The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-12

or the civil war in our own land is but a type of an warfare This is the history of war.
 When ala domestic restraints are taken from men and boys and the home influences are no longer thrown around them. temptations to the pas sions and appetites are more numer- ous.
 There is a certain class of women that are the buzzards of the army trailing in its wake. ever ready to seize some new victim.
 There is the lure of drink ia the conyiyial gatherings A story, a song. a drink by the camp fire on a cold night may become a frequent pro gram. the repetition of which may drift into the forming of the drink habit.
 blanket on a wet; cold ground may be the soldiers bed for the night while he dreams of home and loved ones, or lies awake from the discomfort of his exposure.
 What vigilance it must take on the part of the officers' What a re- accessibility it is 10 control hundreds or thousands. of men, sometimes made almost savage by the horrors of car mage
 The numbers killed and wounded are multiplied many times by the number of relatives and friends left bereayed And who can say that these broken hearts are not the re- suit of the evils of war?'
 The thought of the dead and wound ed is prominent when We speak oi the evils of war" but there is an- other danger to even life itself and that is disease. The diseases con- tracted, the epidemics likely, the lack of sufficient and proper atten- tion while i'll or dying are some of the perils of war
 Exposure may bring tuberculosis, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc, where sol Hers leep on the cold wet, or snow covered ground; or if not properly shod. or if they have to wade, or swim icy streams in winter. The un- told sufferings Of years may follow for the soldier. His descendants, also may suffer through ilheriting a dis ease or, through inheriting q consti tuition that may cause them to read fly contract disease.
 A malarial climate. common in swamp lands. is a menace to natives and often death to the newcomers who must first suffer the long, hot weeks of fever; perhaps poorly attended. in an unsanitary, hastily improyised hos pital lacking proper medical supplies and an insufficient number of dos tors to attend the patients in the over crowded wards
 The prisions are ven worse than the hospitals The diseases and food hor TOTS of the prisons are sometimes ap- palling.
 Supplying proper food to an army, or navy, is no small matter Our governments failure ia this respect during the Spanish-American war caused not only sickness and death 10 hundreds of soldiers, with the ac- |companying suspense and agony of their relatives. but, expense to our government in caring for the sick dying and dead; also of conducting he official investigations which fol- lowed.
 The secretary of war, General AL ger, was so bitterly denounced by the press that his resignation which fol-, lowed was accepted. perhaps to sat sfy public sentiment.
 Thus one man had his political dreams shattered by official decapita- ton. and General Alger passed into political oblivion when, for aught we know he may have been more sim ed against than shining
 Then followed the probe into va. rious packing concerns that had sup piled the commissary at Chicamauga camp and elsew here When it was disclosed as had been asserted. that putrid packed meats had been fed to the army the whole country was fu- mous, especially as typhoid fever at Chicamauga continued to rage.
 More than one packing house felt the boycott that followed the Amer ican people almost refusing to buy canned ooode aepacialIv nnpats