The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-16

have no tangible enemy to meet. You
are brave mother, SO YOU must feel
like | do whenever we are engaged i'm
anything at all dangerous enjoy the OK
element, feel that. but nothing more.
Thank Heaven, / have found that / have
no fear, for l have analysed all my feel
lngs in danger. Don't repeat that: it
would be a boast to any one but you.
Your last letter made me feel SO happy
and ! am so proud to receive your praise
to feel that never have / given YOU an
hours trouble or unhappiness.' To hear
you say that, dear angel, is more to me
than any ambition in this world.
DO you ever think that / have no
heart to love because / follow profess
sion that keeps me nearly always from
you! | know that you never do feel so,
for you know | love you. Sometimes |
remember and think of how you always
love 20 have MS children tell you how
much we love you. . Is
Goodbye for short space This
letter is hurried for there is a great deal
that / must do. Love 10 every one
Goodbye for Il few days.
'Devotedly,
WORTH"
"P. S. is Henry CHS brother going
TO the war? If YOU wish to send him, |
will use all my influence to get him
volunteer commission in the army.
wv. b."
AS showing the tenderness and love
of courage Of Ensign Baglcy, the follow
ing extract is taken from a letter written
i'll Baltimore TO his brother-in-law. Mr..
Josephus Daniels. in Raleigh His moth
CT was in Johns Hopkins Hospital about
to undergo an operation to which her son.
Worth, referred as follows: "Shc did not
make a murmur in regard to the knife.
AS Il man. | feel vastly proud Of her
courage. When they came for her to
take her to the operating room, / went
into the room unknown to her to see that
they didn't handle her roughly as they
sometimes do. YOU know. As
she passed me on her stretcher, she lifted
her hand up for me to take, all the time
looking out of her eyes with the same
expression Of resignation that the Sa-
vior is pictured with. s.. We,
Addie Mrs. Daniels. his sister, and
were informed that the operation would
be over in fifteen minutes. Well, from
the time the stretcher left the room till
it returned we waited on the balcony out
side of mothers window. / re-
member turning around to look ut Addie;
she was sobbing but otherwise apparent
ly calm, and accused me of crying. Such
nerve in woman was too much for me,
so / took Il brace for very shame of it.
In a letter written on u. S. torpedo
boat Winslow, April 18th, he said: THE
war if it comes will be very easy. DO
not be uneasy about me. | will not run
into any danger | don't think proper, but
can't promise You anything else; don't
you know what / mean. dear Still, l
will think of you all the time.
1T was so sweet of you to remember
me on my birthday. | was SO busy that
day that l didn't know it was my birth
day till in the afternoon. The pipe is
a beauty Being your present, it >will
mank many p eaceful happy smoke for
me whenever l smoke it.
"The little yellow buds you put in your
last letter made me think Of our front
porch at home, and of how beautiful it
must be Just now with its wealth of
them s. =
Il send you MY picture taken the other
day 10y an artist in Key West | am
afraid they are good likenesses, for ! am
much thinner on account Of the heat.
2 l ann well, however, and stron-
ger than l ever was so you can know
that so to war in good condition
Il am so glad you are well. Please
don't be uneasy on my account; as | said
before, the chance Of war after all is Il
rather Scant one. =
Il must close now. 8 1t is a
pleasure to tell you that l ann thinking
about you all the time"
On the 3rd Of March, just before leav-
ing for Washington, he wrote: You
may be sure that l am not ashamed to
use Il proper amount Of care for myself.
and will think of you in the midst of
danger"
On the Dist of April. writing to his
mother he said: I'VE are under orders
to stand by to leave tonight.
l felt like ] would like to write you a line
before going, to say goodbye, not that
there is any danger for me-there never
is any-but l knew YOU would wish to
hear For your sake. ] might almost
wish there would he 10 war; on my own
account, | am very happy that chance
IS offered me for distinction.
You need have no fear for me. Nothing
will happen TO me with such prayers as
yours to aid me. shall have full conf
dence at all times. in action or wherever
] may be, and that alone would keep
me ready TO do good service.
Do not be afraid for me. Everything
turns out for the best"
OFF Matanzas, Cuba, May Z, 1898.
Extract from last letter he wrote,
which was received after the telegram
announcing his death, had been received.
"The nation as a whole, from the tenor
of the press, has realized that the navy
is our defense, our real lighting body"
On Texas, Nov. Doth, 1895.
But for the present, must Gsose with
the remark that / love my mother as
much as ever but no more for in the
language of one of our walters at An
napois, De cook, he say, faint no mo-