The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-06
SIDNEY HERBERT's LETTER.
o,rRs HOME SHOULD BE ON
THE COTTAGE PLAN.

Record--A Recommendation
mat Is Not Approved-The Folly
c,.rds for a President-Some-
- About Ancestors-Presid
mckinley Not the First American
u.ve Honors Paid Him in West
.,.+ar Abbey-Other Matters OF
General Interest.
Dina Crest Villa Maitland, Fla. Oct.
s-"R. L. Gibbon," in my last letter,
shor1d have been Gen. r. l.. Gibson,
- mas II. S. senator from Louisi-
ono when he died. Gen. John Gibbon
,,,os in the Union army. The
,,hri1ding of the Georgia Confederate
eoId,ars' Home on the cottage plan is
~ he heartily commended. Old soldiers.
everywhere, are only human, and some
are very disagreeable companions. I'm
der the cottage system they can be
rroperly classified and made much
more comfortable. My recent visit to
the National Union Soldiers Home. at
DAYTON, o. satisfied me that the cot
+age plan is the best one. I
was deeply touched by the fervent
prayer of Rev. DR.. Charles Il. Locke,
nastor of the Delaware Avenue Meth
odist Episcopal Church of Buffalo, at
the 'MiIburn House" funeral services
over President Mckinley. AS prelude
IN his PRAYER he used a verse of most
beautiful hymn, a verse that cannot be
excelled in its omprehensiveness. 1t
covers all our dependence upon Gods
goodness and mercy and protecting care,
past, present and future. For years
past l have used it as a prelude to
my nightly and morning prayers, and
that is why it affected me so deeply
at Buffalo. This is the verse:
30, God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast.
And our eternal home"
The u. c. V. is now almost a ma
tional organization. 1t has a division
in California, in Oklahoma ana in In
dian Territory. 1t has camps in Colo
RADIO, In Illinois, in Indiana, in KAN
sas, in old Massachusetts, in Montana.
in New Mexico, in the District of CO.
lumbia. in Ohio. in New York and in
all the Southern states. If a few old
Confederates would settle down in
Maine the u. c. V. could boast of
reaching clear across the continent,
from Maine to California. And the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
have nearly if not quite, covered the
same sections of country, including
PENNSYLVANIA. The IT. q
V. of Florida has lost one
of its most jealous, useful and
honored members in the death of DR..
r. B. Burroughs. In all the move
ments Of the organization, as a state
division, or a brigade, or a Jackson
vile camp, he was foremost and al
ways with good results, as in the Hem
ming Confederate Soldiers Home and
other similar good works" Having
the advantages of a high bred and no.
BILE ancestry, and himself a gentleman
of superior culture, not only profess
sionally, but in all the walks of life,
as a private citizen or public official,
he exerted an influence for good that
will ever keep his memory green"
Col. G. N. Saussy misconstrues my
item about Stafford Heights" and
"Maryes HILL" in my last letters ref
erence to A. L. Hulls' war book.
did not mean by "a distinction with
out a difference" that they were one
and the same, but that 1 had always
heard "Maryes Hill called "Maryes
Heights" The people of Fredericks-
burg and the old soldiers called 1t so
when I was there. The Union troops |
occupied Stafford Heights and the |
Confederates were posted on Marye's |
Heights. see by the Atlanta |
Journal Of Sept. %, that Col. Saussy, |
who is an experienced railroad official, |
has dropped into poetry, and his rail- |
ROAD accident Lay Sermon in Rhyme" |
VIII amuse the fraternity generally.
Just as l am closing this letter a |
very interesting epistle comes to me /
from William Riley Boyd, who always
writes lnstructively, however much he
may differ from his readers. AS an
apostle of Peace" he certainly has
cause to be grateful to the lamented
mckinley and the half Georgia" new
president for their recent noble utter
dhees IN favor of peace and good will
at home and abroad. Their sincere
sentiments of good fellowship are
worth dozen Arbitration Commissions
Vi Feace Conventions, for they have
sohe direct into hearts softened by a
great national calamity--the hearts of
IlISn ana women in our own fair land
ollIy lately reconciled and reunited as
one grand nation. Although prepared
ior war; our motto should be Peace"
.sSt 'Oe wheeler may not be a
prophet himself, nor the son of a
p5iopnet, but he it was who firmly pre-
elcIed that Col. Theodore Roosevelt, u.
:. w. who served under him SO gall
iantIy at Santiago, would not only be
Slecteo governor of New York, but later
III De PRESIDENT of the United States.
'eH' wheeler measured his man with
= critical but impartial eye, and that
"aS the conclusion he reached. History
I Ias scored two for old joe in this
Ia 'ter' I notice an article go
i5s sne rounds of the press headed,
iloosevelt's Descent and telling how
ne ne branches. of his Family Tree reach
~ INTO royalty'-kings, princes, etc.
'. ~ as view the matter, / can dis
oNer no Descent anywhere, but a most
S 9Illarkable ascent No one of Pres
- ,'.l Roosevelt's ancestors can show
~ brilliant record as his life pre-
- ga strenuous life that has won
=, a IeWards as fast as they were earn.
", mIllch can be said of few great
' es men | protest that our Teddy
e as nad no Decent from honored an
suy " put has had an Ascent that
= 'h ne MN conspicuous as the uplifter
4 MS noblest ancestry.
very singular error occurs in a
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