The Van Buren press., 1869-08-10
The Van Buren, Press,
VAN BUREN,, ARKANSAS.
Ye Craps.


Mr.. EDITOR OF THE PRXss -
L. b. b, the Red Miller of Sebastian
aad the wittiest advertiser in the United
States. says "thiEg of beauty is .ja'e
forever"
That's just what l should say OF a
green prarie fly. Look At it--a beautiful
green fly with gauze wings and flashing
bill drawn at sight when full of blood
Green prarie fly, how beautiful "Neat
but not gaudy," as the Devil said when
he painted his tail pea green, just as
CLAYTON is painting his with greenbaoks
But, then, the jaw. Ask tho horse
Kicking, rearing, sidcling, biting. switch
ing, shaking, head-tossifs, tail.lsshiug
I'angry, fretted, worried, be devilod horse
Ask him about the jaw. "Why." returns
equine, masters fuller Of dds than
hundred doctors of divinity. ADi il
that il Mt jaw forever, just look at my
reekins jaws, to say nothing Of ears and
sides. Jaw and beauty be hanged ! these
flies are enough TO make Jon swear"
But the craps, how are they2 Once
upon time there lived in the Capital OF
the Green Mountain, negro loving State,
a man nightly given to swearing
His whole speech was interlarded with
cxpletive. His pastor often dealt with,
reproved, warned him. To no purpose,
the old sinner sworc on One evening Of
the aforesaid once upona time said Pas
tor called upon said Prlfsne socially
His host made visitor It home. Both
made themselves agreeable. Supper was
eaten. Talk went on pleasantly, proGta
bly,. limo flew. The parson talked late,
but thought he had not passed that sol
emn hour, nine at night, when every par
Son should be abed, his leck also. The
Pastor eXacted prom Sc from profane
that he woald owesr nomors. The sim
ner kept Lis pledge by Tint of incredible
exertion aud the aid Of mods and winks
from the Pastor, all through the evening
esquire. what time t"
The Squire pridsd himself on the &C.
curacy of his watch.
TEN o'clock, parsol."
"Ten o'clock Is y,ur watch right,
'Squiro?"
Right? Wheat! by 5--sr'
SO OF this noble cereal all through this
region, and write frem boih sides OF
The border. Though many fields were
harvested in the rain and some have been
injured in the shock, yet the price Of
wheat rules from six bit to one dollar
per bushel No excuse low for the hun
cry: every jsw.cracker can now set his
jaws a-going. "Flour doins' is jaw
forever, il they are as leavy as MILLY
PAscHAL's used to be No lawyer could
digest them and they would die long ere
they could make a jest thereon. Bu! the
biscuits that might be made had we the
Red Miller. All, they would be things
OF beauty, easy to the jaw and man.
In my wheat field, gsaning went on
with a Vengeance. Every Peri on the
Creek CLEANED a full sack and HIDE.
BRANDS mill was stocked. Cleaning
Ruin knew nothing aboat it, while BoAz
had he had Peris aroundhim would have
forgotten his love in his endeavor to solve
the perata quests, OF "whar's my
wheat 2"
perhaps the self-same songthat found path
Through the sad heart Of Rath when sick ior
home,
Sho stood in tears amid the alien born"
only never heard single Peri sing
willie cleaning.
Corn looks green and if 1t rsined as il
hss here, on the just and the unjust, the
cribs will burst. Every stalk in my field
10 spreading his tasscl to the breeze
while the silks gay and glossy as la
dy's, promise the biggest and heaviest
cars In profusion, Everybody who
worked will have corn, in spite Of the
long and almost ceasclcss rains Of March
April, May and June. The industrious
man will gather from the dust he has sc
diligently worked enormous yields while
the lazy man will reap only dust ahd
smut Some CT the natives hercaways
simply "laid of" thei. fields and after
corn came up " laid by the corn by sim
ply busting the middles." Their gar.
ners will not collapse With grain, and
they will live on memory, or WmGur's
bounty money, which, according to Gen
eral Blunt and the Indians, is rathor pre-
oarious.
Garden "truck" everywhere is excel.
lent, cabbage enough for all the tailors
in North America and beans enough for
oil ofQUEsESpURs kin, Tablet and ALL
Fruit in the berry "line" has been abund.
ant and hlackberries are just signing out
their farewells. or peaches / have seen
mono save in ALT. WILSON'S orchard
whose trees are full. Apples, tolerable
cror oomipo An OfcherriesI have saeu