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the GORDON HIGHLANDERS.
GREAT NORMAN SCOTTISH CLAN OP
THE NORTH.
H< aliuarters in Edinburgh Castle.
The Cock of the North—Gentlemen
of the North—A Gordon! to the
Rescue!—"Stand Firm!’’—Recruit.
iK Picnic—Rivalry for Chances.
Gordon of Khartoan.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Owing to a comparatively recent decis
ion made by the war office, that Scottish
egiments should henceforth take title
rom their counties or territorial districts,
it has become difficult for the outsider to
rtcognize the old names, so well known
in lighting story, in the new.
Hut a few are still left, to conjure with
- the Ninety-second, or Gordon Highland
ers; ihe Forty-second, or Black Watch
iso called from their dark tartans); the
ffeaforths and the Seventy-ninth, or
yueen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, etc.
The lirst and last mentioned may broad
ly tie regarded as the most typical of all
Hip bland reg.ments, as they embody and
represent in their clan names the Norman
and the Celt, and thereby
.iiso tell for all time the story of Scottish
union and iis strength, a development
which was produced by Norman quite as
much as by native Celt
For it is a huge mis.ake to insist that the
f-'cot.ish clans are entirely Celtic because
i heir foitn or family government and ter
ritorial settlements are often so; per con
tra, many of the most noted names in
Scottish annals are of Norman descent,
is pure and clear as the typical Vere-de-
Yere, aid “came over with the Conquer
ed" families of England.
The two regiments recruited from the
clan were the old Efghty-flrst, formed in
1777 by a son of the Earl of Aberdeen, and
disbanded in 1783.
The present regiment, raised by the Mar
quis of Huntly in 1794, has taken first
tank ever since, and the bravery and en
durance of the Gordon Highlanders have
la en and still are in daily repute amongst
us, and for the hundreds of Americans
who visaed Edinburgh Castle this summer
tae story of the Gordons must necessarily
be of interest.
InCe and, if one knew of a friend being in
Scotland, the most probable and possible
t lace of meeting was on the Castle Es
planade, the public rendezvous between
10 o’clock and noon for all visitors, to the
city.
Edinburgh entitle n* Guerdon.
There is an unwritten law in military
circles that the Highland Regiment most
recently and sttnguished in Indian, frontier
and foreign service should on their return
I e qua tered in Ed.nburgh Castle, and this
plum of appreciation was given to the
Gordons as reward for their gallant charge
at Dargai, when Piper Findlater so
bravely continued to play “The Cock of
tlie North,” although shot through boUi
i nkles, and compelled to sit where he fell.
It would be, indeed, libel to say of any
regiment that they look shabby, but none
■he less it would be a hard task to find a
liner body of men as to hight, physique,
unconscious dignity, than this body of
m< n, reerui ed by the “Gentlemen of the
North" from their tenants and retainers.
The beauty and picturesqueness of the
Highland dress is seen to perfection on
such men. For those of us who stood much
and of en on the castle esplanade this year
watching the drill, sword exercises, min
ute ins ection of accoutrements, and heard
■heir splendid band play "Soldiers of the
Queen,” or practice the trumpet “call to
rms," or on Sunday morning attended the
soldiers’ service in St. Giles's Cathedral,
that marching line of waving tartans,
eaded by their pipers, must be indelibly
I- ar in mind and memory. Therefore, dou
bly hard to realize that what formed such
fascinating incident in our idle summer
■ olirlays has now become sad reality in the
campaign in South Africa.
War Cry and Radge.
That mayhap, too, whilst we read and
recall, someone of those men, so excep
tional in physique or attractive in court
eous manners as to impress our memo
ries, now lies dead with his beloved colo
nel, on the veldt, never again to respond
to the cry—“A Gordon! a Gordon! to the
tescue!”
He has died as he lived—a soldier of the
Oueen, his clan’s adopted Gaelic motto of
"Cath Ghainn!! “Stand firm!" has not
l.en found wanting; and he has clung to
his traditions as does the Eidleean na
crp.tge, the rock ivy of his badge.
For him and for many another equally
brave, the Coronach will wail; nnd right
loyally will the Cameron's Lament—
' We'll maybe return to Lochaber no
more”—include his name in the hearts of
all who hear it.
The soldier on the Castle ramparts was
part of our picturesque summer; in the
Transvaal he has become the exponent of
the fortunes of war.
The Recruiting Picnic.
Maybe, too, he was one of that specially
Picked squad, who at the close of the
tourist season, in late September, march
'd north on triumphal tour through “their
ain country side” to receive fresh colors
from the Prince at Brecklay Castle so
famed in ballad lore; to be honored by a
personal visit of thapks from their Queen;
'o be feted and cheered and dined and
beared with presents, nnd again most en
’husiastic welcome from their own kins
men and friends in every village and ham
let through which they marched.
From Stonehaven, the old land and
home of the Barclays, through by Ban
-1 hory to Cologne Castle, the seat of their
chief, the Marquis of Hunilv, veritable
Cock of the North,” then to Bracklay, on
through Strothdom and Strathbogie. their
naif ground, to Haddo, the seat of the Earl
of Aberdeen, then back to Aberdeen, the
'ltanite City and their official headquar
ters. where the "granite headed” and can
ny Aberdonians threw stolidity to the
winds, decorated and illuminated their
beautiful city as if for royalty; held ban
duets and balls and routs for officers and
ffien alike, and thus brought to a fitting
cl 'io that happy holiday, almost unique in
1 annals of Tommy Atkins. For if it
be possible for any one to class a magnift
' in Gordon in all his bravery of bonnet
U'l plume, bemedalled and bestriped red
of. his brooch and plaid and kilt and
t'orran, .nosetted stockings nnd buckled
'tes ns’ a possible Tommy Atkins, ihen
•be men on this particular occasion were
' ' rtalnly the heroes of the hour, for the
ffieers, chiefs and many chieftains of the
1 ■ me purposely kept themselves In the
background and exalted the file. So many
an unconscious hero realized how sweet it
" s to smell and pluck again his native
l' ''her. and to find in his old home and
'rinds such love and enthusiastic adml
ton for what had been to him but
i m for his country.
bed tape officialdom had sent them out
a recruiting marrh, kindly recognizing
it they had been noble fellows, and
too, profiting thereby, for many "a
"v Gordon" lad Joined that company
’ mutated by the praise showered upon
’ • m on every side
The Castle Sentry.
11 e can recall the sentry at the castle
• ’•■way, with his Victoria Cross, his Khe
•* and Egyptian medals, the Queen's
• •ec ,y Indian Frontier Medal for bravery
' Urr nl—how he looked forward to 'hat
I*'o his home, nnd also his anxiety that
r u ■ ct came in the Transvaal— "they
-II ivrnln g. in ehanee." For there Is
b rtva ry nrrongat Ihe Highland regl
■ a* to whose turn comes for gsrrl
■ '• *> nil whose for the front.
• >' have got their chance, and have
already bravely filled it, and it must be
comforting for all to know that before
•n-y went away again the old folks at
home tnd their friends and neighbors were
allowed to join with them in “that right
good ume.”
The Gordon Family.
It would be hard to And any other Scot
t sn family 10 excel, even equal, the Gor
dons in all that goes to make up romance,
uevotion, fealiy to sovereign and country,
prowess, religious sentiment, even to fan
atic zeal, and also its antithesis—light
hearted esprit de corps. The “Mad Gor
< ons thfy have ofi been truly called, for
- at a Gordon desired, that a Gordon ac
complished! Brains in plenty, too, have
f* en showered upon ihem, such ns we
nave in Byron and many another. Their
coat of arms—three boars’ heads—tells its
traditional story of a brave ancestor who
soted down a fierce boar which ravagecd
Berwick or Merse, on the Southern Scot
tish border, much as did the dragon of tra
dition.
Then there was the noted Berlran de
Gourdon, whose arrow wounded Richard
< oeur de Lion at Chalons in 1190. and who,
in spi/e of Richard’s dying order that his
lje s ould be spared, was flayed alive by
ne in uriated soldiers.
The Earl of Aberdeen, second chief, uses
as crest, in memory of that event, a
winged arrow, with motto, “Fortuna Se
quatur.
Tlie Record.
The Gordons in story is rich field. Otter
burn ~nd Flodden, and the Scots’ Guard
in France, notably in the reign of Louis
XIII. tell of their deeds; Ladv Katharine
G. rdon, wife of Perkin Warbeck, the Eng
lish pretender, softened even the hard and
nsr ow heart of Henry VII. and her pa
thetic dignity and faith in her husband,
earned for her in the English Court Ihe
t t’e which the Duchess of Burgundy had
giv, n to her—“ The White Rose.”
There were, as in all noble ftjmll'ea,
several ignoble and cruel memb rs over
whom R. I. p. may well be written, be
cause redeemed by such as "Bonnie Lo"ie
Gordon," of song and story. They were
chivalrous defenders of Mary Smart’s
cause, loyal, as were all the best of he
clans, to Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the
religious zeal which made the leader of
the Gordon riots, a fanatic becomes in
Gordon of Khartoum an example to the
world.
Gordon of Khartonn,
A dukedom, marqulsate, earldom and ten.
Baronetcies are the titles of the clan, but
Chinese Gordon, gentleman and Christian,
is the hero of modern times.
Or, as Lord Wolseley declares, his two
heroes of the nineteenth century are Gen.
Robert Lee and Gordon of Khartoum.
In Gordon we find at zenith all the de
votion. loyalty, chivalry and re'ig on of
the centuries; to him every pure and noble
minded man and women can point a3 ex
ample; through him the standard of mod
ern morality has been raised.
When we look for the highest felow
creatures we receive in proportion.
Charles Gordon never doubted the possi
bility of men's goodness of intention, and
so every one in daily contact with him
strove to live up to his standard, and
thereby rose:
"Out of their dead selves to higher
things.”
In him the pride and anger of the fam
ily, for the Scottish Litany said:
“From the ire of the Gordons,
Good Lord! deliver us!”
became the righteous anger permissible
lo every true hearted Christian, the gcol
cause to him was ever the spread of a
liberaj and beneficent civilization.
His ifrsonal adaptation of "nobles e
oblige” became, through his influence, the
mottoes, too, of many who might se m to
represent the file rather than the rank.
Birth and tradition and iong story of
brave deeds, loyal men, quietly b ave wo
men are not worthless in clan life.
“To die game” may sound harsh, but is
in reality noble.
When the Gordons return to their homes
in the North no murmur of hardship or
misfortune will be heard, only in unisvn,
subdued, but none the less proud voices
will ring out the record—once more for
our clan and country we have had our
chance.
TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES.
How the Work Has Been Done on
the Capitol Grounds In Albany.
From the Albany Country Gentleman.
Citizens of Albany who value shade
trees have, for some years past, seen with
regret and even alarm, the rapid disap
pearance of these trees from her streets—
a few, indeed, from the effects of old age
and violent winds, but most of them by
the reckless use of the axe. Some of our
finest elms, standing on corners or on the
sunny side of the street, have thus been
laid low, leaving house fronts fully ex
posed to the glare of summer sons. The
time seems to have arrived when street
trees should be considered the property of
the city, and no longer be left to the mercy
of the men who happen to own the houses
behind them; to be placed in the hands of
a skilled forester, who shall control their
planting, pruning and removal, the prop
erty owner to be consulted, no doubt, but
the final word to rest with the forester
alone.
Meantime, some consolation is to be
found in the planting of new trees, which
goes on to a limited extent in the city
streets, and on a larger scale has recently
been done on the capitol grounds, which,
west of the building, were bare of any
thing but turf and winding walks. Here
twenty-four elms of large size, twenty-five
to thirty-five feet in hight, a few six to
eight inches, the most eight to ten inches
in diameier. have been set, and sixteen
more on the eastern front, to fill in gaps
at various points. These trees were
brought from the Van Renseiaer grounds,
North Albany, on Hall’s patent tree lifter.
The lifter consists of two pairs of heavy
wheels, between which is swung a plank
boat near the ground. From the hinder
axie extends a wooden arm four inches
thick and eight feet long. After the tree
is dug about and loosened, the hind wheels
are becked up, the arm fastened to the
trunk, which gives purchase for ropes fas
tened higher up. and the tree is pulled
over. The arm on which the trunk rests
inclines upward, keeping the branches
noil off the ground. A team of horses is
hitched to the load—of ttvo tons, perhaps—
and they move off to the city, where men
have meantime been digging holes to re
ceive the trees.
Arrived at the spoh a pulley and tackle,
held by an iron bar anchored some dis
tance off. regulate the elevation of the
top as the root end descends into the hole.
When fairly upright the trunk is loosen
ed from the wagon arm and the tree set
tles to its resting place. Prepared corn
pod already at hand (in this case street
sweepings, which have lain in heaps two
years) is thrown In, and two men tamp
ii thoroughly under and around the roots
w ih wooden hars. while another, with a
hose keeps a stream of water playing Into
the hole, which carries the compost into
Interstices not reached by the tampers.
Toward the close a man climbs the tree
and rocks i< gently. The whole operation
takes nearly an hour, including a neat
resodding. The iree is set four to six
inches deeper than it originally stood, to
allow for cultivation or sodding without
disturbing the feeding roots.
Two trees a doy was a day s work tn
,4.if, job fc-r seven men and two tree wag
on, Th> charge for furnishing and
nianiing such tree* run from 129 to HO,
according to size and cost of transport.-
tl,.n w th guarantee for live years. Thoe
In Capitol Park average A gr*i-*i< 1
maple recently set for a citizen >t
TPE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1899.
TOLD A DOCTOR’S SECRETS.
MEMBER OF THE PROFESSION EX
POSES ITS CHARLATANISM.
Medicine Is Often Given Credit for
Cures Nature Performs—Few Phy
sicians Can Diagnose Patients* Ail
ments—Fatal Complaints Rarely
Determined Till After Death En
sues,
From the New York Sun.
The doctor was talking. He does that
frequently and sometimes under impres
sive circumstances. Then meetings of m d
ical societies listen to him. His reputa
tion among his associates is high. His
word is authority on several subjects and
he stands at the head of one branch of the
profession. So the societies hear him with
pleasure. lie is talking to only one man
this time. He was not looking at him.
but his eyes seemed to be 'fixe! through
the smoke of his cigar on something v ry
different and distant that was probabiy a
little bit intangible. He seemed absorbe 1
in that while he was talking.
"The cure of cancer?" he said. ICure
cancer? What can medicine cure? I ask
myself that question nearly as often as
some of my patients put it to me. Medi
cine cures nothing now and in this stag*
of the world has not made one step of es
sential progress. Can medicine cure tu
berculosis or typhoid fever or scarlet fe
ver? Persons get well of some of these
ailments now Just as they always did, but
it is not a question of what the doeto s
do for them. It Is the vitality of the man
himself that decides whether he is to die
or to live, if, for instance, he is sick with
typhoid fever. Left alone just as he used
to be before the days of doctors and
nurses, the man would get well if ther
was strength in him to struggle again -t
disease, but if there was not he would have
to die. The same thing is true to-day.
The disease runs its course. If a man
has appendicitis the surgeon can cut out
his appendix and cure him if it is not too
late, but of surgery I am r.ot talki, g; when
I say that medicine stands no fui ther for
ward to-day than It ever did I mean in
the treatment of those diseases doctors are
commonly thought to be ab.e to cure,”
Not Medicine, but Sense.
The doctor’s gaze at the undefined point
in the and stance was ten po ari.y ct.e ed
rot to the float ng cloud of smoke, bi t to
tie bottom of a g ass which was soon ,es
to. ed to its proper place on the marb.e
tab e.
"My patients come <o me and tell me
the r nerves are out cf order or th ir
stomachs or (heir bean, and ask m ti
whom they shall go. 1 can send one to
Fnillh and one to Brown and one to Jon s,
accord ng to ti e famous men in the spe
cialties for which my patients are seeking
treatment. Yet 1 know perfectly well t at
not one of them will do very much go and
They want a staff to .ean on, somebody to
help them .out of doing what they know
they ought to do. If it is a man who lias
nerve trouble he doesn’t want to step
smoking and drinking and begin to take
erercise. He kt ows hat w uld cure him
If he did It long enough and thorough y
enough, but such abstinence is not wont
ed. He must go to the do. tor, who will
diminish very gra lually and proba ly v ry
litte the amount he daily takes of ihos
supplies which have brought h m to the
diseased condition. If anybody comes with
Indigestion all (hat is ntc ssary it to ted
him not to eat. Let him starve himself:
avoid what he likes, even if it Is a fepr -
vation, and he will get well just as quick
ly as ihe doctor can cure him. The doc
tor must h- ip the weak, who are unw fin ;
io do what they know they ought to do
and who look tor somebody to give them
an exc.se or doi s what they want to
do. The most striking Instance of this at
titude toward doctors that I eter saw in
my life exists in a famous fore gn spa.
Many F.ngl sh ) eopl ■ go there annually to
take the wa era and they have made the
reputat on of two physicians that p actice
in that place.
Their- Patients Drink Whisky.
"These men are known to be incompe
tent; one of them never had any special
preparation for his work and he served
several years as an army surgeon, and the
other has never been able to satisfy his
colleagues as to the extent of his medical
studies, although he possesses ihe neces
sary diploma. These two men treat year
ly a long string of dukes and countesses,
dtplomatis and statesmen who come to
them from England. This has given them
a great vogue in the place and they have
many American patients. The Anglo
mania that is rampant in certain classes
of German and French society has put
these men in demand among patients of
those nations, although the continental
visitors have no need of the kind of serv
ice that first made them popular with the
British. These two physicians are the
only ones who allow their patients to drink
whisky. It is a well-established fact that
the waters from these springs have very
little effect when alcoholic indulgence is
continued along with their use, yet the
Englishmen who come to this famous place
for gout, liver or kidney trouble all patron
ize these two men solely because they are
able to take their Scotch whisky twice a
day and with no particular limitation as
to quantity. Any other doctor who was
conscientious would never permit such a
mixed use of the springs by a patient
really trying to get well. It is a tribute
to the powers of the waters that \ spite
of this misuse some of the Englishmen
do Improve, although not half so much as
they would with proper treatment. Yet
these arc the famous physicians of Ihe
place because they arc willing to indulge
their patients in what they want to do.
and not what they know they ought
to do. |e( j| r j n( , Nothing;.
The doctor looked serious again when
the question was put to him whether medi
cine does nothing now for persons wilh
serious diseases.
“Nothing,” he said, “in the way of cure.
Tliere mav be amelioration, but where is
any cure for Bright's disease, for instance,
or any disease of really serious character
that the world is subject to? A man with
out vitality enough to pull through ty
phoid fever could not be savrj by a whole
college of dodors, nor could anybody evr
be cured of consumption if the whole
world of mecidine devoted its attention to
him. On every side the same situation
will be found. In serious matters medi
cine Is powerless. A doctor always seems
to be in exactly the seme position as the
preacher. A man who feels that he can
look tiis own life, who is not going
to commit sin or backslide In any way.
does not need the preacher's advice about
his conduct. Most of the people who com
mit him as to what they should do ore
anxious to do something they have no
business to and ore trying to find some
way of doing It. Thot Is pract rally the
purpose that the doctor serves. The man
with dyspepsia doesn't want to starve; he
would rather eai and take medicine. The
man with bad nerves doesn't
want to quit smoking and drink
ing. He wants to keep on
doing both and get well at the same tim".
The bilious man would not need mcdlclm'
if he took exercise and avoided the things
that upas' his liver. But non* of them
wants lo give up what he Is doing. They
'lke the doctor’s talk to comfort them and
let them know how they can arrange to
continue w'.mt they aic doin'; and g#i WvSl
at the sonic time,”
TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS MAN.
One of the Many AVonilerful Thin**
Done by the Greatest of Giant*.
From the New York Sun.
“There was practically no end." said the
old circus man, “to the stunt* we used
to do with the greatest of all giants, who,
as I’ve told you before, was the greatest
single attraction the show ever had. He
personally compelled attention by his mere
presence, and by moans of his station, and
h s great strength he was enabled to do
things that just made the people gape.
One of these things was the carrying off
of a safe.
"Whenever we struck a town that was
big enough to maintain an establishment
for the sale of fireproof safes, the old
man never failed to work the giant in on
’em. He would visit the town tfie day
before the show got there and go to this
establishment and look over the safes to
buy one. He was a good judge of metal,
he’d been guessing a: ’em a long time, and
he could come within o hundred pounds
of the weight of a safe, every clip. The
giant could carry twelve hundred, easy;
but we never used to crowd him to the
limit for fear of hurting him; about a
thousand pounds was as much as we ask
ed him to carry.
“Well, the old man would look along
down the lines of safes ranged In the
store, with the proprietor, till he came
to a safe that suited h m, one that he
knew, weighed somewhere between nine
mill a half and ten and a half hundred
pounds. Then he and the boss would
dicker over the i.rice a little and final!*’
the old man would buy it. And then he’d
say:
"How much does that safe weigh?"
" ‘A thousand pounds.’ says the boss.
“‘Pooh!’ says the old man; I don’t be.
lieve it weighs 500.’
"It weighs rather more than a thous
and.” says the boss, “maybe a thousand
twenty-five, or a thousand and fifty."
“‘Nonsense!’ the old man says. ’Why.
I’ve got a man working for me that couid
pick that safe up and carry it off as easy
as he could n loaf of bread.’
" ’Well, If he can,’ says the boss, ‘l'll
give him the safe.'
“ ’A" right,’ says the old man. ’You
set the safe out on the sldkwklk at !0
o’clock to-morrow morning and I’ll bring
my man along, and if he can’t carry it
I’ll nay for it.’
"And at 10 o'clock the eld man would
come, with the giant; he’d had the safe
set out on the sidewalk so that the giant
could get a lift on it, and straighten up
with it. ,
“The safe man was always amazed when
he saw the giant come along; he’d real
about him. likely as not. but he’d never
believed what he read: and even now whfxi
he saw that the stories about his size
were true, he didn’t believe It possible
that any man however big he was coul 1
pick up and carry off a bar-ton safe. But
be was very soon undeceived abort that;
for the giant would pick it up and carry
It nff wllh the utmost facility, with thoti
oftds of people following. We, tiled to
have the band waiting in the next erosi
street, just around the corner, and when
Ihe giant had picked the safe up and har
ried It along to that eorner-ilie band wo'Td
strike up and wheel into this street and
march on, playing, and then the giant
would boss the safe up on his shoulßr.
where he could carry it more convenient
ly and march along behind the band, with
all the people howling.
“I suppose you'd think thm after gctlng
this free advertisement out of It the old
man would send the safe back; but that's
where you’d misjudge the old man; he’d
keep Ihe safe, every time, and ship it to
New Yvrk; and after the close of the sea
son sell the lot here by auction.
"You say .you don't reea'l any auction
sales of that character in New York? No
my son. I don’t believe you dq< these stlea
were years .ago before your time; lull, all
the same our safe sale was ene c-f the in
cidents of the year in those days
"We always held this sale in some pub
lic hall., where there was plenty of head
room for the giant. We'd have the stage
and the front of the hall shor and up to car
ry Ihe extra weight, and woM.have th*
auctioneer on the stag . the safes fir
sale ranged .along on the floor by the or
chestra. When everything was ready the
auctioneer would sa,y to the giant, who
was sitting near;
“ ‘Now, sir. will you have the kindness
to hand me up No. 1 on Ihe catakg e?'
"And the giant would riset and pick u->
No. 1. a half-tonner. mayb°, and set It up
on the stage as though 1> was a fo-ct
suqare paper box, Instead cf being of i on
and big as a packing box. We used to
have crowds at these sales eiwap* and
they always used to he simply carried
away by this. And the giar.t would sot
’em up as fast as the auct oncer ra Id for
them, there toeing maybe thirty o.’ cm al
together.
“So the old man used lo make the safe
business pay at both ends, and real'y In
the middle, too; for we us'd to get a big
ad. out of it at the beginning, where we
got the safe, another and a much bigger
free |nl. in Ihe aecouuts of that tt ange
auction sale printed in the far and
near, and we got something for the safei
ir. cash; it was not only cne of the gTeit
est things the giant did, consider'd by it
self, but it was one of the most profitable
for the show; and. as long as the gr at
giant lived, we used to give every y ar, at
the close of the season, tMs auction sale
of safes; tlhs being the lasf thing we did
before going into winter quarters.”
LAWTON’S ENERGY.
MaJ. L. O. Parker Tells an Apt Story
in IlliiNtrntiiig it.
From the Sit. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 20.—The
news of the killing of Maj. Gen. Henry
W. Lawton was very sad news to Maj. L.
O. Parker, a veteran retir'd regular army
officer, who said: "I expected it! I ex
pected it! This is sad news, and It has
affected me very much, L.’Avton was
a very dear friend of mine. It Is Just
what I expected, and I have told all his
and my friends with whom I have con
versed since my return from Ihe Philip
pines that it would happen. He so ex
posed himself that I felt he would be kill
ed sooner or later. He was a very large
man. six feet four inches; rode a large
horse, was always in uniform wilh a con
spicuous white helmet, with a division
flag always with him, and wherever there
was danger you would find his conspicu
ous form in plain view of the enemy. His
death is a great loss to the country, and
It will be hard to replace him.”
The veteran soldier whq zpokp in this
way of Gen. Lawton knew him for nearly
thirty yea.!*, and served with him in In
dian frontier wars during the early seven
ties and again in the Philippines last April
and May. leaving hl old comrade In July,
when he was placed on the retired list and
ordered home. Gen. Lawton and Maj.
Parker met the first time ki Northern Tex
as. when they were assigned to the Fourth
Cavalry, under command of the famous
Gen. It. 8. Mackenzie, This was In >*7l,
and at that time Lawton wa* quartermas
ter and Parker Adjutant of the regiment.
"The career of Gen. Mackenzie, without
detracting from It.” wild Maj. Parker In a
reminiscent way. “was, 1 believe, greatly
due to the ability and discretion of hi*
staff quartermaster, then Lieut. Lawton,
in keeping hi* command always *upplied
with everything necessary for it* readiness
for field service at any moment. There
wo* nothing In the way of equipment for
for’* or man. In tae way of t runs pollu
tion. that wa* not furnished, even to the
smallest detail. l-iwtou w m a man of
bread mind, phyically of powerful phy-
sicm*. and ready to cope with any and all
emergencies.
"I remember aa on Instance once during
one of Gen. Mackenzie's expeditions
against hostile Indians. 1 think in 1.71,
we started out over the plains. After be
ing out considerable time the supplies be
came low, and Gen. Mackenzie sent for
bawttn to go back to Fort Griffin after
mote. Lawton told him he would have
to make thirty-five miles a day
with the empty wagons in going In to
get back by a certain date. Two com
panies of infantry under a senior cap
tain, were detailed to escort the wagon
train, and before starting Lawton, then a
tirst lieutenant, was by written order
placed In charge of thq marching and
halting of the train. Over thirty-live miles
a day was mode in going in, and by rid
ing ahead with his sergeant, Lawton, on
the last day. had his requisition made
out, the rations and forage piled up ready
for eoch wagon when the train came in
to Fort Griffin. By doing this a half day
in time was gained over the usual method.
"On the return trip heavy rains set in,
and, to use a common saying, the boitom
dropped out of the prairie. The wheels
went down to the hubs in places and they
had to double team, and nearly all ihe in
fantry escort wos employed in pulling on
the wagons with ropes. Day after day they
moved forward by taking half the train
a mile at a time, and then gong ha<k
for the other half. Lawton made better
time than was expected, and his last
halt was only a half day’s march from
Gen. Mackenzie's camp.
“Soon after going to sleep that night a
courier from Gen. Mackenzie reached
I.awton, and Informed him the command
was out of rations, and for him to reach
camp as soon as possible the next day.
Taiwton as once woke up the wagon mas
ters and had the teams hitched, and then
told the senior captala of the informa lion
in Gen. Mackenzie’s note and told him the
train would move in twenty minutes. The
captain told Lawton he was crazy, the
nun were worn out. and lie would go no
further that night. The train moved with
out the infantry escort, and just before
day, while nearing camp an Indian at
tack was m;Ale on Gen. Mackenzie’s com
mand. From the nature of the tiring Law
ton could tell which was the Indian’s
and which the troops, so hy making a be
- approach he was able to get to the
opposite side of the camp from Ihe In
dians. When near the camp laiwton took
his sergeant and rode ahead of the train
to enlighten the camp of their arrival, in
a few moments Capt. John Lee. Fourth
Cavalry, called out loudly: ‘ls that you,
I-awton?’ Lawton replied, ’Yes.’ Lee said:
‘lt's lucky I heard you talking, A num
ber of guns were bearing on you, and you
would have been a dead man in a few
minutes more.'
"In this way he took the train In, and
when approached hy Gen. Mackenzie for
not waiting for daylight, said he wanted
to get in in time to give the command
breakfast. I relate this to show the de
termination of the man, and this is char
acteristic of his acts as a soldier.
"The last time I was with him In a
campaign was during April and May of
this year. It was In the Philippines dur
ing the advance on Santa Cruz and Isi
dro. There was no trouble In taking Ihe
towns, and had we been supplied with
men to garrison them and with quick
transportation, the rebellion would have
been broken.”
THE WHITE PLAGUE.
Efforts of Russia to Keep Leprosy
Beyond the Siberian Border.
From CoUler's Wtekly.
Russia still remains the land, as <ne
might say, of mystery and melodrama.
Two bits of Slav grewsonv ness are float
ing a {glut on this side of the world, and
may not have drifted over seas. One ema
nates from a certain Dr. Bryanzeff. He
writes to a Journal in Siberia, describing
the horrors of insanity which exist til're.
Diseases of the brain are very prevalent
in that vast section of Russia". This, h
claims, is partly owing to the great num
ber of criminals and eccentrlc-natuie 1
people who are annually brought thither,
and partly owing to (he large consump io 1
of alcoholic drink, which is always vlj.
In Jhe immense region of Tomsk th re 's
only one lunatic asylum; elsewhere it is
often much worse. The government cares
little for these poor victims of dementia,
and clothes them In rags while lo glng
them in filth. Dr. Bryanzeff states that,
in the municipal hospital of Krasnoyarsk,
he saw' a crowd of wretched madmen, who
reminded him of the pictures in Dante’s
"Inferno.”
Another Russian “hem” deals with lep
rosy. The East Is never free from It, an 1
Russia is always dreading that the sly
white pest may cross her borders. O ca
slonally, though not often, It cree.is Into
the homes of the aristocracy. A cecaln
grand ball Was given at St. Pete: .burg
during the spring of iSf. Among the
guests was a youifg and beautiful unmar
ried countess. A gentleman ask. and one of
her relatives to Introduce him, received an
assent, and danced with the lady several
times. Later, as they stood in an expose 1
portion of the Imll room the gentleman
said: "This draft is Injurious. You shoul I
be careful of yourself, for I see there Is a
slight eruption on one of your should rs.
Oh. It isn’t marked enough to spoil your
beauty. But I, you know, am a physi
cian. Have you, by tho way, any other,lit
tle spots like this elsewhere on your lovel.
skin?” “Yes," replied the lady, “I have
a few. And I wish, doctor, that you could
give me some medicine for them." "Ji
would afford me great happiness to do so,”
was the gallant reply. That flight ff e
Countess did not return io her home. Al!
search for her resulted vainly. It was not
until many weeks afterward that h-r
agonized parents received a letter which
toid them that their daughter was in (ho
X Leper Asylum, and that a Ia t mpt<
to see her must prove futile. The parent'
begged piteously to have her Immured ai
her own home, in a tower which she alon •
would occupy. Anything was preferable
for them to the living death which they
felt now io be her doom. But no entre 11 •
ies availed. The gentleman who ha 1
danced with the young Countess a' ihe
ball had been a disguised police agent, an 1
she will end her days In the terrible lazar
house whither he had h< r convey, and.
among others accursed like herself.
Here'* n SurKli'ul Hnrvrl.
From the New York World.
Science has enabled a man to go (hr ugh
life with an artificial nose and llmlm tba
often defy detection, but one of ti>| in h:
novel Inventions of modern t-nrycry is .1
tongue made of rubber and r ating <n :t
pivot set between the teeth, Tutre Is a
man In this city who can show this won
derful mechanism and who Dels v r,
happy because he has It.
This man Is George Henderson. He It
47 years old and for many years had been
an inveterate smoker, often using flft en
cigars a day. Excessive use ol Isbaeo
caused a cancer of the tongue, and the
organ had to be removed. This opt ra don
was most difficult and was performed In
Bellevue Hospital last February.
It was necessary to saw through the
lower Jaw at the center and remove two
lower from teeth, together with a portion
of the Jawbone on either trtde of tie e
teeth. When this was done the surgeon
removed two-third* of ihe anterior piri o
the tongue, leaving only the base of t e
organ. The severed ends of the Jaw were
reunited with wire.
Henderson then left the hospital Is
surgeons giving him II tie hope o*-e or
being able to eat solid focal. The hasn ol
the tongue healed In a few weeks, b tin
spite of the care with which the sir toon
adjusted the wire about Ihe iw sides of
Ihe Jsw the bone would not un I . T ie
sides of the Jaw began to tpove in V"Ol,v
and the tissue 10 Inflame.
Mr. Henderson Anally went to th* ffaw
Extraordinary
Reduction Sale.
CLOSING OUT WINTER GOODS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
t-
At Little More
Than Half Price.
Cost and Profit Entirely Ignored.
You positively never witnessed such wholesale
slaughter of prices as we inaugurate to-morrow, and
you know by experience that our promises are worth 100
cents on the dollar.
The Following Will Be Sold at Roinous Prices:
Ladies’ Jackets and Capes. Black Wool Dress Goods.
Children’s Cloaks. Colored Wool Dress Goods.
Ladies’ Separate Skirts. Plain and Fancy Silks.
Ladies’ Ready Made Waists. Plain and Fancy Wool Flannels.
Ladies’ Underskirls. Woolen and Cotton Blankets.
Ladies’ Wrappers. Fine Cotton and Down Comforts.
Ladies’, Children’s and Gents’
Woolen Underwear.
Come expecting unusual bargains. You won’t be
disappointed.
Foye & Morrison.
York College of Dentistry, where Dr.
Frederick Bradley took charge (f his
case. They sawed thtough the Jaw again
and adjusted Its sides evenly, biing.ng
them In as close Impact as possible. A
metal cup was placed over all of the lower
teeth and held In position by a clamp on
either sfde of the tnouth fastened under
the chin. After the patient had worn
this for five weeks It was removed, and It
was found that the revered parts of the
Jaw had reunited.
Henderson,.was still unable to eat solid
food, because he had no tongue to pass
It back into the oesophagus. Tc over
come this difficulty, the surgeon construc
ted an artificial tongue.
A rim of gold was made to fit the Inner
surface of the lower teeth. This was
beveled off toward the lower edge and at
tached to a wire clasp which fitted oVcr
one 06 the back teeth on either side. A
bar of German silver was fasten'd acroat
Ihe mouth from one of the hack to.th to
another opposite. This was enclosed In a
tube of the same m tat of sufficient six©
to permit |,t to rotate easily on the bar. A
tongue of red vulcanized rubber was made
lo fit about the lube. The rear of the rub
ber tongue was beveled off towaid the
bottom and placed under the base of thi
real tongue, so that the least movement
of the muscles pressed down on the rub
ber, fhrowlng the tongue up.
Henderson Is now able to talk ns dls
linetly and freely as he ever did, and eats
with ease and freedom.
|fe|A Mother's
Blessing.
Savannah, Oa., Dec. 29, 1899.
Prof. Dexter:
Dear Sir—My son. Hobble Maxwell Ea
son, now 4 years and 7 months of age,
who, when 3 years of age, fell down stairs.
'At the tlmel did not think he had Injured
himself. Six months after he wss a "help
less cripple, with hip Joint disease; the hip
was swollen to twice Us natural size, and
he was obliged to lie on his back ai all
times; he could not set up or take a step.
In this condition I placed him in the Tel
fair Hospital, where he remained for six
months all told. Six weeks ago 1 took
him from the hospital and placed him un
der your rare. He was then In a very
low state of health. His hip and knee
could not be hem. His gem-rat health is
now perfect. He van bend his hip and
knee ns wed ns any child He now holds
up his bead and a stand with both feet
on the Moor, and has walked around a
chair numbers of times. He cits up all
day and wants to play with the children.
From a helpless cripple you tire restoring
my child to perfect health. I am ihank
-ful for your great kindness In relieving i
him, and you have a mother's blousing. !
Yours sincerely,
MRS. JOHN W. EASON. |
2110 Montgomery Btreet. ]
Office over Dyons', corner Broughton
and Whitaker stre<d*. Consultation free. !
All disease** treated. j
FOR SALE
500 tons (irate and Stove
Coal at $4.50 per ton, deliv
ered anywhere in city,
Also 7.000 toils good
steam coal.
$lOO reward for lijfbt
weights. Phone 07. ;
DO 11KS11C COAL AND WAHID COMPANY j
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MONDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT, 1
MR. CHARLES FROIIMAN present, th.
Succea. of the Century,
THE
LITTLE
MINISTER.
By J. M. BARRIE,
Founded on hla novel of the tan, name.
Prtaentrd for 300 night. In New York.
On New Year’* night every lady will bs
presented with souvenir.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
Two Night., and One Matinee, com
mencing
• TUESDAY, JAN. 2,
The Olympia Opera Cos.
Tuesday—"OlßOFLE-GIROFLA."
Wednesday Matinee—“PAUL JONES.’’
Wednesday N!ght-”BOCCACCIO.”
40 PEOPLE —OWN ORCHESTRA.
THEATER.
THt’HSDAY, .IAN. 4.
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DRAMA,
“A FOOL’S
PARADISE.”
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YOI \(i MBN’fr HKSBHKW ASSO
CIATION.
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1900 RACES 1900
NEW YEAR'S DAY
-AT-
Thunderbolt Driving Park
MONDAY, IAN, 1,
Harness and Two Running Events.
Beet of the vlulling .tables will face
the starter.
Hor.ee railed at 3 p. in
GREATEST CARD YET.
A. P DOYLE, Manager,
TELFAIR ACADEMY
-or-
ARTS AM) SCIENCES.
—Cillery el Pun! off end S u pture—
Open to vlaitor. dally, except Sunday,
If ion, 10 a- m. is & p m
Bing a ulmiulen Ac. Annual iU ket.lt,
OLD NEWBIAI F.BS. KB tor S casta, a>
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