The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-20

valued at % cents, and McLaws at 10
cents. My ancient ancestor, Gen. OIL
yer De Lancey, n TORY" OF the Brit
ish army. after whom De Lancey and
oliver streets in New York city are
named, left a document signed by
him, in 1901, valued at a dollar and a
half. A letter signed in l775 by Gen.
Benedict Arnold, is valued at SIS
The above will give the reader some
idea of how autographs and signed
letters are sold nowadays.
I am proud to see that my native
state of Maine has just unveiled a hand
SOME and stately granite monument to
her soldier dead at Andersonville. Ga.
Even the statute of soldier surmount-
ing the shaft, is carved out OF Maine
granite. The inscription is simply this,
Commemorate to the Memory of the
Soldiers Who Were Confined in the
Andersonville (Ga.) Prison." The mon
ument is ornamented in an appropri-
ate manner and presents a very fine
appearance. Passenger Agent ]. C.
Halle of the Central of Georgia Rail
way will have TO issue an enlarged edi-
tition of his beautiful Andersonville
booklet, as several new monuments
have been erected, and many improve
ments made since his first edition was
printed. Gen. James p. Averill. G. A.
r.. of Atlanta, who prepared the book
let in such excellent taste, has recent
ly died, and 1t win prove serious
loss to Andersonville, as he was the
prime mover in its affairs for the w.
r. Corps. IT is a singular fact that
DR.. Garvin, the Governor of Rhode Is
land, unveiled the monument for that
state, and DIR. Hill. the Governor of
10
but sickness in his family prevented.
Maine has elected more doctors as
Governors than all the other states
combined The first Governor l knew,
away back when Polk was President,
was DR. John Hubbard OF Hallowell.
DIR. Frederick Roble of Gorham is one
of her latest and best Governors. Old
age does not dim the luster of his
brilliant career, nor set him aside from
active service in public and private
life. Besides managing his farm and
other large investments, he is the
president of a Portland bank. and trus-
tee of one of Names great asylums.
Recently he has given Of his wealth
an elegant residence in Gorham to the
State Normal School, Other states
might profit by Names example in
recognizing doctors of medicine as
most desirable timber for good Gov
arnors.
THE st. Batholomew's Messenger"
published for the membership OF st.
Bartholomew Episcopal Church, Bed
ford avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, is one of
the handsomest publications of the
kind l have ever seen. A picture OF
the church buildings and grounds is
very attractive, and shows II TO be "a
thing of beauty and a joy forever" to
its cultured congregation. Rev. Rob-
ert M. w. Black. son of the late
Congressman George r.. Black OF the
Savannah district, is the energetic and
jealous rector. and he seems from the
Messenger to have work enough on his
hands for two active rectors. Our
Bishop William Crane Gray of Orlando,
Fla, recently visited and addressed the
Sunday-school, telling the children OF
the mission to the Seminole Indians in
the Florida Everglades under his
charge. He also addressed the congre-
cation in the church, on Oct. 30, and
the Messenger pays this deserved trib-
ute to him: This apostolic man told
in simple and earnest words of his no
BILE work, and he made us feel that II
was privilege to aid a cause so APP
pealing. Even with our own sore needs
III the pdTlSH we are the DeLlef OH
and should be the happier, for hav-
ing made an offering 10 God Of 800 or
that Sunday for Bishop Grays field
Some how we have had "a spiritual
blessing from the Bishops coming, and
that itself is worth a good deal to us
even on a financial basis. A parish
like an individual. must sometimes dc
for others. else its true life withers
And, strangely, the call may even come
to us from the far-away land of the
pine and the palmetto" / am not sur
prised that st. Bartholomew had q
spiritual blessing from the Bishops
coming" for he carries one with him
wherever he goes. and is never weary
in well-doing II speaks we'll for a
Brooklyn church so burdened with
home mission work, to give a 500 TO
an old Confederate soldier for his mis-
sionary work in far-off Southern Flor
ida AS the Messenger truly says, such
giving always imparts a real blessing
to the giver. and often proves that II
is more blessed to give than to receive.