The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-17
HIS PA STABBED.
eeks Ssal


 house last night sa,d the gsoccrv mar ,o the bad boy. ax he came ,n and sat or the counter nEhs over httie gsmies hole where the grocery man had nAed a darn. sng needle sa that by pulling a ssFsas the needle would ay up through the hole and run into the boy about an inch. The 1. sroeery man had been laying fos the boy tot t~o days, and nos ,ha, he had yo, hum ught over the hole the hrs, tune. 1t made hun laugh ,o th,nk kow he would make hsm Jump and yeii. and as he edged oa and %, hold oi the s.nng the boy looked unconscious ct impending danger, The grocery man pulled. and the boy sa, s,ill. He pulled agaia. and again. and i.nslly the bo, said
 Nes, Il is reported tha, we had bur slArs over there. q. you needn't pull that string any nsore. heard you "a, setsing trap tor me, and put p,ees ei ooasd inside my pants. and thought would tet you cAerei>e yoarselt. t.o ahead. II t ainuses yoa. u don't hut, me"
 The grooesy man looked sad. and then srniicd A ssckiy sort ot a smile. al the failure ot has plan Ia pancture the bsy. and then he sad. Well. ho~ vas Il. The policeman d.dnt ssena ,o kno~ much aboa, the part'euiars He sa.d there vas so much dev,ltsy ge.ss on a, your house tha, ncs's'dy could tell then anythiag ~as seneaA and he was inclined Ia think II ~as pu, up lob"
 Now let's have an understanding" says the boy. "Wha,eses gay .yoa are no, Ia g,,e me away. Its ago. sn have al- ways bces afraid ef you. bes ause you have sort ot deSayed exs look about you. You arc like pesk oi potatoes with the bsa ones oa top. sort ot strawberry bos. wnh the bottom raised up. so have thought you would 70 back oa tellow. liut II you woai glve this away. here gocs. You sec, heard ma tell pa ,o bnag up an- o,het bottle ei linamen, last night When ma cork. hcrseli. ar has pain anywhere. shr ja1 uses lininent for all thA, r out. and p,ni bottle don last more than . week. Well. l told my cham. and ve laid ior Pa Ihls liniment ma uses Is offul hot. and aimos, bi,s,rrx Ia ven, ,o the Langtry show, and d,d no, get home tall cir,en . clock. and me and my chum de- eiled to teach Pa !essan. don't th,nk Il is Iighi for a tIl@a to 10 to the theatres and not take hls-s,ie of hls l,i,le boy. So se concluded te bufgie pa. We agreed Ia lay on the s,alrs, and ~hen he came aP my eham VAS ,o h,, him on the head nth dlcd bladder. and ~a. to stab hun on hrs breast poeke with stuck. and break the hnlmcnt bottle and make hun ,h.ak he ~as killed. il eouldn | have worked better If we had feheafScd II. We had talked about burglar, al sup per tune. and got pa nervous. so when he come up stairs and vas hi, on the head ~ith the bladder. the hts, thing he sad sas burglars by m,gh,y.s and he stated to go back. and thea hu h,m on the breast pocket, where the bottle sas. and then we rushed by hlm, dcwn stair,. and l ssid m . stage wh,sper. guess hes A dead man. and we seat doun cellar and | up the back siairs to my room and an. dressed. Ia hollcscd ,o ma that he wAs murdered. and ma called rne. and came do~n-in my nlgh,-ahirt, and the hired giri she came down, and pa ~as or the lounge, and he sad his lie blood was ias, cbblng away. lie held his haad on the wound. and he sad he could feel the warm blood tuckiing clear down to hs boots told pa to stuti some tar into l ,ae soand, surh IA he told nc to put on m iip to make my musiaohe grow, and pa sad, My bop. th,s "a no tune for ulfiing Your Pa is on has last legs. When come up s,stss met sis hasgiAss, and ai,aek ked them. and forced four oi thcia ba~u. and ~aa gong to hold iben and scf,sl iof tit. t,'s.. ..s s.ea tsa saliae thai dld not kno~ about. jumped oG me, and ~as getting the beN oi them. ~hn one oi them struck inc over the head with ero~ bar, and Inc other stabbed me io the hear; with butcher knife have ieleixed my death wound, my boy. and m, ho, souihcrn blood. tha, 1 offered up so freely for my country, In her tune ot need is passing from my body, and soon yoat pa will be only d p.ece of poor clay ,.es Soupe ice and put on my stomach h, and all the way down, for l am burning up. | wen, to ] the water pitcher and got A chunk Of ioe and put inside of pas shirt. and while ma VAS tearing up an old Akif, to stop the food oi blood, aakrd pa fl he fel, better i and fl he could desfrsbe the slilains who 1 had murdered hun. fa gssped and moved his legs 10 se, them cool from the cioited blood he sad, and he went on One ot them was about six foot high. and had sandy mous,Ae he. got hun down and hti hum 10 ,he nose. and If the police md hiia, his nose ~tIl be broke. be V end one ~4a thlex set, and seighed about tNo hundred. had hwn down and my boot ~As ea h.s neck. and was snoc king tao more dosn, when sas h.. he ihIsk set one wili have the mark of boot keess on his thIoa; Tell the police, ~hen am gone about the boo, heel marks Ey shIs tune ma had go, the shirt tore up, and she stuffed |, under pas shir'. rgh, where he said he ~As hi. and pa sas telling us what ,a dc to settle hls r>,A,e, whea ma began ,a smell the hniment. and she found the broken bottle ln hss pocket. and searched pa for the pla.e where he was stabbed and ,hef. she begun to laugh. and pa Eo' mad and said he didn ', see As death. bed seene was SUI an almighty funny affair, and then she told him he vas noi hurt. but that he had fallen on the stairs