The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-18
NEGRO APPLIES
FOR A PENSION
Served in the Confederate
Army With Credit.
CAPTlIRFD AND PAROIED
CAPTURED AND PAROLEO
Chairman Stronach Says He Will be
Put on the Pension Roll.
PROVISIONAL FAyeT rEWLLE A SUCCESS

in The Granville Copper Belt Money
Getting Low in the State
Treasury.
81 had an unusual application for a
pension the other day. said Mr.. A. B.
Stronach, chairman of the Wake County
Pension Board. ut was from a Wake
county negro-Kadar Morgan, from Au-
burn-and I'm going to get him on the list
il can. He's an old time darkey and he
came into the store with his hat in his
hand. | asked him what his war record
was, and he said he was in Capt 9ryan's
company, from Auburn, with the Thirty
first North Carolina regiment, of which
Gov Fowle was Lieutenant Colonel He
went to Roanoke Island and was there
captured, and with many others Of the
regiment taken North. Never once would
he agree to swear allegiance to the Union
but took his parole with the rest, came
back South and again joined his old regi-
ment.
"And, he went on to tell me-" added
Mr.. Stronach that he remained with it
until the seyenteen-year-Old boys were
ccnscripted and brought into the army.
master, and so Kadar was then sent back
home to care for and support the family.
This, understand, he did to the best of
his ability and was always faithful to
every trust reposed in him. Isn't such
man as that entitled to a pension in
his old age when he can no longer sup
port HIMSELF"
oh
tinued Mr.. Sffonach sis that the best
soldiers SO seldom get them. My Observa
ton has been that, as a rule, the men
who made the best records in the army
are the men who have made the bes.
records since-men Of affairs, who have
worked and accumulated property, and
therefore cannot get a pension, because
they do not need it. OF course there are
exceptions. ut this is too often the case,
and l suppose 1t always will be to the
end of the chapter But whatever abuses
of the pension law there may be, 1t is a
gracious thing for the country thus to
remember the old soldier, and the declin-
ing years of many one has been bright
ened and made easier by the little help
thus extended him."
4
street singing the following old, but not
altogether foolish, stanza of bug poetry:
THE green bug has the golden wing
The lightning bug the flame
The bed-bug has no wing at all
But he gets there just the same.
Niger baby bow-leg niger baby bow
leg,
Niger baby bow-leg, bckase he walk too
soon.
The Tarboro team has certainly
handed the Wilmington baseballists
large amount of whitewash this week.
~ see here" said the Old Codger, as
he folded his paper across his lap, "that
some fool fellow says if yer'll give girl
youth an a light heart, sunshine an some
one ter flirt with she'll be happy.
That may be, but my observation is that
if she's got some guy ter lirt with, she
c'n manage ter do without them other
component parts he mentions, SIGH as sun
shine an light heart That's about the
size of it, seems to me-" And he flicked
a fly from the side of his nose and pre-
pared for a nap.
The Anti Bondmen are taking up
collection and otherwise preparing for
the fray.
Fayetteville people express themselves
as thus far delighted with the prohibition
law Though we have as yet tried it only
q little more than a week." said citi-
zen of that town yesterday, lit works
no mt fr,l1v 10
thar ever before known and business is
as good as l have ever known it in Fay
cttevilIe. If the whole bolt turns out to
be as good as the sample torn off for US
last week we have done a wise thing in
swapping off our dispensary for prohibit
tion.'
Tine editorial party, composed of
about sixty-five men and women had
delightful time at Morehead,' said
Vice President J. A. Thomas, of Louis
burg. who. with his daughter passed
through Raleigh yesterday on his way
home. I'VE had a pleasant session on
Saturday night when Governor Jarvis
gave an address and Governor Aycock
spoke briefly, both making speeches
that were appreciated by the editors.
The fishing is good and the Atlantic
Hotel is well conducted
On account of the necessity of remod-
cling some Of the buildings and the
erection Of the new dormitory at the
Soldiers Home. Mr.. A. B. Stronach,
chairman of the executive committee,
desires us to state that no applications
will be received and acted on
for admission into the Home until No
vember 1st Then said Mr.. Stronach.
I'VE will be able to give such care and
comforts to the old veterans as they
deserve
1t is certain that North Carolina will
not move far out of the Democratic
column as long as the noise continues
on the McLaurin ble3 cheers.
THE Treasury is now down to low
water mark said Mr.. Lacy. THE
Heams are not the only things that