A Thousand-Mile 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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