The Canton times., 1902-11-28
ARP AND HIS WIFE.
Alone in Big House Because Their
Daughters Are Away Visiting.
Bill Arp Tells of Man Who Plays
KukIux Leader and Whom He
Helped to Escape Capture by
NOrther uthorities.

Lord Bacon said: "Wives are young
mems mistresses, companions for mid
die age and old mems nurses" There
is truth in that and my wife is nursing
me now. Our girls have gone OFF one
to wedding and the other to Atlanta
on visit. | told them to go, for they
had been penned up here with me for
four long months and their mother
said she would take care of me until
they returned. / get along pretty we'll
during the day, but at night my cough
is distressing and my wife has to dose.
me with various remedies until get
to sleep. The rain has come at last
and purified the air and | feel better.
Yes, we two are alone in great big
house. She sits in her accustomed cor
ner and sews most all day long, while
sit opposite in mine and write or read
aloud to her and when meal time
comes she sits at one end Of the table
and at the other, and that's all.
Old Father Gibbons came nine miles
Yesterday to see me and to invite me
and my wife to his birthday dinner.
Next week he will be SO years old and
still gets about lively and takes a
comfort in meeting his friends and
abusing the Yankees. 1t is hard to re
construct these old veterans, espe-
cially when they come from Virginia.
| He and his brother moved to Georgia
| lust after the close of the war He
settled in this county on good farm
| and his brother located in Rome. l
never was at the old gentleman's
| house but twice and that was in 1866.
| His brother was game man and had
| been a colonel in the confederate
army When the carpet-baggers and
mean niggers overrun their section
and plundered every rebels home the
colonel organized band of avengers
| and played kuklux among them and
whipped them and ran them off and
later they came back with federal Of
| ficers and the colonel and his band had
to leave to save their lives. Not long
after the colonel had settled in Rome
| the Virginia carpet-baggers got mil
| itary orders for his arrest and trans
| portation to Virginia for trial. A dep
uty marshal and another fellow came
secretly to Rome, but the colonel had
already been advised of their coming
and so one dark night about ten O'Clock
he came to my house and told me his
peril and said he could go to his
brothers place in this county and hide
out until the pursuit had bloWI
over So | hitched my horse to oul
rockaway and we left in haste. | knew
the road to Kingston, and he knew the
rest of the way. 1t was about three
O'Clock when we reached the place anc
saw the gin house out in the field
There we stopped and he took refuge
in it and told me to tie my horses ou1
in the bushes and then go down ant
rouse up his brother, This is the
old man who asked us to come ant
dine with him. When l knocked at the
door he came in his night clothes ant
said: ''Who is that and what do yol
want?' / whispered my business ane
told him to talk low, for we didn''
want the family or the negroes tt
know anything. He put on his clothes
and went to his brother and l got IL
my conveyance and made for Rome
where [ arrived about sunrise. I'M