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SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts of Interest to War Veterans and Others.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla., Dec.
17.—Several readers of these letters
ask me to mention the present condi
tion of my dear, suffering wife. X am
gratified to state that she is now able
to be placed In a chair by the nurses,
and sits up a little while each day.
Her limb is healing satisfactorily and
ehe will soon, no doubt, be able to be
moved from the hospital to her sister's
home in Charlotte, N. C., near the hos
pital. It will be some weeks yet be
fore she can be brought home. •* I
am glad to see that Oapt. R. P. Hob-
Bon. late of the U. S. N., in his Sa
vannah lecture, indorsed my peace
views—that a big navy would enable
the United States of America to dic
tate universal peace to the other na-.
(ions. My old war friend, Sergt. Wil
liam Riley Royd of Atlanta, now an
anti-tvar man, writes me as follows on
this line: “I am glad to welcome Mrs.
Logan into the number of those who
see clearly ‘the coming of the day'—as
you say—‘the anticipated era of peace
(that) will come from fear and not love
of other nations.’ That is true, i. e.,
complex forces are at work to induce
cessation of war. The Japanese will
feel the heavy burden of debt for many
years, and in good time, we or thos.‘
who follow us, will abstain from all
resort to force substituting inducement
and persuasion. The question is essen
tially economic.” * * * Last Saturday
I enjoyed a very quiet birthday, and
gome of my old friends remembered me
In deeds as well as words. One dear
little maiden. Miss Sarah Appleyard,
daughter of Col. Thomas J. Appleyard
of the Lake City. (Fla.) Index, sent
me a lovelv pair of knit house slippers
—or rather shoes—to keep my old rheu
matic feet warm. Tom was a fine
printer in Columbus. Ga., over thirty
years ago, and used to set my copy
there. He was a jolly good fellow then,
as now, and he married a dear girl
Just like him, in good humor and
home loving qualities, and they have
raised a large family of fine boys and
girls. The colonel was a boy hero In
both the Confederate navy and army,
from his then (1861) home in Richmond,
Va., and as I am an old Union soldier
Sarah knit the slippers in ‘‘Blue and
Gray” colors, and her note accompa
nying the gift is full qf patriotic and
kindly sentiments. Tom and I "shook
hands across the bloody chasm’ over
thirty years ago, and our long friend
ship only grows stronger as the years
pass away.
The widow of a very eminent major
general of the Confederate army, and
a distinguished public official, writes
mo in regard to my explanation of my
comments on Gen. Longstreet s career
at New Orleans, and says: "What you
say in regard to Gen. Longstreet in
terests me, as my husband grieved so
after the war over any failure of prin
ciple in either private soldier or com
missioned officer. And when Opn.
Longstreet acted as he did, and the
papers were bitter in their abuse of
him, my husband made a trip to New
Orleans to see him, hoping the gen
eral would make some explanation of
his conduct. But, instead, when he
met him. Gen. Longstreet first alluded
to the matter and defended himself for
his course and his utterunoes, and so
my husband returned home grieved and
mortified.” And I may add that this
was the feeling of thousands of Long
street’s old comrades. They did not
persecute him because he was a Re
publican officeholder, but because his
conduct in New Orleans, as they view
ed it, was such that they felt compell
ed to condemn it and censure him.
Years after, however, in his old age,
a kindlier feeling prevailed and they
seemed to overlook the New Orleans
affair and again fellowship him at
their Confederate gatherings.
The Way cross, Ga., Journal copies
a news item about the oldest building
in Indian Territigy. at Fort Gibson,
and states that .the fort was "first lo
cated and occupied since 1823.” which
is an error, as it was not till April,
1824. that the fort was established.
Another error is the statement that
"Bettie" Taylor, daughter of the then
Col. Zachary Taylor, U. S. A., mar
ried Lieut. Jefferson Davis. I have
often corrected this error and stated
that it was Sarah Knox Taylor who
married Lieut. Davis, and that Eliza
beths better known as lovely “Bettie”
Taylor, married Lieut. Col. Wm. W.
S. Bliss, U. S. A., a New Yorker, a
distinguished graduate of West Point,
and a Mexican War hero. He died,
however, in Mississippi, in 1853, and
later she married Hon. Philip Dand
ridge, of Virginia. * * * It is a. false
claim that education is the one thing
needful to prevent crime and elevate
mankind. Frank Minter, a graduate
of Yale, and the University of Min
nesota, a prominent lawyer and law
writer of Minnesota. “went to the.
dogs,” and recently was Jailed at Nor
folk. Va., for drunkenness. He is now
a private in the U. S. Marine Corps.
• * * I have often referred to the
common practice of tinkering hames.
The Youth’s Companion of Boston tells
how Jeff Darnell became "Geoffrey De
Arneille,” and how Miss Vivald’a Vic
toria Lorenzina Louise Brown became
Mrs. Pauline Perkins after she married
Paul Perkins. And yet the parents of
this name-burdened girl were plain
Peter and Jane Brown. Even Gen.
Taylor was ashamed of his old-fash
ioned Bible name of Zachariah and cut
it down to Zachary.
Mrs. IHirriet Ganahl, of Augusta,
gives th Chronicle a very graphic and
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interesting pen picture of “Christirtas
in Augusta During the Fifties.” As
I came through that city during the
fifties, and spent a Christmas with my
sister, then living in Eufaula, Ala., I
well remembor what a long-drawn-out
and joyous time that week or ten
days comprised. All in all, it was a.
Christmas such as could be duplicated
nowhere else in all the world. Such
freedom for the slaves, and so many
Xmas gifts, and such a good time gen
erally. Mrs. Ganahl says: ‘‘Christ
nfas on a plantation lasted a week,”
but my recollection is that it came
nearer ten-days, all told. She well
says: "Blessed be the honored and
| honorable men and women who in days
I that are gone gave us faith in Santa
Claus.” I have no patience with the
modern crank who declares that old
Santa is a myth and we grossly deceive
our children about him. But what
would Christmas be without this patron
saint of the fireside? I join with Mrs.
G. in "thanks that Santa CTaus still
lives, and for the memories of planta
tion days,” when the darkeys sang:
“Christmas comes but once a year.
If I gets drunk I don’t keor;
Ho, git along, Jinnie long Josey,
Git along Joe."
I do not understand fully the Dick
military law. but under it I doubt if
Gen. Miles can be the Adjutant Gen
eral of Massachusetts. That is a state
office and cannot be filled by a non
resident. Gen. Miles could be detail
ed as a military adviser or assistant
to the adjutant general, yet I fear
that his high rank and higher pay are
an obstacle. Retired brigadier gen
erals are now detailed to such serv
ice, but not major generals and lieu
tenant generals. Politics and Presi
dent Roosevelt’s personal feelings will
not enter into the question of this
proposed detail, I think, but rather
the more serious one of expense,
which does not fall upon the state of
Massachusetts, but upon the general
government at Washington. Gen.
Miles is a native of Massachusetts,
and can, if he likes, as a retired of
ficer, assist Gov. Douglass by his ad
vice in military matters without an
official detail. My humble view of
the matter is that the Governor is
making a mistake in not selecting a
thoroughly educated officer, a West
Pointer, if possible, to improve the
military of Massachusetts. There is
danger that he may overdo the thing
and discover that it is best for the
shoemaker to stick to his last. Gen.
Miles is as egotistical as was old Gen.
Scott, and is not a safe official to
be given unlimited authority in mili
tary matters.
The 'Constitution publishes a picture
of the once famous "Calico House,” in
Atlanta, to be torn down for the new
Wesley Memorial Hospital. Marcus
(not Mark) A. Bell, was the owner,
and Maj. Gen. Henry J. Slocum,
U. S. A., used it as headquarters,
while Sherman’s army was in Atlanta.
It was not the "house of Judge Ly
ons,” but the house of Judge R. F.
Lyon, later of Macon, Ga., that was
Gen. Sherman’s headquarters, and is
now the Atlanta Girls’ High School
building, opposite the Capitol, on
Washington street. Gen. George H.
Thomas, U. S. A., had his headquar
ters in the "Leyden House” on Peach
tree street, now the headquarters of
Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, U. S.
A., the commander of the Department
of the Gulf. ,
The death of the venerable widow
of Lieut. Gen. D. H. Hill, C. S. A.,
at Raleigh, N. C„ on Monday last, re
calls the fact that Lieut. Gen. Thomas
J. ("Stonewall”) Jackson, C. S. A., and
Gen. Hill were Presbyterians of the
strictest kind. Jackson first married a
daughter of Rev. Dr. George Junkin of
Washington College, but his second
wife was a daughter of Rev. Dr. Mor
rison of Davidson College, both emi
nent Presbyterian divines. Gen. Hill
also married a daughter of Rev. Dr.
Morrison, whose sister, Mrs. (Gen.)
Jackson, survives her and is living in
Charlotte. N. C. * * * Senator
Blackburn of Kentucky was off the
track in opposing Brig. Gen. A. L.
Mills’ confirmation, on the ground that
he “had not performed service war
ranting his promotion.” It is true that
Capt. Mills was "jumped” over the
heads of senior officers, but that has
been done ever since Gen. George
Washington’s day. As to his merits,
Gen. Mills fully deserved his promo
tion and confirmation. He was severe
ly wounded at Santiago and won a
“medal of honor” for his heroic con
duct. He went to West Point as a
lieutenant of cavalry, the only offi
cer of that rank ever made superin
tendent of the Military Academy. His
career there was never surpassed by
any predecessor and to-day he is at
the head of the largest and best mili
tary school in the world. With its
big increase of cadets and magnificent
new buildings, the superintendent
should be a brigadier general, and Gen.
Mills has fully proven that he is the
right man In the right place.
I notice that Col. Obear, the inspec
tor general of Georgia troops, says:
"The last he saw of the troops was at
Manassas, when they had sore feet.”
But I think he has seen or- heard
from some of them since who have
“sore heads.” Judging from the way
they "kick” their soreness has gone
from their heels to their heads. We
old Civil War soldiers know all about
sore feet in Virginia compaigns, and
can recall the experiences of many a
"tenderfoot” of those days of long and
weary marches. * * • The retire
ment of Col. Harrington of tlhe Marine
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1904.
Beginning- Monday Morning and this entire week there
will be a Great Slaughter of Holiday Goods. The Goods are
to go without reserve. We are going to make a clean sweep.
Every Doll in the House will be closed out positively.
All Doll Go Carts. All Velocipedes. All Tricycles, every
Patrol Wagon. Every Sprinkling Cart and all other vehicles must
go—there is something on wheels for every Boy and Girl.
All Toys and Games and Playthings will go at a Sacrifice.
It will be a veritable Slaughter, such as you never saw before.
Read About These Holiday Goods.
Toilet Cases, Combination Cases, Manicure Sets, Shaving
Sets, Smokers Sets, Poker Sets, Sealing Wax Cases, Segar
Jars, Military Hair Brushes, Collar and Cuff Boxes, Neck Tie
Cases, Glove and Handkerchief Boxes, Work Boxes, Autographs,
Photograph Albums, Soap Boxes, flj, n p •
Musical Albums and Hand Mirrors, Fit fltlj I i/Cc
The Great Dry Goods Store
is ready for the Rush of the week before Christmas—
the shelves are bristling with lovely Goods and Prices
are marked “Tempting” Low enough to please every one.
Silks, Velvets and Dress Goods
in every variety and in all kinds—cheapest to the best.
Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Corsets, Fans, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Neckwear, Laces, Belts, Bags, Pocket Books for Every Taste.
Blankets, Comforters, Table Linens
are here in generous quantities and Prices alwavs right.
Here are Men’s Shirts, Night Robes, Underwear, Half Hose,
Neck Ties, Umbrellas, Suspenders, Initial Handkerchiefs in
Silk or Linen, Silk Mufflers, Kid Gloves and Winter Gloves.
Corps will promote Capt. Laurence H.
Moses to be major. He is a Georgian,
from Columbus, I think, -and married
a Bister of Samuel Spencer of the
Southern Railway. * • * Con. M.
Perkins, another Georgian, is already a
major in the corps. * * * It is not
generally known that the comman
dant of the Marine Corps, who is Brig.
Gen. George F. Elliott, is a native of
Alabama, but all the colonels were
born north of the Potomac river.
* * * There are il4 cadets in the
next June graduating class at West
Point, but at present only about sixty
vacant second lieutenancies in the
army to be filled. Of course there will
be some additional vacancies before
June, but there seems to be a pros
pect for a lot of brevet second lieu
tenants about that time. * * * The
William McGee arrested for an as
sault in New York Is not, as claimed,
the "sole white survivor” of the Custer
massacre at Little Big Horn. He may
have been a trooper, but he was not in
that fight. The “sole survivor” of that
terrible battle was “Old Comanche,”
the horse of Capt. Miles W. Keogh, as
I have before stated in these letters,
and the government made this famous
horse a pensioner upon its 'bounty.
"Honor to old Comanche,
The sole survivor he
Of the fierce fight where Custer died
With all his chivalry.
Honor to Keogh’s charger!
Only his flashing eye
Saw the Three Hundred fighting—
Saw the Three Hundred die!”
S. M. Crothers, in the Atlantic
Monthly, tells of his attendance upon
the meetings of the recent Interna
tional Peace Congress in Boston, and
imagines that he there saw the secret
of war. Nearly all of the speakers and
listeners were middle-aged or old peo
ple, so he infers that young men are
the source of modern wars. Nothing
could be more ridiculous than this
idea. Why, take Savannah, for ex
ample, how long would the old Guards’
Battalion, the Chatham Artillery, the
Hussars, the First Regiment live if the
old men, the exempt and honorary
members and supporters were to
hands off” and let the young men
take care of themselves? And then
the noble, patriotic old mothers of these
sons, how they help to keep up these
venerable organizations. I grant that
young men are patriotic and heroic,
but they would not be so If fathers
and mothers were generally opposed to
the military spirit. Why, even the
Red Men and the Woodmen of the
World are now following the Knights
Templar and Knights of Pythias and
other secret organizations into a mili
tary branch. And the Catholic
Knights, ns well as the students In
Catholic schools, now have their mili
tary organizations. Mr. Crothers
ought to look elsewhere than In that
peace congress to find out the reason
why the military spirit prevails. He
will find that middle-aged and old peo
ple are behind the military spirit In
all our church schools, agricultural
colleges and even female colleges and
Hunday-schools, not to speak of the
famous boys’ battalions of the Boston,
New York and Washington public
schools. All this military spirit comes
from the sanction, If not support, of the
fsthers and mothers of the young peo
ple concerned. For years past the
military spirit has spread wonderfully
Into our schools, our churches and our
secret organisations, arid no peace
movement, however strong and world
wide. can check It, In Hyracuse. N.
Y., they have a fine military company
of young women, and In Atlanta, (la ,
the V. C. V. kave a uniformed com
pany of young women. Out in Teaaa.
as well as In acme other ctatee, female
college# have girt companies Only a
little while ago the young women of
Troy, AJa, my homo he IM* 71 gave
a public drill again#* the regular mIM-
Ur) <-usspasty si the My auk m u*e
prize. I would most respectfully in
form Mr. Crothers that young women
and girls, of tender age, don’t go into
any kind of a military organization
witthout the consent and support of
their "middle-aged” or old parents.
And this rule applies as well to boys
in our public schools.
Sidney Herbert.
SANTA CLAUSIN THE
BIG DEPARTMENT STORES.
Thousands of Dollars Spent Prepar
ing for Christmas.
New York, Dec. 17.—The depart
ment stores have surpassed themselves
this year in their preparation for the
Christmas season. There is hardly
one of the first-class places Which has
not spent thousands of dollars on tha
mechanical novelties and other leading
features of its window displays. And
they are justified in the expenditure,
for the shopping crowds are larger
than ever before, and you hear in
every store that they are spending
more money. Toys that cost any
where from SSO to SSOO are to be seen
in all the best stores, and their ready
sale proves that New York’s craze for
luxury is being carried into the nur
sery. The Japanese Prince, Sadanura
Fushimi, visited one of the stores on
Thursday and bought, among many
other toys, a completely-equipped rail
road, with several tracks, switches,
signals, Pullman cars, and all. It Is
said to have cost him hundreds of
dollars.
Employes dressed In the traditional
costume of Santa Claus have long
been seen in the toy departments of
the stores, but an establishment in the
shopping district of Eighth avenue has
gone one better this year. It’s Santa
Claus asks the children who visit the
department what they would like him
to bring them on Christmas Eve, and
promises that it shall be forthcoming.
Of course, it is "up to” the unfortu
nate parent to buy the article named.
WAYCROSS NEWS.
Waycross, Ga., Dec. 17.—The Epis
copal Church bazaar, after a very suc
cessful run of three days, closed last
nighC. The large cako which was
voted to the most popular hotel lady
in Waycross, was won by Mrs. C. F.
Ost, of the Phoenix Hotel. Mrs. Ost
received 539 votes of the 842 cast. The
large doll was won by little Louise
Knox, she receiving 158 votes.
Rev. D. B. Sweat, formerly editor
of the Waycross Journal, is spending
the holidays in Waycross. Mr. Sweat
recently entered the ministry under
Florida jurisdiction, and has Just been
transferred from Green Cove Springs
to Fort Meade and Homeland, Fla.
Judge J. L. Sweat announced to-day
that he would ask for anew trial In
the damage suits of M. C. Hodge and
Evans Talley, both o$ whom were
awarded damages against the Atlan
tic and Birmingham Railroad in City
Court this week.
R. L. Jeffords, who was convicted
before the United States Court In Val
dosta yesterday, was under indictment
In this county <*n severs! charges. Hi
was out on bond here while he was
using (he mails for his fraudulent
schemes
Alonso Robbins, the young white
man, who was convicted in Ctty Court
yaeterdsy far eelllng whisky without
lice nee. was fined ISM, and coats by
Judge Reynolds lest night. The An*
has not been paid, and Robbins is in
Jail.
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te Cwniusttr Peary by the bar lets de
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my suffering was great. I was compelled to go home '
and to bed. I fully expected, to be there a week.
My son told me of his experience, and urged me to
take Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic. I did so—
took it with regularity all through the night-and was
agreeably surprised to see that no Fever came. I
continued until I had taken eight doses—felt weak
and exhausted, but no fever, and aching disappeared.
Next morning I had a good appetite for my breakfast,
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A Great Slaughter Sale
Ladies’ Suits in wonderful Bargains, 10.98, 7.50, 4.98
Ladies’ Suits in Velvet and Broadcloth Marked Way Down
Velvet Coats and Opera Cloaks Lower than Anywhere
Kersey and Tourist Coats —all new styles Slaughtered
Crepe de Chine Costumes selling at about Half Price.
Buy Now. You Will Save Money.
Voile and Walking Skirts. A Tremendous Offering.
Silk Waists, Dress Waists—any Waist ever so cheap.
Rich Furs—all the newest shapes, to go at Any Price
Furs for Misses and Children Marked for Quick Selling.
Misses’ Coats and Tailor Made Suits at Great Reductions.
Baby Long and Short Cloaks at very tempting Prices.
Sweaters, Petticoats, Kimonas, to go cheap with the rest.
Furniture. Carpets. Rugs.
The Holiday Stock of Furniture is great—and Prices
the lowest for the High Grade “Goods” offered. Tabourettes,
Pedestals, Morris Chairs, Rockers, Leather Couches, Leather
Rockers, Roman Chairs, Library Tables, Parlor Tables, Rattan
Rockers, Gold Chairs, Side Boards, Ladies' Desks, Book Cases,
Music Cabinets, Parlor Furniture in an endless assortment.
Genuine Oil Paintings Very Low.
Closing out all Carpets. All Rugs. All Mattings. All
Linoleums must go ! And we sacrifice all Lace Curtains,
Portieres, Draperies, Pictures, Ornaments at Small Prices.
All Over the Store No Effort Too Great to Please You.
Shoes Make Sensible Presents.
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Special Bargains every
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