The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-22
Caught From
The Current

| Major Hiram l.. Grant. a paymaster
of United States Volunteer Army. came
up from his home in GoldsDoro yesterday
morning and spent the day at the Var
borough yesterday. The Major was. APP
pointed about a year ago, and has seen
service in this country, in Cuba and i'll
Porto Rico. The past hvemonths he
has spent in New York though he made
| 100000 to pay off the soldiers there
He returned Immediately, and then came
home ON Il short leave of absence.
iii probably be mustered out of the
service soon, he said%-''that is unless
agree to do foreign service. There are
forty-three of the paymasters in the vol
unteer service that will be mustered out
| on June 18th and I'm one of them. I'm
der the Hull bill, however many of them
will be reappointed. First they will ap-
point those that are willing to go to the
Philippines. | have already been offered
one of these places but | didn't care to
accept it. These appointments are for
two years. After this will come APP
pointments for Cuba and Porto Rico.
These are for one year. Porto Rico is
much the preferable. | don't like Cuba
at all.
I've had all my crowd-the county
Iconyicts-yaccinated said Road Super
visor McMackin yesterday And | won't
let Il negro come to the camp. None
of the friends of the convicts are al
lowed to bring clothes or food or any
thing else there, as has been the Gus
tom. If they have small pox it will not
be because all possible precautions have
been taken to prevent it.
He was Il very black negro, and he
had come to town to dispose of some
wood
I'm sceer'd ter fool long er 'mong
desc Raleigh mggers,' he told the by
ISLANDERS. "Dey got de small pox. dey is
Amt no white people got it. nothing but
niggers. | told my wife when | lef'
home not ter let no Niger come in my
house while ] was gone. | amt gwine to
mess or long er no niger no more.
Across my weary life today
a dream of Maytime softly blows.
Far eagles float in summer skies
And flowers breathe on the evening air
There's "A glimpse of wonderful hazel
eyes
This is just Spring poem. Her eyes
are neither hazel nor her hair "gol-
den" | just had to say so to make the
lines Jingle.
Folks are the better for being broad
minded, said Rev. Dir. W. s. Long. of
| Elon College, yesterday
THE highest compliment | ever had
paid me was once when | had preached
| i'll Baptist church an old sister who
was noted for her extreme denomination
aliSm said, 'Br Long you preached as
good Baptist sermon as | ever listened
to, If you do belong to the Christian
church. And then once a Presbyterian
brother said practically the same thing"
Then again. continued the Doctor
| i'll that delightful conversational style of
| his, which somehow charms you and
makes you give heed to his words, did
| You ever think how when we sing or
get down on our knees we lay sadie de-
nomination and forget denominatonal
| lines. We do. How we all love and sing
| that beautiful song Of Cardinal New
man't Lead Kindly Light" 1t was
written by Il Unitarian: and Rock of
| Ages, Cleft for Ne" by Methodist and
so ON. Yet we all love and sing these
all the true and real III this word is not
narrow or bigoted. The truth is broad
and wide as the world"