The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-01-27
HE JOINS A TEMPERANCE SO-
 CIETY. Y.=
tfoR.E W. rECK.

Don't you think ny pa is showing hls age good iea. more than usual. asked the bad boy ot .'le grocery man. ae u took smoked heFt.as O., oi the box ..i.d peeled oil the sa.a atta a bfes,ea batde4 Jaek-knite. ami sp..; i ep.a add n. pc. of the boae. ;nlcs g5c head d; 4 .#i., and took some e..eNe:s ,.a-l D-h. .G so eat
 "Well. don, knox ba, he does loak as though he wts getting old, s.li the grocery naa. as he took piece oi yeiiaH wrapping paper. and charged the boys poor old father with dozen heInnss and pound of crackers, Ba, there \ no wonder ;ha, he Is getting old. wouldn't go through what your father has the .last year, for million dollars. tell you, boy, when your father Is dead, and you get s,ep-father, and he makes You walk the chalk mark. you will realize what bonanza you have fooled yourself out of by killing of your father. The way figure ii. your father wiil las; about six months, and you ought to treat hin right, the little time he has to live
 Well. am going to- said the boy, as he picked the herring bones out Of h1s teeth with piece Of match that isc sharpened with his knife. But don't believe in borrowing trouble abou; ! step father so long before hand. don't think ma could ge, man 10 step into pas shoes, as long as lived, not If she was inlaid with diamonds, and owned a brewery. There are brave men, 1 know. that are on the marry. bu, none of them would want to be brevct father 10 cher ubm like me. except he got pretty good wages. And then. since pa was disseCtel he is going to lead a different life, and l guess will make aeinan of h,m, if he holds out. We SC, hum to join the Good Terhpiars las, night
 No. you don | tel me. said the sro- cery man, IS he thought that his trade !n cider for mince pies would De cut oii. :. So you so, h.In iaio the Good Temp lars eh !''
 [" Well, he ,h.nks he has joined the Good Tempiars.- II Is all the same. You see, my chum and me have been going 10 a private gymnasium. on the west side kept by Dutchman. and in 4 back room he has all the tools for getting up muscle. There look at my arm. said the boy. as ne rolled up hts sleeve and showed muscle abou, as big as an oyster. ''Tha ls the result of irainigg ai the gymnasium. Before l took lessons l hadn', any more musc.e than you have got. We'll the Dutchnar was going to dance on the south side the other night and he asked my chum to tend the gym nasiun, and told pa if he would loin the Good Tempi2rs that night there wouldn't be many al the lodge. and he wouldn't be 50 embarrassed, and as E.1x~ .t- would put ii b him light, and he said he would go, so my chum got five other boys to help us put him through. 50 we steered him down to the gymnasium, and made him rap on the storm door outside and 1 said who comes there, and he said it was pilgrim sho wanted to pne our sublime order asked him if he had made up his mind to turn from the ways of hyena, and adopt the ways of the truly good, and he said if he knew his own heart he had, and then told him 10 come in out of the snow and take of his pants. He kicked a little at taking of his pants, because Ii was cold out there in the storm door dog house. but l told him they all had 10 do it That princes, poten;ates and paupers all had 10 come to i;. He asked me how it was when we initiated women. and told him women never took this degree. He pulled of his pants, and wanted a check for them, bat l told him the grand mogul would hold hls clothes, and then blind-folded him and with base ball club pounded On he floor as walked him around the gymnasium. while the Lodge headed by my chum sung .We won, 90 home fil morning Then stopped in front of the ice-water tank and sad. Grand Worthy Duke. bring before you pilgrim ~ho has drank of the dregs until his stomach won't hold water, and who desires to swear ofi The grand mogal asked me f he ~as worthy and well qualified. and told him that he had been drunk more or less since the reunion last summer, which ought to qualify him. Then the grand mogul made pa rePea; tho mos. blood curdling oath, in which pa agreed, if he ever drank another drop, 10 allow any