The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-27

two-thirds of them are engaged in
some active business. The pension bur-
den is not to be mentioned in the same
breath with this retiring burden placed
upon the taxpayers.
DR.. Anita Newcomb MCGEE, who has
gone to Japan with party of trained
army nurses is not a regular 'lieuten-
ant assistant surgeon in the United
States army" as reported. No female
holds a commission of this kind in the
army, and DR.. MCGEE was simply in
charge of the army nurses, with rank
and pay of lieutenant; only this,
and nothing more" Clara
Morris, in the March Cosmopoli-
tan magazine, gives the reading
public sort of free any easy sketch
of the late L. Q. c. Lamar, soldier,
statesman and jurist. There are sew
eral things in the sketch that were not
intended by him for the public eye or
ear. An Atlanta paper has an
article on the "Corsacks," and when
the Cossacks see it they will wonder
why it was not "Cornsacks" instead.
For variety, which seldom
occurs, one Georgia boy in the regular
army has chosen a Georgia girl for
wife. Capt. Earle Darcy Pearce of the
Artillery Corps, u. S. A., whose home
is in Thomson, Ca, is to marry, on
April 6, Miss Jennie Dick Gray, daugh-
ter of Editor James r. Gray of the
Atlanta Journal. Capt. Pearce is now
on duty at Fort Washington, fourteen
miles below the city, on the Potomac
river.
The statement that "ex-Copgressman
Seth NJ. Milliken of New York spent
few hours in Savannah last Friday
startled me, for Congressman Milliken
of Maine has been dead several years.
He left a son, Seth Mellen Milliken,
who graduated from West Point in 1897
and was assigned to the Third United
States Cavalry, but resigned without
service. However, in 1898 he entered
the volunteer service in the Spanish
American War as commissary of sub
sistence, with rank of captain. He is
now in business in New York city, and
probably was the one who visited Sa-
vannah last Friday. / am very
sorry that Gen. E. L. Molineux, U. S.
", of New York. boasted in his BAN
Quet talk in that city of his having
refused a bride of 100000 in Augusta,
Ca, at the close of the war, to release
blockade cotton. Reliable and respect
able citizens of Augusta now come for
ward and assert that they have the
papers to show that the General, in
stead of refusing big bride, really ac-
oepted a very insignificant one for the
same purpose. 1t is now up against"
Gen. Molineux to refute this charge
and clear his skirts.
Atlanta, by way of advertising,
sometimes talks of inviting the
National Encampment of the G..
A. r. to visit there. In this
connection let me show some figures of
1890, when it met in Boston. The state
gave $50. 200; the city $4,000, the citi-
zens S13.O52 with reserve guarantee
fund of $l7.S69. The encampment
meets there again I'm August next. and
one item is to be a camp in the great
Mechanics Hall, where over 10000
veterans can have free sleeping quar-
terrain the G A. A.. but old Boston
Is equal to the task, and will dupli-
cate her great and cordial hospitals
line In the matter OF praise to Y. s.
troops that deserve commentator. The
Ninth Cavalry. colored. has often won
the highest praise for Valor on the field
OF battle and for efficiency In camp.
Lately, IN San Francisco, the Third
Squadron, under MAJ. John Bigeiow.
occupied only thirty-two minutes on
a DARK, rainy night, IN going 20 the
stables, fully arFnlng and equipping
themselves ana riding back IN columns
o. foure 90 the barracks for special IN
Epection ana drfil BY MAJ. J. p. Wiser.
And THE reminds me that the book
''fhe Cesairy Horse aAH His Pack "
BY Lieut. . ,. noniface N the Fourth
@sFsifT, n ~ an ofi4oeF WIG has won