The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-10
THE GREATEST.
An Old Man Who Ate Three Hundred
 Quails m Sixty Days

\ case growing out of quail-eat,ng contest is now m an Arkansaw court. and IS likely To cost the expenditure of much legal e>ertion. While the qaAil-eatins contest m New York was exciting such attention, Major Ro,hheel. proprietor of restaurAn, Tn Little Rock. published an article in local paper. declaring tha, he had lust imported an old gentleman who could cat five quails day for sixty days immediately he began ,o receive eommuniea,iens frem sporting gentle men, and hnall, syndicate offered to wager ten thousand dollars that the fea, could no, be performed The money was dchs to the keeping ei stake holder and he arrangements for eA,lny were made. The old quail eater a man ~iih gray beard, was initodase ed He said ,h.i he had never eaten many T .ails bai encouraging added
 Il haze been asSaalnted ~fth my stomach long tune and have om. 5 flaA8tt9 A AtA3N l. ttaA stf-Ahf 3teFtN ,ns campaigns, and II has neAei attempted ,o forfeit my respect. <o~. in m, old age. do not see why should lose con ] hdercc m trend who has served me so faithfully
 The old nan IS eIa4y. sad Colonel Buck. pres,den, of the syndicate. "it IS i useless to bet against him. for II would be simply robbing Rothheel. Hes AS i weak now AS ki,ten.'
 That's all right Ro,hheel replied The gas,ronomio ceremony ~lll beg,n tomorrow morning
 The old man ~as Ia ca, the iIye hiIds a, one sitting and should dine every day at two o'clock Seats were arranged m the restaurant. and a large crowd assem-. bled The old man appeared and ~, ! lacked the birds with well rpened de termination. He drank nothing ,o aid the digestion. He ate as any huagy pleased with the performance and de ciared that so far |, was a pcffec' sue css The next day the old man promptly ap- peared and atr tic b.tds ~ithea, the least sgn of digestive faugae. The president of the syndicate. though. declared that hc noticed siigh, ,wiishinx of ,he mouth and an uneasy mevemen, of ,he left leg Agaln the audience sas de- lighted. The thlrd day was not chsrae- ,erized by anything remarkable The president. though. noticed an increased twi,ching of the mouth and noted mat the lef, leg ~as becoming more uneasy. The fourth, fifth and sixth days came ana passed. The rlght leg. the presiden, de clAIed, was becoming affected and iIai !: the unstead,ness of elbow. which he had noticed. did not aba,e, the cater could nc, survive much longer bn the twen- ,ie'h day the eater bleS bis nose via- ien,ly. and the president made a note oi the fact He also noted ths, the eater had contracted habi; oi ~ink ng When the thiriesh day arrivec. tf.t pres ident assured inc syndieaie ihA, the on- ies; could no' last mech longer. and ID sgbs,antla'ion of h.s surTnise he pn.nied oai the fat that ,he old man serat ned auce During this ea;Ie ,ITBe aa oT hoihheel renamed undasta?beo | de- measor. lie expressed h, eal.fe .ifas- faction w.th the way the deeoaunY agency vas conducting b.siness and spoke ,s.t,iagly Of ihe manner IL which he expected ,o inses, the iea ihoasapd dollArs.
 When the hfiieth day came. the presi- dent, to reassure the syndi,a,e tha, ihe series of performances could TO. las, much longer. sad "Ceniiernen, l arr a very close observer. and have kept i few statistics which may tend 10 strengthen your belief in our ultimate success On the fifteenth day he e.hsb- ted the alarming symptom. Of appearing TO; 10 have enough 10 ee. This is dangerous sign, for ii tells of coming , struggle. You have all doubtless noticed that during the last stages of consnmp- ton, the victim of,-n exhibits undue strength and often insists tha; he ls get ting well. This IS more of the strength of death .hSn the strength Of life Now, when the old man exhibited symptoms of izEageI ..h ..hsse proof szs <zs :A 2. Asz zr-