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To The Journal:
On the 36th day of June, 1882, General
Stonewall Jackaon with his command
from the valley of Virginia arrived at Me
chanicsville. the extreme right of the Fed>-
ersl line, and attacked them in flank and
! rear, thereby enabling General Lee with
j Longstreet and D. H. Hill s commands to
: cross the Chtckahomlny river and join
i forces with Johnson leaving Gen. John
B. Magruder with 25.000 men between the
enemy's line and Richmond.
The dogs of war were turned loose, the
gray and the blue locked horns and the
six days' tight for the capltol of the Con
federacy began.
Gen. George B. McClellan, commanding
the Federal forces, had 130.000 men, while
Gen. Robert E. Lee, commanding the
• Confederates, had 80,000.
; The Federal line started at White Oak
i swamp, crossed the Chickahomlny river
! at Meadow's bridge and extended to Me-
I chanlcsvllle, said to be 15 miles In length.
' The right and left wings being divided by
} the river. A»line of earthworks extended
i nearly the entire distance, with numerous
. batteries along the line, some of them
tilled with siege guns. Where there was
any timber it was cut down in front of
the works, the small growth and limbs of
the trees were sharpened and placed in
the ground with wire strung across them.
A rabbit would have had trouble to get
through, much less a man under fire. The
Confederates had no works (except near
Richmond) that I saw from Meadow s
bridge to Seven Pines. 'With the Federal
general spades were trumps. His base and
headquarters were at the white house, on
the Panumky river, receiving his -sup
plies over the railroad by the way of
Fredericksburg.
The strength of the Federal line caused
General Lee to attack them in flank and
rear, where both sides could have a fair
and open flght. The battle of Mechanics
ville on the 36th of June was a blotxly one,
the Confederates carrying everything be
fore them, and at night when the battle
ceased were in possession of the battle
field. During the night the Federal army
retired to Cold Harbor and on the morn
ing of the 37th Lee's forces advanced, and
a terrible battle was bought in the even
ing with the Confederates still gaining
ground. In General Magruder’s front
General Tige Anderson with the First and
Ninth Georgia regiments attacked the
Federal line at the Nine Mlle road, making
a feint to hold thi enemy while Johnson
was attempting to cut them off from their
base at tke white house. During the night
the Federate withdrew to Gaines' mill,
anu on the 28th were again attacked by
the Confederates and defeated after a
heavy loss on both sides. In Magruder s
front on Golden's farm the Seventh and
Eighth Georgia, (of Anderson s brigade,
charged the works, losing a number of of
ficers and men. Colonel Lamar, of the
Eighth, fell wounded on the works, while
Lieutenant Colonel Towers was captured
in them. The Flrjt and Ninth Georgia
were on the tub to their assistance, when
overtaken by our division commander,
Gen. G. R. Jones, and ordered back.
Near a point of woods on Garnett’s farm
we passed a battery. Just before we got
I to it we met two men with a wounded
soldier carried between them. Both legs
were cut in two by a cannon ball just
I above hte ankles, leaving his feet sus
•ended by small strips of flesh. It was a
! sickening sight, and death would have
; i een preferable, but such 1s war. During
' the three days’ fighting north of the
! Chlckahomlny the federal troops south
| of the river remained Intact.
i During the night of the 28th the right
I wing of the federal army joined the left
south of the river. At the same time the
left withdrew from Magruder’s front. The
29th found the federal forces drawn»up at
Savage Station ready for the onslaught
of the Confederates, who. after crossing
the river, attacked them in the evening,
when another bloody battle was fought.
Barly In the morning General Magruder
discovered the abeenee of the enemy in
his front and advanced with hte com
mand. entering the federal line at Golden’s
farm. The First Georgia regulars of Gen
eral Andrews* brigade were ordered for
ward. and engaged a federal brigade at
the Peach Orchard In a hot flght for seven
or eight hours, another point on our
friends the enemy, and the worst fighting
a soldier qyer had «o do. fighting at least
ten times our number.
The battle of the Peach Orchard I wrote
up In a former article for The Journal.
During the night of the 29th the federate
withdrew to Frasier's farm. After the
fight at Savage Station Anderson’s brig
ade returned to the vicinity of the Peach
Orchard and camped for the night, the
rain coming down in torrents.
On the morning of the 30th Anderson's
brigade crossed the railroad, where we
saw a large brass cannon mounted on a
flat car In front of a locomotive. We were
halted for several hours during the time
Jackson's forces were marching to our
left. The Louisiana Tigers, 91 rank and
file, with one commissioned officer, passed
us with their battle-smoked and bullet
riddled flag. At the battle »f Gaines’ mill
Major Wheat was killed, and his Tigers
cried over him like children.
About 10 o'clock ’we “marched to our
right, keeping up the step at a lively gait.
Between 2 and 4 o’clock we could hear In
the direction we were marching the boom
of distant cannon, and a little farther on
the roar of musketry. Lee's forces had
again attacked the federal forces at Fra
sier s farm.about 12 miles from Richmond.
We marched rapidly In the direction of
the battlefield, and the nearer we got the
more distinct was the roar of battle. When
dark overtook us we were three miles
from the bloody field. We met two cav
alrymen with Major General McCall, U.
S. A., walking between their horses, a
prisoner of war, captured on the field. We
never arrived on the field until about 3
o'clock in the morning, the most weary
ing night’s tramp I was ever engaged in
during the war. Troops march in fours,
and at night each man follows hte file
leader. The column would halt, we would
drop on the ground to rest, uid by the
time we were down they would start in
front; up we wou.d get, go a step or two,
halt, drop down again and so on through
the night. I was so worn out I would
have been willing to be shot the next
morning to have been allowed the priv
ilege of going to sleep. The battle must
have raged until 10 o’clock and then every
thing was as still as a graveyard, which
it proved to thousands of poor soldier
boys on that bloody field. Finally, when
the command was given, "Halt, front,
stack arms and break ranks," I dropped
at full length on my back and was fast
asleep by the time I struck the ground.
Just as the king of day showed his radi
ant face I awoke, and the sight that met
my gase was photographed on my mem
ory, there to remain until my dying day.
Just in front of me and on less than one
fourth of an acre I counted 42 dead horses,
lying in groups of six, with the harness
on. I was hardened to the sight of dead
men, but those poor, helpless horses
touched a tender chord in my hardened
heart.
On turning my head so I could see in
my rear, I discovered that I had used a
dead man for a pillow. I can’t say that
it bothered me In the least, as my feelings
were considerably benumbed by what I
had passed through within the last few
days. The gray and the blue were scat
tered around, showing that we had stop
ped where the battle raged the evening
and night before. The Confederates had
captured 20 pieces of artillery on thet por
tion of the field, having to kill a portion
of the horses to keep the enemy from car
rying off the guns. The Federate after
the fight had again retreated, this time to
Malvern Hill on the banks of the James
river. A little after sunrise General An
derson called his brigade to attention.
Stocks were broken and we were ready for
the events of the day. General Ander
son rode In front of hte line, remarking
as he did so, "Boys, we will whip them out
today and be done with it. He then gave
the command forward, and we marched
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In line of battle to the front. We passed
out of the field, then through a piece of
woods to another field, and halted. We
saw about 200 yards In our front an offi
cer riding to our left. The rebel yell was
deafening, the officer doffed hte cap, spur
red his horse and was quickly out of
sight. It excited my curiosity to know
what officer could call forth such wild
cheering when we had orders to keep
perfectly quiet. I was told that It was
General T. J. Jackson, the hero ot the
valley.- General Thomas Jonathan Jack
son proved to be the greatest military
genius produced by the civil war. His
campaign In the valley before hte arrival
at- Mechanicsville, stamped him as one of
the greatest generate In modern times.
The Federal government sent three differ
ent commands, either one outnumbering
hte own, under Generals Fremont, Shields
and Banks, to take Stonewall in out of
the wet. Almost any other general would
have retreated or commenced fortifying.
Not so With Mars Tom. As they were
marching on different roads and not in
supporting distance, Jackson advanced
and routed the first, then the second and
third, a Bull Run stampede to get out of
Virginia. The Federate never knew where
he was only by the sound of his guns.
When he struck the right flank of Mc-
Clellan’s army it was supposed that he
was In the valley. We were then ordered
by the right flank and moved rapidly in
the direction of the James river. After
going about two miles we were ordered
by the right about and returned in the
direction from whence we came, with
flankers on both sides of the line of
march. When within one and a half
miles of Malvern Hill we filed to our
right down a small branch. The brigade
was (Marching left In front and General
Anderson gave the Command, change
front by on the left by file into line. The
Eighth filed in then the First, Seventh.and
Ninth. While the Eleventh was passing
the First a six pound rifle shell from
Malvern Hill passed through both regi
ments, knocking out three men. One had
hte thigh cut in two, another disembow
eled and the third one the shell entered
his left shoulder and passed out at his
right (high, then struck a 12 inch tree, ex
ploded and tore it down. Quite a rum
pus for a small shell to cut up. About 3
o'clock the battle opened and in order to
better understand the battle that was
fought at Malvern Hill, I will, to the best
of my recollection, describe the field.
Dr. Malvern’s house and farm was on
the north bank of the James river. His
house was built on a bluff at least 100
feet from the water, with his farm ex
tending above and below it on the river
bank, and at least one mile In front to
heavy timbered woods which was much
lower than ths house. The field was bad
ly broken and interspersed with ravines.
Near the house, report said the enemy had
in position TO pieces of cannon which could
rake any portion of the field, with hte in
fantry in rear of it.
General Anderson’s brigade was order
ed in under the terrible fire of those
guns, but before we could get within mus
ket range were ordered back to the woods.
Sergeant Baldwin, our color bearer, re
fused to turn back and had to be turned
at the point of an officer's sword. Ser
geant W. J. Garrett, of company M, ad
vanced on the batteries by himself until
near enough to pick off the gunners, when
he was picked off by a musket ball
through his thigh. The hill was assaulted
by different lines of battle during the
evening all to be hurled back to the
woods. Our batteries would dash into
the field to be cut to pieces and retire
unable to withstand the terrible storm
of Iron from the guns on the hill.
Just below the house a creek empties
into the river. On the bank was a piece
of woods in which the most of ths in
fantry fighting was done by Jackson’s
men. To make matters worse the federal
gunboats were in the river and took an
active part In the flght, hurling eight
inch shells on the field in great numbers.
The battle raged in all its fury until 9 or
10 o'clock at night when the Confederates
retired from the field and encamped for
the night. Little Mac had brought General
Lee to a stand still having everything
pretty much his own way, as flanking his
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•• Georgia’s Greatest
Charity
P TO 1837 no class of people in
all the land were in a more
deplorable 'condition than a
poor lunatic was in Georgia
u
and as far as that was con
cerned, ifi any of the southern states.
Although in Virginia the first lunatic
asylum in America had been built, no
other state had followed the good ex
ample. In 1837 a stranger whose name
I am sorry to say I have not been
able to recover, came to Milledgeville
during the session of the legislature )
and secured an Interview with Dr.
Green, Dr. White, Dr. Case and Dr.
Fort, and Judge Harris, and some of
the other good citizens, who readily
fell in with his suggestions, and Judge
Harris began work on the legislature
for an appropriation to build a hospi
tal for the insane. In this he was
warmly seconded by Dr. George D.
Phillips, of Habersham, and Dr. R. D.
Arnold, of Savannah. The commis
sion at last was appointed and bought
40 acres of plney woodland, where the
main building of the present sanita
rium stands. It was five years after
the law was passed before the hospi
tal, a very plain brick building poorly
built and poorly furnished, was ready
for work. The first four years were
not successful ones, but the trustees
were not discouraged, and they select
ed Dr. Green, who was one of the
leading physicians In Milledgeville, to
take charge of the struggling and un
popular institution. He did so, and
from 1847 to 1879 the warm-hearted
Irishman worked night and day for the
institution. He was diplomatic, ge
nial, popular and succeeded in
securing one appropriation after an
other until he had the handsome
centric building erected and the hospi
tal partially equipped.
He was at first alone. Then he had
Dr. Bass to aid him, and nearly forty
years ago Dr. Powell, a young army •
surgeon, who te now the superinten
dent. came to his help. After Dr.
KJreen’s death. Dr. Powell was chosen
to succeed hkn. No man who visits the
sanitarium now and sees its vast ex
tent and the admirable provision for
all Its needy and the management of
all its details, can doubt that Dr. Pow
ell has a real genius for devising and
managing. He has rarely had any
thing but endorsement and he has
richly deserved all the good things said
of him. As this institution was a most
costly state charity, apart from the
common schools. I do not think I can
do the readers of The Journal a better
service than to give them the result of
my observation In a week's stay at
the sanitarium.
ITS LOCATION.
Two miles south of Milledgeville
there is a high and healthy plateau of
what was once piney woodland. On
the crest of this plateau the flrfit
building was erected in 1837 and on it
the present group of buildings stand.
The location is beautiful.
There is a magnificent view in every
direction, and from the upper story ot
the administration building the whole
landscape is very lovely. This admin
istration building is a very handsome
position was out of the question. Mal
vern Hill was another Gettysburg affair
and will go down in history as one of the
bloodiest battles of the war, the loss on
both sides being something terrible.
Early on the morning of the second
General Lee discovered that his friends,
the enemy, had taken French leave and
retired down the river to Turkey Bend,
30 miles below Richmond. Lee’s army re
mained on the field on the second and
third of July, burying the deed. On the
4th we were again in pursuit of the en
emy, finding them at Turkey Bend or Har
rison's Landing in an Impregnable posi
tion, the river being in the shape of a
horse shoe with the army in the circle
and the gun boats in the river around it.
While at the bend the regulars were on
picket where we heard the most cheering
I heard daring the war. Report said it
was President Lincoln reviewing trie ar
my.
The six days fighting around Richmond
was fought by raw troops and we might
say raw officers, as there had been but
very little fighting up to that time and
nothing to compare with any one of the
six days. General Lee gained not only
fame but the love and confidence of his
troops, which he not only retained but
increased up to the surrender at Appomat
tox. General G. B. McClellan proved to
be one of the best generate that had the
honor to commend the army of the Po
tomac. His retreat under the fire of the
Confederates was a fbet few generate
could have performed, moving his army
through White Oak swamp pn a single
road without the loss of a wagon. Had
he been allowel to carry out hte own
convictions In regard to the war things
might have terminated very differently
from what they did. His program was to
advance on Richmond from the south side
of the James like General Grant did at
the ending of the war. He was a humane
man and conducted the war on humane
principles and the boys in gray who
faced his guns will respect his memory
until the last one has passed beyond the
river. On the 9th of July the army under
General Lee left the Bend and returned
to Richmond. Anderson’s brigade went
into camp on the Darbytown road, where
the brigade with Jones division was as
signed to Longstreet's corps. July 24th
Anderson's brigade went to New Marbut
Heights where the regiments took turns
doing picket duty at Malvern Hill. On the
sth of August Malvern Hill was retaken
by the Federate as there wasrbut a small
force of Confederates to defend it. Long
street’s corps was marching rapidly for
the Hill when we halted by the side of the
road to rest. While resting a troep of
horsemen passed, going to the front.
Riding at the head of the trops was Presi
dent Davis and General Lee; then the sec
retary of war and General Longstreet with
several other generals and their scouts.
Now you might suppose the boys cheered
themselves hoarse. Not so. There was not
so much as a whisper, every one seem
ingly intent on hearing what they were
talking about. As for myself I would
as soon cheer a minister in a house of
worship as General Lee. While he was the
grandest, noblest and most commanding
looking men I ever saw, cheering seemed
out of place. Had Stonewall Jackson been
passing he would havte passed in a gallop,
or he would have been as deaf as a bed
post from that ear-splitting rebel yell.
We ragged boys often discussed
the merits and demerits of our
commanding officers and the general opin
ion was that Mars Robert and Mars Tom
could not fill each others boots. Before
we reached the hill the federate retired
and the corps returned to Richmond. The
Journal of April 13th announces the death
of General Wade Hampton. I saw him at
Fayetteville, N. C., Mareh 10, 1865, after
hte early morning call on General Kilpat
rick, who report said made his escape
In hte night clothes mounted on a humped
back mule. - W. H. ANDREWS.
Sugar Valley, Ga. < »
You are Hable to a sudden attack of
Summer stpkness and should keep in your
house a bottle of Dr. SETH ARNOLD'S
BALSAM, the best known Remedy. War
ranted to giw satisfaction or money re
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A SANITARIUM FOR
THE INSANE
Btj Geo. <i. Smith, Macon, Ga.
structure. In it are offices for all the
principal officers, physicians, matron
and steward and a home for the super
intendent. In the wings stretching on
either side and embracing a large
area there are extensive dormitories
for female patients. The rooms are all
sufficiently large, well lighted and
comfortable. There is nothing need
lessly ornamental, but everything is
in good taste. There are two convales
cent halls, one for males and one for
females. Here those whose minds are
the least impaired or when on the
road to recovery are very nicely hous
ed. Then there is a large building for
males a little farther away, and the
two new buildings on opposite sides
of the grounds are rapidly nearing
completion. There are halls for epilep
tics and two vsry large buildings for
negroes. These buildings are all full.
THE GROUNDS.
Where there were once the most un
sightly gullies and seamed hillsides
there are now the most beautiful and
level lawns covered with a rich gar
ment of green. There are several beau
tiful flower gardens. There are hot
houses and summer houses and swings,
and the patients at certain hours have
free access to the gardens and lawns,
and are not even required to "keep off
the grass,” but sit and He upon it at
will. All kinds of flowers which will
grow in the open are cultivated, and
in the hothouses are the rare exotics.
There are beautiful, shady groves, in
which the patients are permitted to
walk at certain hours.
There is a large, well equipped kitch
en in each building. An abundance of
water comes through pipes from a b«ld
creek near by. An ice factory makes an
unlimited supply of ice. In the refriger
ating rooms are great stores of the
finest yellow butter, and a week’s sup
ply of beef is kept. There are work
shops of all kinds demanded, an im
mense laundry, two elegant dairies,
hundreds of the finest cattle and pens
of finest swine.
The government—Everything moves
quietly and smoothly on. There is the
superintendent and his six physicians.
Each has his work plainly laid; all the
subordinates report daily to the su
perintendent. Mr. Lamar has, save for
a short time, been the steward or busi
ness director for years. Captain De-
Saussure is the engineer. The attend
ants are trained for their work, and
some of them have been at the sani
tarium as nurses and personal attend
ants for years, and such is the care
ful supervision that anything like cruel
treatment is largely impossible. All
the patients, rich and poor, fare alike,
according to their mental condition
and physical needs, although those
who are able can secure more ex
clusive attention and more delicacies
by buying outside or paying extra ex
pense. Every time the tables are set
they are inspected by the physicians
in charge. Altogether the institution is
one to bf proud of. None of the sala
ries are large and Dr. Powell could in
all probability have made more than
twice or even four times his salary
in private practice as an alienist.
The patients are often very pleasant
company, and one would find it diffi-
cult to tell who was the visitor and
who the patient unless he was told.
Instead of the sanitarium being the
abode of wickedness there is far more
solid peace there than In many an
elegant mansion. Tltere are some very
sad and pitiful cases, but there are
many who, while hopelessly insane,
are cheerful and bright who read the
newspapers and project great enter
prises, and take a lively Interest in re
ligious or political affairs. Each man
is willing jo admit the other fellow
is crazy but he knows he is certainly
sane. One good fellow told me he
was paid >15,000 a month to superintend
the institution. Much work is done by
the patients for their own comfort and
as a moral treatment looking to their
recovery.
Os courso there are wild stories of
cruel abuse and shameful neglect, but
these are oftentimes and in nearly all
cases mere fancies of a diseased brain.
They have a good chaplain. Mr. Wray,
who gives them services twice a week.
ASYLUMS AND THEIR WORK IN
TREATMENT OF INEBRIETY
To the Editor of The Journal:
Asylums and hospitals for the treatment
and cure of Inebriates are only modern
applications of truths asserted centuries
ago. Ulplan, the Roman jurist. In the sec
ond century of the Christian era, urged
the necessity of treating Inebriates as sick
and diseased, In special surroundings, with
special means. Other authorities endorsed
these views, and asserted that the state
should recognize the veritable madness of
drunkards and treat them as such.
In 1747 Condillac, of France, wrote that
the state should provide special hospitals
for drink maniacs, and urged a change of
law and public sentiment to this end. Dr.
Rush, of Philadelphia- In 1790; Dr. Caba
nis. of Paris, in 1802; Prof. Platner, of
Leipsic, In 1809; Salvator of Moscow, in
1817; Esqulrol, ot France, in 1818; Buhl
Cramner, of Berlin, in 1822, all urged the
need of physical restraint and treatment
of the inebriate as sick and diseased, in
places especially provided for this class.
In 1830 the Connecticut Medical society
appointed a commltttee to report on the
neeed of an asylum for the medical treat
ment of inebriates. In 1833 Dr. Woodward,
of the Worcester Insane asylum, in Mas
sachusetts, urged that inebriety be recog
nised as a disease, and special hospitals
be provided for its treatment, In 1844 the
English Lunacy commission urged that
inebriates be regarded as insane and sent
to asylums for special treatment. These
are only a few of the more prominent ref
erences to inebriate asylums, although
many other writers urged the same views
in different ways. The mention of the
disease of Inebriety roused a bitter oppo
sition, and the question of asylums was
put aside until the former could be set
tled.
In 1846 Dr. Turner began an enthusias
tic agitation which culminated In the first
asylum at Binghamton, New York.
The opposition to this work was very
Intense, and came from moralists, who
urged that It was a purely "infidel work”
to diminish human responsibility. The
asylum at Binghamton began on the most
advanced principles of receiving no one
for less than one year, and having abso
lute restraint over them during this time.
It asked no pledges or promises from the
patient, it aimed to give each one positive
protection and medical treatment.
• • «
These methods were far tn advance of
that time, and even today are just begin
ning to be recognized as the latest teach
ings of science.
The first persons who come to these
asylums are the incurables. They clamor
most importunately for help. They are
the credulous, emotional Incurables, who
have signed pledges, joined churches, and
tried every means known, and now expect
from the asylum some miraculous power
of restoration. In a few weeks they be
lieve themselves fully recovered and go
away only to relapse again and become
bitter enemies of the Institution.
A second class of persons are coming in
greater numbers every year to these asy
lums. They are the curable cases—the
nerve and brain-exhausted men and wo
men. the large and ever-increasing class
of business and professional men, who
have broken down from overwork, worry,
and Irregularity of life and living, and
who And alcohol a narcotic of most seduc
tive nature. The still larger clasr seen In
every city irt the land, who from brain
strains and drains incident to the rush
ing, grinding civilization of today, also
to the struggle for position, wealth and
power, and the effort to adapt themselves
to the new conditions of life, to the new
demands, thus prepare the soil by ex
haustion and encourage the growth of in
ebriety and its allied diseases. This class
often represents the highest talent and
genius, and, as a rule, are the active
brain-workers of the times. An inebriate
hospital to this class Is almost an "El Do
rado.” It brings rest, restraint, seclusion,
buUding-up, .and is literally a place for re
pairs and restoration.
In this class the use of alcohol, ojKum,
or any other narcotic is often more of a
symptom of exhaustion and debility, for
which rest and medical care are essential.
There are many thousands of this class
who could be saved and permanently re
stored to temperate life apfl living if they
could be placed in inebriate hospitals and
treated early. Later, they become chronic
and Incurable, and are ever afterward a
burden and heavy loss to the world. To
day they cannot go to an insane asylum,
the public hospital te unfit for them, and
no place is open adapted to reach their
wants.
A large ‘army of these curable cases are
scattered in every community, and in al
most every home, and are the skeletons
which haunt and peril the peace of many
households. They are the secret and mod
erate drinkers. They are those who have
secret or open drink paroxysms, and who
recover only to relapse again with stead
ily increasing frequency. Both men and
women in all circles of life are found in
this army of dissolution. Mofal remedies
fail, religion fails, they go steadily down,
and soon all fears of publicity are thrown
aside, and the march to death is rapid and
distinct. Not far away in the future asy
lums and hospitals will be open to savs
these cases, and public sentiment will de
mand that they be placed under treatment
early in the progress of the case. Os this
class a very large number are curable,
and all are benefited by hospital residence.
Thee results of treatment in a few sci
entific hospitals for inebriates are most
encouraging. The first statistical study
was made at Binghamton asylum in 1874.
The object was to find out how many per
sons who had been under treatment con
tinued temperate years after. According
ly. over a thousand circular letters were
addressed to friends of patients who had
been under treatment five years before,
asking the present condition of the pa
tient. The answers Indicated 63 1-2 per
cent as yet temperate and total abstain
ers. The result, after an Interval of flv*
years, was clear evidence that a large per
cent would remain cured during the re
mainder of life.
Dr. Hay, of Washington Home, made a
similar study of eight thousand cases who
had been under treatment ten to eighteen
years before, and found over 38 per cent
yet sober and temperate. Dr. Mason, of
King’s county Home, examined two thous
and cases who had been away from the
asylum for ten years, and found 36 per
cent of all cases yet cured. Other ob
servers have made studies of a similar
number of cases with similar resfults.
Not less than two thousand inebriates
are under treatment in hospitals in Amer
ica. Over a thousand of this number are
in special hospitals. They represent most
largely the incurable cases; persons who
have tried every means found in the
pledge, prayer, and by moral suasion, and
exhausted every resource of home and
friends, and come as a last resort, ex
pecting extraordinary cnange and cure.
They have been victims of this disease
from five to thirty years, and present the
most complex and varied degrees of
physical and mental degradation. Yet,
notwithstanding this tact, the experience
of the few scientific hospitals in the re
sults of treatment is exceedingly promis
ing. Statistics of over three thousand
cases, which have been under treatment
at different hospitals, indicate nearly 40
per cent restored and temperate after a
WHAT THEY LAID OUT
FOR THEIR VACATION
w BY GEO. ADE. •
Copyright, 1902, by Robert Howard Russell.
MAN who had three
weeks of Vacation com
ing to him began to get
A
busv with an Atlas about April
Ist? He and his Wife figured
that bv keeping on the Jump
they could do Niagara, Thou
sand Islands, Atlantic City,
The Mammoth Cave and cover
the Great Lakes.
On April 10th they decided
to charter a House-Boat and
float down the Mississippi.
Op April 20th he heard of a
Cheap Excursion to California
with a stop-over Privilege at
every Station and they began
to read up on Salt Lake and
Yellowstone.
On May Ist she flashed a
Prospectus of a Northern Lake
Resort where Boats and Min
nows were free and Nature was
ever smiling.
By May 10th he had drawn
a Blue Pencil all over a Folder
of the Adirondack Region and
all the Hotel Rates were set
down in his Pocket Memoram
dum Book.
Ten days later she vetoed the
\ Mountain Trip because she had
got next to a Nantucket Es
tablishment where Family
Board was $6 a Week, ■with the
use of a Horse.
On June Ist a Friend showed
him how by making two
Changes and hiring a canoe he
could penetrate th? Deep Woods
where the Foot of Man had
I I
AX f /j 511
never Trod and the- Black Bass
came to the Surface and begged
to be taken out.
On June 15th he and Wifey
packed up and did the annual
Hike up to Uncle Foster’s Place
in Brown County, where they
ate with the Hired Hand and
had Greens three times a Day.
There were no Screens on the
Windows, but by climbing a
Hill they could get a lovely
View of the Pike that ran over
to the County Seat.
MORAL: If Summer came
in the Spring there would be a
lot of Travel.
The Modern Fable of the Girl
Who Wanted to Warm Up
When it Wae Too Late.
Once there was a good Young
Man who delivered Milk and
sang in the Choir. He allowed
his Affections to get all snarled
up with a tall female Elfin
named Sophy. Fate kissed him
off and he lay froze against the i
Cushion. It appeared that
Sophy had no time for him be
cause he was about two Notches
below her in the Social Scale.
Sophy’s father was an Auction
eer and Agent for a Patent
Churn.
The Young Man, whose
Name was Otis, removed the
Gaff from his quivering Bosom
and began to lay Plans to
humble her Pride. After plac
ing his Milk Route in the
Hands of a Reliable Agent, he
went up to the City and began
to take Lessons on the Horn.
He practised until he was able
to crawl inside of a big Oom-
Pah and eat all of the Low
Notes in the Blue Book. The
Hard Part of a Sousa March
was Pie for him. He could
close his Eyes and run up the
Scale and then down again un
til he struck the Newfoundland
Growl coming at the end of
“Rocked in the Cradle.”
Then he went back and join-
period of six to eight years from the time
of discharge from the hospital. The best
authorities unite in considering 35 per cent
of all who remain under treatment one
year or more as permanently restored.
It is very evident, from those statistics
Os several years ago, showing that the
curables are a class of brain workers,
that the same holds good today, except
that this class has largely increased ow
ing to the Increase of business activity
and close competition in all the profess
ions. callings and avocations that charac
terize our progress in this twentieth cen
tury. Nerve strain and overworked
brains are the direct cause oi many of our
best citizens and talented men seeking re
lief in alcoholic and other said-to-be nerve
tonics, not stopping to thing. In the hurly
burly of business interests, that they are
forming habits of narcotic drinks of all
kinds that will require the most skillful
treatment in an Inebriate sanitarium to
restore them to their former selves.
It seems that any minded man or
person who has the common interest of
mankind and a little charity in his own
soul can see and realize the great need
of an inebriate sanitarium In the state of
Georgia.
WILLIS B. PARKS, M. D.
ed the Silver Cornet Band. On
Decoration Day he was up at
the Head of the Line, just be
hind the Grand Marshal with the
Red Sash and he carried a Tuba
that looked like the Entrance to
a Cave. His Uniform was fancy
enough for a Colonel on the
Governor’s Staff.
When he swept down Main
Street scaring all the Horses
and causing the Window Painee
to rattle, every one along the.
Line of March who knew Ote
was proud of himself.
Sophy saw him and got ready
to do a little Hedging. After
the Parade when he was in the
Bon-Ton Candy Kitchen, with a
Hankerchief around his Neck,
ordering up Strawberry Soda,
then Sophy broke through the
Circle of Admirers and bade 7
him Welcome. Otis gave her a
Cruel Look and pretended that
he did not remember her Name.
That Evening she saw him
pass the House three times with
the Tuba on one z\rm and a red
headed Milliner on the other.
MORAL: Adversity often
hatches out the true Nobility of
Character.
The Modern Fable of the Red Let
ter Night at Smartweed
Junction.
Once there was an undersis- -
ed Town that had the Corn- H
Fields sneaking up on all sides
of it, trying to break over the
Corporation Line. People ap-» s
proaching Isie Town frdm the „
North could not see it because
there was a Row of Willow »
Trees in the Way?
Here in this comatose Settle- '
ment lived a Family named Pil
kins. The Pilkinses were all the
Eggs in Smartweed. They own
ed a big General Store catty
cornered from the Courthouse
It was well known that they sent
to Chicago for their Clothes I
and ate Ice Cream in the Winter
Time. The Pilkins Girls had
been away to a Convent to have
their Voices sand-papered and
fitted to a Piano and they came
back with the first Gibson Shirt
Waists seen in those Parts.
Most of the Girls south of the
Tracks were just getting wise
to the Russian Blouse.
Along in May the. Pilkins
Family made its annual Play to
set the Prairies on fire. Every
Adult in Town except those - J
who had Jail Records received
Engraved Invitation to come up i
to the Pilkins House and taka a
peek at High Life. Within three
days you couldn’t buy a Yard
of Wide Ribbon fri any Store
and every Second Man in Mink
Patterson’s Barber Shop asked
for a Hair Cut. The R. S. V.
P. down in one Corner of the
Bid had some of the Brethren t
guessing for a while. There was
no need of putting that on. It
was an immortal Cinch that ev
ery one would turn out, if he
had to be moved in on a Cot.
About the onlv Entertainments
they had in Smartweed Junc
tion were Uncle Tom under a
Tent and the Indian Medicine
Troupe. Therefore, nobody was
going to pass up the Pilkins ■
Jamboree, for there was to be
an imported Orchestra, costing
$75, and Meals provided and the
City Caterer was to bring his
own Waiters.
Everymody went home early ■
that Dav so as to take a good, I
thorough Scrubbing before get
ting into their Other Clothes.
At Dusk they began wending
their Way toward the Pilkini
Place, all looking a little wor
ried and apprehensive. They
were sorted out at the Front
Door and led into Dressing I
Rooms, pegged out along the
Walls, fed on Macaroons and
treated to large' Bunches of
Bach Music. Every half hour
or so somebody would say some
thing and that would be a Cue
for the others to shift their
Feet. . J’l
The Punch Bowl got the Cold
Eye until it was learned that
the Dye Stuff was Aniline and
not Rum, and then they stood
around and dipped in until they
were blue under the Ears.
About 11 o’clock the Japan
ese Lanterns began to burn up
and a large number of People
whose Feet were hurting them
could be seen quietly Ducking.
The Home Paper said it was the
Event of the Season.
MORAL: Eat, Drink and be
Merry, for tomorrow ye Die.
It is best to prevent attacks of dlscas*
particularly winter epidemics, by keepinff
the blood and the system in a healthy
condition. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is Juaf
medicine required. **"
USES.
’ Edith Wharton in Scribner's.
Ah. from the niK?ard tree of Tim*
How quickly fall the hours!
It needs no touch of wind or rim*
To loose such facile flower*.
Drift of the dead year's harvesting;
They clog tomorrow’s way.
Yet serve to shelter growths of spring
Beneath their warm decay.
Or. blent by pious hands with rar*
Sweet savors of content.
Surprise the soul's December air
With June'* forgotten so*aU