Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — Appropriate Color. [ARTICLE]

Appropriate Color.

Oaring the Civil War, in the border 'States the line of discord separated father from son, husband from wife, and brother from brother. It is hard for a young American to understand the rancor of those days, now that our flag flies over a reunited country. There lived in Baltimore at the time a Northern man, a stanch Unionist, whose wife’s sympathies were as strong on the other side. Naturally enough, the wife’s relatives were bitter against their Yankee brother-in-law, and daring all the years of strife made his life anything but comfortable for him. Shortly after the surrender of Richmond he bought a new carriage, which chanced to be lined with a gray cloth, the color of the Confederates. The “unreconstructed” sisters-in-law praised the new carriage, and were particularly loud in expressing their admiration for the color of the lining. “Oh," replied the gentleman, who had hitherto patiently endured their • scorn, "it will do very well. It is a subdued -color.”