The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-06

of Oglethorpe Light Infantry, of
the town of Oglethorpe, of Oglethorpe
Lodge, of Oglethorpe fire company, and,
without doubt, of the Oglethorpe monu-
ment. But he needs no monument of
brass or stone to keep his memory fresh
in the hearts of Georgians. The grand old
Empire State of the South is his proud
est and most enduring memorial, and all
over it in county, town, squares, streets
and various military and civic organiza-
tons, his name is inscribed in an imper-
iShable manner
The good people who have been fight
ing so hard to have the Canteen abolished
in the Army of the United States, on the
ground that it is a bar room and beer
saloon, can find a similar field of labor
nearer home. The last Saturdays thirty
six-page issue of the Jacksonville, Fla,
Metropolis, was edited by a large corps
of the most prominent of the wealthy and
cultured ladies of that city. One of their
local items, under the head of "a Deplor-
able Condition. is as follows, and needs
no comment:
1.-THE women of Jacksonville would like
to ask the County Commissioners If their
purpose in building a $4,000 armory was
to furnish the rough element of the diff
ferent military companies with a bar
room.
1.-THE ending of the Rifles Fair was a
disgrace to the members and the build
ing. People in passing, stopped, looked
in the windows and wondered where the
police WERE and passed on. The different
companies owe it to themselves that this
state of affairs should stop. Is it not the
| duty of the County Commissioners to
know what this building is used for. and
have the beer kegs that have adorned the
front of the building removed?''
In one of these military epistles, some
few months ago. I asserted that but for
the power behind the sword of nations the
Christian missionaries in many lands
would be put to death. And even with
| this power 10 protect them, the report
comes from Washington that the state de-
partment is daily called upon to right
wrongs heaped upon our missionaries in
| China, Turkey and other foreign countries
| Forty odd years ago there was a statute
| in force in Japan that eff any Christian
| shall set his foot on the Island of Japan,
| or if the Christians Gcd, Jesus, shall come
| he shall be beheaded." But even at that
| period the brave old hero, Commodore
| Perry, while his ship was al anchor in
Yeddo harbor, called his officers and crew
| together for public worship, and loud and
| clear sounded out over the still waters to
the nearby shore the strains of that grand
| hymn, praise God from whom all bless
| ings aow.' This, says Bishop Fl. b.
! Whipple in his "Ramsden Sermon" before
| the University of Cambridge, England,
! was the first message that hermit nation
received from her young sister of the
| West To-day Japan has the Christian
; calendar and more than million children
| IN schools. some of which are under Chris
| tian teachers and missionaries.
Coming down to less pretentious publi-
cations. a prominent Richmond, Va, Al
manack," or year book, reports Gen. Rob-
ert II. Anderson as KILLED or MORALLY
wounded in the battle of Jonesboro,
| Ga. And yet. for many years after the
| war Cen. Anderson was chief of police
in Savannah The errors in this publ
| cation are evidence of the grossest neg
lect in proof reading or ignorance on the
mart of the compiler. Gen. w. II. II.
| Walker Is w. II Walker, and Gen. Frau
| els s. Barlow is Barton Gen. Floyd
| Tflghman is transformed into Filyham.
| Gen. r. r. r. Cobb is T. r. Cobb, and
| Gen. j. C. C. Saunders is j. G. Saun-
ders Baton Rouge figures as "Rogge,
| and other places are disguised In similar
| bluns Now to a stranger not famil-
lar WI Me military history of our coun-
| try plumbers, in publication semi