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THE 1Z0AN0KJ3 BEACON. Published Every Friday. Entered in the Pst Office at i';yniou.tli N. C, as Crcond diss matter. We appeal to every reader of Tub Roanokk Beacon, to aid us in making it au acceptable and proiltable medium of news to our citizens. Let Plymouth people- and the public know wiint is going on in Plymouth, lie port to us all items of news the arrival and departure of friends, social event's, deaths, soiious ilinc, accidents, new buildings, new enterprises and improvements of Whatever character, changes in business indeed anything and everything that would be of interest to our people. Subscription price, $1.00 per year. Advertisements inserted at low ra'e. Obituary notices exceeding ten line five cents aline. Count the words, allowing eight to the line, and .tend money with .MS. for all in excess of teu lines. The editor will not be responsible for the vievs of correspondents. All articles for publication must be iiccornuanied by the full name of tne writer. Correspondents are requested not to write on but one side of the paper. All communications must be sent in by Thursday morning or they will not appear. .s AddrcsB all communications to THE KOANOKE BEACON, Plymouth. N. C. BILL AHFS LETTISH. "Duty is the aublimest word in pur language." That is what Gen. Lee wrote to his son soon after Gen. Scott offered him the supreme com mand of the Northern army. Vir ginia had just seceded and Lee saw on one side that there were no hon ors to which he might not aspire. On the other side, if he cast his des iny with that of I113 State, he saw, pr he thought he saw, that miseries and trials awaited him without num ber. But to seek his duty and, hav ing found it, do was ever the princi ple of his actions. These strong and beautiful words about duty were not original with Gen. Lee, and in his letter be has them in quotation marks. The expression came from Rev. John Davenport, a famous Pu ritan preacher of New England the man who gave shelter to the three regicides who condemned Charles the First to death and after, the restoration fled for their lives to Mew England and were hidden by John Davenport in his barn. When this act of treason became known among the people he neither quailed nor relented, but preached a sermon the next Sabbath from that passage in Isiaa which says : "Hide the out casts. Betray not him that wander eth. Let my outcasts' dwell with thee and be thou covert unto them from the spoiler." It .v.-i . sermon that he uiado ibj ui i.n. ... table expression : "It is my duty to shield them, and duty is the sub limest word in our language." During the war it was my privi lege to see Gen. Lee quite often, but never did I meet him face to face and have a brief conversation with him but twice. Even then we did not know how great a man he wa3. Geu, Johnston had been wounded at Seven Tines and Gen. Lee came from West Virginia to take his place. He was almost a stranger to the Army of Northern Virginia. He had been in command but a week or two when Gen. Black, of Rome, came to see his bovs of the Eighth Georgia and asked me to ride with Uirn to Gen. Leo's headquarters and introduce him, for he was very de sirous of meeting him before he re turned to Georgia. Of course I com plied, for Gen. Black was a man of no small consequence at hotn; He ws old and gray and of command ing presence an military bearing. Introducing myself first, I presented Gen. Black, and after we were seat pd I said nothing, bijt paid modest and respectful attention. I was soon impressed with the grandeur of the man before me, and, of course, as he expanded, I very naturally shrank up a little to keep the equilibrium. Not Jang after this the Seven Days' battles began and ended in McOlel lan's defeat and our army began to realize how great a man Lee was. Jt was on the sixth day that I was sent to his headquarters near Meadow "Bridge to receive orders and there I wiet him at;uu. lie was standing uwcv-ned a i) d, "panned in front of his tent, aud "Stonewall'' Jackson was asleep inside upon the straw, and the servant had set the dinner tables over him so as not to disturb his rest, for, as Gen. Leo said, "He needs it, and nothing b.ut artillery will awake him now." I said that the army did not know at first how great a man Lee was. Neither did they know fully at the last, for he was one of the few great characters that develops aud grows brighter and grander as tha yems roll on. For some years, after the war he received but little praise at the North and a great national cy clopedia gave more space and praise to Old John Brown than to Gen. Lee, who arrested and executed him. But now, in the international, of fifteen volumes a standard work, edited and compiled by 200 of the most distinguished scholars and pro fessors of the Northern colleges the sketches of Geu. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are all that we could ask for. That of Lee closes with this para graph : "In person he was oue of the noblest types of manly beauty. Tall, broad-shouldered, erect, with a dignity as impressiye as ' that of Washington, yet not so cold. Of habits as pure as Washington, but more warmly religious iud always maintaining a calm, confident aud kindly maimer that no disaster could disturb or change." The world knows him now and venerates his memory ami the people he fought against have given him a place in their hall of fame. Verily, old Father Time is a good doctor and 'Anno Domini the patt? ening solvent of all malignant pas sions. But this is enough from me concerning the great commander. It wa3 the sublime Christian faith of Lee and Jackson that made their a.'y-vs!w'y.vv.tj.'.g(iiA characters complete and added luster to their military fame. They were men of prayer. For a' little while I would usk your kind attention to those, whom since 1S92 have called . themselves the Daughters of the Confederacy. Their mission has been and still is and we trust long will be as declared in article 2 of their constitution : "Educational, memorial, social and benevolent to collect and preserve the material lor a truthful history of the War Between the Stales--4o honor the memory of those who served and those who fell in our service' and to record the pare taken by Southern women during the war and its aftermath, their patient eu durauce of hardship, their patriotic devotion dining the struggle and to fulfill the duties of sacred charity to the survivors. " All of these are no ble objects but the greatest of all is the establishing of the truth and preserving it. The poet saycth that "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," and it has risen and will con tinue to rise. Even that popular magazine, Frank Munsey's Monthly, in its last number, has forever blot ted out the malignant and fanatical story of Barbara Freitchie, and only i the last week the ladies of Lexing ! ton, Ky., put under the ban the j drama of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It was the Daughters of the Confed eracy who did it and to their wide spread and iniluential organization the South must look for the main tenance of the truth. Just think pi it. Within the past nine years twenty-two States have been chartered as grand divisions, including Califor nia, New York, the District of Co lumbia, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. In all these there have been, chartered an aggregate ot over three hundred chapters with a mem TWfe . .......11.v, sanci ooraes were J J A TY - ll pa y s to ir v otne bership of 267000 good, loyal South ern women. The .largest federation of women in the world Of this membership Texas has the. largest number, 2,435, Georgia coines next withl,T50 members. But my friends, this great army, of v. daughters had mothers who, whether alive or now dead, instilled this love of truth ami unstained Confederate honor in the hearts of their children. They are the ones who sacrificed and suffered and still are etrong. For more than fifteen years I have observed a trait ''ouliuiiiKl on 7th pap. : V. en. TTo h.'ivo lt-cM-pil v r ! n1!o ohVr v'iU'h is to L i 1.0 i j u i.ii.i. ;i 1 j Tha lc'UK(i!ir, of. rpv Yuik Taking 1 ho ftct ih.it r.rx t rr-r lupins now century, The J-'h'.a!' oiT.-ra t i.isiri buto $l7,r.0) among 1301 v.o:is u. The p!a:i Is so cleverly arranged tii.it v. woman living in a small town pr viUue, ha j-tst . go.d a chaueo to win ouo of these Km I pri.i-s ns n woman livintr i;i a city h.ociuiso jiu; pih-.i-s we given for tho iir.uilor of hi'o .r!-t!oiia Boomed in :v town i:i prjotwirtion to the; popu lation of that town, in? toad .of being give simply to iho.o who t-oml tho hu'j'rst litt Etibscii'oers whii-h, of course, tiro int o Obtained in big chic. Anoihor ,c!cvt r fee of the plan R lluiji i ll the car nnd lour the Unite 1 Si.-tiiM rn-l Ctui'la .have lorn ranu'ed in seven classes. Tho .cities of th preatOi-t population nro rrouped in Class and .as ihcso cities, aro n.r. vc--y many, the prizes pfT'ipd aro 1 wt my-e:!.: j tho li;gh est prizq Ivir.g $.0o, :n:d il.o lowc-t. fo.OO Tho total anion!:!, of pri:- piiyu ,iivr.y in this s;!ass is $1,000. 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If is no or oiniiry remeuy, uui a cuiupieie ijciunieup ; which is tOMt)vely guaranteed to pure CAr T Alt UU in auy form or stage if used ac , cording to the directions which accopapny each package. Don't delay but send for itj at once, and write full particulars aa to1 your condition, and you will receive special hdvice fioui the discoverer of this wonderr lul remedy regarding your case without coht to you beyond the regular price of "sSnUJWLES" the GUAKANTEED CA- TA HUH CUKE." Kent prepaid to any address in the United Stiitfa or Canada on recfipt of One Dollap. Address pet.t. C471 ED WIN B. GILES & f'liVtiA mv 'W'di.mt op-) iiurbi.1 sani iJhilndolphni, , ap 19-ly bUBSCIiUJK FOlt THE RoanokE Beacon
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