The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-01-24

was told the captain wanted me below. I.
went down TO the captaIn's Office near the
front door. AMI there found him in con-
versation with a man on the outside
Looking through the lattice, / saw the
familiar face of Esquire VIM. Wiseman.
We shook hands through the lattice and
If the whole truth must be told, was so
glad to see home face that |. was strong
" tempted to ask the old man to let me
kiss him. However, as the captain and
surgeon OF the prison were both standing
by, and adozen faces looking down the
stairway to see what was goingaon, FORE
bore to give this manifestation of my Joy.
Squire Wiseman brought me letter from
home, which Masterson took possession
OF and opened and read, and then handed
it to me. 1t brought the first news from
home that l had received after my cap
ture, also brought one hundred dollars in
greenback, which was en- interesting
item. The money, however, remained in
Masterscn's hands, except five doll airs,
which he kindly allowed me remarkiug
that the balance would be turned over TO
the provost who would allow me to
draw small sum every week. Having
passed a short period in conversation
with Squire Wiseman, necessarily short,
as the captain had TO stand by and hear
every word, and he, not bAing so anxious
for news as l was, soon cut 1t off. Shak-
ing hands, we parted. l retraced ny
sters mp the stairway in a happy frame
of mind. There was woman, the wife
of some of the guards, who sometimes
came into TIE prison and spent an hour
or two in pleasant cor versation with tie
he a1 81 10 l. L
posed. Seeing this woman in the prison,
| approached her and asked if she would
go out and make some purchase for me.
She agreed to do so, went out at-once and
soon returned with a change of under
clothing for me. No one, without like
experInce. can conceive the Joy of that
evening-having seen a home face, read
home letter, having five dollars and an
ticipating thorough wash, clean shirt.
clean drawers and clean socks. Taking
my bundle of new clothes under my arm
I Immediately sought the unoccupied
kitchen below stairs, and pulled off my
dirty shirt and threw it down ON the
floor, expecting to see it crawl off but was
disappointed, for it-did not crawl wort b
cent-the gray-backs were on the inside
and could get no purchase for their feet,
and in consequence of this could not move
| off, There was power enough, however,
to have carried it off if the grey-ba cks
| had had a tair showing. Stripping of
everything, sat down under the hydrant
| and turned on The water. After getting
a thorough venting, l lathered myself
with bar of turpentine soap and bathed
| again. Thus soaping and bathing came
out from under the hydrant as clean az If
/ I had been through Turkish bath.
was soon dressed up in my new clean
clothes, and on returning to mess room
received the congratulations of all on my
improved appearance. My dirty clothes
were tightly rolled up and wrapped in
the same paper which had contained the
new and sent to the washerwoman, with
written instructions to boil six hours by
the clock. They were returned In due
time with the written statement "instruc-
1ioas Complied with" After that, hav-
| ing greenbacks to antagoniZe grey-backs
| got along with more comfort There is
no place in the world where human ma
ture manifests itself so plainly as prison
When arrived at the collegeI was yeiy
sick for few days, strongly threatened
with pneumonia from my exposure on the
boat. If had been at home with my
own family / would not have received
more tender nursing than received from
my fellow prisoners, who had never seen
me before. The elegant and gentlemanly
courtesy of the parlor showed out in the
prison in all our intercourse with one
another. Meanness and selhshness mani
tested itself just as certainly. We had
also the vile and the vulgar, Stunned
however, as far as possible, as the lepel
is Stunned.
4 ITO he contiuued.1