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fACt rout ~ C&e Cberofeee Scout TU Official Orftn of Marpky mmd CWrokt? Coonty, North Carolia* PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY C. W. BAILEY E^itor M.M7?T MRS. C. W. BAILEY, AmocUk Ed. B. W. SIPE . ^ AmocmU Ed. SubB^r^ion Rater One Year $1.50 Eight Months 1.00 j Six Months 75c | Payable Strictly In Advance Legal advertisements, want ads. reading notices, obituaries, cards of thanks, etc, 5c line each insertion, payable in advance. Display and contract rates furnished on request. All communications must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will not be accepted for publication. Name of the writer will not be published unless so specified, but we must have the name of the author as evidence | of goo d faith. Entered in the postoffice at Murphy, | North Carolina, as second class mail' matter under act of Mar. 3, 1879. Foreign Acrrenning Rrprctratativr 1 I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION | ' Monument To Vets Unveiled At Vicksburg (Continued from ps(? 1) their matchless heroism, and their brave deeds, we should be untrue to 1 to both xhe living and the dead were in looking at "the seen, which is temporal," to lose sight of "the unfeen, which is eternal." ' "When 1 am tempted to speak of the valor and deeds of the old Confederate soldier, 1 am forcibly reminded of the Words of Bossuet, in the beginning of hts eulogy of the Prir.ce of Conde, when he said: "At at the moment that I open my lips to celebrate the immortal glory of the Prince of Conde, I find myself equally overwhelmed by the greatness of the theme and the Heedlessness of the, theme and the needlessness of the What part of the habitable world has not heard of his victories and the wonders of his life? Everywhere they are rehearsed. His own countrymen in extolling them, can give no information to the stranger.' And although I may remind you of' them, yet everything I could say, i would be anticipated by your j thoughts, and I should suffer the re-1 proach of falling below them." No j words that I or any one could utter ctrn add one ray to the lustre of the Imperishable fame of the Confederate soldier, and to try to do so would be j " 'To gild refined gold, Or paint the lily.' L!~ I 1 -"u ?,,a "4-yc,y ,mvi' been immortalized in song and in story, in granite and in marble and on the painters canvass, and they rriU live in the heat la vf our peopie, nntil long after the most enduring stone shall have crumbled into dust the splendid heritage of his children and his children's children, unto the remotest generation. "Bt?t there is danger that. In the contemplation of his heroism and his brave deeds, we may lose sight of that which inspired them the ideal, of principle for which he fought, and which prompted that heroism and those brave deeds, and I do crav< your indulgence as we look, for ? icm moments, at these unseen things I for after all, the realm of idealism is the realm of true values, which are to be measured by spiritual standards, and not by the rule and balance of the pragmatist. " 'Governments change, 1 policies perish, but principles never die.' "Every soldier who offers his life to his country demonstrates the superiority of the moral or spiritual to the physical, and proves that principle find honor are worth the sacrifice of animal existence. "It has been said that 'a land with-! out memories is a land without lib-1 erties,' and so we always do well to | k?P alive, to perpetuate, if we may,! the memory of the worthwhile things of life. As we have said, the hero-' ism and brave deeds of the Confederate soldier are the priceless heritage of his children, but let us not lose sight of his spiritual treasures, the principle or ideal for ha fought, and for which so many of tW laid down their lives, for this far the richest part of our inb^ritance. And we should be especially jealous of this at this time, in view of the fact that there seems yet, after the lapse of all the years, to be a determined purpose on the pert of some, to pervert the truth of htoUpy as to that principle or ideal, and' thus rob us of our heritage, which we should prevent, if in our power. Keeping the Record Straight "This duty cf keeping tfce recor of history straight as to the principl for which so many of them died, \ a responsibility which comes to thei descendants with their inheritanci and it devolves upon us to see to i that the error born doubtless of an mosities engendered by the war, ths they fought to perpetuate slavery shall not be taught the youth of ou land. It is uot true. In the languag of my distinguished friend, Generi Davidson, in a memorial address dt livered by him sofcne twenty year ago, in the capital city of our state ('Slavery had no more to do with 01 ligin or the fundamental causes o that struggle, than did tea, in th causes which produced the war of th Revolution. Slavery, like the tax o: tea, was one, and only one of th matches which exploded the mag? zinc, but it was not the magazine, no did it constitute an esential or con ponent part of that magazine.' I the introduction to his 'War Betwee The States,' the Hon. Alexander H Stephens said: 'The war betweei the states had its origin in opposin; principles. They lay in the organi structure df the goverment of th states. The cnnflirt 1*1 nrlnoinl arose from different and opposini ideas as to the nature of what i known as the National government The contest was between those wh held it to be strictly Federal, ant those who maintained it was thor oughly National. It was a strife be tween the principles of the Federa tion on the one side, and centralism or consolidation, on the other.' Wha fairer or clearer statement can h found? The Confederate soldier be lieved in the rights of the Sovereigi statesT and fought in defense of tha principle. To the Daughters of thi Confederacy, the Sons of Veterans and kindred organizations, they say: 'Go on; grow not weary in well doing. Prove yourselves worthy your glorious ancestry, and rest r until you bring it to pass that all i i everywhere shall know and acknowl edge the lofty principle, the higl ideal, for whirh your forbears offer ed their lives.' You may always b< sure of a worthy object of your ef forts as long as you seek justice foi the earnest soul, amid peril and dis aster, because of his faith in thenx "The true significance then of this monument should be that it is a mem orial, not only of the valor and bravi deeds of those in whose honor it i erected, but it is likewise a memoria of the principles or ideals for whicl they fought. Some writer, whos name I have forgotten, has said tha the great world struggle, referred t< as the Armageddon, has always beei completely misunderstood; that it i now to oe a uan.it' ueiwci-n urmuu ior ces, tttt we understand the terms, bu that it is to be simply a clash o ideals. This writer believes that thi battle is in progress today, and that because of the immutable laws o a God of justice and right, the tru ideal can never be defeated. I thin! we can understand what this write meant by the invincibility, or the :n evitable triumph of the true idea when we contemplate that of the Con federate soldier. What was it tha enabled him to endure, without murmur, the trials and privations o that long and bitter struggle? Wha inspired that matchless heroism tha he displayed on more than an hun dred battle fields? For that idci he was always ready to suffer, -n even die, and though compelled a last to yield to superior force, tha ideal, as well as the heroism an brave deeds inspired by it, will liv forever. He never thought of d? feat, or death, but only a duty. H knew he was fighting for a principl that must exist, if the country four ded by our Fathers, was to live. Pai adoxical as it may seem to some, believe the time is rapidly approach ing when all thoughtful men wi o?ric inoi* it was uie c.uuuiaii suiuii who really fought to preserve the Ui ion, in the only way it was wort while to preserve it, who fought fc the principle that must continue t exist if our Union is to stand, th principle that was never defeated because it was right, and that, bi cause it was never defeated, our U? j ion still stands. "Fifty years ago, the New Yoi Woild, then as now, one of the leat ing newspapers of the country sai< 'What American, North or Soutl would accept for himself, or seek 1 impose upon any other commoi wealth, any Union outer than a Ui ion of States, absolutely co-equs with such a jealous rdgard for one a; other's rights, that when the into CATARRH Catarrh Is a Local dlaease greatly fc fluenced by Constitutional conditions. HALL'S CATVtHRH MEDICINE COt slate of an Ointment which gives Quit Relief by local application, and tl Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which ac through the Blood on the Mucous Bu faces and assists In ridding your Syste of Catarrh. _ Sold by druggists for over *0 Tears. F. J. Cheney * Co., Toledo, a THE CHIKOKEE SCO est and honor of one are assailed, allvi d the.rest, leeling the wound will kin-1. ? die at the outrage? Hear the words i 18 of the Honorable Ellhu Root, bin*- i ir self a Northern man, and admittedly , ?* one of the foremost thinkers of our ! ' time, in a memorable address, deliv-1 ered by him a few year ago: 'On the lt other hand, if the power of the nation is to override that of the states. ir and usurp their function*, we should c have this vast country of ours, with l' its great population, inhabiting widcr 1 ly separated regions, differing in * climate, in productions and in industrial and ideas, controlled in all its lo'* cal affairs by one all-powerful cm-. ^ tral government at Washington, im- j e posing upon the home life and bee haviour of each community, the opin- 1 n ions and ideas of propriety of dis- i1 e tant majorities. Preservation of our; l" dual system of; government, carefully !: r restrained in each of its parts, by the ' limitations of the constitution, has n made possible our growth in local n self government and national power ' in the past, and, so far as we can sec. n is essential to the existence of that P government in the future.' c "History teaches that no nation e can long survive when the fundamene tal principles which gave it life origin inally are subverted. It will indeed^ 8 be a calamity should the time ever j come, when this principle for which D the Confederate soldier fought, shall J be lest sight of, when the right of the - Sovereign state to regulate its own - internal affairs, as to all matters, not - voluntarily surrendered in the Fedi? eral compact, or in some amendment t thereto, shall be denied. Forbid, Alp eighty Cod, tlmi such a time should - ever come. i "The right to secede has been fort ever settled by the arbitrament of e the sword. One by one we have . surrendered those sacred rights, which I were once reserved, others have been - usurpd by the courts, and yet those f favoring centralization, still cry: i give I give! Let us, my friends, i guard those few remaining rights, as - we would our birthright, and be ever i suspicious of those who would deprive - us of them. e "On the 4th day of July, 1863, fol lowing engagenunts at Port Gibson, r at Raymond, at Jackson, Edward's - Depot, and the Big Black, and after months of bombardment from botb b land and water the Confederate for ces which had been holding Vickse burg, the last stronghold of the Conpi federaey on the Mississippi, except J Port Hudson, and which numbered h about thirty thousand men, with neare ly one fourth of these in hospitals, t and all without food, were sutrend3 ered near this spot by their comn manding officer to a force of 150,5 000 under General Grant, and were j _ paroled. Coming simultaneously t with the disastrous repulse at Gettysf burg, this was truly the beginning of a the end, for it was followed five days, later by the surrender of Port Hudf son, which left the Mississippi, which e divided the Confederate States in | k i twain, to flov/ unvexed to the sea. In r I a little more than a year, the star of the Ccr.fcdci ?cy set forever, at Apil pomattox, and the fratricidal strife i- ceased. It has now been more than ,t sixty years since that eveni took a place. Nature, the great restorer.! f has healed the scars left by the war,! it and time has caused the fierce pasw j it sions engendered by it to be alhyed. | i- It had taken four years of time, and . i] two millions more men than the Con- j d federacy ever had in its whole ex- j it istence, to bring about the capitulation of about six hundred thousand, d all it ever had, and these without any e navy, and without foreign support. ?_ Does not this statement, tell, more ele oquently than any platitude can tell, e the story of he Confedcrae soldier? The fact that they were able to bring .. about the capitulation of the Confedj erate forces at all, even with a greatly superior- force, and with all the; II latter's handicaps, is the glory of the j ,r Northern soldier, and should be his| pride. It was largely Americans: h against Americans. ir Upbuilding Country 0 "The war ended, the survivors of j e the Confederacy acting under the or- j j ders of their great Commander-in-j j. chief, turned their eforts in the di-j rection of the upbuilding of tbeir j devastated country, and ereat as the ! Confederate soldier was in war, it 1 j. was after he had laid down his arms, J j- taken leave of his several leaders' and had returned to his ruined home, [0 that he showed his transcendent greatness, the greatness of his soul. If vs Wgj Sc~.on:tritcd his valor cs,1 durance and fidelity to principle, dor-; n_ ing the strife, he proved his patience j r_ and self-control under the most try-1 _ ing circumstances. His dignity in the midst of poverty and reverses, his heroic resignation to that which he s* could not avert, proved that subjoin gation cannot oonquer true greatness lie i of soul. Having laid down his arms, ** he soon distinguished himself by his 10 respect for law and order; his patient I industry; by his avoidance of everything that might cause irration or pro UT. MURPHY. M. C. t>ke new humiliation, ar.d by hie generous readiness to regard as friends in peace, those whom he had recently met as enemies in war. It is adver- j sity after all which trair* the truly I heroic soul to further and higher endeavor, which shows that soul in all its strength. We have all seen a mighty oak tree in full foliage, with its every leaf rippling a smiling response to the gentle kisses of the summer breeze, and we thought it was beautiful, but we have seen it again, when the Storm King had come and with his icy hands had stripped it of its leaves, when it stood up in all its nakedness and with its bare arms flung defiance to the winter blast, and then we have seen its true beauty which was its strength. "Those who really fought on both sides were brave men. In the lan ;uage of Alex H. Stephens,"there ? The BULL'S EYE "Editor mod QtneralManaqor Wig ROGERS * If Another "Wl" Durham ^S, 0 advertisement by Will Roftn, f II ZiMftld Foffirs and screen ?t?r, | 1 More coming. Watch for them. JI What Good Does It Do You to Know Something? Advertisements in all Papers and Magazines are all trying to appeal to the intelligent. Now this one is for the great majority. Reliable authority, in fact it was the Draft Boards during the War, figured out | that the intelligence of the average 1 Adult of this Country was that of a 13 year old Child. (Now that is giving us the best of it because a 13 year old Child is about the smartest thing we have in this Country), but the 13 year old Child they referred ! to was one who had been raised the milk of human Kindness (which is mostly Water) and weaned on a Hard Boiled Egg. You know the smarter the Ulan the more dis&atis- j fied he is, so cheer up, let us be happy in our ipiorance. What do we care how little we know if we get what we want? "Bull" Durham needs no Literacy Test, it is | with minority in quality, and with j the majority in usage. rfZLC- ?| P. S. This last sentence is all that : saved the add. P. P. S. There will he another piece I here two weeks from now. Look for H. SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AMI In 1860 a blend of tobacco was bom?"Bull*' Durham. On quality alone it has won recognition wherever tobacco is kno- It still offers the public this?more flavor, more enjoyment and a lot more money left at the end of a week's smoking. TWO BAGS for 15 cento -*? ' -- IVtD^aaVUMIW I? VMM ' 3ui2" Durham Guaranteed by UCOMMATM ) U1 Fifth Akom, Now Yock Cfer were- berioic exploits on both side?, a which will live in memory, and be li treasured up as themes for song and j ^ story, for apes to come." Most of the j survivors of this war have long since I joined the great majority. It is no longer "the thin gray line" but"the| thin blue line" as well and in a few] more years, the last survivor of tha J war between the states, will have joined those whose silent tents are spread 'On fame's eternal camping1 ground." Those of the Confederacy j will cross over the river to rest under. the shade of the trees with Lee and ' Jackson, and those of the North, to be with their cherished leader. Thef di courage, the devotion to duty and the rj brave deeds of these nun should be iv regarded as the common heritage of ni our re-united country. It is big and ?t] rich enough for us all. There is ge enough of glory to go all around. 0j As we have said the right of secession sj has been forever settled by the sword p, never to be called in question again. 1 The vision of Lincoln of "a Union. I w one of indissoluble, now and forever, < has become an accomplished fact, a ^T splended reality. In other wars since jjt that between the states the sons of v? nu wute me uiue ana mose co who wore the gray, have fought i ^ shoulder to shoulder under the i folds of the flag of the ] ]ai father?, which we all love. ce In 1913, at Gettysburg, the wearers aj| of the blue and the wearers of the to gray met, <*i that historic battlefield ! vo and buried forever the hatred en- ur gendered by four years of war. The President of United States delivered ! 0f the funeral oration and then and j ^ there, in the language of the Psalmist, stj "mercy and truth met together, ur righteousness and peace kissed each \.*j other." The only discordant voice In that is now heard in the land is from ^ th those described by the late Ben Hill jn! of Georgia as 'invincible in peace ]al and invisible in war,' who, for selfish j ha reasons try to keep hatred alive. Let ! su him who would fan the smoking flax, th should there be a smoking spark lelt, f0 into a flame, be forever* Anathema- jn baranatha. May the God of the fathers w| hasten the day when the descendants < t" those grand old heroes North and w] South, will feel their bosoms swell th with pride, as they contemplate the all valor, and the glorious deeds of the th American soldiers of the 60's; whin er the historian shaU record the charac- St ter and soldierly qualities of the \j peerless Lee and the incompar- re able Jackson, with the same tr; fairness and fidelity to truth ]0' as he does those of the magnanimous f? Grant, when he shall do the same fo justice to the bravery and principles f0 of the wearers of the gray, as to those Jo: of the wearers of the blue, for verily 'we be brethren.' Ol Htonor. "In thus expressing the hope that sectional feeling and strife shall be no more forever, I wouid not be understood as even intimating that 'c we of the South should love the old fr Confederate soldiers anyless. In com- bu mon with all the people of my state, sa I rejoice nr.d cm. il.iu llmi North Car- jj] olina does all in her power to make pj him and his dependents comfortable in their last days. i " Nor would I be understood as j P saying that we should love and revere. V] \ ^Xloui* < !? js? JLSI ^ke heart o/^3 the Nation * This railroad, one of the tation systems in Amerii states and appro ximat< the entire population of The figures shown on the emphasize the importan ice in the development urban communities?for, perity and prosperity br This condition which served territory exists country where the railro the average. The railr the late James Hill, rank tance to religion and tb L HS5 FRIDAY, JUNE 5. 1925 ny less, the memory of those who ^ aid down their lives, ror a principle, fe can never forget that $3 They were slain for us, ! And their blood poured out lite JH rain, for us, K Red, rich and pure, on the plain, a for us, % And the years may go, But our tears shall flow, For the dead, who died not in vain, for us. "No they did not die in vain. They f,. ~u_ L.t: ? ? tu ivi uiey >;ciicvea in oe ght, lor that which was everlastrighl, in the same spirit as did the artyrs of the church of old, and as fie blood of the martyr's was the ed of the church,' so the sacrifices these grand old heroes, made posble the salvation of our Union wilF i?rish. Preserve it, and under ita ;nign influence, our beloved country ill go on from glory unto glory, an[ the vision of the fathers, of a eat Christian nation, leading and rhting the nations of the earth, shall come a glorious reality. We shall -ntinue to lovingly remember the ad, while life shall last. "On behalf of my native state, the st of the states to declare for session, and yet when she did, went I the way, and furnished more men the cause she loved than she had ting population the state which had iloosed upon her, the fiery hell of e reconstruction, and yet came oat it without 50 rr.uch as even the lell of fire, upon her garments; the ate, whose soldiers who survived, ider wise counsel of the immortal ance, accepted the result of the war good faith, turned their feet into e paths of peace, and their hand? to the upbuilding of their stricken nd; the state, which although she s been called 'slow' has yet made ch progrt ss in the arts of peace, at she today stands in the very refront of the states of our Union material prosperity; the state lose citizens still love the old Conderate soldier, and the cause for rich he fought, and yet yield td ose of no other state in their loyty to the Union, on behalf, asd lit e name of the patriotic, loyal, libty-loving people of the Old North ate, I present to the Vicksburgr itional Park Commission, as the presentative of our common Connie, this beautiful expression of their ve and admiration for the old Conderate soldier and the principle r which he fought. May it stand rever, a speaking witness of their palty and love." RDER YOUR PLANTS DIRECT FROM THE GROWER Genuine Improved Nancy Hall and no men roiaio pianis, grown om potatoes that produced 508 ishels last year at $3.00 per thound. YES THEY ARE NOW EADY AND AM SHIPMNG EV?Y DAY. It will pay you to plant e bist. Tomato plants at 30 cent* r hundred, $1.50 per thousand. ICTOR DEEN, Alma, Ga. (36-7t-vc greatest transports, serves fourteen ;ly one-quarter of the United States, map above further ce of railroad servof both rural and , people bring prosings happiness. I applies in L. & N. in all parts of the ad service is above oads, according to next in real impore public Schools.