The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-03-17
The Passing of the Confederate Sol
dier Will BE Notable During the
Coming Year.


dier Will BE Notable During the
Coming Year.
In all ravages OF time during the
coming year hardly anything will be
more lamentable than the increasing
ratio of toll which will be taken from
the ranks of the Confederacy. The
vital statistics show that when men
approach the age which most of the
heroes of the sixties must register
beside their names. the number of
calls from the grim reaper grow
more numerous and many homes will
be saddeued. while the people as n
whole will be sorrowful. and weep
with those who weep.
Sentiment crowds into every re-
collection of the days that used to
be, for around the history that has
woven in the south during the past
three-fourths of century there are
stories more wonderful than have
ever been penned, pictures more in
spiringly beautiful than have ever
been painted. But the soldiers of the
conference.-the veterans as we
know them-are not alone in the
call OF time. The mothers, the wives.
the sweethearts, of those golden days
too. face the dawning of that morn
ing that ushers them where there
shall be no more wars and no more
fighting, no grief, no tears for the
wounded, the manned, the dead and
dying.
1t is noble band of men and
women who have come down through
the seventy years and more in Dixie
To-day. with the brightness OF the
new year beaming with all its glo-
rious sunshine and promise. it seems
as If rugged health and w0ndrous
cline combines TO promise them ev-
cry aid and comfort IN extending
their days over a few more wears of
time. They have endured the hard
ships and sorrows OF war and they
have been potent, powerful factors
in building up their country and
elevating mankind to such an extent
until it seems verify a land where
we have beaten the swords into
rloughshares and spears into prun-
ing hooks" giving our section a SER
vice immeasurably greater than we
can ever repay them for it in all
the years to come.
Georgia and South Carolina, two
states that furnished an enormous
number of soldiers, are doing well
by their Confederates-both men
and women. 1t is a fitting tribute
to them, but in the passing of the
last years, sad though the retrospect
and the prospect is. it is a duty that
every man, woman and child owes
to the gray-haired heroes and hero
ines, to give all honor and respect
to them alike, whenever they pass
greet them kindly, whoever thew
may be, wish them God-speed in this
bright New Year, do everything pos
sible to hake their lives happier
while their southern sun is setting
in the golden-tinted west. They have
been valiant warriors in the time
of war. but infinitely more patient,
more preserving, more persistent,
more beautiful and inspiring as SOL
diers of toll, developing the resources
of city and country, forest and field,
and valley and above all
in building country that stands
out pre- eminent, peer of all
countries, and like benediction
upon their work it seems as IL the
very joys of heaven have Joined in
the movement and aided in complet-
in the task by smiling over the work. |
and uncompleted, but glo-
rious and resplendent withal.-Au-
gusta Chronicle.