A Thousand'Mik Walk 



Athens contains many beautiful residences. 

 I never before saw so much about a home that 

 was so evidently done for beauty only, although 

 this is by no means a universal characteristic of 

 Georgian homes. Nearly all well-to-do farmers* 

 families in Georgia and Tennessee spin and 

 weave their own cloth. This work is almost all 

 done by the mothers and daughters and con- 

 sumes much of their time. 



The traces of war are not only apparent on 

 the broken fields, burnt fences, mills, and woods 

 ruthlessly slaughtered, but also on the counte- 

 nances of the people. A few years after a forest 

 has been burned another generation of bright 

 and happy trees arises, in purest, freshest vigor; 

 only the old trees, wholly or half dead, bear 

 marks of the calamity. So with the people of 

 this war-field. Happy, unscarred, and unclouded 

 youth is growing up around the aged, half- 

 consumed, and fallen parents, who bear in sad 

 measure the ineffaceable marks of the farth- 

 est-reaching and most infernal of all civilized 

 calamities. 



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