The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

were TWO Confederate brigadier gem
eIdIs' Ben. MeCulloch and Henry f.
-dCColloch, but no McCullough. Ben
was captain of Texas Rangers and
Henry captain of Texas Rifles in the
Mexican War. and both were men of
heroic courage.
Historian A. S. salley. Jr., of
10 Ton, b G.. Is on the same line
pulcHerlng names. about which he
says: 1t seems to be a. very hard
Inauter Tor people to get proper names
rlsnt. Persons who would be horri-
Iieu 10 see an ordinary word misspelled
40 not regard it as at all necessary to
speu proper names correctly. This
however, has always been so. In old
RECORDS one often finds a clerk. official
OF attorney spelling d proper name in
nan dozen incorrect WAYS. but at
the END is the signature of the person
MmOse name Is so misspelled, and it
VIII be found invariably that he spells
ms own name only as signed there
from a practical viewpoint it is much
more necessary to spell proper names
correctly than common words. - Now
TINS Will apply to my criticisms of the
Rome tGa.) Tribune's U. c. V. issue.
Ihese letters are not written simply
70 hnd fault and to criticise, but in
the nope, almost vain, however, to
work reformation in the present care
less way of printing names of distin-
gulshed men. 1t is not ignorance, in
many cases, but simply carelessness,
for printed letter heads do not seem to
De any guide to properly directing a
reply.
Morgan Robertson, a we'll known
writer of ability. has a valuable il
lustrated article in the Woman's
Home Companion for October, on
The Peace Making Terror of the
Seas" in which he endeavors to show
that the submarine torpedo boat in
vented by John P. Holland will do
more to promote disarmament, and
universal peace than all the societies
and conventions in the world. One
OF these little terror boats can slip
up under big warship like the Mas
sachusetts> and blow her and her thous-
and or more men into eternity in
minute. Perhaps this writer may
have correct view of future war
fare and the dawn of that long de-
sired and long delayed universal
peace that we have heard so much
about and of which we have as yet
seen only slight glimpses. President
iNOOSeNell says ne is TO ask Tor an
other Hague Peace Conference. Heav-
en- save the mark! The other one was
followed by the bloodiest of wars and
the Car of Russia, the very head
and front of that peace conference, is
to-day responsible for the awful
slaughter of the Japan Russian War
Talk is a cheap commodity. The way
to have peace is to act in a way to
secure that blessing.
The Navy League Journal for Sep
TENDER issued by the Navy League
of the United States, at New York,
contains a valuable Calendar and
Remembrance of the United States
Navy, 1775-1904" by Robert W. Nees-
er. 1t states that on Sept. 21. 1874
Capt. ]. Blakely, of the U. S. S.
Wasp (of eighteen guns) captured
the British brig Atlanta, eight guns)
at sea. This is the Capt. Johnston
Blakely of North Carolina, after
whom the town of Blakely, Ca, is
named, and if the name of the brig
is given correctly it shows that
Atlanta is an old British name. This
Calendar also states that on Sept 80,
under Commodore Selfridge, captured
the Mexican schooner, Magdalen. My
oldest brother, Capt. Thomas Crosby
Lancey, was an officer on the Dale
at this time. *#* The nomination
of Col. Thomas A. Smith for Con-
gress. in the First district of Mary
land, calls to mind another Col. Thorn
as A. Smith. a Virginian by birth,