Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-11-29
BILL APPS LETTER.
The Philosopher IaIks of Yankees
and Negroes.
HIS WIFE Is NURSING hIM
Speaks OF the Past and Its Heroes
The Memory OF Days That TRIED
TENS Souls.

Lord Bacon said. Wives are youas
meas misiresses. companions FOR milo
die age and old mems nurses There
Is truth IN that and my wife is nurs.a.
me now. Our girls have gone OF. Cn-
to a Wedding and the other 20 Atlanta
on visit. I told them 20 go. for az 50
had been penned Up here with me for
four Ions months and their mother
said she would taNe Gaze OF nee unui
they returned. get along prctty Wei
during the day. bGt nc night my cough
is distressing and my wife hes 20 dose
RE With various remedies until i go &c
sleep The rain hes come az last an
purified the air and ( Gee. better. Ncs.
we two are alone iI q great big house
She sits sd her accustomed corner and
sews most aIi day long. wa.lc / sit Ur-
rcsi.a il wire and write OF rcai ALOUD
go Der anl when n tiuc comes sr~
sits @, one end ol the table and at thc
ether. and that's all
Olf Father Gibbons came 9 miles
yesterday .o see uo and ~ invite mr
and NY wife 20 his birthday dinner.
Next week he viii De So years ole and
stili gets atort iivc'E and takes cl---
fort -n meeting his friends ana abusing
tce yankees. In IS hard to reconstruct
these OLD veterans. especially hen they
come from Virginia BE AID his bro
ther moved 90 Geo-E'a -usr af-er tHt
close OF the war. Ie settled in this
county ca o good Farm ana his brother
located ira Rome. I never Nas nj u
old cruticuan's house lut C-.e and
that vas in 1856. his brother was a
game man ANA had been n colonel il
the confederate army. When tlc ca--
Dct-h1 -Cc-s and mean niEccrS ovtr~rD
their section ani p,undevel every roo-
. els home tho colonel organized band
. OF avengers AID played kuSluN among
them e1i whipped 6. cm and ran then-
OF and later they came back with tcl-
eral officers end the colonel and his
band hai go leave 90 save their lives.
Not l,lE after the colonel had settled
in Rome the Virginia carpet-bt ggcrs
got 9 military order for his arrest aoi
t-ars0 Cr-ati0n % Virginia for trial A
deputy marshal and another fellow
4 came secretly 20 Rome. but the colonel
had already been advised 90 their CON-
ing and So one dark nigh. about ID
o'clock he came 20 my house and toli
me his peril and said he could g0 g.
his brothers place III this county and
hide out until the pursuit had blown
over. So I hitched ny horse 90 our
# rockawev and We let in haste. ! knew
ZIG --A.- -' i---a- .~-- e---.- q.
rest oi '-e '-s- II "~s a~o-- - ,.- b.
R wen ~e l'i--e- lne ;. an -~" e.e
g.r house c-t ln the 1eli. There we
stopped ard DE took refuge ID 10 ana
toll me 90 tie my horse out IN the
. bushes and then 40 down ana rouse up
his brother. This Is the old man who
asked Us 20 come and dine with him.
When knocked az the door be came a
- --sL' e,.-.'es $40 80 40 -
--1- go .--- ~ go
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s--.,--f-,- ,ras vro-s- ths., v-e- pr. f.
IS -r -v-- non -ha-,l- -ba GOOD r.,~1
ana me- can h..-s .,,- -,-.,-,,-e 49, 49,,
,-- tor-fa-.r-., bs,-o-s ,,-s p.,fts o,.,
--r----e-ts ana IAN 80 ro~-s- s-o-.
f,- yv--D.e r,,,.s and -,-r.b -bo t'-r-o.
-r,- ~.serl- ,-r ,-.va- --r .7~--f-.r
and as crvr-rn- Oates said 81 c.r~ h.
fa-,e-s fn r-n-,r-s -V-h,f a-- va, co
f--fo IA aho-f ff,- AM, ~ l,.r.-,
irr -eneaf vrh,+ have san ras0-r
III ~ the goos work 90 On r.v-.h .e0
, hang ,en,f shoot 'e-,, Rr-n ;e-r rs
rerr pnfnars won. fnf, "A --ve -si+r
tc-.h 70 shoot the WOLF thar had 40
, vor-4d The lambs ~ his fork ana ips
, So would lynch the brltes Who ONT
rage orr women. ae Is nor a nun,ar
re is a brute. = beast and All tbes
demonstrations By governors. anE iudr
e. ana sherifrs are bvnocrftiral and me-