The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-07-27
MRS. ARP OFF on A VISIT
Bill Tells About His Wife's Depar,.
IRE from Home.
PLEASANT TIMES SHE HAD
Dot Her Visit Was Shorienes oa Asoouni OF
hsr Husbands iLress-Arp's Rsmina-
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laat d ss&tlIg hen never gets fat. but
these human hens do aad so the girls
thought their mother ought 90 rouse
up and go somewhere aud take a rest.
II was great undertaking 10 get her
on. IT took whole week TO gc. her
apparel in first-class condition fo- she
wasent raised On common clothes ana
won't wear them now especially when
she goes abroad or TO church We a.
naliy got her of. though the train liked
to have left her while she was saying
goodby and kissing all the little grand
children. One Of the girls went with
her, but l was TO scatter around ut
home. Two weeks was the time she
gave herself. for she says that IL Is as
long as anybody ought TO stay any
where on a visit, for some times folks
wear out their welcome and don't
know IT. In fact one week is the SAT-
est She went to Rome where our old
est boy and his family live and where
she lived for twenty-seven years. Some
Of her early friends are still there and
they came to see her, of course. and
talked about the dear old times until
ther eyes got teary and they drew
| their chairs little closer and were
merry and sad by turns rs they talked
| of the living and the dead. On Sunday
she went to our same old church and
sat in the same old pew and drank in
| music from the same cld organ. but the
| preacher and the choir were changed.
| After service she was forced to hold
| reception in the vestibule. where old
children gathered around her, the
| friends to greet her and their children
to look upon the matron of the olden
time of whom they had heard. Yes.
this wonderful woman who so gently
! dominated her lord and master and
| kept him SO sweetly subdued that ha
liked the subjugation.
| She spent a delightful week and the
| program for another was already ar
ranged when en- Saturday some bird of
the air told her that was sick and she
could hardly wait for the evening train.
had been sick, very sick but the crisis
had passed and for fear she might hear
it and cut short her stay I wrote her
that 1 was getting we'll and to finish
her rest She is not that kind Of a
woman or wife, and sure enough about
6 p. m. l happened to look out Of the
window and saw her coming up the
lawn like she feared We lid die before
she got here. Then / had to tell her
as how l was taken down on Wednes-
day for my same old kidneys got bel
ligerent again and wrestled with me
and threw me and l had vertigo and
lumbago and embargo and my eyeballs
ached and how the doctor treated me
heroically and scandalously and dosed
me with something every two hours
ah difrerent-and nobody can tell wha;
cured me.
now I am in for another lease. Oi
course an old wagon will break down
ever and anon and has to be patched W
and kept creased, cr it can't go. BY
and by it will all collapse and turn tc
dust like the one-hoss shay.
And now here comes the Philadel.
rhia Record just to disturb my tran.
GUILTY. and aggravate me itnO using
more language On those yankee editors
have already used up all my adtec
tives on Boston and never dreamed
would need any for the Quaker City
The Record pretends to be a demo
cratic paper, but it has got whole
column about the Andersonville priso,
and its horrors, which it say have ere
ated sentiment that will last as Ion,
as time, and how the poor creature
were shot down like dogs and starred
and had to dig wells twenty-five fee
deep with their hands and scraps o
shells in a vain effort to get water 4
drink, etc. Well, it's awful to read
but I would like to know where thos
shells came from-must have fed tn
boys On oysters.
Yes, Blaine charged all those horror
upon us in terrible speech, and Be-
Hill replied to him in one Of tn
. greatest speeches Of his life and refute
every charge and did it from the wa
records and proved TO the world tha
Grant and Stanton and Lincoln wer
, responsible for every death and all tn
, | distress that occurred at Anderson
Vile. They utterly refused to cx
, change prisoners with Us v:in1 inpol
: tm:.ed to do so for the sake of human
r ", for Grant said that our men /
= northern prisons would sc back {
Gghting again We begged them
send us rations and medicines for thei
men and told them that both might b
distributed by their own officers an
/, surScofs. They refused ,ijs ard. q
, course. ,helr men died like sheep. 4,
: we had no medicines and our cwa "a
:!c,s wfre corn neal and salt pori
!. I:ut thcce prisoners had just VII:
, their guards had. Ask the guards VIII
still live. Ask Captain Hudson, {
Marietta, one of the best of men, al
, he will tell you that the prisoners "a
everything that he did and there va
no inhumanity, but PITY and sorro
: for them and Indignation at the hear
lessness Of their government. Rea
:. Percy Gregg's chapter on this Andel
8 sonville and you will wonder that suc
Indifference to the misery Of their ON
i soldiers could Re found in any COVER;
! ment upon earth. Mr.. Gregg declare
e that If the great powers Of Europe ha
nave known it they would have bee
/ horror struck-that the authorities
5 Washington were really the murdere
n of their own soldiers and they had
l. appease the kindred OF these soldie
:, by making a scape goat Of poor WI
! and hanging him after mock trial.