Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-06-13

| your race In clear up 10 your eyes auu uiS
out all the juice and pulp, like hog she>
! ling an ear of corn, and then eat the skin.
but since you have been to Florada you
are too nice. Look out, or you will get a
drop of Juice on your delicate fingers. !,
Here, let me pass the finger bowl" and |
the groceryman brought an old tin wash
basin tall of soapsuds and set it down in
front of the boy, who went on with his
orange peeling until the groccryman saw
he could not embarrass the youth, so he
said. "Well how did your pa get along
with the rebels down South? Did he
have any chance to pull his revolver on
any of tbem2 He was loaded for bear
| when he went away.
"Ncver saw a REBEL" said the boy, as
he placed piece OF the old dry orange
| in his mouth. There amt any rebels
| down South, unless it is JEFF Davis, and
we did't see jeff Pa wanted to get in
| quarrel with some old rebel, ! guess, and
uo. .hu,nped, so that lie could have a
chance to be a martyr, and tell when he
got home what narrow escape he had.
When he WOULD see a man on the cars
with slouch hat on, after we got in TIE n
nessee, he would scrape an acquaintance
with him and talk about the war. Tho
, first man he struck looked hard and pa
| thought the man was a regular tre-eater
| and he throwed ont some remarks to lead
| him on, but pretty soon pa left the man
and came back to where | sot. l WAS
| tickleh TO sec pa back. cause | expected
The floor of the car would be covered with
gore. Pa looked disgusted and said:
'He amt no rebel. He is from Massa-
chusnt's, and runs soap factory at Chat
| tanooga,' Pa couldn't realize that the
war was over when he went South, and
expected that when the people fnund he
was from the North ttey would elbow
him. or look saucy, like the picture he
| h.j seen during the war. He expectet.
| to see young Southerners come through
the cars, drunk and staggering, with re-
volvers, like he reads of in the papers
sometimes, but ro'hing of the kind ever
occurred; and pa was disappointed. At
Atlanta pa got acquainted with nice
| old gentleman, who did him several fa>
vors, and he was so kind to pa that pa
was mashed IN him, and invited him to
come and see us up North, and before pa
lett him he found that his friend COM
manded Confederate battery during the
war. Pa was surprised to find that those
who were called rebels twenty years ago
did not have horns on. Well, after that
pa never looked for any more rebels, but
he had courtesies extended to him by
mNny of the best people of Georgia, Ten
nessee, South Carolina and Florida, and
when he found that the most of them
were once Confederate soldiers who believ-
ed that they were doing right in defend
ing their homes, pa weakened. The last
I heard pa say on the rebel question was
when he was guest of q minister near
Charleston. The minister was a regular
nobelman, and when he told pa he was
rebel during the war, and recited to pa a
history of the war, and show it was as
natural for Southern people to take the
side of the Confederacy as it was for
Northern people to take the other side,
pa slapped the minister on the leg and
said: "Well, if had lived in the South
I'd been rebe!, too, and damme if l
wouldn't have been proud of it too. the
same as you fellows are. I thought pa
was falling from grace, and I told him we
had better be starting home, but 1e said
he didn't care If he stayed all summer
"No, sir" said the boy, as he finished the
orange and looked up at the groceryman,
las mean man as you are, you can travel
through the South and never be IN any
danger at all, unless they would hang you
on suspicion, and they would be just as
liable to do that in the North"
The groceryman smiled at the doubtful
compliment, passed the finger bowl again
to the youth, with piece of yellow wrap
ping paper for q napkin, handed him the
end ofa match, ,sharpened for toothpick,
said he was proud to have received call
from one who had evidently travelled and
learned so much, hoped that he would
call as often as his urgent business would
permit, and unfold ideas that he might
have acquired during his sojourn iu the
tropics, as he believed the young man
was capable OF teaching less fortunate
people much that would be useful to
them, and then be turned the boys face