The herald., 1895-11-17

put Iot destroyed; sorrowfuI. but not
without hope. Twas trua the channel
bad been cut deep the iron had entered
his soul, and melancholy marked him for
her own" but the end of the sacricfe
was not yet.
Broken in fortune. but not in spirit;
reduced to penury unknown to him.
and the more keenlv felt for the sudden
trans ition from atiluence to poverty; re-
turning from the fields of glory, yet fields
| Of disaster, with an armless sleeve az a
lie companion. in search Of his home,
bis vision was greeted BY the broken wind
lass OF the old well which had gone dry,
| and by the stark ana weird chimney-a
spectre standing in tn, midst Of desola-
ton marking the spot where ertswhile
the watch dog bayed deep IN uthed well
come" and where once stood the old,
happy home with its latticen pocrh and
| trsllised vine, its garden and its roses.
This gaunt spectre, this dire want,
greeted him; but the emil penury" re-
pressed not his mobile rage" All there
was an unseen hand that scattered man
ma. and an unseen prophet whose rod
smote the rock and the life-giving waters
CUISINE forth. "Bebind frowning
Providence He hidos smiling face"
The irrepressible ptide and indomitable
pluck OF southern manhood was still with
! him-and although in tie agony OF want,
| without pension, without place. he did
! not humble himself a. cry out in his ex-
tremity, as Justinian's greatest general:
give an obous to poor old Belisarius."
Contemplating and retrospecting, with
| proud but saddened eye, the terrible or
deal of fire and blood through which he
had just passed. and the gloomy future
that darkened before him; and realizing
the situation and recognizing the de-
mands of the hour. in behalf Of those he
J most loved, crying unto him for bread,
"a al far tfoiI l,nI.
| melancholy mood give Wa to lamenta-
ton; nor cover himself in sackcloth and
! ashes-but as the antique wrestler in the
/ Olvmpian games, when thrown in the
dust. arose with renewed challenge, the
| greater for the fall. No! While he KEEN
" felt he did not succumb to this iron
fortune, tins hard logic of fate, but the
| spirit of true manhood asserted itself,
and with 'resurgam" as his motto.
his brain ana Drawn, aided BY the genial
| climate and generous soil which nature
! gave, was his talisman.
The new house, in time, reared its walls
where the old one stood; the green ivy
| clings close to the bare old chimney, COW
ering Its war scars; the Virginia creeper
and the eglantine-tbat country cousin
OF the rose"-vieing with each other in
beauty and a"ona. entwine about the
new porch, again, The old oaken bucket
hangs in the WELL" the witch elms
lengthen their evening shadows, and the
niuoking birds threat is IN tune. The
song of the reaper is heard in the fields,
DER the lea. and the ''plowman home.
ward plods his wenry way" 1t is home
again!
| This war-worn confederate swept away
obstacles and moved swift courser along
the great Appian way to southern develop
| the peer OF the noblest, the bravest and
| best.
In firm and manly strides he forged
ahead in the development of what is
called IN the nomenclature Of the day, the
new SOUTH" he, however. forgets not
the past, but with the Hottest pride and
tenderest devotion, turns to the cold
south, as turns the sunfower,
| 'To its god when be sets
| The same look that it gave when he
rose.'
The vnlorous sons of the south who, on
the crested ridge of BATTLE stood for her
honor, her rights and her life, and fought
her historic battles. even at the lannon's
mouth, held her then, and hold her now,
supreme in their heart of jacksonville
her daughters unwavering in their loyalty
and love will ever crown the ''old south"
queen OF song and star of chivalry.
MIR. Chairman, If the new SOUTH is
| the young AMI coming giant of today
| the old confederate soldier bids him god
speed and will stand by his struggles in
the grea. battle for supremacy, as in all
| else that will make greater and grander
| GU: devoted southland. Bnt in doing so
we withhold no love, no devotion, no
| duty from our dear 'old south. :"
THE OLD SOUTH.
Mr.. Chairman, the 'old south" had
characteristics pronounced and emphatic,
and among them none more distinctive
that her admiration for and observance
of true and genuine chivalry.
| Public virtue is not found save where
there is private viftue-and private vir.
tue IS not found where patriotism is at
discount, and where woman is not hon.
| ored and elevated. It was reverence for
women AMI hatred of oppression that
gave mediaeval chivalry its glory and
charm ana while chivalry may be un
known In modern times as an orneT, and
the chevalier known only as an historic
character, at least such chevalier as con-
served public honor and private virtue in
the twelfth century. yet its spirit lives.
ana its cardinal virtues are the same as
businesses OF Oil Spain to redress the
wrong and restore the right. IT'S true
| that this utilitaran age Justly laughs at
ITS ancient fanatic exagGeration as a
highly coloIed sham, yet the Old and the
Bayard OF that day are the heroes OF
Po0s'y "hu coHS III tul6. u6 CUa sCe ana
| conservative elements Of true and genu.
inc cnivalry IN this day, often shine out
| in individuals and com 10 uni;ies to the
infinite pride and delight of tie refined
and cultured. 1t shows itself in nothing
| more marked than in the social exalta-
| ton OF woman, AMI in admiration for the
soldier who CALAMITY fights the battles Of
his country, whether he wins Or loses the
tight. This spirit of chivalry is not
| ephemeral or chaneeable. for 1t Is based
on high and holy prime Piles that abide
| with the true, the modest and the brave.
1t is the EN- bodiment of disinteresteu-
ness; the towering of every finer feel
ing; the synonym of honor, gentlaness
and courtesy; the perfection of self.ab-
negation. and the happy com bination of
right with might. 1t is the redresser of
wrongs, the foe of tyrants, the champion
of the oppressed. 1t is a check upon i'm
morality, the scourge of vice, and 9 liv-
ing, breathing protest against the selfish
| idea that any man can live for himself
| alone. Neither is it alone the quality of
courage in the soldier, though he were
fashioned after Cato's Iiking-Dor is it
| alone the grace AMI courtesy of the carpet
knight. but the high and holy character
istics OF true and noble virtues, that make
up the ohevalier.
| 1t was refreshing at the close of our in
| terstate struggle to witness the delicat re
observance of the high points of chivalry
between true and tried soldiers, who had
! met face 10 face with visor down and
lance well poised -snldiers-manv of
/ whom l see around me-WhO had StOOd