The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-21
elnNrY HERBERT's. LETTER.
o.c,.s REPRESENTATION IN
w. TIE REGULAR ARMY

cavalry Parade During the
mir Suggested-Cadetsh
=. point Not n soft Snap"
,rs. First Cadet mt the MILITARY
,.mv- The Hardships of a
OId soIdier-A Brief Refer
"a Richard Henry wilde.
Facts About Dorothy DIX
s...+ouent Made by Gen. King
,.,a+ive to West Point Graduates
,,.,.ading-Other Matters OF GEN.
oraI Interest.
n,us crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, July
MI see quite number OF announce
&c that Georgia volunteer officers
,rivates in the Philippines have
- ueutenancies in the regular
=, This is counting the chickens
s.e.ra they are Matched" as every
ob officer or private must submit TO
rigid physical, mental, moral ana
.;ti+arv examination before he gets MS
1oron,ission If all who have been ap'
otn+ed succeed in passing the exami-
Items as I hope they may, Georgia
,rit have a large and very fine repre-
.o,tation in the regular army.
col. Meldrims suggestion in re-
u..5 70 cavalry camp at the Savan-
81 state Fair is worthy of acceptance
~. +bA managers. A 'critter" company
&c aIvays an attraction, and a well con-
d,,tad tournament is always a draw
!.,, card " DO not say this as for
VIZ cantain of cavalry and lieutenant
n dragoons. for l have been foot
eore'' soldier. totng a rifle and KNAPP
sack that weighed more than L did. The
infantry especially in Savannah) is al.
right. but the people do not often see
q bic cavalry parade. l was one OF the
iudses at the tournament OF the great
HAMPTON cavalry reunion in Augusta,
Years ago, and would like to see SIM
liar gathering of cavalry at the Savan-
nah State Fair. Keep the ball moving
in that direction.
The American Boy of Detroit, Mich,
for June in addition to a stirring and
timely editorial headed, Your Coun-
try Wants You" contains an excellent
Illustrated article on THE Daily Life
of West Point Boy" by III. H. H."
whom l take to be a retired chaplain
of the army. Every boy who aspires
to be a West Point cadet should read
this article. for it dispels many false
ideas in regard to soft snap" being
hid away in an appointment to the
Military Academy. 1t is root hog or
die" all through the four years, and no
cadet is sure of graduating until he
sees his diploma handed out to him.
The poorest and the richest cadet share
alike in all the duties and discipline
of the institution, and this makes 1t
the finest military academy in the
world, and its graduates the best dis
cplined and most thoroughly accom-
plished soldiers of any nation on earth.
The first cadet was Joseph G. Swift of
Massachusetts,, who was enrolled May
T. 1900, and graduated Oct. IL, 1902,
with Simon NJ. Levy of Maryland, who
is supposed to have died in Savannah
in 1907, while Gen. Swift lived until
1866, and died full of honors." 1t is
more than likely that Oct. IL, 1902,
will be set apart for grand centen-
NAL reunion and celebration by the
graduates of the academy. Col. Will
lam W. Gordon of Savannah, of the
class of 1915, was Georgia's first grad
uate.
The world will never know the in
side history of family losses, struggles,
disbursements, ETC., connected with
the terrible confagration in that unfor-
tunate but plucky city. A veteran
journalist and Confederate soldier, who
came from Upper Georgia to Florida
some twenty-five years ago, and who
lost his quiet, happy home in the Jack
sonville fire, sends me this greeting
i have just read your admirable let
Ter IN Sundays Morning News about
sons OF Veterans being successors to
the Veterans, struck me forcibly." This
OLD Confederate came out of the army
with Col. John S. Prather of Atlanta,
with no clothes except their uniforms,
and the Union officers compelled them
70 cut off the brass buttons or buy new
clothes, which they could not do for
lack OF money. They started in to
make living by newspaper work and
printing. To-day Col. Prather is gen.
eraI superintendent of the Franklin
Printing House, in Atlanta, but my
GEAR Old friend who writes me is now,
al % years of age, homeless, with all
MS hard earnings since the war swept
away IN an hour, and he finds himself
almost where the surrender left him,
out with the burden of old age and
Ill health to bear up under. And be-
cause of this he asks: us life worth
ilVlng?' I answer that in his case it
Is Tor a better hearted man, a drawer
solder or more unselfish patriot never
1oIowed the flag of the Lost Cause"
without faltering, until it was finally
Iurled. If the Lord does not provide
Tor him in his old age, the U. c. v.
will.
trust" writes an Iron City (Ga)
subscriber to the Morning News, "that
you VIII pardon one of your interested
IeSuers Tor asking you a question, as
! know OF no one so sure to be able
20 answer it." He then tells of several
..Llerent names given Mr.. Wilde, au-
1 NOR OF My Life Is Like the Summer
I.ose, and asks for the correct one;
alu ne also desires to know If Wilde
"IO'e enough poems to make book;
anu Il So was it printed, and is it
,,oW Tor sale. Richard Henry Wilde
vas vas the poets correct name, and while
H.S famous poem overshadowed all the
o.ner poetic productions of his gifted
psH IN the public mind, he wrote other
x,oehs that he considered much better
o oiau tne Summer Rose" AS he never
t,bauo"ed the public to be the Judge in
Ie matter, fear that he was mis-
,LHeH' rev authors are safe judges of
Wa va merit Of their productions. Mr.
~, 4e wrote poems enough for a vol
ra ,,'e 70 be put in print, but for some
~ oI he preferred not to give them
e pubic in any form. He died in
sniS orleans during the yellow fever
bENeinic OF lS47, and some years after
Ift, oouy was removed to the Sand