The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-14
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
Interesting Experiment in Practical
Soldering by the Macon Militia.
SOMETHING TO SUPERSEDE THE
HOTHOUSE STYLE OF MIL
ITARI EDUCATION.

No doubt militia training in most
tains ]. E. p. Stevens and p G. R.
Bell respectively of the Macon Hus-
sars and the Macon Light infantry,
have a simple and practical scheme for
doing it. To go by boat or train to
summer camp and enjoy jolly jun
ket or picnic for a few weeks is not,
in the opinion of these officers, the way
to manufacture the hard, tough kind of
soldiers wanted in actual campaign
ing. Hence the recent trials at Crit
fin, Ga. Two companies were marched
over rough, hilly country, under d not,
southern sun, TO camp, as they might
in war time. They were the AVERAGE
lot of city men-from banks, law offices,
stores. shops, etc.-the same as COM
pose the majority of the volunteer COM
panies of the country at large.
In his report of the march DR.. H. ].
Williams, the regimental surgeon, says:
Il cannot but express my enthusiasm
over the success of the expedition. AT
first / feared the men would not be aiole
to Withstand the hardships of such
march n the hot month of June, but
Captains Bell and Stevens had studied
the subject and thought differently. OF
the % men-merchants, clerks, stu
dents, etc.-four were young men whose
occupations seemingly unified them for
the effort but they actually came into
camp in better condition than those
who came by rail. While there were
cases of illness in camp among those
who came by rail. there was not a
case among those who marched. The
distance covered was about "a miles.
There is one point of purely medi-
cal character on which l wish 10 COM
ment, namely, the use of Vino Kolafra
(prepared by the Brunswick Pharmacal
Co.. 92 Williams street, New York;,
which had been furnished to the COM
panies and was employed during the
march. After marching two hours the
men were halted and two ouncesi of
Vino Kolafra administered to each man.
Then the march was resumed.
IN a few moments al sense of IA
tigue and discomfort passed away, the
step was brisk, and the men full of life
The circulation quoted down and the
respiration became steady"
1ili&' preparatio had been tested by
Captains Stevens and Bell for several
weeks prior to the march, in order to
, satisfy themselves that it had no dele
ferrous or reactive effect. Captain
Stevens says: I'm the recent practice
march by my company, the Macon
Light lll1dIitIy, anu the AldCOn r uSSdIS,
both of the Georgia Volunteers, Vino
Kolafra was used with very beneficial
results The men iwere clerks, etc,
not possessing the stamina to stand
much fatigue, yet, thanks to Vino Ko-
lafra, the march was accomplished with
very little discomfort or WEAKNESS.
feel assured that by its use the intense
exhaustion 80 often following such
labor will be entirely done away with"
Captain Bell gives the same account
of the march. and remarks that no
reaction whatever could be perceived
from the use of Vino Kolafra.
The above facts suggest that ply
siciars might, with the aid of Vino
Kolafra, place under marching orders
all that class of persons who suffer
from lack of exercise-who are too fat
or TOO weak to get the, good out of
active muscles. The wholesome slim
illus of Vino ,Iolafra would put these
folk in motion and show what an OK
cellent thing is life ON legs. The med
ical journals recommend it for nervous,
fidgety people, and all who suffer from
irregular heart or disordered nerves. 1t
is the tonic par excellence in con-
valescence.