The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25

easily and rapidly the enemy removed
or overrame them. Not so with the
barbed wire defenses of the Japanese.
Why, even the Russians. noted for
barb-arities, cry out against this barb
ed wire system Of defense as unworthy
OF civilized warfare. However that
may be, II is system of defense that
has come to stay.
On Tuesday last, In New York city,
l.. II. Low sold the largest collection
Of coins, medals and Confederate pa
per money ever put on the market. In
the collection were two famous Con-
federate silver coins known as the
Jefferson Davis and Gen. Beauregard
dimes. Quite stir among New
York coin collectors has recently been
caused by the supposed theft of one of
the famous Georgia five dollar gold
pieces OF 1880, coined by the state Of
which only some three or four are in
existence, and these now worth some
$500 each. The pension bust
ness. in Georgia and elsewhere. as
well as at Washington, d. c., Is a Gu
rious, thing. The deaths of pension
ers only seem to increase the number
OF pensions to be paid out. Commits
sioner Ware, at Washington, reported
100 death of veterans daily, and yet
the applications for pensions came in
at the rate OF 200 day. There Is
about the same condition Of things In
regard to Confederate pensions in the
South. The whole system, state and
national, Union and Confederate, Is
based upon an unjust, unequal and
burdensome foundation, and badly
needs reconstruction and re-adjust-
ment. The well-to-do now get too
much, while the really poor and needy
get too little. In last sun
days Morning News appears a New
York special about Moving Monu-
ment to Tom Paine" in which II is
stated that his bones do not repose
beneath the monument; that William
Goblet of England spirited them
away years ago for reburial in ia
mous Westminster Abbey, and mo-
body knows what became Of them
when they were refused interment in
the abbey. Lord Byron thus sarcastic
cally poetizes Cobbett's action:
I'm digging UP your bones. Tom
Paine,
Will CobDett has done well;
You visit him on earth again
He'll visit you in hell"
was greatly surprised to find in
THE Goode Family; A Name OF Rare
Distinction" by Eleanor Lexington.
in last Sundays Morning News, some
important verses taken from my
for which no credit was given me.
copied the Payne verse and Lamar
verse from the old album OF Miss EN-
lily w. Goode, daughter OF Judge Sam
ueI Goode, OF Montgomery, Ala. who
married Rev. DR.. David Linley, an
eminent Presbyterian divine. and
whose SON allowed me to copy the
Payne verse and also the reply verse
BY Gen. Mirabeau Il. Lamar of Geor-
gia. Finley graduated at the old
Franklin College at Athens, Ga, and
was a classmate Of Gen. Francis 5.
Barlow, DR.. Crawford w. Long and
Hon. Junius A. Wingfield. His son,
referred TO above, was sThomas Fin
lev. ESQ, well-known Atlanta at
torney-at-law. Miss Goode was a
lovely and very accomplished young
lady, and Payne. while IN Georgia and
Alabama, made love to every such
young lady into whose society he was
thrown. but ne never had real
sweetheart in Georgia, as claimed. nor
anywhere in the South. He was at
times unable TO support himself, much
less "A wife, for he was always home
less ard sometimes penniless, yet
wrote Home, Sweet Home" But La
mar was a very different kind OF
mana brave soldier. a gifted poet,
wise statesman and a true Southern
gentleman. Here Is another poem he
ponned in Miss Goodies album:
THE Rose | saw on Anna's breast,
1 deemed the happiest OF Its race;
In such a world Of beauty blest.
How could Il ask a brighter placer
Yet all it's hues departed soon.
Like fading clouds at closing day;
IL could not brook superior bloom.
And sank In onvy's pale decay.
sidney Herbert