Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-18
ACANCERIN HIS THROAT.
aj Hay Has His Tongue Cut Out to
Prolong His Life.

PrOlong His Life.
From the Ne1o York World.
Maj. Hay served with distinction, not
through the Crimean war, though he looks
capable Of having done so, but through
the war ofthe rebellion, and brought away
from that conflict pair of badly crippled
LEGS. In no field of life's action has the
n i0r been so successful as he was during
the early sixties; indeed it has often SEEM
Ell that the Major exhausted his POSSIBLE
lies for success during that period, and
las been hOpelessly and helplessly drift
mg ever since. His has for years been a
hmlliar figure on Park row, and he has
aaunted newspaper Offices with a persist
Gcy worthy Of a better cause, for there
Ge better causes than the revOlutiOniZing
@d Improvement Of the daily press to
which the Major seems to have been body
ma soul devoted. indeed, the Major, in
lis mselhsh efforts TO lift up and ennOhle
ne daily press, gained no larger measure
lame for himself than is denoted in the
efm crank He has been one, and
sunguisbed member, of the army Of
"o0ll-ee literary celebrities of New York,
F. eup hls Welcome in editorial sanctums
las n0t az all times been as cordial as it
l'sae nave been had the occasion for 1t
T 'eSn trlfo less frequent.
WI approaching the busy editor the Ma
was never embarrassed or apparently
are Oh .he underlying fact that there is
nlNhpaper Offices occasionally some
NfV Pc done. He had the air Of man
,'-5 accepted the maxim that slime was
i-le 10Y slaYes,' and loudly proclaimed
,.',. .Ieelom. He talked as if he were
tt orders TO regiment OF soldiers in
&fo,e..rF wv, and seemed TO have an idea,
t'pspelled by experience, that his
naanlates would he obeved with aIacrity.
Ial weeks ago the Major disappear
l' Nobody seemed to know where he
ny sOue The other day he returned.
y lad lost flesh and his face was pale
. N.t VueW0rn, but his eyes flashed and
~ prov was corrugated with the deep
e VI thought just as of old. Limping
8tle egltors desk he took up his old ia-
'A station with his right elbow lean
" lue desk. oddly enough, however,
F. o,,' unnamed silent. His long absence
eSyf,eu nm 20 respectful consideration,
:. N, J. was accorded 20 him, but he did
aS, peak Presently he motioned for
a, ana paper, and hastily explained
had lost his tongue, and then
4 r.I'o, lowed, iotted down In the Majors
tailvl and old-lashioncd handwriting,
arine. Vi suffering, patient aud heroic SUI
#gbH.i mat would command respect any,
IN, w. IL was explained by the old hero
oa, ", months he had suffered tn silence
. wiI , ,up elects Of that dreaded disease
NAH eGhlch his superior officer IN the late
Fan uen, y. 5. Grant, is ailected-a cam
tsboL lne tongue. He wrote out his
NJ, Story without a CULVER Of the lips
81 ,,."le. on the hand that held the pencils:
n o "Ss taken TO the hospital eight weeks
Il M y they. cut my tongue out at the
~, ih those few words he told the
4 W. lhe agony he had endured. There
currently been no waste Of time in
consultations over the Majors
f ,.,p,ll ae hospital doctors had him, an
. b,y5lng recruit, IN their barracks.
ueelded that he couldn't live with a
Ailous tongue and that he might pos
a survive without IL, and so the tongue
l'Ahein out, The patient Major, lying
e.- pltal ward without friends, his
lG5nugs unheralded TO the her0-wor-
t'l8 world. Wns.at-i- sasl of the man