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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 AMUSKUKATg. gAI/ANNHH YHeTTrRN! 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. SYDYBY GUVDY’S 3-ACT CO MED If DRAMA, “A FOOL’S PARADISE.” —by— YOI \(i MBN’fr HKSBHKW ASSO CIATION. PHK BS-75C, JVOc, Y.Yf. 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> Bu.inee. Office Morning News 7