Newspaper Page Text
6
COL RffS BOYS,
How They Have Been Fight
ing Fever in Cnba.
HARDSHIPS OF DUTY,
What the Macon Beys are Doing-
Individual Experiences—De
votion to Duty. .
——
. .. • - ' ' i
Mr. P. <ll. Gambrell, first sergeant in
Colonel Kay’s regiment, now doing duty
an Cuba, and formerly one of the veil
known newspaper monos the state, has
■written the following letter to a Macon
friend, whi<*h will be read with great in
-terewt by the friends of the Macon and
Georgia boys who are now enduring -the
privations of soldiering in. disease-ridden
Cuba:
Baraeoa, Nov. 8, 1898. —I have
r t»en intending to write you again for
rome time, but J must tell you that the
first sergeant of a company has entirly
enough to keep him busy all day and a
good part of the night for seven days in
ft he week. Still I have plenty of time to
think of you and numerous other friends
dn dear old Macon, only it is so much
oasier to think than to write.
To begin with this is the most im
portant thing to me), I am in good health.
You ought to see me go at “sow bosom’’
and the worst bread you ever saw —no,
you never mw anything like the bread
we eat here. Still it all goes—has got to
go. So “what could a poor girl do?’’
There’s no foolishness about this kind
of soldiering. It’s strictly business. The
parlor feature of local military organiza
tions are not those which obtain here.
It is getting on toward December, but
lhe days are so not here that I don’t think
we are more than a Quarter of a mile
from “Fiddlers’ Green,” which, I am told,
the southeast corner of hell. The
® gh-jj ar§ coW 4 one needs a blanket; the
clews are heavy and poisonous, breeding
’disease. Oh, of course, I hate had the
fever; we all have had a ta<t.e of •<* j
•Jell you It'a a ‘‘knocker,” and you don’t
want it. I had two attacks, but I “best
ed” it both times and am still in the sad
dle. This is not yellow fever, but it’s
worse—the worst 1 ever saw or had. It
burns one up inside. You lie there in
•the hospital hour after hour, day after
day(l4 days for me the last time), not
caring whether you live or die. Every
cool brook or cold bottle you ever drank
parades itself before you —only it ain’t i
there. You mentally kick yourself for
every '“pony” you ever drank, and wonder
why the deuce you failed to order a
schooner. I’m not very amiable when I’m
tsick, and I must say that I discussed
Cuba and the Cuban fever in all 'three of
<be languages(ETigllsh, Irish and profane)
niy comand.
The health of the detachment here is
much better than that at Sagua de Tan
«mo. Sagua is an awful hole. I think
I could die and leave the world with fewer '
regrets there than at any other place on ■
the map. An average of almost one half ;
of the men were on the sick list all the '
time. We left five of our men in the i
hospital at' that place. They were too sick |
to be brought on here. Their names are
Arthur Sowell, Corporal George W. Join
er, Arthur Davies, J. A. Pendley and
Charlie 'Marmehstein. Pendley will be re
membered as the big athlete who walked (
off from the others in the Fourth of July
four hours go-as-you-please at. Macon. No
one supposed the fever would do him up.
There have b. en some pretty sick ones
there, too. Paul Gay (“Country”) is in the
hospital now and is not doing so well, I
um afiaid. Tommy Adams has been quite
tick, but is out of the hospital now.
Sagua is a sub-post of Baraeoa. Com
pany “I”, is now doing garrison duty
.there.. Here we have Companies “A,” ;
“G" and “M.” This post is commanded
by Lieutenant Colonel T. S. Wylly, of Sa- i
vannah. while Marion arris, who recently
received bis commission as major, is com- ;
inlander of the sub-post at Sagua. By the :
way, J was glad to meet my good friend. ■
Jim Barnes, for a few minutes at Sagua.
Jim is a corporal in Company “I,” an aw
ful nice follow, son of ex-Sheriff J. J.
Barnes, of Atlanta, and one of the Gate
City’s exquisites. He had clothes to burn
when he enlisted. “Steen dozen and ‘lev
enty-‘leven cravats and shirts of the most
impossible colors you ever saw. No milk
and water dude, mind you. but a man of
good taste, with a pardonable fondness
for handsome clothes. He can simply wear
shirts and look good in them. too. that
wouldn’t do for you or I. Why. if we
were to put. two of those shirts on and
start, down Mulberry street Colonel Wiley .
would have a jury enquiring in.o our I
mental condition. !
But that isn’t wbat 1 started out J
say. I: is this: When Jim Barnes came to !
Sagua he came over to- Company “A’s”
headquarters and took a seat by my desk.
While I was busy writing he engaged sev
eral men in pleasant, familiar conversa
tion. Th-ese several men happened to be
pretty bard cases; all good soldiers, bless
you, but illiterate, and one of them in
particular, a violent, desperate man. To
see them was to think what a great lev
eller the army is. The city swell and thb
country hay seed both make good soldiers,
no difference. Beedes when you
■drees 1.000 men in canvas uniforms, blue
shirts and put campaign hats on them the
eweliest look very much like the rowdies
and the rowdies strongly resemble the
swells. I have found out that “readin’,
‘rltin’ and Arithmetic” is not all there is
io learn. To have acquired a knowledge
of these is. of course, valuable here as
■elsewhere, but a man may know all this
and then not know it all. Example. The
first sergeant of Company “A,” a pretty
well educated gentleman, while at Sagua
met an ignominious defeat at target prac
tice and at the hands- of a man who could
not tell you A from B. 1 couldn’t held
thinking that in an engagement this man
would probably serve his country more
intelligently than I would be able to.
However, there is consolation in the
thought that I can probably learn to shoot
as well as he before he could learn geom
etry and trigonometry.
Well, there are good things said about
us. How’s this for a bouquet tossed in the
’immediate vicinity of our dainty Trilbies?
Colonel Freeman, of the regular army.
Ktated at Esteron that this regiment (3d)
had seen harder and more dangerous ser
vice than any regiment sent to Cuba. At’e
have. too. We were, you know, sent here
tin the middle of August and do you know
we have been on the island longer than
any other regiment. We don’t complain,
we endure. (Let <me tell you about our
trip to Sagua and from there here—no, let
•that pass. 1 want you to get this letter,
and if I were to turn loose my rich vo
cabulary it would burn up the mail bag.
You know inflammables are not taken by
mail. Just wait “till Jack comes home
again,” and 1 think he will rise to re
mark. I’ve got talk that never has been
talked.
Os course, you know all about the death
of Sergeant Josh Johnson. I knew Josh
rwell in Atlanta and saw a good deal of
fcim since we joined the army, i liked
him very’ much and regret his death ex
ceedingly.
I see by the papers, which are usually
more than a month old when we get them.
I that the Democrats are likely to make
I the conduct of the war en issue in -the
! campaign and that they will probably
I force a fight in congress on the same lines.
I hop© they won’t do co. America has
! begun to expand and will not be stopped
! either by a political party at home or by
j threats of foreign nations. I am a Dem-
I ocrat and I hope the good old party will
i not cripple itself by getting on what is
i sure to be the unpopular side of this live
question. I .tell you. if the Democrats.
. come forward as the champions and de-i
i fenders of the Cuban pa riots(?j, well They
! will have plenty to defend. They won’t
, do, and Americans can’t afford to outrage
! common decency and scandalize the civ
ilized world by abandoning this island to
I the misgovernment of native coons. If 1
thia is a war for humanity’s sake, then
the withdrawal of the American forces at
this Lime would be the greatest crime of
the century against humanity and virtue.
America could not escape this responsi
bility before God and man. Maybe after
a few years of American tutelage the Cu
bans wil so far learn the habits and adopt
the virtues of the foremost race on the
earth that human life will be safe, prop
erty rights respected, • womanly virtue
protected. Then they may be safely left
to govern themselves. But that time has
not arrived yet. Ask many intelligent
Americans who have seen anything of the
real Cuban —not those who have merely
visited Havana. There are many intelligent
men in the cities no doubt (they are an
nexationists, too, almost without excep
tion), but one does not reveive a correct
understanding of the typical Cuban by
visiting in their bouses.
I say the Cubans may an time become
fitted for self government, but I predict
that at that time they will voluntarily ask
for annexation. I know they will need
it. Det me tell you that the American
papers have been doing a lot of noble
lying about this business for the past
three years. They ought to give their
readers a few allopatheic doses of truth,
for I believe that unless the American
people come to see their duty and do it
they will be punished, for I believe that
Jehovah will as surely punish the crimes
of nations as of individuals.
I have about lost all confidence in the
so-called republics of South America.
They have had some experience trying to
govern themselves, and,of course, ape
much better fitted for self government
than these Cubans, but I have little re
spect for a country governed by bull fight- ■
ers. I’m no prude, you know. Alayb? I’d j
like 'to see a bull fight. But I’d just $3
confidently look for statesmanship tn the
Georgia penitentiary a country
where all classes, ages and both sexes
drop everything to attend bull fights,
which invariably occur on Sunday.
This letter is already too long, but I
can’t close it without remarking that
while 1 think an American occupation ab- !
solutely necesary for the present,i. e., till
things become somewhat settled, stil, 1
and ninety per cent of the men in the
Third would not feel offended should the
government decide to occcupy the island
without the assistance of ourselves. We
are not making any kick, but we would
like to see some clean, civilized men and
women just for a change. I’d like to
have a drink of —say some of that artesian
well water at Central City park. There’s
nd good drinking water in Cuba. Some
body ought to Starr a dozen or so brew
eries. I'll guarantee immunity from at
tacks of prohibitionists here. No prohibi- ,
tionist parson would object after once try
ing to cool his coppers with the liquid ;
manure which Santiago, Sagua and Bar- j
acoa. use for drinking purposes. I’ve had |
to irrigate myself with it for three men/ns i
and I’ve about got enough. There’s plenty •
of ruin here and it’s very cheap and equal- ■
ly bum. You can smell the molasses in
it.
Howell Harris has no doubt reached i
home some time ago. We all hope he is i
well by now. The feVer “didn't do a thing i
to him.” When you see him tell him I '
say for him to dress up in that canvas ■
uniform and let the people of Macon gaze ;
on him, especially those bloomer pants. '
1 can see him now meandering across the :
plaza from the hospital looking for all the j
world like a Turkish coochee-coochee •
dancer. You'll miss it if you don’t see I
‘em.
Charlie Salter says when he gets out of
the army he’ll never join anything. He >
says: “I’ll be d —d if 1 even join a Sunday I
school class. This is worse than Pas- ;
chai’s chaingang.” He made -a good sol- >
dier. but the fever gave him the worst of
it and the surgeons have recommend 'd j
his discharge from the army on account ;
of physical disability. I will hate to see
him leave us. He looks for hits discharge
on every boat.
Charlie Thomas is another Macon man
in Company “A” whose discharge for
physical disability has been recommeneded
Also. I am told, the five men we left in
the hospital at Sagua are to be discharged, i
William (“High-Dog”) Stephan is an
applicant for discharge, as is also Ser
grant Clifford E. Stapler. Corporal Wilson '
G. Johnson, of Augusta, Private John D. j
Ashton and others.
But I promised to quit about two pages ;
ago. and I reckon you are wondering why
■the devil I don’t do it, so I’ll say good
bye. I send love to yourself and all the
i News family and to ail my Macon friends.
Gee Whillikins! but wouldn’t I like to
I stand on Sol Hoge’s corner for a spell
i this evening and see the people. Give
Sol my love and tell him if he wants to
' give me anything in return to mail me
some of those free-gratis for nothing
, cigarette papers. Can’t buy any here.
' Would be glad to hear from any of my
‘ friends. T&ll some of them this. As al
' wavs, your friend,
P. H. GAMBRELL.
CITY COUNCIL.
Last Night’s Meeting—A Doctor's Bill-
College Street Bridge.
MS W| ” rr
Nothing of importance transpired at the
city council last night and the meeting
I was almost devoid of interest.
' All of the aidermen were present for the
first time in a good while. The first thing
to come up after the minutes had been
read was a bill presented by Dr. Hinkle
for sls for the treatment of a soldier of
the First Georgia regiment who was cut
by a negro. After a lengthy discussion
the matter was referred back to the com-
• mittee for an other report.
The mayor then announced that as a
‘ vacancy had been caused in the cemetery
I committee by the death of Mr. Deitz and
;he would nominate Hon. N. E. Har-
I ris for the place. The nomination was
i confirmed by the council.
An ordinance was then introduced by
Aiderman Winship to require the Central
I railroad to widen its bridge over College
. street and that the road be given ninety
days days in which to complete the work,
j and if the work was not done in that time
that the road should be required to pay
: lhe city S2O per day until the work was
finished.
The resolution was referred to the com
mittee or. ordinances. Council then ad
journed until next Tuesday..
a A. SS T O X A .
Bears the You Have Always Bough!
Signature
MACON NEWS WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7189 K
MONEY VERY CHEAP
Savings Banks Reducing the
Rate of Interest.
THREE PER CENT POSSIBLE.
Uniform Action May be Taken by All
the Savings Banks of New
York City,
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. Z —Tt is stated in Wall
street that the board of trustees of the
Seamen’s Bank for Savings is considering
the question of reducing the rate of in
terest from four to three and a half per
cent, and that if this bank takes such a
course many of the other big institutions
that have been hesitating will probably
follow suit.
The Seamen's Bank has been reluctant,
according to some of its neighbors, to make
a change for six months or a year
but it is said that the previous course
taken by the Emigrants, Industrial and
Greenwich Savings Banks had consider
able weight with it. Since these banks
reduced their interest their deposits have
continued to expand. It is about two years
since the Emigrant bank came down to a
three and one half per cent basis.
The idea of reducing interest has been
under consideration for several years and
it was actively broached at the last meet
ing of the New York Saving .Bank Asso
ciation. It was the general opinion that
early steps would have to be taken, al
though no formal course was recommend,
ed. The savngs banks in many western
cities have already come dowp tv q three
and ‘a half per cent, basis, while other.i
have reduced their rate to three per cent.
Many of the local savings bank officials
believe that it is only a Question of time i
when they will have to come down to .
three per cent in New York city for there I
are now very few investments outside of
land mortgages yielding more than three !
and a half per cent in which the savings '
banks are allowed to use their funds.
In Wall street an impression prevails
that the bankers of some of the leading
cities have been exchanging notes with a
view to taking uniform action thereby
dispelling the notion that any one or two I
cities are adopting arbitrary measures.
A TEXAS WONDER.
Hall’s Great Discovery.
One small bottle of Hall’s Great Dis- '
cevery cures all kidney and bladder trou
bles, removes gravel, cures difcbetls, semi
nal emisisons, weak and lame backs, rheu
matism and ali irregularities of the kid
neys and bladder in both men and women.
Regulates bladder trouoies in children. If
not sold by your druggist will be sent by
mail on receipt of sl. One small bottle is
two months’ treatment and will cure any
case above mentioned.
E. W. HALL,
Sole Manufacturer.
P. O. Box 211, Waco, Texas.
Sold by H. J. Lamar & Son, Macon, Ga.
READ THIS.
Covington, Ga., July 23, 1898. i
This is to certify that I have used Dr.
Hall’s Wonderful Discovery for Rheuma
tism, Kiddney and Bladder Troubles, and
will say it is far superior to any thing I
have ever used for the above complaints.
Very respectfully,
H. I. HORTON, Ex-Marshal.
FOR RENT.—Nice cot
tage, close in, good neighbor
hood, four rooms and two
room kitchen, with all con
veniences. Address Cottage,
care News.
Pains in the- chest when a person has
a cold indicate a tendency’toward pneu
monia. A piece of flannel dampened with
; Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and bound on
! to the chest over the seat of pain will
i promptly relieve the pain and prevent
, the threatened attack of pneumonia. This
! same treatment will cure a lame back in
■ a few hours. Sold by H. J. Lamar &
I Sons.
Don’t Lose Sight
Os the Fact...
That we do the highest class Bind
ery work at prices that will com
pete with any astablistment in the
country.
Is a home enterprise that doesn’t
depend upon patriotism for pat
ronage. If it can’t give you the
right sort of work at the right
price, go elsewhere.
But we do think it, or any other
home enterprise, is entitled to a
•hewing--* chance to bidon your
work.
We have added to our plant a
Wall EQUippefl
Binflßiu
And can now turn out anysort of
book from a 3,000 page ledger to a
pocket memorandum; or from the
handsomest library volume to a
paper back pamphlet
News Printing Co.
Shere are men who
gine that out door
•k is a sovereign
■ for all ills. They
k like slaves at their
iness, take insuffi
t time to rest and
sleep, and abuse
and neglect their
, health in every
== way. Then, when
J they break down.
I they keep on just
as oefore, except
f that in addition to
their usual work.
” they go out every
day and spade a
little in their gar
dens, or trv to
imitate Mr. Glad
stone by cutting
down a tree or
chopping the fam
ily fire wood.
A more ridiculous method of curing a
man who is suffering from nervous exhaus
tion and is threatened with nervous pros
tration could not be well conceived. A man
who has overwoiked does not need more
work, but less work and more rest. The
man who has lost his appetite needs some
thing to restore it. The man whose nerves
are shattered needs something to tone and
strengthen them. Get the nerves right and
sound, and refreshing sleep will follow. A
man who sleeps well and eats well, and
digests and assimilates his food will not
remain ill.
In cases of this kind Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery goes to bed rock —to
first causes. It creates a hearty appetite;
it makes the digestion and assimilation
perfect; it invigorates the liver; it purifies
the blood and fills it with the life-giving
elements of the food. It builds up new
flesh, new muscle and new nerve fibres. It
is an unfailing cure for nervous exhaustion
and nervous prostration, and the best of
all medicines for overworked men and wo
men. An honest druggist won’t urge an
inferior substitute upon you, thereby in
sulting your intelligence.
It is a dealer’s business to sell you what
you ask for—not what he prefers for selfish
profit’s sake to sell.
A man or woman who neglects constipa
tion suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure constipa
tion. One little “ Pellet ”is a gentle laxa- 4
live, and two a mild cathartic. All medi
cine dealers sell them.
For the Next
Thirty Days
We propose to make some special prices j
on WHISKIES. WINES and BRANDIES. •'
You who appreciate good goods will un- ■
derstand the value of the offer made be
low:
Look at our price list and begin to
save 50 per cent on all purchases in our
line. Do not throw your money away and
pay twice as much for inferior goods.
Give us a trial. See what we will do for
you. All goods bottled at the distillery.
Original bottling only.
Whiskies.
Pr Qt
Belle of Macon (Kentucky Bourbon).. 40
Old Monongahela Pure Pennsylvania
Rye 50
Our Monogram( 4 years old) 60
Baker’s A. A. A. A. Rye 65
Canadian Rye 75
Finch’s Golden Wedding 75
Old Dscar Pepper (green label) 75
Old Club House Rye 75
Hoffman House Rye 90
Mount Vernon Pure Rye (6 years old).l 00
Old Oscar Pepper Rye (white label)..l 00
Old Crow (7 years old) 1 00
Guckenheimer Pure Rye (G years old).l 00
Sweet Pansy (S years old) 1 00
Old Private Stock (cream of whiskies)
1 25
Park &. Tilford Fine Rye 1 25 <
Wines and
Brandies.
Pr Gal. ;
California Sherry, Por: and Angelica..7sc
Imported Sherry, Port and Madeira...l 00
Old Cognac Brandy 2 00 .
Pr Bot. I
Martel Brandy, 3 star 1 00 ;
Hennesy Brandy, 3 star.. 1 00
Clarets by the case of one dozen quart
bottles 4 00
Rhine "Wines by the case of one dozen
quart bottles 4 00
All other goods by the gallon, such as
corn whiskey, peach and apple brandies,
etc., sold equally as low, from $1.25 per
, gallon and upwards.
We make a specialty of the jur trade
and all orders by mail or telegraph ’will
I have our prompt attention. Special in
’ ducements offered. Send for price list
j and other information. Phone 265.
I The Altmayer & Flatau
Liquor Co.
506 and 501 Fourth Street, near Union
Passenger Depot.
For LaGrippe and In
i fluenza use CHENEY’S
, EXPECTORANT.
I
ITiff " nEK
• r.'teefs the requirements of every dress-maker pro
fessional or amateur. A valuable feature is its
CUT PAPER PATTERNS
Each issue contains, among its rich, variety of
fashions, two gowns, for which cut paper patterns
are f urnished. If you wish to wear the latest
UTILITY SKIRTS, WASH SKIRTS, SHIRT
WAISTS, TAILOR-MADE GOWNS
or if you are seeking new designs, you will find
what you want in the pages of the BAZA R, at
25c. PER PATTERN
’ WAIST. SLEEVE. or SKIRT COMPLETE GOWX. Lie.
and if you will send us the number of the pattern
you wish, and enclose the amount, m will send
to you. If you are not familiar with the
| BAZAR, we will send you as a special offer a
TRIAL SUB. 25c. FOUR WEEKS
upon receipt of “he money.
10 Cents a Copy - Sub., $4 VO per year
Udrw* HARPER * BROTHERS, PaMiAer*, X. V. City
c o^} AT RETAIL Ic‘oJr1 c ‘oJr
Wool Blankets
At Manufacturers’ Cost.
Rifllculouslu Hot
Low stuff!
For Cold Days,
Mackintoshes - Mackintoshes
Almost at your own price.
Never has such an opportunity been offered in
Macon.
Remember, we are selling these at retail.
J. R. FRIED & CO., Cherry Street.
GENDINE BARGAINS
Mix Shoe Co.
107 Cotton Avenue.
T &0D IM. [z
f Sk X We Don’t
Hold You Up,
/ / illlllll But if you want the right
Omß ’> kind of Diamonds, Watches
SB W' J ewelr Y this is the place
SI w| ® f to buy. Call and see our
IjL Chrismas Goods. The hand
somest selection in the city.
J H. & W. W. WILLIAMS,
352 Second Street.
The most complete line of Travelers’ Outfits
; in this city. Then we can fill ’em with the
i Best Clothing and Underwear
At prices to please.
THE UP TO DATE CLOTHIERS,
I
BENSON& HOUSER
Trading Stamps.
Wb Are Better Prepared Than Ever
To take care of the building trade of Macon
and tributary points. Our facilities for prompt
ly filling orders are unexcelled. If you are go
ing to build a house it will eave you money to
see us before buying your material. If you
desire to build by contract, we are contractors
and builders and take any house, large or small
by contract.
1 Macon, Sash, Door and Lumber Co.
Office, Fourth Street, Phone 416.
Factory Enterprise, South Macon, Phone 404