The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

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SAFE PILLS move the bowels
err rank from Canada. The exhibition
drills of the School Boy Cadets from
Toronto were special features of the
convention. If all the army officers
and N. G. officers that are expected
as announced, put in an appearance,
the convention will be very important
and beneficial one to the N. G. of
the country. Gen. William" j. Stew
art, should be Thomas" the very pop
ular and efficient adjutant general of
Pennsylvania and past commander-in-
chief of the G. A. r.
The death of the venerable and be-
loved Father George Deshon, the SUI
perior general of the Paulist Fathers
in New York, leaves only one distin-
guished survivor of Gen. u. S. Grants
class-1S4S-at West Point, and that
survivor is Maj. Gen. Samuel G.
French, c. S. A, living at Pensacola,
Fla. Capt. William K. Van Bokkelen
of Brooklyn, N. Y, still lives, but he
is ''cashiered" army officer, and not
recognized. Maj. Gen. William B.
Franklin, U. S. A, died last year, and
Father Deshon has just passed away
1ull VI JCdio anu uOllOJS- LIE Cdu6IS
at West Point sent a beautiful wreath
of immortelles to be placed upon his
burial casket. Father Deshon was
cadet from Connecticut, graduating No.
in his class-neXt to Gen. Franklin
yet he resigned in 1851 to become a Ro-
man Catholic priest. But Cadet James
Clark of Pennsylvania, in the class of
1929 had resigned within a year after
graduating to become a Roman Catho-
H., IL. II
to resign to become a Roman Catholic
priest and educator was Thomas +.
Curd of Kentucky, who graduated in
the class of 1874, ranking No. s. After
serving in the Mexican War he re-
signed and became a professor in 1S47
at the College of the Holy Cross, in
Worcester, Mass, but died in 1850.
Lieut.. Earl I. Brown of the United
States Engineer Corps, who is a Geor-
gian with a future" in the army.
has been assigned to an important po-
sition in New York city. The
newspapers are referring to Lieut..
Kennedy Castleman, U. S. N, but it
should be Lieut.. Kenneth G.. Castle
man. His uncle, Humphreys Castle
man, married a sister of Col. William
Garrard of Savannah. 1t is distin-
guished Kentucky family, Kenneth's
father being Gen. ]. B. Castleman of
Louisville, KY. Brig. Cen
Samuel w. Ferguson of South Caro-
lima, a distinguished West Pointer of
the Confederate army, has become
president of the Fort White Hard Rock
Company, with headquarters at Fort
White, Columbia county, Fla =
Josiah Carter says Chief Justice Thorn
as j. Simmons rose to be colonel of
the Forty-f1fth Georgia and was
brevetted brigadier general" This is
the second time I ever heard of a.
brevet in the Confederate army. I
have always supposed that that fool
ish practice was never adopted by the
War Department of the Confederacy.
If it was-but I think not-the fact
has escaped my critical observation.
am afraid the old time idea of hell
has lost its hold upon the people. espe-
cially since Sam Jones has located il
within half a mile of several hum
dred cities where he has held meet
ings. A Savannah reader of my let
ters writes me that there is a land
ing on the Savannah river named
Little He'll" And last week my pious
and eminent friend, DR.. George H. No
Bile of Atlanta came here for a fort
nights hunting and has gone down
to Hell Bay" to enjoy the sport. Gen.
Sherman said war was hell, but it
seems from postal guides, etc, that
the name at least has lost it's terror,
both in war and in peace. If famil-
iarity breeds contempt, as is claimed,
the preaching of a place of eternal
punishment will lose all it's terrors
for hardened sinners to whom the
word hell has become so familiar.
Even the familiar Helen blazes" is
redolent with the smell of birthstone,
yet it is often used as an expletive.
There is probably a typographical
error in the press telegram of the ven
cradle "Col. George o. Mcclellan" of
Tennessee. The Fifth Tennessee In
fantry, which did such good service IN
the Mexican War, was commanded by
Col. George r. Mcclellan.
The Princess Wiszniewslxa, one of the
founders of the Universal Alliance of
Women for Peace" recently died in
Paris. She was a woman of most
amiable qualities, and her writings
and addresses in favor OF universal
peace were admirable in tone and won
for her an international fame. She
was an earnest advocate of "interna-
tional disarmament" backed by a
league of of over 100000 enthusiastic
women. / see that Brig. Gen.
p. A. S. McGlashan, late brigade COM
mander, still signs himself brigadier
general When Lieut.. Gen. Lee be-
came a full general and commander
in-chief, and Maj. Gen. Evans became
a lieutenant general, the same rule of
promotion, by seniority, made Brig.
Gen. McGlashan a major general and
division commander until the next
election is held by the division Of Geor-
gia, U. c. V.
The death of Miss Ruth Cleveland,
so dearly remembered as Baby Ruth"
during President Cleveland's second
Of the White House, has