The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-05-13
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ME- MORTAL DAY
HOW THE DAY WAS OBSERVED IN
NEWBERRY.
Appropriate Exercises In the Opera House
An Eloqu uent and Forceful address HS
Bishop Capers-Music By select
Choir-The Decorations.


timent which prompts the people OF
the South to set apart one day IN
each year upon which they may
gather to place flowers upon the
graves of their heroic Confederate
dead, to do honor to the memory
of the men who gave their lives tor
a cause they believed to be just, to
worship at the shrine of truest he
roism, of unsullied patriotism, OF
answering devotion to duty OF
unfaltering loyalty to home and
people and trust in God.
Thirty-seven years have rolled
into the past since the men who
followed Lee stacked their arms
and furled their stainless banner
amajority ofthose who survived that
terrible conflict have crossed the
silent river; a new South has been
built upon the ruins of the old; but
the love and the reverence CT the
Southern people for the Southern
soldier, their just pride in his va
lorous deeds on the field of battle
and the heroic sacrifices which he
made has only grown stronger and
deeper. There are not many high
and costly monuments to decorate;
most of them sleep in unmarked
graves; but the flowers wet with
true women's tears, that are
placed on these lowly mounds, tell
in words more thrilling than any
ever cut in Parian marble, that
here hero sleeps.
The noble women of Newberry
always respond with sympathetic
hearts and willing hands to this
call of love, and on Saturday there
were floral offerings on every SOL
diers grave, and the monument on
hepublic square was artistically and
beautifully wreathed in evergreens
with intermingled flowers of white
and red, the colors of the Confed-
eracy.
THE EXERCISES.
The exercises of the day were
held in the opera house. The
stage had been very prettily decor
ated and appropriately arranged
for the occasion by the ladies. On
the right to the left of the audience,
the fgues 81, made of white
flowers encircled in a wreath, were
fastened to the wall; on the op-
posite side, similarly arranged in
red, were the fgues IS. Near this
stood stack of army rifles, and
next to this large potrait of Gen.
Wade Hampton tastily draPed in
mourning. Suspended from differ
ent parts of the large stage were
the flags of the different camps and
chapters of the city.
Seated on the stage were Bishop
Ellison Capers, the orator of the
day, DR.. James Mcintosh, DR..
E. P. McClintock, Mr.. Juo. A.
Chapman, Col. v. L. Schumpert
and the members of the Drayton
Rutherford Chapter Daughters
of the Confederacy.
THE CHOIR.
A select choir furnished the
music for the day, and all the num-
bers were appropriate and ex-
cellently rendered. The choir was
composed of the follow ing persons {:
Prof. Burr H. Johnstone, Rev.
w. l. Herbert, Mr.. F. M. Boyd,
Mrs. ]. A. Burton, Mrs. Theo.
tombstone, Misses Gordon Weeks,
Margaret Johnstone, Jessie Sum-
mer, Mamie Mclaughlin and
Lizzie Dominick. Miss Dominlck
performed at the piano, and Mr..
Boyd and Miss Mclaughlin ad-
ded much to the success Of the mu
sic with their violins.
At five O'Clock standing room
could hardly be obtained. The
exercises were opened with the
rendering of Those Who Died
Their Cause to Save" by the choir.
A beautiful and fervent prayer
was offered by DR.. E. P. McChn-
took Chaplain of the ames u.