The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-03

is reported dead at his temporary
home in Washington, D. C. He is
called in some kilograms William Hen
~ Fitzhugh Payne, but he grad
uated from the Virginia Military In
stitute, hin 1S49 as William Henry
Payne. by which name he entered the
Confederate army. $3.50 Burnside
Post, G.. A. r., of Washington, D.
c., has a Schley way of correcting an
error. A revenue officer presented the
Post with a gavel made from the
Merr!mac and the Reina Mercedes,
but in presenting the gift he mention
ed Sampson, as destroying the Span
ish fleet. Three times he was cor
rected by the veterans, who cried out
"Schley, Schley," from all parts of the
Bat. S* 8 A South Dakota man
claims to have invented a snokeless
powder with very little report and
hardly any recoil. And so the art of
war marches on to greater perfection.
= = Over four hundred cadets from
West Point Military Academy, under
Col. Mills, will camp at the St. Louis
Exposition on May 29, for ten days,
and give exhibition drills each day.
The object is to give the people a
chance to see how the cadets are be-
ing trained for the army.
The press telegram from Santa Bar
bara, Cal, that Richard A. McCurdy'
the millionaire president of the New
York Mutual Life Insurance Company,
was very ill at that winter resort,
made me feel that 1 might again be
a sole survivor" When we were all
active young men in New York city,
many, many years ago, the late Rev.
DR.. stephen H. Tying, Jr, and William
E. Dodge, Jr., and Richard A. McCur-
dy and myself were the four most
jealous and active workers in the Y.
NJ C. of that city. In those days we had
no gymnasiums, amusement rooms, etc.,
but gave all our time to strictly re-
ligious mission work in the slufns, the
prisons and mission stations. Tying
has been dead in Paris some years,
Dodge died last year at Bar Harbor,
and McCurdy, who is seventy years old,
is in feeble health, if alive, out in Cali
fornia, while l, the oldest and most
active of the quartette, am an invalid
down here in F'lorida's genial climate.
Considering my severe war experiences
it seems strange that / am likely to be
the sole survivor of that jealous lit
tie band. Of the ministers of the gos-
pei then in active service in New York,
know of only three who are now
alive, and only one of these in active
service.
VIM. S. Rice publishes a magazine
article, illustrated, entitled, Famous
Trees / Have Seen" The most re-
markable of all these trees, he says,
is the Rose Tree" of Monterey, Cal,
of the variety known as the Cloth of
Gold" and about which, he claims, "a
touching romance is woven" the hero
of the story being Gen. VIM. T. Sher-
man, u, S. A, then, lS4O a first
lieutenant In the Third Artillery but
on duty at Monterey, Cal, as acting
assistant adjutant general of the De-
partment of California. Lieut.. Sher-
man is reported to have fallen in love
with a pretty Spanish senorita, who
lived in an humble home in the yard
of which grew this wonderful Cloth
of Gold Rose Tree" When he was or
dered to st. Louis, in 1850, he parted
from the senorita under this tree, so
the story goes, and they jointly pluck
ed a rose twig and planted it in the
garden, thus plighting their troth. and
vowing to be true to each other un-
til death do us part" 1t was under
stood that when the twig became a
bush or tree and bloomed for the first
time, Sherman was to come back and
marry her. But the blooming time
came, over and over again, and no
returning lover appeared, and to-day
a gray-haired senorita sits alone under
the tree and mourns her alse lover. This
is very pretty story, but l think it