The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-20
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Faithful Nurse" Watches Over
Him While Girls Go VISITING.
A STORY OF RECONSTRUCTION DAYS
William Biffs Hypocrites and Frauds
IN General and incidentally Takes
Another Shot at President
Roosevelt.

Lord Bacon said, wives are young
mems mistresses, companions for
middle age and old mems nurses )"
There is truth in that and my wife
is nursing me now. Our girls have
gone of, one to a 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. I get
along pretty we'll during the day. but
at Eight my cough is Distressing and
ny 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
i'll her accustomed corner AMI sews
most all day long, while sir opposite
III mine and write or read aloud 10
her and when meal tine comes she
SITS at one end o. the table and | al
he other.
Old Father Gibbons came ? miles
yesterday to see me aud to ivite me
ind my wife to his birthday ainne..
Next week he will be 50 years old ana
still gets about liye.y and takes a
comfort in meetil., his friends ami
abusing the yankees. II is hard to re-
construct these old veterans, especial
~ when they come from Virginia. He
and his brother novel to Georgia Just
al. er the CLOSE Of the war He settled
In this county on good farm and his
brother located in Rome | never was
at the old gentleman's house but once.
and that was in 1866. His brother was
a game man and had been a colonel
IN the confederate army. When the
carpet-baggers and mean niggers over
ran their section and plundered every
rebels home the colonel organized a
Land OF avengers and played kukluX
among hem and whipped them and
ral4 them Off and later they came back
with federal officers and the colonel
eNAAu iAio oc1hu Add " 1SCFS W save
their lives. Not long after the colonel
had settled in Rome the Virginia car
pet-baggers got a military order for
his arrest and transportation to Vir-
ginia for trial. A deputy marshal and
another fellow came secretly to Rome,
but the colonel had already been ad.
vised of their coming and so one dark
night about 10 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 pur-
suit bowed over So | hitched my
horse to our rockaway and we left
in haste. knew the road to Kingston
and he knew the rest OF the way. 1t
was about o'clock when we reached
the place and saw the gin house out
in the field. There we stopped and he
took refuge in it and told me to tie my
horse out in the bushes and then go
down and rouse up his brother This
is the old man who asked us to come
and dine with him. When I knocked
at the door he came in his night
clothes and said, "Who is that and
what do you want?" l whispered my
business and told him TO talk low, for
we didn't want the family or the ne
groes- to know anything. He put on
his clothes and went to his brother,
and got in my conveyance and made
for Rome, where | arrived about sun
rise. The colonel kept hid in the gin
house under the cotton for nearly
month and then dared to return, for
the officers had departed | never see
this fine old Virginia gentleman but
what think of that ride and the mar
reconstruction was worse than war.
But it is all over now, thank the good
Lord, and we can hold our reunions
and carry our battle-torn banners and
build our monuments and lay the cor
ner stone for Winnie Davis and lynch
the brutes that assault our wives and
daughters, and as Governor Oates said
to our defamers in congress. what
are you going to do about it?" And as
for lynching, / repeat what / have
said before, LET the good work go
on. Lynch 'em! Hang EN-! Shoot 'em!
Burn 'em!" Israel Putnam went into
a cave with a torch to shoot the wolf
that had devoured the lambs of his
flock and just SO would I lynch the
brutes who outrage our women. He is
not human. He is a brute, a beast
and these demonstrations by govern
ors and judges and sheriffs are hypo-
critical and perfunctory. In their
breasts they rejoice in the lynching.
And there is another set of hypo-
critics who infest our southern land.
l mean those who for the sake of filthy
lucre and nothing else invite Roosevelt
to visit their city and they promise
him an ovation. He comes nearer be-
ing figure head of a president than
any we have ever had. He is q con,
firmed slanderer Of great and good
man, and he knows he slandered him
and will not retract or apologize. Our
women have Just laid corner stone