The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Dec.
17.-Severa1 readers of these letters
ask me to mention the present condi-
ton of my dear, suffering wife. I am
gratified to state that she is now able
to be placed in a chair by the nurses,
and sits up a little while each day.
Her limb is healing satisfactorily and
she will soon, no doubt. be able to be
moved from the hospital to her sister
home in Charlotte N c., near the hos
pital 1t will be some weeks yet be-
fore she can be brought home. . . I
am glad to see that Capt. r. P. Hob
son. late of the U. S. N, in his Sa-
vannah lecture. Endorsed my peace
views-that a big navy would enable
the United States of America to die
tate universal peace to the other ma
eions Ny old war friend. Sergt. Will
Ham Riley Boyd of Atlanta. now an
anti-war man, writes me as follows on
this line: Il am glad to welcome Mrs.
Logan into the number of those who
see clearly the coming of the day'-as
you say-'the anticipated era of peace
(that) will come from fear and not love
of other nations That is true, i. e.,
complex forces are at work to induce
feel the heavy burden of debt for many
wears and in good time, we or those
who follow us, will abstain from all
resort to force substituting inducement
and persuasion. The question is essen
TALLY economic" Last saturday
I enjoyed a very quiet birthday, and
some of my old friends remembered me
in deeds as we'll as words. one dear
little maiden. Miss Sarah Appleyard,
daughter of Col. Thomas ]. Appleyard
of the Lake City. (Fla.) Index, sent
me a lovely pair of knit house slippers
or rather shoes-to keep my old rheu-
matte feet warm. Tom was hne
printer in Columbus, Ga, over thirty
wears ago, and used to set my copy
there. He was jolly good fellow then,
as now and he married dear girl
inst like him, in good humor ana
home loving qualities, and they nave
raised a large family of fine boys anu
girls. The colonel was a BOY nero III
both the Confederate navy and army
from his then QS6D home in Richmond,
Va. and as I am an old Union soldier
Sarah knit the slippers in Blue ana
GRAY colors. and her note accompa-
nving the gift is full of patriotic ana
kindly sentiments. Tom and shook
hands across the bloody chasm over
thirty years ago, and our long lIleilu-
ship only grows stronger as the years
pass away.
The widow of a very eminent major
general of the Confederate army, ana
a distinguished public official, writes
me i'm regard to my explanation Oh my
comments on Gen. Longstreet's career
at New Orleans. and says: What you
say in regard to Gen. Longstreet IN
terests me, as my husband grieved so
after the war over any failure or prlh-
ciple in either private soldier or COM
uissioned officer. And when Gen.
Longstreet acted as he did, and the
papers were bitter in their abuse OF
him. my husband made a trip to New
Orleans to see him, hoping the gen
eral would make some explanation OF
his conduct But instead, when ne
met him. Gen. Longstreet first alluded
to the matter and defended himself for
his course and his utteranoes. ana SO
my husband returned home grieVed ana
mortified /" And l may add that this
was the feeling of thousands of Long
streets old comrades. They did not
persecute him because he was a Re
publican officeholder. but because MS
conduct in New Orleans, as they view
ed it, was such that they felt compell-
ed to condemn it and censure him.
Years after, however, in his old age,
a kindlier feeling prevailed and they
seemed to overlook the New Orleans
affair and again fellowship him at
their Confederate gatherings.
The Waycross, Ga, Journal copies
a news item about the oldest building
in Indian Territory, at Fort Gibson,
and states that the fort was first To-
Gated and occupied since 1928" which
is an error, as it was not till April,
1924 that the fort was established.
Another error is the statement that
''Bettie" Taylor, daughter of the then
Col. Zachary Taylor, y. S. A., mar
ried Lieut.. Jefferson Davis. / have
often corrected this error and stated
that it was Sarah Knox Taylor who
married Lieut.. Davis, and that Eliza
BETH, better known as lovely Bette"
Taylor, married Lieut.. Col. VIM. w.
S. Bliss U. S. A, New Yorker,
distinguished graduate of West Point,
and a Mexican War hero. He died,
however. in Mississippi, in 1858, and
later she married Hon. Philip Dand-
ridge of Virginia. 1t is a false
claim that education is the one thing
needful to prevent crime and elevate
mankind. Frank Minter a graduate
of Yale, and the University of Min
nesota, a prominent lawyer and law
writer of Minnesota, went to the
dogs" and recently was Jailed at Nor
folk Va, for drunkenness. He is now
a private in the u. S. Marine Corps
have often referred to the
common practice of tinkering names
The Youths Companion of Boston tells
how jeff Darnell became "Geoffrey De
Arneille," and how Miss Vivalda Vic
toria Lorenzina Louise Brown became
Mrs. Pauline Perkins after she married
Paul Perkins And vet the parents Of
this name-burdened girl were plain
Peter and Jane Brown. Even Gen.
Taylor was ashamed of his old-fash-
toned Bible name of Zachariah and cut
it down to Zachary.
Mrs. Harriet Ganahl, of Augusta,
gives the Chronicle a very graphic and