The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-07

Ozark, Ala, public school fire the pu-
pills, it is said, made "a wild break
for the DOORS" but the teachers sue
ceeded in restoring partial order"
which prevented any serious injury.
This case is another evidence of the
Importance of the fire drilI'' in all
public schools. The hurrah about safe
ty in theaters may be all right, but
our dear little children's lives are just
as precious, and should have ample
protection in crowded school rooms.
Some time ago 1 wrote of the heroic
conduct on several occasions in battle
of Sister Theresa, a distinguished
French army nurse. / mentioned the
falling of a shell into an ambulance
in which she was nursing some wound
ed soldiers, and how she bravely caught
up the shell and jumped out of the am
bulance with it. After she threw 1t
down it exploded, and she was severe
ly wounded. A Florida editor-a vete-
ran of the Union Army-thought my
story rather ''f1shy." Now, a Savan-
nah reader of these letters, who was
Virginia Military Institute Cadet in
Company B, famous for the galrantry
displayed at the battle of New Mar
ket, Va, writes me as follows: "Have
you ever heard of Miss Fannie P. of
Lexington, Va, when Gen. Hunter
burnt the V. NJ. I. building? She
ran out to Gen. McCausland, C. S. A,
with an apron full of cakes; but as she
offered them to him a shell from the
Union battery cut her apron in two
and split the cakes She then ran into
the house, which led Gen. McCaus-
land to remark that it was the first
time he had ever seen Miss Fannie
run" This story may not smell
"fishy," but it lays over" mine con-
siderably.
The Augusta Chronicle prints a list
of Southern states that furnished troops
to the Union armies, and only Virginia,
South Carolina, and Georgia are credi-
ted with no such troops. If this re-
fers simply to comLanies and regi-
ments, it may be correct, but / know
beyond question that Virginia and
South Carolina and Georgia did have
soldiers in the Union armies. A lot of
North Georgians have for years been
trying to get into the G. a. r., and
not few of them are drawing pen
sions as Union soldiers. ** The
Morning News of Sunday had a re-
print about Queer Battlefields," in
which it was stated that 1.-The Yankees
broke through the walls from one house
to another, fighting and driving out the
enemy, so that the battle of Monterey
was largely Tought IN doors. NOW,
as to facts, it is true that the streets
were narrow, and long blocks of houses
lined each side, and that the artillery
was unable at time to operate in these
streets, but it is not true that our
brave soldiers sought shelter inside of
the houses, as claimed. The house
tops We're lined with Mexican soldiers
who kept up deadly fire on the streets
below, yet our heroic officers and SOL
diers pressed through this deadly fire
and finally captured the city. The
world never saw a grander spectacle
of undaunted courage under a steady
deadly fire. The article ISLANDERS our
soldiers.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Jour
nal, writing from Gainesville, Ga, states
that the grave of ex-Gov. James Nj.
Smith of Columbus, in alta Vista Gem
etery,' at Gainesville, is unmarked by
more than an ordinary marble tribute.
Gov. Smiths first wife was an invalid,
and died at Gainesville, where she had
gone for the benefit of her health. and
was buried there. No mention is made
of the Governors second marriage to
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