The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-08-25
Ofjef a toX O. WHITE ROSE {" CIGARS
 by express from Bailey & Co.
THE BAD BOY.
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Peck's sun.
 "Wha, are you sitting there like a bump on log for :" asked the grocery man ofthe bad boy. as the youth had sa, on the box for half an hour with his hands in his pockets, looking at hole in the floor until his eyes were SC, like a dying horse. What you thinking of anyway! It seems to me boys SC, around and think more than they used to when was boy and the grocery man brushed the wil;ed lettuce and shook il, and tried to make # stand up stiff and crisp, before he put il out doors, but the contrary let tuee, which had been picked the day be- fore. looked so tired that the boy no- ticed il.
 That lettuce reminds me of a girl. Yesterday was in here when it was new like the girl going to a picnic, and it was as fresh, and proud. and starched up, and kit,eny, and full of life, and as sassy as a girl starting out for a picnic. To-day ], |. has got back from the picnic, and like ,he girl, the starch is all taken out. and il IS timber. and languid, and tired. and can't stand up alone, and 1t looks IS though itwan,ed ,o be laid at res; beside the rotten apples in the alley, rather than | S% SSt SGs sAt AAoAAt VI q StOiC SO OC SOiSi ttp homes; people, and give them the gan 1 .rene Of :he liver" and the boy pu, on d 1 ed.,h-commissioner air that frightened he sroceryman, and he threw the lettuce oui he back door.
 Ion never mind about my le',ucc." sad the grocery man. ' can attend 10 my affairs. Ia, now ,ell me wha, you were thinking about here all ,he morn- ing:a
 l was thinking wha, a fool King Solomon was, said the boy with the air l of one who has made a statement, tha, has got % be argued pretty strong to make it hold water.
 Now. look here,' said the grocery man, in anger. '' have stood i, 10 haze you play tricks on me, and have listened 10 your condemned foolishness withou, a murmur as long as you have confined yourself 10 people now living, but when you attack Solomon, the wisest man, the great king. and call him fool, friendship ceases and you mus, get out of this store Solomon in all his glory. IS friend of mine, and no fool boy is going to abuse ham in my presence. Now you dry up ,''
 Sit down on the ice-box,' said the boy to the grocery man. What you need is rest. You are overworked. Your alleged brain is equal to wilted let tuce, and tt can devise ways and means to hide rotten peaches under good upes, so as to sell them to blind orphans, but when it comes to gTasping great ques- l tions, your small brain cannot compre- hend them. Your brain may go up side ways to great question, and rub agains, 1t, but you cannot surround it, and grasp it, That's where yon are deformed Now, it is different with me. can raise brain to sell to you grocery men. Listen. This Solomon is credited with being the wisest man, and yet history says he had a thousand wives. Just think of it. You have got one wife, and pa has got one, and all the neighbors have one, if they have had any kind of luck Does not one wife make you pay attention ! Wouldn't two wives break you up? Wouldn't three cause you to see stars? How would ten strike you: Why, man alive, you do not grasp the magnitude of the statement ,ha, Sol mon had thousand wives. \ thousand wives, standing side by side. would reach about four blocks Marching by fours it would take them twenty minutes 10 pass given point, The largest summer re- sort hotel only holds about five hundred people, so Sol would have had to hire two hotels If he took his wives out for day Tn the country. If you would stop and think once in while you would know more
 The grocery mans eyes had begun to stick out as the bad boy continued. as though the statistics had never been brought 10 his attention before. but he was bound to stand by his old friend Sol omon, and he said. Well. Solomon's wives must have been different from our wives of the present day.
 Not much" said the boy, as he saw he was paraly1ing the grocery man. Women have been the same ever since Eve. She got mashed on the old orig i inal dude, and it stands to reason that Solomons wives were no better than the mother of the human race. Statistics show that one woman out of every ten IS red headed. Tha, would give Solomon an even hundred red headed wives lust that hundred red headed wives would be enough to make an ordinary man think that there was land that is farer than this. Then there would be. out of the other nine hundred. abou, three hundred | piVANaNSt etiiN blC bltiCi SIN uUIlNtCQ NOulN be brunettes. and maybe he had a few alblnos, and bearded women. and fat wo- men. and dwarfs. Now. those thousand women had appe,i,es, desires for dress and style, the same as all women. Imagine solomon saying ,o them, Girls. let's all 90 down ;o the ice cream saloon anu have | dish of ice cream Can you. with your brain muddled with eodiish '
 would follow: Suppose. after Solomons broom brigade had got seated in the ice creamery, one of the red headed wives should catch Solomon winkinr at strange girl at another table. You may think Solomon did no, know enough 10 wink. or that he was not that kind of | iiir,. but he mns! have been or he could never have succeeded in marrying d thousand wives. in a sparseIy settled