The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-08

DC NdI GlGSSHeSS IN WIFI
ing: 1t is this carelessness in military
Inatters that gives us "McClelland" for
mcclellan. and "Haines" for Hams.
ana Kaines" for Rains, and johnson"
Ior johnston, and Rhodes" for Rodes.
ana Stewart" for Steuart or Stuart.
ana "Bassinger'' for Basinger, and
Jessup" for Jesup, errors of frequent
occurrence in current literature.
II seems to me that Mrs. Sallie John
son Hagan of the Social Season"
tne swell society paper of Atlanta, has
gwen the Kimberley" dinner, by Col.
Estlll, the best notice yet printed Her
tribute to Savannahs select but gem
erous hospitality is a beautiful piece
OF word painting. She closes her ar
tlcle with the remarks made to her by
MRS; Estill in favor of her husbands
candidacy for governor, which she
heartily endorses. 1 am reminded by
II OF Mrs. McKinley's tender and beau
tltul tribute to her husband, given to
newspaper reporter in New Orleans
during the trip to California. The
testimony of a good wife in favor of a
devoted husband ought to count for
much in the estimation of the general
public. When Col. w. J. Northen
started out on a personal canvass for
governor, as Col. Estill has DONE his
noble wife became active with her pen
and tongue in behalf of his candidacy,
and no little of his success was due
to her persistent efforts to secure his
nomination. Mrs. Gen. John b. Cor
don, Mrs. Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt, and
Mrs. DR.. w. H. FELTON, have also been
active in the. past campaigns of their
husbands, and Mrs. Estill may safely
follow the example OF these distin-
guished ladies and aid her husbands
popular candidacy.
1 read Mr.. Dooley" on "The Cele-
bration at Yale" with considerable
pleasure, and I can indorse his humor-
Gus comments on the wholesale man.
ner in which degrees We're shoveled
out to all conditions of men, home and
foreign-horn. Degrees" says "Doo-
ley" sarcastically, dixie death) is a
good thing because they livils all ranks.
Some of the thriftiest uni
versfties is maxim degree tn afte,-
native iv a fine-$5 or a docthor lv
laws" If there is one senseless hum
bug bigger than another, in our coll
leges and universities, it is this UNI
bridled and indiscriminate bestowal of
degrees. 1 often wonder why some men
are doctors of divinity and others not;
and the same as to doctor of laws.
The folly of making an admiral or a
general an Ii. d. simply because he.
has won victory in battle should be
frowned upon. If such men must be
thus honored let the degree of M. s.
D. be created for military and naval
heroes who deserve to be honored with
the degree of Doctor of Military Sci
ence.
Chancellor Walter B. HILL of the
University of Georgia, writes me that
he greatly enjoyed the bi-centennial at
Yale, and my venerable neighbor, Hon.
Andrew Richmond, an alumnuS, tells
me the same thing. 1t was, with all
it's profusion of degrees, grand affair
no doubt. l shall always have warm
place in my heart for old Yale, as she
once highly honored me in my early
manhood with an invitation TO address
the students and faculty, and my par.
tial friends considered it the greatest
effort of MY life" I, however, count
it as. second best" placing an address
in the big Union depot at Troy, N. Y,
to over ten thousand people as the
greatest effort" and highest honor.
And yet there is really greater salts
faction in more quiet, restricted labors
for .Giod-and man, of which the world
at large never hears. There is more
satisfaction in living SO that you can
Count that day lost whose low de-
scending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action
done" rs.e -. ss'-..
OF the four surviving widows of
Presidents of the United States, who
are Mrs. u. S. Grant, Mrs. j. A. Gar
field, Mrs. Benz Harrison and Mrs.
William Mckinley, three are invalids,
the exception being the young second
wife of eX-President Harrison. Mrs.
Grant is quite old and in bad health
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Mrs. Garfield. who spent last winter
mostly at DeLand, Fla, has gone to
California this season in a vain search,
no doubt, of renewed health, while
Mrs. Mckinley, always feeble in health,
is still an invalid at her old home in
Canton, o. All of the above named
are soldiers widows, Grant, Garfield
and Harrison having been generals.
and Mckinley a major in the Civil
War. Mrs. Garfield's home is in Men
tor, O., and Mrs. Harrison lives in In,
dianapolis, Ind. Having married Gen.
Harrison in recent years she is barred
from a pension unless it be given to
her by special congressional enact
ment.
The law cutting off newly married
widows enacted because so many
young women were marrying old SOL
diers in order to become pensioners
when Llty uleu. lie newspapers HGN-
er tired of telling about soldiers wild
ows who seemed to never die, nor grow
less in numbers. Take, for example,
some old Confederate generals-Long-
street, "Tige" Anderson, George P.
Harrison, Jr., c. A. Evans and e. P.
Alexander-all married again to young
wives, and Anderson died leaving one
or two children by this marriage. The
Southern states will need "cut OFF,
pension law of this kind one of these
days. 1 see that the family of Presi-
dent Harrison's first wife are to OPP
pose granting the usual $4,000 pension
to his second wife, now a presidential
widow. And as Mrs. Mckinley is
now rich, there is talk of opposing
the grant of $1,000 to her, 1t seems
wrong to pension well-to-do people
when so many poor soldiers widows
suffer for lack of the common COM
forts of life. Sidney Herbert.