The San Francisco call., 1896-11-14
NEW TO-DAY.
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
Interesting Experiment in Practical
Soldering by the Macon Militia.
SOMETHING TO sUPERsEDE THE
HOTHOUSE STYLE OF MILL
TARY EDUCATION.

NO doubt militia training in most States
might be improved. and Captains ]. E. P.
Stevens and P. G. r. Bell respectively Of
the Macon Hussars and the Macon Light
Infantry, have simple and practical
scheme for doing it. To go by boat or
tram to summer camp and enjoy a jolly
Junket or picnic for a few weeks is not, in
the opinion of these officers, the way to
manufacture the hard, tough kind of SOL
diers wanted in actual campaigning.
Hence the recent trials at Griffin Ca
Two companies were marched over rough,
hilly country, under hot Southern sun,
to camp as they might in war time.
They were the average lot of city men
from banks, l4w offices, stores, shops.
etc.-the same as com mLose the majority of
the volunteer comp panies of the country at
large.
In his report of the march DR.. H. ].
Williams, the regimentaI surgeon, saws:
II cannot but express my enthusiasm
over the success of the expedition. at
first l feared the men would not be able
to withstand the hardships of such
march in the hot month of June, but
Captains B IL and Stevens had studied the
subject and thought differently. OF the
hfty-three men-merchants, clerks, stu
dents. etc.-four were young men whose
occupations seemingly untitled them for
, the effort, but thev actually came into
camp in better conc cition than those who
came by rail. While there were cases of
illness in camp among those who came by
rail there was not case among those who
marched. The distance covered was
about fifty-four miles.
''Ihere is one point OF a purely medical
character on which l wish to comment,
namely. the use of Vino Kolafra (prepared
by the Brunswick Pharmacal Co., 90 Will
ia whI
furnished to the companies and was en-
ployed during the march. After march
ing two hours the men were halted and
two ounces of Vino Kolafra administered
to each man. Then the march was re-
sumed.
'In few moments all sense of fatigue
and discomfort passed away the step was
brisk and the men full of life. The circu-
lation quieted down and the respiration
became steady"
This preparation had been tested by
Captains Stevens and Bell for several
weeks prior to the march, in order to
satisfy themselves that it had no deleteri-
Gus or reactive effect. Captain Stevens
says: "1n the recent practice march by
| my company, the Macon Light Infantry,
and the Macon Hussars, both of the
Georgia Volunteers, Vino Kolafra was
used with very beneficial results. The
men were clerks etc., not possessing the
stamina to stand much fatigue, yet, thanks
to Vino KoIafra, the march was accom-
plished with very little discomfort or
WEAKNESS. 1 feel assured that by its use
the intense exhaustion SO 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 physicians
1fcrht hn old NfU u 1l.f- ',~1o
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
stimulus of Vino Koafra would put these
folk in motion aud show hat an excellent
thing is life on legs. The medical journals
recon- mend 1t for nerv US, fdgety people,
and all who suffer from irregular heart or
disordered nerves. 1t is the tonic par ex-
ceilence in convalescence.