys who never came back, and like the eyes of the maidens who, after awhile as old women, read and reread the torn and the yellow let ters which their heroes Just before the fatal battle wrote about the bridal homes which were destined never to be built. And as I look upon the old flag again the white stripes look like the white bandages which were put about the shattered arms. The long, deep streaks of red prove that its folds had once been dipped into pools of human blood. Then the great white dome of the legislative hall, glistening In the sunlight, looks as though it were built out of the broken tombstones of Arlington Heights and Gettysburg and the Wilderness. The War Forever Knded. Then, as I look up and down the great Pennsylvania avenue, I seem to see the united armies of the boys in blue and of the boys in gray marching, marching, marching. I see the lines melt away. Following with my eye one soldier, I see him take his dis charge, and he starts for home. 1 cannot tell whether this discharged soldier is now heading for the Michi gan hills or for the Georgia planta tions. In his civilian dress he has no distinctive insignia telling me whether he fought under Grant or under Lee. Then I see this soldier coming up to the farm gate and being welcomed home by his dear ones. Now his wife nearly faints away for Joy. Then in the evening hour I see him gather the little children about him. He opens the old book; he reads a chapter; the family kneel in prayer; then the lights are put out, and I know the war is for ever ended. The Christian soldier of conflict has become the Christian citizen of patri otic peace. So on this Memorial day, with Its sad and happy associations, while we praise the soldier boy of 1861 let us also honor the Christian veteran of the time of peace. Let us, with the memory of what he has done In both conflicts, go forth to one last great bat tle. Let us take the Bible In hand and capture this round world for Christ. Como, ye Christian heroes of the past, both praised and unpralsed; come with your sacred memories and your burled dead. Come, ye Christian he roes of the future, with your cradles and unborn generations; come, ye na tions about to be born for Christ; come all times and all millenniums! Down In prayer and kneel to him who will yet be crowned King of kings and Lord of all! Hallelutat^ for the L*)rd God omnipotent relgneth! [Copyright, 1904. by Louis Klopsch ] For Sale. l-WAdvertlnements under -his head will oo Inserted for one cent a word eacu Inser tion. No ad Inserted for less than ten cents FOR SALE—Bay State organ, cheap for cash, or will exchange for sorry milch cow. 6-3-3t-pd R. G. Byars. FOR SALE—Good milk cow. E. L. Tate, Lawn, S. C. 5-31, 6-3. 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Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr29-tf J. 0. Jefferies.O Notice. N OTICE—Jack for service on June 2nd. at Cline’s Stables, and every ninth day afterward during season. W. A. George. 5-87-21 pd. Lost. LOST—Sunday evening, a round, white pin, gold bound, with pearl in center, at First Baptist church or ardson’s. Finder call at Capt. Rich ardson’s. Finder call at Capt. Rich ardson’s and receive reward. 5-31-lt I. W. Wingo. C. Eskridge B 4 U Have your HlarkHuilthlng Done. AJ1 Smithing, Iron|an(l)Wood Work done in first-class style ainljat reasonable rates. (Fortenberry’s Old Stand). We Sell everything that a first-class Drug Store usually keeps and many things which some druggists are not far- sighted enough to keep. When in doubt bring it to us, is a mighty good maxim. S.B. Crawley & Co. 813 Limestone St. Drugs, Perfumes and Stationery Prescriptions Properly Filled and Promptly Delivered Money Loaned. L OANS on Improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No commissions. For Information apply to J. 0 Jefferies. Attorney at Law. ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Supervisor of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary election. D. L. Vassey. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Supervisor of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the primary election. W. G. Austell. Cards under this head will be in serted from now until the primary for $5.00 each for county officers; mag istrates’ announcements, $3.00. All fees must be paid in advance. I hereby announcement myself a candidate for the office of Supervisor, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary. Wm. (Chris) Phillips. For a change, R. M. Jolly for Su pervisor of Cherokee county. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Cherokee county, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic party. J. V. Whelchel. For Congress. 1 am ;t Citndidiite for Congress, from the Fifth Congressional District, subject to the result of the Democratic primary election. T. Y. WILI.IAMS. Notice Bids for three storehouses corner Lime stone land Frederick streets^ will be re ceived till Friday, Ju; e 3rd. Purchaser to move buildings at once. F. G. Stacy, J. F. GARRETT, (Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82^ Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "Office over Cherokee Drug Co. William S. Hall. J a. james A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, STAR THEATRE BLDO. O . ». c;. Notary Public Inlofflce. Prompt attention flven to all business. DR. W. K. GUNTER, DENTIST Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. WANTED! All your clothes that need brightening up. bring them to us. We will make them look fresh and new. All work done by expert tailors. See us and Join our pressing club. ROBUSOI & JOXES, Tailors. Over W. D. Telegraph Office. Phone No. 43. Boys, don't forget that I am still in the business. I can sell you one of those high grade Bicycles at £25, and from that up to I75, and down as low as £5. Come to see me, boys, and I am sure we can trade. I sell all kinds of Bicycle Fix tures. Before you buy, call and see me at my market, 324 Limestone street, or at my store, 921 Granard street, ft- W. J. MANESS, Prop. fo;r Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster T’arls, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuae and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. Dr.<S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON^- OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted |Oculist,* Dr. Julian |J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has 4 also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. |®“Office in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. . College Scholarship & Entrance Eiamination. The examination for the award of va cant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will he held at the County Court House on Friday, July 8th, at 9 A. M. Appli cants must not be less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 8, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. Scholarships are worth fiuo and free tuition. The next session will open Sep- temlier 21, 1904. For further information and catalogue address PRES. D. B. JOHNSON, Rock Hill, S. C. June 14. The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you courteously and ma<e your es timates for nothing. JU. 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