The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-03-04
there were in the letters many refer
ences to this fact.

there were in the letters many refer I
ences to this fact. II
Ann Harmon, In her letter to her
son, says she had to pity to Is, Confcd-
crate money, for a peck Of salt and 80
bushel for wheat. She complains:
There is no attention paid TO the
women here now. have to cut and
carry my own wood, and l think Of
you all the time"
Mr.. Tignen, above referred to, says
he has two beeves which he wishes to
kill II he can get salt enough. lie had
twenty abuats, rather short allow
ance OF meat for his family. Seed
wheat was costing Mr.. Tignen a6 to
81 a bushel, and he was sowing only |
his best old land to it, the seed cost
ing 800. He paid sS for "one bunch
Of factory thread"
Anna Barnes sends her son two
shirts, two pairs of drawers and two
pairs Of socks. She would send shoes
if she had the money to buy them.
But she desires a return: Il want
ynu to send me some money, for
stand in great need of it to buy me
something to eat, for am already out
of meat and no money to buy it with.
Tom sends Matt money by letters,
and she gets all he sends to her, and
you can send me money by letters as
we'll as Tom"
! A letter which is funny and patlct-
ic by turns is Mrs. Jane Anderson's
/ to her absent lord: II send you
: shirt and $40 by James Purden. /
4 thought one shirt would be enough
$ for you. Now, when you need clothes
' let me know it as | have them ready
{ for you atany time. Factory thread
G Is & a bunch and brass coat buttons
$40 a dozen. Bowling Green Is sick.
+ The doctor says he has influenza.
am troubled right smart with pain
u in my side. | got some blew pills
y from the doctor "-and so the ramb.
@ ling tale runs on.
Sue Pothill writes a brave, cheerful
o wifcly letter to Capt. T. N. Potkili
= her husband, in camp, and tells him
81 wish you could see Eddie. he
. is very interesting now. He will sool
= talk, think. / tell him very Otter
+ to say paw" and he does, and great
;. many other things. tell him to kiss
% me for paw and he al ways does 1t.
h wish you could see him. know yol
" would be proud OF the dear little fel
/ low"
III Imogen Grace writes similar let
90 ter to her husband, giving him littl
re Ida's message to its pa" for her, ant
adding practical word: "Honey
r. you must quit giving away your socks
,t for thread is very scarce and / hav
not any WOOL"
70 There is a plaintivc note in AMI
q. Sickles' letter, written from a sic|
ST. bed, and saying: "deair husband,
" hant much to rite, only am gettin
d. bctterr and think would get well
s. you could get to come home, for tn
at time seems long to me-"
in Poor Joe Sickles, did he ever com
he home?
ell Mrs. Nelson Taylor writes to ht
do husband, who couldn't see his papa
rn ''Bub was so mad when Dave and Sill
cd got home he cridc aud wood not spea
ID to them because you did not CON
N, home to, he sed everybody's paw coul
come but his, he sed he did not thin
an his paw would ever come, he did b
In leave you wanted to come, or yC
Ter wood come, sometime lie crries evel
day they come because you don
IN come"
ny Another mother writes: John,
Ter can go all about, the baby can wal
He is the sweetest little thing yt
he ever saw. l wish you could see hil
led You must come II you cau, al
red stay a good while and make me al
it the babies some shoes. We are
md barefo0ted."
dy, Mrs. Nelson Taylor writes to b
md husband, who had been III ut I
his 'front.'. "You wanted US to 70 $
ere you, but our chance Is 80 bad 1t is o
Of the Questian. We have no mon
sad We must look to Him who Is a.
.ad alone to help and deliver us. TO II
IN we should look at all times and 81
,ad. init u His will, knowing that wi
the He docs Is ever best"
sad Only In rare instances do the let.
contains any letter alludinV to
,een Yankees. One young lady, who
lam vised Lieut.. Jimmy Walker to bl
pme her letters, wrote from Savannah u
min. she could not realize that the mis-
,uce able cteptures were so near :
, NJ even such mild abuse as THIS is INT
heir qucnt.
inls. Cicero Strong, writing from Alt
,cct- Ia to his brother at Orange Coz
a 70 House, Va, refers To q not unus
military grievance: "Our town
yer. been in one everlasting rush and
aid: citement almost eyer since you lei
lave soldiers moving this way aad u
uint sick soldiers pouring into thchos
niue ale, conyalcscents returning, on
,ody on furlonsh loading about our HI