The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10

pima Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla,
Anvil a-And now Brig. Gen. Fred Dent
crant. U. S. A.. is grandfather Of a
vrincess as well as a prince, and as
Ne daughters husband is a Russian
,,rince-C>antacuzene of st. Petersburg
tho generals sympathy is probably
nth Russia in her present conflict with
1anan. The Soldier Colony" of
7,,tzeerald, Ca, has blue and Gray
1ark thanks to the noble women who
GRO always leaders in all such patriotic
work. There are thirteen acres in the
,,,rk and they will be made attrac-
1--WE IN many ways, and a pavilion
.ractad" President Roosevelt is
sl,ravs doing something to attract at
IGNITION. if not criticism. 1t is reported
that he has promised to appoint six
oraduates yearly from the Maine Uni
,.arsitv. at Orono, Me-, as second lieu
tenants in the U. s. army. l can hard
N, believe he has made any such fool
tb nronoise. The patriotic Won-
80 ~ American are bound to be auxil-
1+arv 70 every class of war veterans,
and the Daughters of 1872" one of the
latest. has been followed by the DANES
If 1886" auxiliary to the Mexican
War veterans. The South is repre-
santed by such prominent ladies as
Mrs Letitia Tyler Semple. Mrs. Saml.
tones. Mrs. Harry Heth, Mrs. Geo.
II Pickett, Mrs. ]. A. Quitman, Mrs.
". r. Bate Miss Mary Desha and
many other patriotic women.
The Morning News says Mrs. Rachel
Albright, of Fort Madison ,Iowa,is
pranddaughter of Betsey Ross, who
made the first American flag. Some
months ago in these letters, l gave
am account of a daughter of Mrs. Ross,
who married and settled in McDuffe
county, Ga, where she died and was
hurled. / think some of her distant
relatives are yet to be found in that
county. The nom de plume of
Hon. Eugene F. Ware, our Commits
siner of pensions, seems to be in doubt.
Some editors call it "Ironquill," while
others put it Iron Quill" Perhaps
he writes some of his poetry with an
iron quill" but it is safer to believe
he uses a steel pen The late
George w. Adair, of Atlanta, the great
real estate man of the booming city,
was a gallant soldier in Lieut.. Gen.
n. r. Forests cavalry command, and
he not only named his son, now his
active successor, 'FOrreSL AGAR, Out
when a fashionable new avenue was
opened out of Peachtree street some
years ago, he had it called Forrest"
avenue, in honor of his old Confederate
commander. And now, Mr.. Forrest
Adair has presented to the city, a
bronze tablet, properly inscribed and
appropriately embellished, to be placed
on Forrest avenue with appropriate
public exercises.
Capt. Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
of Jacksonville, one of the candidates
for Governor of Florida, has publish
ed an illukrrated pamphlet of his life,
services aAd political views that is a
literary curiosity" and Our Bob
Davis uses it in his campaign to keep
his hearers in a roar of laughter. AL
though an old sailor and captain of
the famous Three Friends blockade
runner to Cuba, he calls the revenue
cutter McLane ''the McLain" every
time. He seems to have forgotten tn.
this cutter was named in honor of
Louis McLane of Delaware, Secrets ry
of the Treasury and Secretary of State
under President Jackson. I
recently had an item about "A Man
Without Country" and now / have
one about "a Ship Without a Flag
thing which is rarely liable to oc-
cur In the sale and transfer of a YES
Sci from owners in one country to own