The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-05-12

DOCKS what reads bout the heathcns an
Their gods. So one day Jack Jest up'n axed
her the question right out. Well, sir, hit
like to a-scared tho gal to death. She didn'
know what to do. Fin'ly she said:
"'Mr. Imboden, I've bin here at your pay
rents house good while now, and it's bin
q mighty pleasant home for me. l know
that they intend for you to marry Miss
Weldon, and it would be wrong for me to
step in the way, and won't do it,
Jack begged an begged, tell fn'ly she
told him that ef his people was willin', an
OF he hadn't never promised Unset to Miss
Carrie, she might study bout it. Then she
went an shet herself up N had bout Nv
cryin'.
Jack he jestwent right up to the old man
an told i'm plump out that he loved the gal,
an would have her or nobody. Whoopeel
The old man was dumbf'unded.
"'Whatn says he. Marry that 'ere Yam
kee gal when everybody knows hits us good
as settled betwixt you and Carrie! Why,
this gal hain't got the wrappin's of her fin
ger, an Carrie WeldOn's got seventeen likely
niggers besides the plantation.
"'It don't make any difference to me,
father says Jack; 'I'll have Miss McAlpin
II she'll have me- and there is no use in dis
cussing the matterp
old man kicked up terrible rumpus, an at
last it all turned out jest as mount 'abin
expected. Miss McAlpin got ready to hunt
Ter home, an Jack, bein' cut out on every
side, got on his hoss an rode to Jonesboro,
an before anybody knowed what he wus
up to he wus in Virginny, a-ightin' Yankees
like the very dickens
"Afore he left, though, he went an told
Carrie the whole business, an she laughed
at his long face, fur she wus his cousin, his
father an old man Imboden bein' fust
cousins; an she got right up an went over
to Imboden's an tuck Miss McAlpin home
with Ter. al'us liked Carrie, but never
knowed ha'f how good gal she wus till
then. She said a'ter'ards that while she
mout IA had Jack of he'd IA axed Ter, at
the same time she never did love lin more'n
sorter sisters love.
"The old man sullzed round few days,
| an talked bout Yankee spies an hus-
ban'-hunters an all sich as that, but he
'peared to be onrestless. Now, this is what
rarnt a'ter'ards, for YOU see was in Vir-
ginnv, too, bout that time, alvin on short
rashuns an n tightin' Yankees fur all wus
wo'th. IN bout week he rid over to Mis-
Weldon's an axed after 'Manic,' as they
called Miss McAlpin. 1t wusnt long afore
he had her Persuaded to go back to In
boden's, fur old Mis- Imboden tuck on
terribly when Jack an her both left 'em. So
she sorter settled down thar ag'in. But
she WANT the same gal no mo-. Hit seemed
like she was a-totin' q dead weight on Ter
shoulders. rally don't b'lieve she'd agonc
back eff it hadn't IA been that she blamed
hers IF fur jacks gwine off like he did, an
she wanted to sorter make up fur it some
| way. Once she got letter f'om Jack, but
she never opened it, an jest answered it
with q short note, akin him mt IN write
any mo-.
"Well, sir them wus rattlin' times. A
| feller had to take his life in his haversaclr
! up there in Virginny. Grant an Sherman
| an all them fellers wus jesta-shelln' ns an
a-bombardin' us an a-blockadin' us al the
| time, an less'n we wer' a-fghtin we wer'
a-starvin', am so what wus the diffunce.
But them sort o. things hain'tgot nothin' to
| do with my tale, excep' hits jest to show
| you the ways an wher'fo's.
"Bimeby ther' come a desprate cavalry
fight way up thar in the mountains; hit wus
| long towards the last Nv the war-an' who
should get hit but Jack Imbodenl He was
badly wounded, too, kin tell We. They
sent i'm to the hospittle, an he stayed ther'
awhile, an somehow his daddy got i'm sent
home When he come home, he didn't look
| like the same feller what won't Off so hi
lariously. He was perished most to death,
an nearly dead with that wound, an gan
creme ID sctin.
swell, sir, you ortcr "a seed them women
folks. They tuck that boy home, an they
sot up night an day with i'm, an they doc
tored ON him tell they got i'm started to
mendin'. You couldn't tell nothin' bout
which one thought the most NV him, fur
Carrie, an Mis- McAlpin, an old Mis- We'll
don, stiff an naughty as she wus, an his
mother, an all Nv 'em, wer' alike. Hit
seemed like they didn't take no mo- notice
NV the war long as they had Jack back
"'Bout that time things wus a-comin' to q
pint, fur all NV suddint Joe Browns melish
wus called out. This tuck the old man I'm
boden, as he wus under sixty, an he had to
pack up an git Off. I'll tell you, thar wus a
! time that 'ud "a made you cry. That old
peaceable man what hadn't never even
| whipped q grown Niger much less fined q
ridgment, had to shoulder muskit an jine.
Poor old man! He wus one Nv tho many
what breathed out their last ut Kennesaw
Mountain. They brung his body home an
| buried 1t, and then they hated Yankees
wus'n ever.
"Bimeby, long towards the spring NV '65,
the raiders came through. Jack Imboden
had got able to hobblc about on crutches,
but ne looked like hn'nt, he wus so poor
an scrawny an holler-eyed. One day the
alarm wus give that the Yankees wer'
a-comin', an in an hour they rid up to the
cato. Jack wus grievin' himself to death
bout his daddy, an he wus weak an peevish
any how, an when the little squad rid up,
he drawed his gun on lem. They hollered
out to 'em to surrender an he told lem he'd
die fust, an they wus jest bout to fire on
lin when Yankee officer came gallopin
up an commanded 'em to stop. He then
commenced to try to reason with jack, an
a'ter awhile Jack seed how foolish he wus
an axed the officer inside. Well, sir, the
feller wus jest US p'lite as q jaybird. He
walked into the house an sot down, an
soon Miss McAlpln come, In an'-jee-miny
OF she didn't stop m look at i'm second
an then jest run right up an commence
huggin' and kissin' i'm, I'll be dingod!
"My broiherv wus all she could say; an
shore 'nough, when she got SO she could talk
to i'm an no got so he could talk to her, they
splained the whole thing. But Jack had LEI
tho house. an went an made the niggers gil
whatever they could lin to feed tho hosses
AM he give the mon suiAp'n' to eat, an then
went back to the house. Their sat Colonel
McAlpin and Miss McAlpin still a-talkin'
Alter awhile the Yankee officer says'