Cherokee County Democrat (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 16, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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WHY
EVERYBODY ELSE
TRADES AT THIS STORE
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-very sample—direct and to the point.
it is because we give >ou better values for your money than
an\ other store* in thi4 community.
It is because we know that the best way to get your dollar is
is to gi\<* you the worth of that dollar in return.
THE LAWRENCE-WYLY MERCANTILE CO,
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STHAVKD
afternoon, ft
tag nut] whit* &
about 2 iiit/ni i ttitj
IIU tub of fJ-t/t ti.
know where he Is.
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toe Don t Kttf Anything--We Sell Everything
Mrs. B. M. Morgan, who ,«
<<ult* 111 «t th« hot it* of her
Mr*. L. '' fto w, fx Jrnj rovlfi r
*l*ter.
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t. Corel, worthy matron
14 8, left for Oklahoma
y noon to Ns Id attend-
<-('Un4f of the Grand
the Order of Eastern
> being hHd In that city
When In Hulbert eat at Mi Hioom'r
r-Ktaurant. Good bom* cookln#
First rextaurant at tbe right an yo<i
com* up th* bill from th" depot
J E. Welch, who ban been In Kar,
«as citv attending the #utornobll<
how returned home Monday, briru
In* with him c car load of the "n<\
up urn) go" variety of Ford*.
•Slop! When In Hulbert atop at
Pedro Alvare'* restaurant if you
want a "iii«ro meal. Short ord<-i
«'-rv(<d, llr-Ht chilli In the country
made by the chilli king.
THE BLUE THAT'S TRUE
than .n„w, not a greenish yellow
tinge Ilk.- cheap bottle blue n„v| .
. Crow. Hlue for next wash- ° ,a
'ler* b" happily mfrprl
cent*.- A.lv, rM' n La)(.
M. M. Cochran, a merchant of Kay,
:ar««- in yesterday and paid a dollar
M < k subscription on the Arrow. The
.eague (jets lt« percent of this, Mr.
ochran goc- to California for hi'
icalth.
The Are department made a run
o the home of Amanda Alexander,
colored, on depot bill Kunday after-
noon. The roof of the house wan
jadly damaged hut It wa* unnece: -
ary to attach the hone an the Are
waa extinguished with the i 0f
JUCketH by neighboro. The propert
wan owned by Uncle 8am Watkins.
AN ADDRESS DV
W. A.THOMPSON
An address by W. A. Tbompson,
delivered at a reception given by Col.
Wm. I'enn Adair Chapter, L". D. C.,
to ( onfederate Veterns, at the home
of Mr*. Ellen F. Morris, Tahlequah,
Okla., June 3, 1910:
Kcott (ihormley, from Moody, who
Is one of the jury, bed quite a pain-
ful experien'-e. To ward off the
grippe he took heroic doses of
grippe medicine and heart troubl
resulted, In which physicians wer
In attendance during a greater part
for the purpose of honoring the living
by bestowing upon a few Confederate
veterans the Southern <Yo88 of
Honor. I would rather he entitled
to wear that simple badge of bronze
thas to be covered with the Jeweled
deco/ations of Europe's proudest
orders.
I shall not attempt to justify th
course of the South further than to
say that if It be true that a manS
home is his castle, and if it be true
— ! that a man's country should be aDove
' We I gifted with the spiendid all other countries, then, going from
eloquence of the great orator of the less to greater or from greater to
American Revolution, whose persua- less, by induction or by deduction, it
iv< pleadings kept so brightly burn- follows as the night the day, tha'
ing the camp-fires of our own Wash- one's state cannot be put in second
Ington, I would yet be unable to ap-! place. In my Judgment another
propriately voice the emotions I feel [ war between North and South is im-
at rising to speak on this geautiful.! possible, but Fhould one arise I
consecrated -pot. The subject and would be found on the side of th'-
,cene are alike Inspiring. All is; South. My home, my town my
and prairie hay
I). W. WILSON.
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When you are buying Shoes it
always pays to insist on getting
the best. 1 he world renouned
"Walkover Shoes"
for Men and Women and splendid
Red Goose School Shoes'
for the "kiddies" going to school
sue the best on the market at any
price. Our show ing of spring
Dry Goods
will please you. Call and see it.
J. A. KING & SONS
rest and peace about us. The gentle
murmurs of the ripples of the waves
of peace have chased away the rush
and roar of the wild waves of war.
Th- blue sky bends serenely above
us, and when yon sun, shining now
in all the splendor c' his unclouded
majesty, shall go into camp for the
night, starry sentinels will in turn ^o
on duty, and keep wauh and ward
over the peaceful hearts and homes
and destim of your people."
1 think I .need make no apologv,
Madam Prenldert, members of Col.
William I'enn Adair Chapter, United
Daughters ot ihe r*onfederac3', vet
eians, ladi< and gentlemen, for us-
ing ,ik my introduction the preceding
words of On. Fitzhugh Lee, spoken
in Richmond. Virginia, at the un-
veiling of a monument to the ("on-
federate ile ad Those words, truo
when spoken in beautiful Hollywood
cemetery, to the assembled beauly
and chivalry of old Virginia, are true
| now, when addressed to this repre-
sentative gathering of the sons and
daughters of our great new state of
Oklahoma.
This very spot; these circling MlM,
Clad In all their wondrous beauty;
our srystal spiings, sparkling and
murmuring on to the sunlit, southern
sea: our historic little city; yonder
state, my South, my country, against
the world. Call this reason or call
it treason, call it patriotism or call
it sectionalism, call it what you will
l>ut here I stand, I cannot otherwise.
Feeling only pity for those who
fear to praise their soldiers lest by
so doing they wound the tender sen-
sibilities of those who are of the op-
posite faith, 1 have*scant respect for
those who consider all praise of "the
lost cause" as disloyalty to the
nion. Shall we, to please such
narrow foreheads, disown our glori-
ous past? "Sooner far, let evening
blush lo own a star." \ye are hejr,(
"of all the ages in the foremost files
of time." The past is ours, all the
rast, and the present. The future
we know not of. We claim Cavalier
as well as Purltas, Lee as well as
(Irant, Jamestown as well as Ply-
mouth Hock. Manassas as well as
Bunker Hill.
As a son of the South, in whose
veins flows no drop of Northern
blood, as one whose pride it is that
he is the son of a brave Confederate
soldier, I can truthfully say that to
tne the most beautiful sight in all
the world, next to woman, is the
stars and stripes floating over a peo-
ple reunited forevermore, and l am
glad today that in (he providence of
admiration and honor .o Lincoln
and Grant, and other brave men of
v; v'ortb. I should be tuln to my-
sfelf, ffcise to lb* iand of my birth
-o tlo memory of my m«.ther.
!alse to the gray hairs of my father
if I omitted on this occauion one jot
j or one title of the boundless ad-
I miration and love 1 feel for the
' dear, brave boys in Gray, wh-j
I fought so long and so well a-
gainst such deadly odds. "All
, the world wondered" at "the noble
six hundred" of the Light Brigade
and the wild charge they made "into
the jaws of death." Bat not the
I English at Balaklava, nor th
French cuirassiers charging the liv-
ing volcanoe* of English infantry at
Waterloo; not the Spartans at
Thermopylae, nor the Texans in the
Ala o; not the world-conquering
j Roman,* nor the early Oelawares.
i who, of old, fougbt their way froia
Atlantic to Pacific and back again.—
I not any of these, nor any oilier, have
surpassed in deathless courage oar
own ragged boys in gray. Their
heroism was displayed, not in one
j de ;>erate charge, but in a thcusanl
; charges, throughout four long and
i bloody years.
!At each recur 1ng anniversary you
have heard of t.ie herotc figures or
i that titanic struggle. In imagin-
ation we may heai gain the heavy
roar of artillery, the long roll of
musketry. We may see the milk-
white seed of Ashby, the black plume
of Stuart, the flashing .-word of
Jackson. On a thousand fields we
see horse and rider, friend and foe.
the blue and the gray, "in one red
burial blent." But,
'Forth from its scabbard all in vain
Bright flashed the sword of Lee;
It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain.
Defeated, yet without a stain."
Ill in vain was the valor of eight
mndred thousand men agafsst the
"alor of two million, eight hundred
housand men.
And then came true the wi-h of
hat great soldier who sleeps on the
bank of the Hudson, who was too
•hivalrous to accept in surrender "t' e
tainless sword of Lee," and we had
oeaee. The battle flags were furled,
*nd "the War-god reclining, sank on
he white arm of beauty to rest."
folded away until the judgment day-
was the "conquered banner. But oh.
there were those who loved it, there
are those who love it, with a love
that cannot die.
"Once ten thousands hailed it
gladly,
Vnd ten thousand wildly, madly,
Swore it should forever wave.
0 er their freedom or their grave.*'
n'l'jY"1"! '' "l|'1' < f learning once tho, God the war ended as it did. It was
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loved ones, the living as well as the
dead. On last Subbath, In accord-
ance with the beautiful custom In-
augurated by the women of our
Southland, we assembled together on
the spot sacred to the memory of
those we have "loved long since and
lost awhile," and there "wreathed
villi garlands and crowned with
Mowers the holy Hpot where sleeps
defeated valor." Today, laying
aside our accustomed pursuits and
j pausing awhile In the never-ending
| march of events, we have met to-
gether In this elegant Southern home
the Negro personal liberty, but it
did not, because it could not, make
him free. Neither armies nor na-
vies. neither presidential proclama-
tions nor constitutional amendments,
can make him free who ia a slave to
ignorance and supersltion, a slave
<o prejudice and passion. But the
South, purified in the seven times
heated furnace of affliction, and
freed from the deadly incubus of
human slavery, has risen by leaps
and bounds to heights undreamed of
In old ante-bellum days.
While I yelld to no living man In
Hut what shall I say of him, th"
great Cherokee for whom your
chapter is named. Col. William Penn
Adair? As I speak today' there
comes to me a vision of the days
«'hen for me the world was new and
strange. I see a man taller than his
fellows—tall, magnificently propor-
tioned and handsome as a Greek god
! see n man with piercing black
eyes, long glack hair, and wearing a
wide-brimmed sombrero, but other-
wise dressed In the height of Wash-
ington fashion. I see a man who
was a leader of men, in the days
when every man was a law unto him-
self, a man equally at home in the
Supreme Court, in Govermental de-
partments, in the whirlwind of baf-
Ue, in the white heat of political
campaigns, or In the home of some
noor Cherokee. Now we see him, as
the Civil war neared its close, or-
ganizing a confederacy of wild west-
• 'ti tribes, being the last of his com-
mand to surrender; and now we see
him after the war helping to orga-
nize the great Downing party. Now
we see him engaged in defeating tho
infamous Drum Creek treaty with
'■he Osages; and now we see him
signing the Cherokee treaty'or '66
Sow we see him as senator repre-
senting his district In the Cherokee
ounc"; and now we see him as as-
sistant Chief and delegate represent-
ing his people In the nation's capital
tTr.r 860 him dl'ivln* "the
old Cherokee Nation In a night in or-
der to nail a clever campaign forgery _
on the eve of an election; and now wc
see him, single-handed and alone.
ous fl h0I1U! against murder-
o «. But in all and through all
v* see the same engaging, magnifi-
cent personality, manly as 4h* manli-
(n(i"' as me tenderest, abso
"tely peerless, absolutely fearIpff0
" was who in my humble cabin
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