The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-09-01

him open those sleepy blue eyes Of his. told
him that WAS astonished at his presum:ng to
KEGS bones: that / was neither engaged in
Studying the anatomy OF the lower order of
reptiles nor in the tonc-boiing business i had
no earthly Use for them. so i had our servant
JeDlima carry them out on the hre-shoycl and
bury them behind the pig-pen, and put them
down deep, where meme Of the hogs would dig
them up and get poisoned by them.
And also wrote to him that whatever other
peoples tastes might be, mine could not b
made to agree with the idea OF any Christian
gentleman digging mp The bones of his enemies
TO make playthings OF, even though those
enemies were Yankees, and, while i had no
doubt that he had killed ali the Yankees at Bel
mon that he said he dad, wished for his sake
that this was more generally known in his rcg-
nent, so that he could get he promotion that
such gallant service deserved, and that might
hear aUout it from somebody else than himself.
Now, dear Randolph, don't think for Il mo-
ment that / cared anything for him, or that 1t
really matters q picayune to me if he does make
love to that Soph Persinger. You haven't any
idea how many absurd airs she puts since
she came back from Richmond-won't eat with
her knife and wears hoops that tilt so that they
positively indecent, and writes her first
name with an lie at the end, and an accent to
her last one, IL she were regular Paris French,
instead OF being what everyone knows her folks
were-mighty common hill-country people,
until her father managed to get hold of
a Cherokee plantation when the Indians were
moved Oft, and he made some such sp culations
rs that aud got a few niggers:. She's not worth
they Il get married 1t would be pity to spoil
two houses with that pair
You are surprised TO find that I'm in Nash
vile Well, mother thought needed change
OF air mot that there was anything TO worry my
mind: don't think that, so father brought me
up here TO Cousin jules, where VIII stay until
May, when viii go TO COrinth for months
visit TO Cousin Sally Anderson, and then go for
months visit to Cousin Bradley Campbell's IN
Memphis. and will stay with your mother until
Fall, when will 90 home to Jackson.
send you my daguerreotype lawful WORD that
to spell; amt sure now that I'VE got half enough
I lsfT shg.r.,
/ have had taken expressly for you. Madison
Mills about pestered the life out of me to have
me give him my picture; said he'd wear it next
his heart, as a guerdon OF his devotion, and
lot of such nonsense.
when had the picture taken wore the dress
he said / looked best in. and had my hair in
ringlcts. which he said always made me look
| handsOmer than the Empress Eugene, and /
know, d he would give anything in the world
/ TO save mis- life. Let him wear Mile Sopbronie
Angelique Persinger's picture next mis- heart
4 artist did justice TO her freckles You'd never
say anything about turkey-eggs after seeing
4 her face. Good by
| Your loving cousin,
| ARTRMisIA MARIA SIMPKINs
| p. S.-Do you know that Frenchified Soph
Persinger tried TO get me to write my name
J Artemeslee Marie SeimpQuinse," but l told
her that Mississippi ways were still good enough
| for me A NJ s.
p. S. No. Elf you capture bright, young
| Yankee, that looks as if he could be tanned and
made useful and amusing around the house
you might send him 10 pa at Jackson, and l will
| be ever so much obliged. ANS.
While the rest were listening with much
amusement TO Bronson reading this letter.
Karl was studying the daguerreotype. As is
always the case with the glarey, battling pic
lures made by that olden process, it required
some little trouble to get the plate at that
angle with the light that would show the
image. When this was at last attained, it
revealed the charming, vivacious face of q
handsome girl of Is. There was no mistak-
ing the effect on Karl, as he reluctantly sur
rendered the picture to Bronson and Walter
for examination. He said with a sigh:
Dots der prettiest face i effer SAW
20, try and fall in love with something
more substantial than a rebel girls daguerreo-
type, " laughed Bronson
YES, fix your affections on some of the
charming girls we left behind us / thought