The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-30

Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Oct.
81 should not mention the condi-
ton of my dear suffering wife in these
letters were it not that I am unable
in any other way to answer the many
inquiries from readers of the Morning
News. For the first time since her
terrible accident l have what seems to
be really favorable reports from the
hospital at Monroe, N. c. The severe
coal bruise that it was feared would
necessitate a third emputation has
been controlled by the surgeons and
that danger it is thought is passed, I'M
less a second severe coal bruise should
develop dangerous symptoms. The
brave and patient sufferer is still very.
very weak, but is now slowly improv-
ing. There was a serious typo
graphical error in my last letter that
utterly ruined the sense. 1t was Gen.
Barlow" not Barlow, that was an
nounced as a study for the Children
of the Confederacy at Tennille. and l
sought to correct it to Gen. Barlow,
c. 5. A., as Gen. Barlow was Union
officer. Lieut.. Robert NJ. Eli
colt of the artillery corps at Fort
Screven is spending a sixteen-days
leave Of absence very pleasantly at -,
Memphis, with friends, and at st. |
Louis, taking in the various attractions
of the famous Worlds Fair.
Mai Blanton Winship, U. S. A., a |
Macon CGa.) boy. of the judge advocate |
generals department has won consider /
able credit for the able manner in |
which he has discharged his duties as
judge advocate of the Department of |
the Lakes, at Chicago His protest |
against over crowding guard houses |
and sentences to close confinement has |
created favora Bile discussion and action |
in the direction of a needed reform. |
The health even of prisoners is a mat
ter of importance, and in close con- |
finement, without labor, idleness is en- |
gendered. He very wisely suggests bet |
ter quarters in the guard houses and |
some outdoor employment part of the |
time at least for the military prison
ers. Soldiers should not be returned |
to duty in a worse condition. in some
respects, than when they were sent to |
the guard house All punishment
should be humane and reformatory in
order to keep the discipline and char
acter Of the army in proper condition. |
Each senator and representative in |
Congress is allowed two midshipmen /
at the United States Naval Academy I
in Annapolis, Md, and for the year |
1905 there will be over three hundred |
vacancies. Senator Clay of Georgia, |
has one and Senator Taliaferro of Flor |
ida, has one. The Georgia representa-
tives, as a body, have eight, Florida |
has three and South Carolina has four. |
Aspirants for these honors will do well |
to remember that Prof. 7. H. Gignil- |
Hat, a graduate of the academy and |
an ex-naval officer, says the naval Of |
f1cers are the real aristocracy of the |
country. In some respects this state |
ment is true to the fullest extent. No |
amount Of good character or high |
scholarship has ever been able to pass
colored appointed boy into the acad- |
envy, although three graduated from |
the Military Academy at West Point. /
Under Capt. Brownson as superinten- |
dent the standard at Annapolis has !
been raised somewhat in all depart
ments and the young Middies have no |
easy path to future promotion.
The editor who refers to Lieut. Cen |
Nelson A. Miles as "Commander-in-
chief" of the army at the present time, |
has failed to keep up with the process
sion, as Gen. Miles was retired on |
aug o, 1910, dS commanding general, |
he never having been commander-in- |
chief. - / see that my dear old |
friend Maj. Mark Newman, of Sanders
vile, has been visiting his old Savan-
nah home, and that he looked in up
on Ordinary McAplin's office, for which |
he had only words of high praise.
Well, when the best Ordinary of Geor- |
gia, and the one of longest service, |
praises a brother Ordinary it means |
something more than a mere compli- |
ment. Maj. Newman was one of the |
most efficient adjutants in the Con-
federate army, and in civil life he
keeps up the record. 80 most
heartily commend the very excellent
and forcible address of Col. G. A. Cor
don to the First Regiment in Savan-
nah. 1t has a clear and patriotic ring
to 1t, and reminds the soldiers under
his command that in these days of la