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Investigate the reputation of your optician, for much de pends upon your eyes. We Incite Investigation. We have complete grinding plants at all our stores, and duplicate accurately and yi promptly the most difficult &j lenses. Remember, nil nnr mon nrp pvnprfs and w M absolutely guarantee you en- Fi tire satisfaction. I "Make Us Your Opticians." ft Sucwsore to TUCKER, HALL & CO. Opticians op The Best Sort 53 Granby Street, NORFOLK. RICHMOND. ROANOKE. MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY MR. R. C. DUNN. Delivered to The Buck Kitchin Camp, U. C. V., at Scotland Neck, N. C, on Wednesday, May 10, 191 1. Continued from last week. Many years ago, before the Nor man Conqueror stamped his mailed foot on the neck or prostrate baxon England, some wandering barbarian, of the continent then unknown to the world, in mere idleness, with hand or foot, covered an acorn with a little earth, and passed on regard less, on his journey to the Dim Past. He died and was forgotten; but this acorn lay there still, the mighty force within it acting in the dark ness. A tender shoot stole gently up; and fed by the light and air and frequent dews, put forth its little leaves, and lived, because the elk or buffalo chanced not to place his foot upon and crush it. The years marched onward, and the shoot be came a saplin, and its green leaves went and came with Spring and Au tum. And still the years came and passed away again, and William, the Norman Bastard, parcelled England out among his Barons, and still the sapling grew, and the dews fed its leaves, and the birds builded their nests among its small limbs for many generations. And still the years came and went, and the Indian hun ter slept in the shade of the sapling, and Richard Lion-Hearted fought at Acre and Ascalon, and John's bold Barons wrested from him the Great Charter, and lo! the sapling had be come a tree; and still it grew, and thrust its great arms wider and yet wider abroad, and lifted its head higher and still higher toward the Heavens; strong-rooted, defiant of the storms that roared and eddied through its branches: and when Co lumbus ploughed with his keels the unknown Western Atlantic, and Cor tez and Pizarro bathed the cros3 in blood; and the Puritan, the Huge not, the Cavalier and the follower of Penn sought a refuge and a resting place beyond the ocean, the Great Oak still stood firm-rooted, vigorous, stately haughtily domineering over all the forest, heedless of all the cen turies that had hurried past since the wild Indian planted the little acorn in the forest: a stout and hale old trie, with wide circumference fit to furnish timber for a ship, to carry the thunders of the GreatT Re public's guns around the world. f ftus it wa3 with the Confederate soldier, planting the seeds of a new South with the same traditions, the same civilization, the same coura geous people with the same determi nation, the same bravery and the same character cf the old South, without the blackening influence of the negro slave, and the mighty force within it acted in the darkness of the reconstruction. Business en terprises stole gently up, and the new South, fed by the judgement and the brain and the determination of the Confederate soldier, put forth its branches of industry, spreading its arms, of commerce wider and yet wider abroad and lift- ting its head higher and still higher toward the Heavens, strong-rooted, and. defiant of the storms of partial ity and political favoritism that have roared and eddied through its midst, until today the great South still stands, firm rooted, vigorous, stately, wielding its vast mflunce over the destinies of the nation as it was wont to do and furnish timbers for the Ship- of-State to carry the thunders of the great Republic's policies around the world. Surely the South is coming into its pwn again, and the welcoming song must indeed be sweet to the ears of the Confederate soldiers. Fourth. The cause for which the Confederate soldier fought was right and he knew that it was right. If there is any individual with whom I have less patience than any other it is he who upon the platform and in the press in a lukewarm, apolo getic, and. if you please, mollycod dling expression gives vent to his opinion that the Confederate soldier fought for what he believed to be right. For what he believed to be right, indeed! If precedent is any guide, if argument has any convinc mg force, it approving conscience has any solace, if subsequent appro bation on the part of those who for merly disagreed with him, be any vindication, we can assert without fear of successful contradiction that the Confederate soldier fought, bled and died, for what he knew to be right. If the constitutional right of a free people to regulate their own local affairs as they deem best, and the inalienable right of all free men to defend their - home trom in vasion and plunder, if these things be wrong then the cause for which the Confederate soldier fought was wrong and I have no defense to make for him. But if to- fight because the land they loved was invaded, if to fight because the principles they "PIL1.S. !ArIT?S f A air tif Iri.Mrft for CHI-CHES-TER'S DIAMOND BRAND PILLS In Rf.d andyi Gold metallic boxes, sealed with BlueV Kibbon. Take no otheii. Bny oF tomf DrngelBt and agU for CIU-Cli3-av.Il 8 V DIAMOND Hit AND Pll-tS, for twenty-fiv3 years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS 33S8 EVERYWHERE tested is now a summer as well as a winter remedy. It has the same invigorating and strength-producing ef fect in summer as in winter. Try .it in a little cold milk ox water. . ALL DRUGGISTS . cherished were attempted to be wrenched from them, if to fight be cause the constitutional rights which were justly their own were denied them, if these things be right then the Confederate soldier was ever lastinslv and eternally right and to him be all honor and glory for the fight he made. He contended for the most precious principle that ever dominated the human soul, the in alienable right of self-government, and he bared his heart to the storms and dangers of war only to defend his fire-side and his home. Neither spoils, nor personal glory, nor na tional aggrandizement, nor lust for power animated his bosom or nerved his arm. Without compromise or modification and with never a sug gestion of contrition or concession the Confederate soldier lived and died in the accepted faith of his fathers. He went into battle not alone to vindicate a constitutional argument, because his heart was throbbing for his hearth-stone. Here was the land which gave him birth, here was his childhood's home, here were the graves of his dead, here was the church spire where he had learned that it was not all of life to live nor all of death to die, and it was upon this consecrated' ground that no hostile foot should j ever tread save over his dead body, j And yet with such Codrus like per sistency have those of the North, through the medium of the press, the platform, and the pulpit, dinned it into our ears that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, I very much fear that would be the answer of sevent3T-five per cent of the children in the schools of the South to-day. Do the histories you are using in your school teach that slavery was the cause of the Civil War? If they do, in justice tear them up. Are you telling this to your children and to your children's children? In justice to these brave men-' and six hun dred thousand more of them, tell it to them no more. I deny the as sertion in the name of the tradions of the people against whom this vile slander is made. I refute it in the nnrrv tot. ?J--i thousand Confederate soldiers not one in ten of whom had any financial interest in slavery. I deny in the name of the Emancipation Proclamation, is called by its own author a war mea sure for war purposes. It is not my purpose or intention at this time to speak to you cf the cause of that war, yet conducting a ressarch for yourselves if you will bnt go deep enough you will find that the cause of that great struggle is the very question now engaging the at tention of the Congress of the United States the protective tariff. Surely justice and right must ere lonjr raise up some one, able, broad- minded, fearless, who will write the story of the true causes of that mighty struggle and taithiully de pict its stirring events. The position of the South until recently, was, and even now I may safely say, is very much like that of Uncle Alex, . the venerable darkey with an old gray mule, who called upon a veterinary surgeon with the . . i t-r ?.09f inquiry, is you . a noss doctor: Yes. said the surgeon. Well, dis here ole mule he's sick and I doan wanter lost old Pete. Can you 1 I (II! gimme some medicine iur mm: Wntinera perscnntion the doctor said, "take this paper! to the drug store and get this medicine and a glass tube open at both ends. FBt the medicine in the tube, run it down Pete's throat and blow." Some days later the veterinary met Uncle Alex much bedraggled and ashy and- asked, "How's Pete?" "Pete, he's all right, but I aint," said Uncle Alex. "What's the matter?" "It's dis away," said Alex, "I took the medicine and a glass tube as you told me, and I stuck it down Pete's throad, I did." "Did you blow?" asked the doctor. "No, sir," said the darkey, "old Pete he done blowed fust.". Surely the Northern historian has "done blowed fust," and the medicine which he has blowed down the throat of the South has been the bitterest, meanest, and the most distasteful medicicne that has ever been blown or bv anv other means gotten into the svstem of a fair land. Confede rate Veterans. Daughters of the Confederacy, mothers, fathers, school-teachers, all of you, let us rise ud in our mierht and do some blowing on our own account and let the truth be known to the world. And lastly, but by far the greatest factor contributing to the make-up of the Confederate as the most capa ble, courageous, and efficient soldier that ever answered the call of duty was the fact that he was sustained and inspired by the grandest body of womanhood the world has ever known the Southern woman. What shall I say of her? What could I say of her that would do her justice? "Where shall her story begin? Where shall it end? Was it her unspeaka ble sacrifice in the beginning, when she first buckled on her loved ones the armor of that holy war and sent ! them away from home to battle for their country as the toxsin of war first sounded the appeal to arms? Was it later her uncomplaining en durance of untold privation . and loneliness and desolation, or her di vine fortitude and resignation, when father, husband, son, brother or lover fell on the distant battlefield and came back to her no more for ever? Or, when she moved like an angel through the hospitals or in the rear of the firing line, watchful as a Roman vestal ministering to her wounded soldiers, cooling their fe vered lips and soothing their last hours on earth with her gentle words and deft hands? Or, when in the darkest hours of our blessed cause, when our brave heroes in front were being crushed by overwhelming numbers and the knapsack at the front and the bin at the home were empty, her faith, kindled by heaven ly fires, kept alive the waning hopes and drooping courage of her naked, starving, and shattered armies, and met with her smites the ragged rem nant of the returning soldiers and pledged them her eternal faith and sympathy? What strength of purpose and loyalty to duty must have been hers when she buckled the sword of her life's companion a3 well as the sons of her bosom and bade them go with the knowledge that they might never return. Just one example will suf fice to show that to the Southern woman duty was as imperative as destiny, as inflexible as death, and that the performance of that duty, with whatever hardships it wa3 at attended, with whatever perils it was surrounded, with whatever sac rifices it was accompanied, was to her the only true heroism. The battle of Gettysburg had been fought. The ranks of the Confeder ate army had been fearfully deple ted. The news of the deadly con flict and the enormous loss of life came to a Carolina mother just at the close of day. The rays of the sinking sun, blood-red in their as pects, cast a shadow over the little garden where four mounds side by side arose to greet the sympathizing branches of the weeping willow waving over them. Under two of these the father and the eldest son were sleeping the last sleep of the brave, and the other two were raised there by loving hands to remind the widowed mother that upon some far-distant and unknown battlefield two youthful lives had been sacri- J ficed upon the altar of duty. And now the news that brought to her the story of the great and bloody battle, announced to her that in that dreadful carnage, with his face Blind, Dizzy Spells. Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. Cora L. Ritter, writes from this place: "I used to have blind dizzy spells, and ever to the battle front, as Pettigrew j we:;k cold spells went all over me. made his famous charge, another I Different doctors could not tell me son had poured out his life blood for j what was wrong. After taking the cause he knew was rio-ht. and i Car Jui I am all mht and in better another mound was to be added to the quota under the willow tree, As she looked upon the scene, recalling the deadly drama as it had been en acted before her very eyes, remem bering how one after another of her health than for 10 years." Cardui is a remedy for women which has been used by women for nearly a lifetime. It prevent9 the unneccsr ary pains of female troubles, such as headache, backache, dizziness, dragging down fe?lings, etc. Try it. sons she had dispatched to the bat tlefield that the ranks might be filled , and how none of them were ever to Teacher Tell me! How do return to her, her arm around the ' Drove that the earth is round? f rail.f orm of her last born, a youth ', But Smart Pupil you Dull I never said it was. of only fifteen years, the frame of this incomparable heroine shook uncontrollable grief, and like Rach ael of old she refused to be comfort ed. "O, God, shall it be this one, too?" That night she spent in pray er, prayer to the God in whom she put her trust that this last sacrifice Continued on fourth page. -Puck. Whooping cough is not dangerous when the cough is kept loose and ex pectoration easy by giving Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. It has been used in many epidemics of this dis ease wilh perfect success. For tale by all dealers. USB &3 a Ammisj :ry- y'v .ZZZ&a . ii i Mm i MTmimrl I J 1 1 Everybody's Store. Everybody's Store. Everybody's Store. Everybody's Store. I rrji s " 11 " Bj PURROUQHS-PfTTrlAN-fHEELER (TjQ. 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